I have a friend across the country who I'd love to play texas holdem with. I am pretty sure that I can write this program for a single computer. Such that if the players didnt mind everyone seeing everyone else's cards, the game would work fine. Clearly, for purposes of gambling this is beyond useless.

I'd love if I could create a webpage that allows my friends to signin (with passwords). We'd all then sit down and play the game such that community cards are revealed to all of us, but that our private cards are sent only to each respective player. The program would also need to know when to accept information (about betting, raising, folding, etc.) from each player and when to then move on to accept information from each other player. I'd also like to be able to tally up amount of money in pot and for each person at all times.

My main question is this... I am *very* new to perl. I think I can figure out the mechanisms of the game, but don't know if it is possible to accept and display input to and from different users simultaneously on a website. Is this very difficult to implement? Where might I look, or what books should I find to learn how to do such things? Does anyone know of any sourcecode for other interactive website games that might give me ideas?

thanks alot,
dana

P.S. When I create this program, I will totally be making it available to everyone!

In reply to Making an Interactive Game on a website (Texas Hold'em) by dchandler

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