[release] Pocket Gambler

[littlevish]

Introducing, Pocket Gambler! It is sort of a cross between a casino game, and a text-based Grand Theft Auto.

Yes I know, it's not very pretty right now. But a version with graphics will be released sometime in the future.

*Sorry if this is in the wrong section. It's not flash, so it seemed like a better fit here.

Screenshot



Game Information

• Buy lottery tickets and play slot machines
• Out of money? Take a risk and steal things to gain money, but you might get sent to jail.
• In jail? Try to break out by yourself or by using special items. You can also behave well and hope for parole.
• If you have a lot of money you can buy items, and then sell them later when you are low in money.
• Coded in HTML and JavaScript
• Currently only text, will make GUI later
• High score submitting
• Game saving and loading. This feature currently only works on the PSP, but a expect a PC version using cookies to save soon.

Play the Game

Click to play online version (no download required)
ZIP Download for offline play (12 KB)

Installation Instructions for Offline Version

If you are playing the online version, you don't need to read this.

1) Unzip the folder
2) Copy game.html to PSP/COMMON
3) Enter "file:/PSP/COMMON/game.html" into your PSP's web browser
4) Start gambling!

[McLoViN_iT]

wow I suck at this: First I stole the windows source code and got away, I went to jail for stealing a psp, broke out, then went to jail again for stealing a car!

[thecobra]

Originally Posted by McLoViN_iT

wow I suck at this: First I stole the windows source code and got away, I went to jail for stealing a psp, broke out, then went to jail again for stealing a car!

lol
try to stop doing bad stuff
lol
-= Double Post =-
cool game u should try to import it to c or to lua with nice grafic

[littlevish]

Originally Posted by thecobra

cool game u should try to import it to c or to lua with nice grafic

Thanks

And yes, at some point I would like to port it to Lua. However that requires me to first learn Lua.

[thecobra]

Originally Posted by littlevish

Thanks

And yes, at some point I would like to port it to Lua. However that requires me to first learn Lua.

u should look for tutoring of lua
if u look at it it almost the same as java

what the heck if u copy ur html and put it in a lua player u problely get a 85% compatiblity

[-TheSilenceOfNoOne-]

That lotto and slots are pretty expensive! O_O

But niiice job!

[SG57]

I got 54 years for stealing poop

After i sold my soul for 4 dollars *sigh*

[TurtlesPwn]

I sold my soul for 4 dollars and then got $3915 for the windows source code. Go linux! Good job writing this all in javascript, I know a bit of HTML/JS myself and I looked at it and there are only a few relatively minor things that I would do differently. If you want, I'll help you out learning Lua if you want to rewrite this in lua.

[littlevish]

Originally Posted by TurtlesPwn

I sold my soul for 4 dollars and then got $3915 for the windows source code. Go linux! Good job writing this all in javascript, I know a bit of HTML/JS myself and I looked at it and there are only a few relatively minor things that I would do differently. If you want, I'll help you out learning Lua if you want to rewrite this in lua.

Sure, any help would be appreciated

I'm actually playing around with Lua right now. Having a bit of trouble with random numbers.

[Yongobongo]

Originally Posted by littlevish

Sure, any help would be appreciated

I'm actually playing around with Lua right now. Having a bit of trouble with random numbers.

math.random(min,max)

Nice game, littlevish

[BigSanFrey]

It is a pretty sweet game I must say!!
I found a bug (please excuse me), i was just tinkering around.. I think many people could find it if they looked easy. (I dont think it is patchable)
I just tinked around a little. Sorry !

[littlevish]

Originally Posted by BigSanFrey

It is a pretty sweet game I must say!!
I found a bug (please excuse me), i was just tinkering around.. I think many people could find it if they looked easy. (I dont think it is patchable)
I just tinked around a little. Sorry !

Hehe, yes I saw your score. It is pretty easy to do.

At some point I will either try to encrypt the JS, or since I am porting this to Lua, score spoofing may be harder. Although either way, it wouldn't be too hard...
-= Double Post =-

Originally Posted by Yongobongo

math.random(min,max)

Nice game, littlevish

yep, I had that part. But I didn't know about the ostime thing so the number wouldn't always turn out the same.

[Yongobongo]

Originally Posted by littlevish

Hehe, yes I saw your score. It is pretty easy to do.

At some point I will either try to encrypt the JS, or since I am porting this to Lua, score spoofing may be harder. Although either way, it wouldn't be too hard...
-= Double Post =-


yep, I had that part. But I didn't know about the ostime thing so the number wouldn't always turn out the same.

Math.randomseed(os.time())

Coding it in LUA won't make score spoofing harder either unless you somehow encrypt the score, or you compile the script with LuaC (making it unreadable).
On your current JS version, you could store all saved data online in your SQL database, because that would prevent spoofing, but then you wouldn't be able to save offline.
A homebrew version will be nice
And you'll be able to use pretty graphics without worrying about memory errors..

[BigSanFrey]

I loved this game so much that I am making a graphics calculator version !

[littlevish]

Originally Posted by BigSanFrey

I loved this game so much that I am making a graphics calculator version !

Haha, that's what my original was

And Yongo, yeah I realized score spoofing will still be just as easy if somebody has a text editor and is smart enough to realize changing "money = 2000" might work. And I don't really want to do save data online, since my PSP wifi card doesn't work. That means I wouldn't be able to test it

I wonder if there is a way for the server to verify that the LUA script is unmodified before submitting the score?

Or I could just compile it like you said.

[BigSanFrey]

Make a basic encryption for it, doesn't have to be hard then you can decrypt it again!

[Yongobongo]

Originally Posted by littlevish

Haha, that's what my original was

And Yongo, yeah I realized score spoofing will still be just as easy if somebody has a text editor and is smart enough to realize changing "money = 2000" might work. And I don't really want to do save data online, since my PSP wifi card doesn't work. That means I wouldn't be able to test it

I wonder if there is a way for the server to verify that the LUA script is unmodified before submitting the score?

Or I could just compile it like you said.

You could check the md5 sum of the file against what your server has maybe?

[TurtlesPwn]

Coding it in LUA won't make score spoofing harder either unless you somehow encrypt the score, or you compile the script with LuaC (making it unreadable).
no. even your md5 the file idea and compare is not completely foolproof. there is absolutely no reason to use LuaC for anything.
On your current JS version, you could store all saved data online in your SQL database, because that would prevent spoofing, but then you wouldn't be able to save offline.
saving everything online in an SQL DB doesn't prevent score spoofing by itself. you could easily still save offline.

[Yongobongo]

Originally Posted by TurtlesPwn

Coding it in LUA won't make score spoofing harder either unless you somehow encrypt the score, or you compile the script with LuaC (making it unreadable).
no. even your md5 the file idea and compare is not completely foolproof. there is absolutely no reason to use LuaC for anything.
On your current JS version, you could store all saved data online in your SQL database, because that would prevent spoofing, but then you wouldn't be able to save offline.
saving everything online in an SQL DB doesn't prevent score spoofing by itself. you could easily still save offline.

I meant saving EVERYTHING in the SQL, so the score is always loaded from the SQL, rather than the var being set at start up of the game.

[psp2468]

its a very fun game Nice one

[TurtlesPwn]

Originally Posted by Yongobongo

I meant saving EVERYTHING in the SQL, so the score is always loaded from the SQL, rather than the var being set at start up of the game.

That still won't fix anything. Example:
Original code:

money = tableofvariablesobtainedfromphpscriptwhichdisplaysDBinfo[money]

Altered:

money = tableofvariablesobtainedfromphpscriptwhichdisplaysDBinfo[money]
money = 1000000

[littlevish]

Some early screens of the Lua port...







More info coming soon. As with my other version, I want to finish the code before adding graphics.

[BigSanFrey]

I think you should lower the price of the slots.

[littlevish]

Originally Posted by BigSanFrey

I think you should lower the price of the slots.

Maybe...I have them high so that you occasionally lose big at the slots and it's not just free money

[SG57]

littlevish - Quick grammatical fix you can do Add a (s) to the end of house, car, etc. when looking t what you own ^^

[BigSanFrey]

Actually, don't change the price. I noticed you don't actually lose the $2000, you just don't get as much back.

[littlevish]

Originally Posted by SG57

littlevish - Quick grammatical fix you can do Add a (s) to the end of house, car, etc. when looking t what you own ^^

Ah, good point. Thanks.

[thecobra]

cool i see u are working on importing it to lua
keep up the good work