A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves • Hacker News Board

tacone wrote: post #8

very nice. suggestions: 1 - a stronger indicator of which point is you (the arrow at the beginning is not enough) 2 - control instructions (it wasn't obvious you had to use the keyboard arrows, also because of (1). 3 - if the room is crowded, the game will never start as long people keep joining. Put a timer or similar. 4 - i've seen some 90 degrees turns, probably because of lag or similar. it is probably a bug you…

90 degree turns is a power up :)

Re: A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves

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Post by rememberlenny » Tue, May 05, 2015, 10:01 PM UTC

Crashed

Re: A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves

#17

Post by cheeze » Tue, May 05, 2015, 10:01 PM UTC

Connecting... Something went wrong :(

You are not connected to the server.

Re: A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves

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Post by cjslep » Tue, May 05, 2015, 10:01 PM UTC

Great fun, just prevent people from choosing the same color as the grey background -- can be hard to see!

Re: A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves

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Post by iovar » Tue, May 05, 2015, 10:03 PM UTC

Somewhat of a cheat I've seen, someone using a color very close to that of the background. Or is the color auto-assigned?

Re: A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves

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Post by lnanek2 » Tue, May 05, 2015, 10:05 PM UTC

Was kind of fun the 10 seconds it worked between "SOMETHING WENT WRONG :( You are not connected to the server." messages the several times I tried.