Hearts by Tab

by Geea

 

The card game Hearts was one of the features in last week’s update, so on Friday night Fazz and I decided to give it a shot.  Now I’m not a big card player and have tried my hand at spades a few times so learning hearts would be a challenge for me.  To get in the mood we purchase those fabulous tiaras from shops.  We were looking good and cheap, plus we only spent 1 tbuck that was a deal within itself.  But we still needed two more people to play hearts.  Luckily Thumdar im’d me said he was with Tablatronix at his store at the Village Marketplace. Thumdar suggested we come play and I should get an interview with Tablatronix.  So I teleported myself and my cheap tiara over and sat down for a game of hearts with the creator himself, Tablatronix.

For those of you who don’t know Tab.  He is a brilliant man but not one of many words :)  Tablatronix has created third party add-ons for There on his own time over the years.  Most of us couldn’t get along in There without them such as the Bboy QuickBar, the Bboy MyGear, Bboy Lazyboy, and my favorite GoThere.  To check out more of what Tab has on his site go to http://there.rumental.com/

 

Geea:  Why was hearts chosen as the new game?

 

Tablatronix:  Hearts was the most logical choice because of its similarity to spades

 

Geea:  Was poker ever a consideration?

 

Tablatronix:  Do not know.

 

Tablatronix:  We knew the first card game was going to be a learning experience

 

Geea:  I'd like to see solitaire, so I don’t' have to look for 3 people :)

 

Tablatronix:  Michael Wilson has already posted that the next card game will be 2 player, if that offers and consolation.

 

Geea:  How long did you work on it; I know they mentioned it during my mab term, which was a while ago.

 

Tablatronix:  It was announced at TRLG in the SOTA, in August.  So it took a while but there was a lot of things going on, lots of reading, lol, and learning.

 

Geea:  Are you satisfied with the outcome now that it's in world

 

Tablatronix:  Very much, I think the new tables will be loved as much as the new game

 

Tablatronix:  What’s with the tiaras?

 

Geea:  It was a dollar, and we wanted to look cheap

 

Tablatronix: umm ok

 

I asked Tab if there will be anymore card games in future created by him.  He said he would love to do more and hopes there will be.  He did a wonderful job and for the card players of There Hearts is truly appreciated.  We are very lucky to have someone like Tablatronix in our community. 

Now the interview may have seemed short to you but were played for two hours.  I basically still don’t know how to play hearts; I played hearts like I would have played spades.  To my surprise and everyone else's I did win but I really couldn’t tell you how.

 

If you have not purchased a hearts table and don’t know how to play hearts instructions are included so don't worry the tables can be purchased from Shops.

I don’t know if it was beginners luck or the cheap tiara that distracted my opponents but either way it was a fun evening playing hearts and I get to say I beat the guy who created the game ;)

Thank you Tab!