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 briholt » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 6:33 PM UTC

Awesome game. My only request would be make the planes less maneuverable and move more like real planes. This would make it less chaotic and allow more dog-fight and strategic play.

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

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Post by indescions_2017 » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 6:37 PM UTC

Works great in Firefox 57. But Chrome 63 on Linux 17.10. With GPU accel. The bitmap sprites are just rendering as weird grey bounding rects :(

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

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Post by Kiro » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 6:38 PM UTC

fivesigma wrote: post #33

johnhenry wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. Could you talk more about this?

Will do when this is over. Right now I'm trying to prevent servers from melting. HN traffic...

Really looking forward to a write-up!

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

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Post by Kiro » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 6:39 PM UTC

sidcool wrote: post #37

fivesigma wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PIXI.js for the graphics. Serverside is mostly Node.js.

No websockets for persistent connections? How are you handling RTC?

Open up the Network tab and you'll see that it's using WebSockets.

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

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Post by DennisP » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 6:40 PM UTC

indescions_2017 wrote: post #42

Works great in Firefox 57. But Chrome 63 on Linux 17.10. With GPU accel. The bitmap sprites are just rendering as weird grey bounding rects :(

Chrome 63 on Mac is working fine.

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

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Post by fivesigma » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 6:41 PM UTC

indescions_2017 wrote: post #42

Works great in Firefox 57. But Chrome 63 on Linux 17.10. With GPU accel. The bitmap sprites are just rendering as weird grey bounding rects :(

I have tested all browsers on Linux. Got a screenshot?

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

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Post by skraelingjar » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 6:43 PM UTC

Great job! Would love to read a write up on how you made it.

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

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Post by pvsukale3 » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 6:45 PM UTC

I opened this game in an incognito tab. And started dev tools. The entire game is only 2.8 MB. It loads fast. Such graphics, much small. A lesson for modern web developers about website obesity and performance.

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

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Post by nwrk » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 6:46 PM UTC

Arrrgh, clicked too! So much fun and beware - addictive!

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

#50

Post by erikig » Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 6:50 PM UTC

Works buttery smooth on Chrome 53 on Android over a cell connection (90ms latency). Can't wait to review on desktop to view the WebSocket traffic!