It took me a few minutes to realize I was playing this game with other people, nice work.
Swarmation: like musical chairs for pixels
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#12This is fantastic. What a great demonstration of the limits of self-organization!
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#13You should add a leaderboard.
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#14Fascinating.
What has been most interesting to me is to watch the game as more and more people join. When I first started watching, there were about 30 or so pixels was swarming around the middle of the board - now, there are three distinct swarms in different areas of the board, each comprised of about 20-30 pixels.
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#15This looks very cool! Can someone point me to a place which lists a collection of useful HTML5 tools/libraries to build stuff like these?
Thanks!
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#16the blue pixel doesn't show up for me on firefox after the first time i go to the page (aka cant play anymore)
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#17Here's a fun idea: split players up into multiple teams i.e. only pixels of the same team can make formations, and points are awarded to each team as a whole
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#18After playing for a while, I think the best strategy is to simply not move.
That's quite a WOPR of a discovery..
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#19This had me smiling in seconds, love it so much!
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#20Thanks for all the feedback. This was my entry in the Node knockout competition, along with @ollerac and @steadicat. This app was built using the awesome sockets.io library which made it simple to send realtime messages without dealing with cross-browser compatibility issues. Really the server's only job is to pass messages back and forth between the clients, who do all the work of detecting the formations and updati…
Really happy to see socket.io working for you guys. As someone mentioned, not only should it enable WebSocket for Firefox, but also IE6-8, iPad, iPhone, Android, WebOS, Safari 3, and others (even if connected through cross-domain)
Some other projects from the knockout leveraging it: