An online multi-player poker system, built with amazing tech, to help turn your next great idea into reality!
Platforms Supported:
- iOS (native)
- Android (native)
- Windows
- Web
- Mobile Web / PWA
Game Types:
- Holdem
- Omaha
Structures:
- Ring Games
- Fast Poker
- SNGs
- MTTs
Run big tournaments, with lots of players, without having to pay for powerful server capacity, or worrying about performance issues.
Tables and tourneys are fully configurable, with all the settings you'd expect, like the max players (2 - 10), blinds, buy-ins, rake, player turn timing, all-in protection, etc.
The backend Admin Console manages all the games, players and the Game Server itself. The Game Server is a process that runs constantly, and games can be added and removed, without having to shut it down.
Action! Fast Poker games are the best way to hit high hands per hour. And Multi-entry and Re-entry MTTs are the best way to grow huge prize pools! (Multi-entry tourneys are when players can join x times, and have that many entries, in the same tourney, and as the tourney progresses, their remaining entries merge. Try one out in the demo.)
A few quick features (not an exhaustive list):
- Multi-tabling: Play many tables at once and view them 1-up, 2-up, or 4-up.
- Scaling / Resizing: The game window can change size and aspect ratio, without stretching the graphics, and losing quality (great for streamers, so they can fill up the available space).
- Custom Wager Sizing Buttons (e.g., raise 2.7x preflop)
- Hand Histories
- Upload Custom Avatar
- Nickname Updating: Nicknames are shown on tables, and the players can update them.
- Disconnection / Reconnection: Reopen the player's joined games, if they connect again, after losing their networking.
Flutter deserves special mention, for what it can do for your project:
- It's a 1st class experience, for all the platforms: Web, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
- First class means:
- Native performance! Flutter is very fast and you can feel it!
- It's gorgeous! Beautiful UI and animations!
- From Google! Join 500k+ other apps, including companies like eBay, ByteDance, BMW, etc.
- Rather than paying a premium for this fantastic performance and UI -- which would be worth it, it actually
saves money!
- Even when building apps for multiple devices, most code can be shared, and that saves money.
- Flutter is free! Other solutions, which aren't as good as Flutter, charge hundreds of dollars per month, per developer seat.
- Even 3rd party software, to compliment Flutter, is free! Usually these add-on libs cost annual licenses fees, but with Flutter, there is a rich eco-system called pub.dev, and it's all free to use, including in commercial projects!
Crafted:
- Flutter
- Java (NIO for non-blocking sockets)
- Multi-threaded
- Realtime, TCP / IP connections (not REST)
- MySQL (Connection Pooling, PreparedStatements, etc)
- Custom Binary Packet Networking Protocol
- Push versus Pull (no polling)
And that is important, because...? Because poker is not a simple card game! It's easy to dump tons of time and money into dev, only to end up with something that doesn't meet expectations. (And projects can fail, before ever even getting the doors open with Ring Games, SNGs and MTTs.)
Redraw is built with that tech -- and a lot of attention to detail, to ensure players get what they expect: a game that looks great and plays even better (snappy and responsive, never sluggish)!
And for the owner, a system that is reliable, stable, and scales!
A standard Ubuntu Linux server (nothing special), along with the regular software, like Java, MySQL, Apache, etc.
For hardware / capacity, using the demo as an example might be the easiest way to explain. The demo server runs on the following Droplet from Digital Ocean:
CPU-Optimize: $84/mo, 8 GB, 4 CPUs
The $84/month Droplet is recommended, but you can get by for less. That would be enough capacity for a quite a lot of action. It just depends if this is used solely for the game, or if it's also shared with other stuff.
Even with the bots on the demo server, there's still plenty of resources left. (And those bots take up more resources than regular players, since their thinking and memory happens within the GS process itself.)
Test out the performance, by using the MTT Create Dialog in the Demo. For example, create a Multi-entry MTT, with 1000 bots, each with 3 entries, so ~3000 entries total. It's not a big load on the server (to give some idea about resource usage and performance).
*A bit more detail here is important, not so much to show the ongoing costs required, but to show how performant the GS actually is. It can spread a lot of action, a lot of games, on very humble (and ubiquitous) software and hardware.
They're just for testing the software out, during development, and then also here, when playing the demo.
They're not intended to be strong players.
They do play a bit better at Holdem than Omaha, since with Omaha, all they do is combine two Holdem hands. They don't have any knowledge of four cards working together. So don't be too proud of yourself, if you win.
Below are a few possible ideas for projects. Hopefully this conveys the energy that's going into poker, along with the potential financial upside!
Innovate in the NFT / Play-to-Earn / Blockchain space, like Virtue Poker. They have world class pro Phil Ivey on board, a solid team, and they've raised $5M!
Tons of energy in this space! WPT is launching Poker Heroes Club with NFTs, Play-to-Earn, etc. Massive pros are onboard, like Phil Ivey (again), and other huge names too, like Steve Aoki. (Keep-in-mind too, that the main complexity with these projects is the software, not the graphics. For example, awesome 3D avatars can be had using Daz3D Studio, very cost effectively.)
Let's build your project!