Tutorial Stream: Making Blackjack

One of the oldest ways of playing games in the world is cards. They’ve been around since the 9th century. And all the groomsmen at the wedding I was at a few weeks ago were playing Pineapple on their phones through the whole wedding.

There’s something meta about implementing playing cards in a video game system. Cards themselves are a way of virtualizing and abstracting a game.

Starting today at 4:30pm on our Twitch channel, I’m going to stream the process of writing one of the simplest card games — Blackjack — from scratch. From there, we’ll build on that work to create a more generalized system for making card games.

Here’s a stock photo of some cards.