TWO New "Poker Grid" games! New version of "Grid Shift (Puzzle) Poker" and "Pico Poker Squares"
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In a shameless attempt to maximize my ROI on the "5x5 poker grid" concept, I have two new pico 8 card games! Or more kind of like 1.5 new games since the first one is more of an updated concept.
Grid Shift Puzzle Poker:
This is a fork and update of a game I made some months ago called Grid Shift Poker. I guess you could call this a sequel? Anyway, after messing around with the previous version of the game I realized the whole wager / dealer competition system wasn't the most fun way to use the grid shift mechanism. Also someone correctly pointed out that if you tried to get a flush every hand it was nearly a guaranteed win. I knew I wanted to make some changes after that and what I ended up going with felt significant enough to call it a new game.
Major revisions:
- Removed wager / bank / dealer competition system and moved to a "high score" model.
- The game is played with a single deck of cards and missing cards are replenished until the deck runs out
- There are "base" scores for each hand with the card values of the hand providing a bonus
I find this to be more fun than my original version. There is incentive to be strategic about which hands you play and cards you keep and to try for higher-value hands.
Pico Poker Squares:
This is just a pico 8 version of Poker Solitaire / Poker Squares. There have been others in the past, I just already had a lot of the assets to make this pretty easily. After making both of these I found myself enjoying playing this more during testing. It's easier to get into while still having a lot of good opportunity for strategizing.
Let me know if you have any feedback!