Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

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Post by tambre » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 8:21 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #16

qmarchi wrote: post #14

I can't seem to get my aircraft to move forward using a keyboard. Flying backwards is fine, but using the ^ key is a nogo. Controller works fin theough! OS: Windows 10 (Build 16251) Browser: Firefox Developer Edition (58.0b10 64-bit)

Off topic, but did they really have 16,251 builds of windows. Is that low, high or normal(expected)?

Raymond Chen has got a video exactly regarding this! (https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/One-Dev-Minute/One-Dev-Quest...)

Re: Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

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Post by jsnell » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 8:22 PM UTC

denvercoder904 wrote: post #70

How does one turn into a helicopter or a large drone?

For a couple of seconds until you spawn, you can click on the icon of the type of plane you want. The icons are on the left side of the screen.

Re: Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

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Post by proactivesvcs » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 8:24 PM UTC

jws wrote: post #2

A lot of friendly fire among the HN crowd. "Make go boom" appears to be our goal.

The Brits seemed to be fairly good towards each other :-D

Re: Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

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Post by rsashwin » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 8:24 PM UTC

what is the backend tech being used?

Re: Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

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Post by ateesdalejr » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 8:25 PM UTC

Really slow in the seattle area. Not sure if this is because of servers being overloaded right now.

Re: Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

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Post by whage » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 8:26 PM UTC

Such a simple and good looking game. Fantastic! Gives you a sense of just how big our oceans are.

Re: Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

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Post by Tharkun » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 8:27 PM UTC

dannyrosen wrote: post #71

ajp wrote: post #20

Kind of reminds me of SubSpace. I think, it has been a very long time since I've played it.

Thought the same exact thing. Whatever happened to SubSpace?

It's still alive, to some extent. Priit Kasesalu (of Skyroads, Kazaa and Skype fame) wrote an alternative client back in 2001: Continuum. Some of the bigger servers (EG, TW) are still around. Many of the smaller ones like SFSS have long since perished.

Re: Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

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Post by ngrilly » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 8:27 PM UTC

This is fucking amazing!!!

Re: Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

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Post by orless » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 8:28 PM UTC

I don't know if this is HN effect or what but I just dont't get to the game. All I see after log in is some terrain and, a few moments later "Destroyed by " someone. No units movement, nothing.

Re: Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

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Post by bufferoverflow » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 8:29 PM UTC

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #98

Aaronmacaron wrote: post #27

I'm amazed by how well this works on mobile. I literally played this game for about half an hour on my phone in the HN app web view because it's just so much fun. I'm used to normal web pages that don't even really work on mobile and this game just worked seamlessly without any problems whatsoever. Great Job!

Meanwhile, I tried 3 different browsers and can't get past the "enter your name" screen on mobile. Apparently native inputs are too dated to use.

Worked fine on my aging Nexus 5X.