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Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go

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Love it. Refreshingly addictive. Only complaint is that I can't automatically tell which color I am to start. Maybe I'm missing something, but it's never immediately known - I need to jiggle left and right.

You're red. Sorry I should have made that more clear.

maybe the game could start paused for the first second or two, and visually indicate which snake is yours e.g. by making it flash, or explicitly labeling it ("this is your snake, there are others like it...")

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go

#62
post #56

Can you tell a bit more about Go's performance in this project? Number of connections, RAM footprint, etc. Thx.

Current load: Load average: 0.02 0.01 0.00

Looks like it's using about 50Mb, but I think that's just the reserved memory.

It's preforming well, but even more than the performance, I think Go was a good fit due to the concurrent nature of a multiplayer game.

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go

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post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree the ability to kill your self with a 180 kinda sucks. It's not fun when you do it to yourself and it is not satisfying when your opponent does it either. I would make sure that it was impossible to do.

Just fixed the bug. I need to take it down for about a minute to deploy, so I'll deploy this when the traffic is lower.

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Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go

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post #7

Who thinks that north/south/east/west is the right way to control a snake? The proper controls are left and right.

I agree. It's very hard to get used to. I can handle it when the game is slow, but the faster it gets, the more my decades-old instincts take over.

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go

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post #7

Who thinks that north/south/east/west is the right way to control a snake? The proper controls are left and right.

The old QBasic Nibbles game that shipped with DOS 5.0 used up/down/left/right, and that was the one I always played as a kid. All the clones I've seen over the years use up/down/left/right as well. Which versions did you play that only use left/right?

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go

#69
I thought Go was for server side "systems programming".

What's the entire stack here? Is JavaScript in the browser generated from Go or!?

It would be great if you could give a one-liner overview of what's going on : )

Love it btw

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