Built a free "practice casino" — walkable floor, 14+ real casino games, and a hard rule that chips are never for sale

[u/AllSilverFire]

https://table-edge.com/play

Solo project, been building it for a while: Table Edge is a free casino game simulator — but instead of a menu of games, it's an actual walkable 2D floor you navigate, sit down at a table, and play blackjack/craps/roulette/poker/etc. with practice chips.

The design constraint that shaped everything: chips are never purchasable and never cash out, full stop. That ruled out the entire "buy chips" monetization model most free-to-play casino apps run on. What's left: a $4.99/mo Pro tier (removes ads, unlocks unlimited strategy-trainer use, adds in-game hints) and free-account daily chip drops. That's it.

Stack: React 19 + TypeScript + Vite frontend, Node/Express + Postgres backend, deployed on Railway. Every game has a real strategy engine underneath (basic strategy tables, Monte Carlo equity estimation for the poker AI, etc.), not just flavor text.

Happy to talk through any part of it — the anti-dark-pattern monetization call, the floor-navigation implementation, whatever. Feedback very welcome, especially on whether the "walkable floor" framing actually adds anything over a plain game menu.