New #game today! #escoba (or #scopa if you are Italian). Play now at cardgames.io/escoba/ and tell us what you think!

I have such a way with words sometimes.

If you are or know a German, could you tell me if you/they prefer to play #Skat with or without #Ramsch, and if so what penalties and rules you use? No specific reason I am asking, but I really do want to know.

Our #rummy game is 10 years old today! They grow up so fast...

I have a new hobby: it involves watching the Google Play robot automatically testing our app by aimlessly clicking around, failing to move checker pieces around, opening ads, and sometimes managing to play a single card before swapping to a new game.

Just before the weekend: a very interesting video from @polygon.com on the history of playing cards and why they are fun! Much like @doomquasar.bsky.social, we're addicted to solitaires too! Makes working at a card game website somewhat tricky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY6D...

Nobody understands playing cards — not even the experts

YouTube video by Polygon

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Typicially in Iceland the 2nd of January sees many stores closed or with reduced hours due to inventory counting. Here at Cardgames 2nd of January is spent catching up on unread emails that piled up over the holidays. Happy new years!

#Protip: Waking up early for work is a lot easier if you just don't go to sleep.

Trying to learn American Standard bidding over the last few weeks I have a newfound respect for #Bridge players. My brain - and Bill's - has started to smoke more than a little: a thousand rules to know who bids what and why, all that need to be boiled down into something the robots can understand!

Happy #halloween!

Hello! If cardgames.io were to implement #Bridge, would you prefer Rubber Bridge or Chicago Bridge?

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Bill and the gang have been playing hundreds of online games of #Canasta today, and with each game completed and each bug found I get more and more confident that the system works. Hopefully multiplayer Canasta will release later this week!

#Canasta! We have a #new #game now! Cardgames.io/canasta Go give it a try and then tell me what you think so I can make it better!

Canasta

Play the classic card game Canasta online for free.

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I have some homework to get through

The worst bit when making #games is the bit where you have to make sure the thing looks decent on tiny phone resolutions: several hours of fiddling with #css, making incremental changes you're not sure actually made anything better. #gamedev

May the 4th be with you!

Bill's hard at work moving some servers around, and while he's promised to be very careful there's always something that goes wrong. You can expect that cardgames.io might temporarily go down intermittently today while we finish our migrations.

Updating our IOS app: 1. Update pods 2. That fails, update Xcode 3. that fails, update MacOs 4. that fails, clear out the bin 5. Wait 30 minutes 6. go have lunch 7. Restore all your wallpapers 8. Update Xcode 9. Wait for all the Xcode supports 11. Hit a compile error 12. Give up and go home

I'm a master negotiator.

This week on Facebook, multiple spam bots sent me a message saying that our page is being deleted for various silly reasons Previously at least the bots had the decency to name themselves "Meta Support" or "Account Security Agent", at this point they've just fully given up.

I'm back from holiday and I have work to do: there are a 155 emails in my inbox that need answering.

Merry Christmas from Cardgames.io!

Over the last 30 days, over seven centuries of human attention got spent playing our games, split over millions of ~15 minute sessions. I need not tell y'all, but that is a lot of Solitaire.

It only took 11 years, but face-down cards now automatically flip themselves face-up when playing solitaire. This daring code change took me all of ten minutes, a truly Herculean effort.

This is a very late night post entirely unrelated to card games. Don't tell my boss: This is just our little secret.

I pretend to be all smart and authoritative when talking about cardgames, but in reality I routinely double and triple check the rules of a game before answering the simplest of questions about them. We have 40+ games, I'll be damned if I remember the minutia of every rule.

Today I received an email where a person claimed to have played our game for 20 years. It was slightly undercut by the fact that the game in question was only released 10 years ago, but what's a decade between friends?

It's back! It's spoOoOoOky season once more. By popular demand, the halloween theme on Cardgames.io has been extended to last the full week before All Hallows Eve, from the 24th and to the 31st. Enjoy your mummies, hiding bats, and flying witches! Who's up for a game of Spades?

Some of our users noted that when using our app offline not all graphics loaded. This was a mystery, as our build script is supposed to replace all CDN links with the app storage Today I discovered a typo that caused said script to ignore CSS files, and the numerous links contained therein.

Spent an unjustifiably long time fiddling with our build pipeline because I wanted to add a single package that wasn't playing nice with the rest of the system. All the package does is create a handful of fireworks one day a year. Priorities.