California Strip Poker 0.17 is here!

California Strip Poker 0.17 is now available, with one Big New Feature, a batch of extra images and lots of bug fixes.

The Big New Feature:  Streamlined game mode!

Streamlined game mode skips all the money-betting and gets right to the business of stripping. 

• Player with the worst hand at the end of the round loses an article of clothing
• Player with the best hand gets $50 to spend on cheats. 
• Folding costs an article of clothing, but also gets all the money.

Notes: 

• "Classic" mode is still available via the menus
• The ladies AIs haven't been completely optimized to play well in this mode, so enjoy the easy wins while you can
• The ladies do know how to use their winnings to cheat a bit. (but only buy extra redraws, for now)
• The costs and power of most of the cheats still need tweaking in this new game mode.
• Saved games will be resumed in whichever mode they were started in
• You only have 3 clothes, so make them count!

Why?

After playing the game a lot I realized that poker as we know it doesn't combine that well with stripping and computer AIs. It just devolves into folding a bunch, endless back-and-forths, and then huge wins where everyone loses clothes, sometimes more than one.  It's just not a good rhythm, most hands take a long time and don't matter, and the suspense isn't really there.  And playing mind games with a robotic AI is just not that stimulating, even a good one.

So I came up with something a bit faster, where each hand matters, because someone will lose an article of clothing each time. Now you have to actively be worried about it not being you, and excited to see who's skirt might be coming off next.  There is still a reason to chase a big winning hand, and all the cheating options bring back a bit of the lost complexity, but without the delays.  And finally the option to fold gives even terrible hands a strategic gambit option.

This is still a new concept, so any feedback or ideas to further improve this are appreciated.   

New images:

• Denise's maid outfit has a bunch of new images of her holding cards, and some hot laying and up-skirt poses
• Sandra's lounge outfit has a bunch of new images as well, including more composites and some undressing images.

Bug fixes / small improvements:

• Fixed an exception when restarting the game mid-play
• Added a toggle to the resolution menu to show which resolution is used.
• Disabling the bait/bluff/redraw/drinks cheat-buttons if funds are not available
• Disabling the redraw cheat-button if no cards are selected to redraw
• Denise's maid outfit and Sandra's witch outfit now require beating one of their other outfits first to unlock
• Denise's purple dress outfit "shoes and stockings" shortened to "stockings" to prevent long messages that stick out of their box.
• Added some color/highlights to the message panels to call out the more important messages.