Tarot Gothique 2026 is a French tarot card game (jeu de tarot) with a gothic art direction, built as a mobile app for Android, with a Windows edition planned. Here are a few things I learned while making it.
One codebase, two very different screens
The game is written in Flutter. The same code runs on phones in portrait and on tablets and PCs in landscape, so most of the work went into layouts that keep every card readable: the table, the hand and the score panels all scale from the available space instead of fixed sizes.
A 3D home screen inside Flutter
The home screen is a real 3D scene rendered inside Flutter, not a video: a sphere split into an offline half and an online half, where you turn the globe to pick a table of 3, 4 or 5 players.
AI opponents that adapt
Offline, you play French tarot against AI players. They keep a small local memory of how you play and adjust, but the reactions are deliberately subtle: a tarot AI that suddenly plays perfectly is no fun.
Online rooms
Online play uses a hosted backend for rooms of 3, 4 or 5 players, chat and weekend tournaments. The hardest part was not the networking itself but keeping two phones in perfect agreement about whose turn it is.
What is next
The Google Play release is coming soon, followed by the Windows edition. A School mode already teaches the rules step by step for new players.
More about the gothic tarot game on the official site: https://tarot-gothique-2026.com
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