Simple Blackjack game in Java, with GUI

Joseph Rautenbach

About

This is a one-player blackjack game, where the player plays against the dealer.

Implementation

The game is written in Java (developed in Eclipse) using Swing/AWT for the GUI.

Standard Blackjack rules are used:

• Dealer stands on 16
• Aces have a value of 11, unless total is >21 - if so, then the Ace assumes a value of 1. If more than one Ace is present, only one can change value.

Each card is an instance of Card, stored in a CardGroup and the contents of a CardGroup can be displayed as a CardGroupPanel, an extension of Swing's JPanel. The game contains 3 instances of CardGroup - one for the dealer's initial (shuffled) deck, and two for the player and dealer cards which are displayed using CardGroupPanel. Cards are popped from the dealer's deck and added to the player or dealer card group each time a player hits or dealer takes a card. The code is well commented so should be pretty easy to understand.

Installation

After cloning or downloading, it should be possible to import directly into the Eclipse IDE (or similar). Source files are located in src; when compiling, be sure to include the image resources in the repo root.

Gameplay

The player sets an initial balance, deals and then hits or stands until either getting a blackjack, winning, losing or pushing. When out of money the option to top up or end the game is given.