PESolitaire v1.0

General

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Graphics

PESolitaire relies heavily on vector graphics to produce a crisp and clean user layout. Every card is in fact generated by the script using SVG paths. Each icon of the four suits is created using a single path, which means a standard deck of cards requires 336 paths in total. Data such as path data and icon placement data is stored in the script and can be modified as seems fit. The suit icons are designed to be drawn using so-called relative offset values relative to the center of the icon, which makes for easy and uniform placement of the icons.

I've personally never seen anybody use SVG for something like this, as many prefer to use image sprites instead. So this is also an experiment that shows how versatile SVG is and how pretty and crisp the results are, and especially that SVG still renders quickly and reliably to make pretty and functional graphics.

Storing game logic

Solitaire is all about simple rules. Can I put this card on this tableau? How many cards can I move at once? It turns out that these rules are relatively easy to store as data in arrays and objects. This has a few big benefits:

1. Support for many solitaires
As logic doesn't have to be hardcoded into the script, this means that the code supports a large amount of different solitaires out of the box.

2. Flexible game library
As it's actually possible to store rules in data, it's also easy to add more solitaires by simply adding another one to the input data. The script will be able to just generate it without you having to tinker with the code itself.

To see how solitaires are stored in PESolitaire, and how to add your own, click here.

PESolitaire v1.0 - License

MIT

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