Multiplayer Snakes
Games
multiplayer browser game
SHOW HN2013
16points
10comments
#1,085of 1,739 in 2013
Top 63%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.56.
Execution: 0 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Reminds a commenter of the Intellivision game Snafu
From 1 comment
reminds me of snafu on intellivision
acomjean on HN
Objections
Server overloaded and room connections failing
From 3 comments
Didn't work on chromium or firefox on Linux. Chromium: Arrow keys did not move snake. Firefox: Nothing showed up at all. No, I'm not running tinfoil hat plugins like noscript.…
readme on HNProblems seem to be server side, too much load most likely. The browser side seems fine, sends requests, but the server (goinstant.net/engine.io) is not responding. So not a…
azakai on HNUncaught RoomSizeError: Room is full
sharth on HN
Respawning collectibles appear unfairly far from players
From 1 comment
It was reasonably quiet when I was playing, but a couple of times it looked like the thing you had to collect with your snake respawned on the other side of the board before…
smcl on HN
Cross-origin request blocked by server headers
From 1 comment
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://goinstant.net/engine.io/?acct=NinjaOtter&app=NodeKnockout&guest=1&EIO=2&transport=polling. Origin http://piwh1000.github.io is not allowed by…
tantalor on HN
Alternatives named
Snafu on Intellivision
From 1 comment
reminds me of snafu on intellivision
acomjean on HN