/// <summary> /// Initiates the gameplay by establishing the first drawn card as the designated trump suit, /// dealing 6 cards to each player, and declaring the first player to attack /// based on which player possesses the lowest ranking trump card /// </summary> /// ***TODO: Determine first attacker based on lowest trump card in initial hand /// (rather than assume the player is always the attacked off the bat)*** private void StartGame() { cbxDeck.FaceUp = false; // shuffle mainDeck.Shuffle(); // seeing the order of the deck in debug console for debugging //mainDeck.ShowDeck(); // This shows all cards, turn this off when done development System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(mainDeck.ToString()); try { // The 14th card will be the trump cbxTrumpCard.Card = mainDeck.GetCard(13); System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(cbxTrumpCard.Card.ToString()); PlayingCard.trumpSuit = cbxTrumpCard.Card.Suit; InitialDeal(); PlayingCard firstCard = mainDeck.DrawCard(); cbxTrumpCard.Card = firstCard; // Moving the trump card to bottom // add the trump card back but at the last place in the deck mainDeck.AddCardAtBottom(firstCard); } catch (IndexOutOfRangeException) { System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Exception caught when trying to draw card out of index."); } }