casino-server

An online poker game server powered by redis, node.js and socket.io

Game rules supported:

• Chat Room (聊天室)
• Jinhua (诈金花/三张牌)
• Texas Holdem (德州扑克)
• Fight Landlord (斗地主)
• Blackjack (21点)

Features:

• Cross-platform: powered by node.js, easy to deploy on various platforms.
• Scalable: using Redis as message bus and data storage.
• Open architecture: with Redis as the message bus, easy to interact and extend.
• Cluster: using PM2, sticky session, and socket.io-redis.
• WebSocket protocol: come with javascript client API and web-based demo.
• Event logger for server events and user actions.

TODO List:

• Load balancing: using NginX as load balancer.
• Client API in other language (priority: C/C++, C#, Java, Objective-C, etc.)
• Payment gateway callback URL.
• Admin Portal.

Architecture

Required

• Redis

Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value cache and store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bitmaps and hyperloglogs.

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• node.js / npm

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

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• PM2 (production & cluster)

PM2 is a production process manager for Node.js applications with a built-in load balancer. It allows you to keep applications alive forever, to reload them without downtime and to facilitate common system admin tasks.

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Installation

• Installing globally and run as service with PM2:

[sudo] npm install pm2 -g
[sudo] npm install casino-server -g
 
# run redis-server first 
redis-server &
 
# run as service and cluster mode 
pm2 start `which casino-server` -i 0

• Installing as a node app, and run in current folder:

git clone https://github.com/floatinghotpot/casino-server.git casino
cd casino
npm install
# sudo npm install -g gulp 
# gulp build 
node bin/casino-server [options]

Now you can visit http://localhost:7000, it's a web-based game client for testing and demo purpose.

# open a browser to access the test web page 
open http://localhost:7000/

Available Options:

-p Port to use (defaults to 7000)

-h Host address to use (defaults to 0.0.0.0)

-r Address of Redis server (defaults to 127.0.0.1:6379)

Tools

With Redis as the message bus, it's very easy for tools to work with the open architecture.

Event Logger

Start the event logger to monitor the events:

bin/logger.js

Or, log the events into log file:

bin/logger.js -o ./tmp/casino.log

Credits

This poker game server is created by Raymond Xie, published under MIT license.

It can be used for FREE, but be aware that:

• It is provided as it is. (Not a mature commercial product, may be incomplete, or even lots of bugs)
• We will mainly focus on our own needs.
• You can propose wish for new features, but don't rely on us to implement them. Instead of waiting for new features, welcome join us to implement them.
• You need take your own risk, including that you need find answers from reading code instead of easily asking only. :P

If you are interested in this project, you can contribute in any of following aspects:

• Simply "Star" it.
• Use it or test it, report bugs or even send pull request of patches.
• Add better HTML5 demo client.
• Add new poker game rules.
• Add client APIs in other languages (like C/C++, C#, Java, etc.)
• Help us write documentation, if your English is good.