Amateur poker players in Northern California have created a professional-quality video game called “Nucleus” that hosts multi-player Texas Hold’em poker tournaments on home televisions.
PRLog - Feb. 18, 2015 - SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- http://youtu.be/znbI04OUaFg
Amateur poker players in Sacramento, California--led by entrepreneur and poker player John Rogers--have created a wireless, ten-player Texas Hold’em video game called “Nucleus” that launched on Kickstarter last week. Nucleus allows users to host multi-player Texas Hold’em tournaments and poker games on standard household televisions. The group has been in the process of developing the game for years and the project has culminated in a Kickstarter.com project this month to fund game distribution.
Players participate in the video game by connecting from their smartphones or tablet computers. Each player gets individual “hole cards” on their smartphone's screen. Players slide their hand over their player screen to reveal their hole cards. The poker action, including bets, chip counts, pot sizes, and community cards, gets displayed on a central television screen.
The team’s name is Captivate Technology, and their project launched on Kickstarter late last week. Rogers says that project backers will receive copies of the Texas Hold'em video game at below-retail discounted prices. The project is all or nothing—if the allotted budget ($15,000 USD) isn’t raised by March 19 all pledges are cancelled and the Texas Hold’em video game will not be funded.
When asked how the project began, Rogers told the story. “It all started with a group of friends playing casual poker games. One night we got bogged down with distributing chips and shuffling cards and the idea of creating a digital poker table was born. We initially built a full-sized, $30,000 table with built-in touchscreen monitors and computers,” Rogers said.
“We wanted to share our new invention with other amateur players, but we realized that our 8-foot-long poker table might be overkill for casual poker games. So we retooled and changed our digital poker table into a multi-player wireless video game,” Rogers continued. “We even created a table-top version of Nucleus called the Mahogany Edition at one-thirtieth of the cost of the original 8-foot-long poker table. Rogers indicates that the Mahogany Edition table-top weighs less than 20lbs for easy setup.
“One of the unique aspects of this project was the team’s resourcefulness. Every time we needed a unique talent to finish a critical phase of the project, someone here in the Sacramento area stepped forward and joined the team. Now we’re asking for a larger, world-wide community to join the project and help us distribute this game through Kickstarter.”
If successfully funded, Rogers’ team expects to deliver Texas Hold’em video games to backers by July 2015. To learn more about the Nucleus Texas Hold’em game, readers can visit the project's pitch page here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1301785912/texas-holdem-poker-home-entertainment-nucleus/
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February 18, 2015 at 00:11 AM EST
