On Safari using an iPhone XR, the left and right movement buttons are obscured by the bottom navigation bar.
Just use Chrome. It is the sane choice.
Show HN: I Built Multiplayer Deathmatch Joust
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#32One of my favorite arcade games ever. It's unfortunate that it doesn't have the same cultural cachet as the likes of Pac-Man and its cohorts.
I'll have to link this to my Dad so that we can have a quick deathmatch!
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#33How do I win in this game? You should include some instructions so that newcomers can enjoy the game instead of being confused. Also, I have a fast connection, yet I experience massive delays during the game. Great work though, thanks for making me try this game.
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#34Most of this code dates back to 1998, when I built a little 2 player Joust game to push the bounds of what you could do with Div (and at the time Layer) tags in the latest browsers such as IE4 and Netscape 3. Surprisingly, most of it still worked when I thawed it out recently, provided your browser knew about document.all. Over the weekend, I brought it up to date a bit and introduced it to Socket.io. Thus far it has…
Fantastic :)
It would be nice if you could change the scaling to use nearest neighbour on the players so they don't look all smooged,
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#35So go. Thank you!
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#37Amazing work. Childhood vibes were seriously kicking in while playing this. Now if only I could get my brother here to constantly yell at me to stop cheating it would really bring me back.
I just played on my pc and the only issue I encountered was a noticeable amount of lag.
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#38I played only the coin-op version as a kid, so I never played competitively with other humans (the two-player version is more cooperative than competitive). It's a very different game against humans!
A suggestion: when you kill someone, you receive the points that they had (min 1). Have each player's point total hover around their sprite. This would set a higher bounty on the better/luckier players and balance the gameplay a little.
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#39I played for a few minutes then clicked back, and I'm still hearing the sound effects. It's kinda weird
edit: after closing the tab they stopped.