# Simple Card Game - Chase the Ace
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-card-game-chase-the-ace/1646
**Category:** Promote your App
**Created:** [February 24, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-card-game-chase-the-ace/1646 "2017-02-24T14:41:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Will\_Sentjens](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Will_Sentjens)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-card-game-chase-the-ace/1646/1 "2017-02-24T14:41:17Z")
Hi All,
I’ve published a very simple free card game called “Chase the Ace” on the Google Play Store. Give it a try and let me know what you think. Find it at:
[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai\_willsentjens.Chase\_the\_Ace&hl=en](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_willsentjens.Chase_the_Ace&hl=en)
Have fun. Will
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### Author:  [@pavi2410](https://community.thunkable.com/u/pavi2410)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-card-game-chase-the-ace/1646/2 "2017-02-24T15:44:02Z")
I enjoyed playing your game and it is very nice.
But as it is a game, you should focus more on UI and make it colourful.
Here are some of the things that you can do:
- Hide Title bar and status bar to make it fullscreen.
- When on Main Screen, I am not been able to close the app; the Main screen automatically starts again when back pressed.
- Use images for buttons
- Big and custom fonts
- Background images with background music
- Good placement for ads. (Ads shows up in the middle of the screen)
BTW, how did you make cards to animate?
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### Author:  [@Will\_Sentjens](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Will_Sentjens)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-card-game-chase-the-ace/1646/3 "2017-02-24T22:19:30Z")
Thank you Pavitra for taking a look and trying out Chase the Ace. I really appreciate your comments for improvements, which I will take into consideration and implement for the next update. Yes I also thought that the UI was a little flat…my artistic talents are lacking. When I designed the screen with the ad, I do have the ad at the bottom, but possibly with larger phones the ad appears more towards the middle of the screen.
How I made the cards animate is as follows (image included with some of the code)…the cards are image sprites on a canvas. When the screen is initialized I create three lists, one for the names of the image sprites, one for the X position of each of the sprites and one for the Y position of each of the sprites. In my code, I determine the cards that need to be switched ( ie perhaps 2 and 4 - startCardNum and finishCardNum). I initiate a timer (clock) that will move these two image sprites 1/5 of the distance between them towards each other (movex and movey). After the timer fires five times (so the complete distance is covered), I return the image sprites back to their original position, so it appears that the cards were switched. I do this for all of the cards that need to be switched and then disable the timer. I hope this makes sense.
Thanks. Will
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### Author:  [@pavi2410](https://community.thunkable.com/u/pavi2410)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-card-game-chase-the-ace/1646/4 "2017-02-24T22:25:47Z")
To my surprise, the animations in your game were pretty smooth.
Your game reminded me of Microsoft Solitare.
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### Author:  [@Madan\_Mathod](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Madan_Mathod)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2017, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-card-game-chase-the-ace/1646/5 "2017-02-25T12:42:22Z")
Good game.
Please improve UI and add easy exit option.
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### Author:  [@Sherri\_B](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Sherri_B)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-card-game-chase-the-ace/1646/6 "2017-09-12T04:55:58Z")
Would that work towards making a tarot card game?
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### Author:  [@Will\_Sentjens](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Will_Sentjens)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-card-game-chase-the-ace/1646/7 "2017-09-14T10:24:51Z")
Hi Sherri,
I’m not familiar with the tarrot card deck or any of the games played with the deck but I can’t see a problem with using the logic to move the playing cards around on a virtual table.
Will
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### Author:  [@Sherri\_B](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Sherri_B)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-card-game-chase-the-ace/1646/8 "2017-09-26T18:09:09Z")
could you help with main set up, do you start with the mages or if you can direct me to a site that helps with that
thans
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### Author:  [@Will\_Sentjens](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Will_Sentjens)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-card-game-chase-the-ace/1646/9 "2017-10-11T13:12:22Z")
Hi Sherri,
I can’t direct you to a site to help you with your main set up of a tarot card game. I created the Chase the Ace app from my own skill set. I’m not sure how I can help you. Have you started your app?
Will
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-card-game-chase-the-ace/1646/10 "2024-11-08T12:06:10Z")