You can tell this one's real, due to all the popping and warping. :)
Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids
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#12The problem with calling this Asteroids is that there are no asteroids. :)
This reminds me more of an old DOS shareware game called Spacewar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY5qHe2VadA), which was also multi-player although that game also allowed turning on gravity and warping (I see a comment mentioning warping in this game but I don't see it in the command list.)
This was one of my (and my friends') favorite small games back around 1990.
Edit: It was a DOS game when I played it. It is good to feel like a young person when talking about a game that I played 22 years ago.
Re: Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids
#13Quick, leave the page before I waste more time ... !
Re: Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids
#14The problem with calling this Asteroids is that there are no asteroids. :) This reminds me more of an old DOS shareware game called Spacewar ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY5qHe2VadA ), which was also multi-player although that game also allowed turning on gravity and warping (I see a comment mentioning warping in this game but I don't see it in the command list.) This was one of my (and my friends') favorite smal…
Uh... Spacewar was an old PDP-1 game. It predates DOS by a little bit. And the microprocessor. And DRAM. And raster displays (the output was two analog channels fed to a raw CRT). It was essentially everyone's favorite computer game (everyone who knew what a computer game was) back around 1962.
Re: Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids
#15Very cool. Quick feedback: there are too many players on one screen. Getting immediately run into and killed repeatedly by random players careening around isn't a great user experience. My guess is dropping ~5 players max onto a canvas would be more compelling, and lead to longer initial engagement times.
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#16After feeling the heartbreak of seeing MMOAsteroids last week turn out to be an April Fools' joke, I decided to take things into my own hands. This afternoon hack project I threw together yesterday using Firebase. I adapted a simple single-player asteroids game off github ( https://github.com/dmcinnes/HTML5-Asteroids ) and made it fully multi-player with Firebase. It's set up to spread out users across a bunch of gam…
Glad to see my code live on :) Nice work!
Re: Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids
#17Very cool. Quick feedback: there are too many players on one screen. Getting immediately run into and killed repeatedly by random players careening around isn't a great user experience. My guess is dropping ~5 players max onto a canvas would be more compelling, and lead to longer initial engagement times.
Good feedback; just bumped up the split between users and games. Should ease up a bit. As traffic ebbs and flows we'll try to keep it balanced. It doesn't assign users in any intelligent way right now..
Re: Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids
#18After feeling the heartbreak of seeing MMOAsteroids last week turn out to be an April Fools' joke, I decided to take things into my own hands. This afternoon hack project I threw together yesterday using Firebase. I adapted a simple single-player asteroids game off github ( https://github.com/dmcinnes/HTML5-Asteroids ) and made it fully multi-player with Firebase. It's set up to spread out users across a bunch of gam…
Glad to see my code live on :) Nice work!
Nice job with the single player versioN!
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#19The scoreboard has been hacked already!!!!
Also, I'm not sure if I was regrouped with players who weren't signed in but after logging in with Twitter I no longer saw any other user pictures.
Re: Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids
#20The scoreboard has been hacked already!!!! Also, I'm not sure if I was regrouped with players who weren't signed in but after logging in with Twitter I no longer saw any other user pictures.
Hah! Yeah, we left the debug console open so you can play with it. It's a graphical debugger that shows the data updates for the game in realtime. Have fun: http://mmoa0.firebase.com/mmoaleaderboard0