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Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go

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Pretty cool. Although when you start, you have no idea which snake you are. I end up in the wall half the time because I suspect I'm the other snake.

Ok, so I figured out that you're always the red snake. Might want to point that out on the page.

Too bad for colorblind people like me, I can't distinguish the snakes by color. I end up hitting the wall most of the times.

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go

#34

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.

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go

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Nice. One complaint: when it's really slow in the beginning, you can apparently do a 180 in place and kill yourself, but it looks like you didn't turn at all. Unless that's how the classic played too... EDIT: I've had a few TRON-like cut-off or near-cutoff moments. Very cool.

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.

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go

#36

This is amazing. I have fond memories of playing Lightcycle/tron-style games on some older computers against my brother as a kid. We got that program installed and we played forever. This has a lot of potential, some suggested improvements: * Chat System * Rematch (both players agree, then yes, one says no, then no) * Names for players I like this and I'm sure you could monetize this with ads if you wanted to. Have y…

Thanks for your feedback! A chat system might get a little ugly, but I like the rematch idea!

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, so I figured out that you're always the red snake. Might want to point that out on the page.

Too bad for colorblind people like me, I can't distinguish the snakes by color. I end up hitting the wall most of the times.

Sorry. Red/Green was a bad choice.

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Snake in Go

#39

The colors scheme of the snakes/points/bg are pretty painful for the eye - even though I like background stashsnake a lot!

Thanks! The background was drawn by draculafetus on Fiverr (http://fiverr.com/draculafetus). I agree that the colors/opacity combo is really ugly.

Clarification: my colors, not the background's

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