{"author_link":"\/author\/gre\/","author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","comments":[{"author_name":"mortus","author_uid":"20884","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:30am","epoch":1367220300,"text":"Can I play if I am that weird kind of psycho without social networks account?"},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:21am","epoch":1367226960,"text":"Yes you can,\r<br\/>just share the URL or connect with different devices (computers\/mobile\/tablet) with a few people, and you can play it :)"},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:03am","epoch":1367229480,"text":"&quot;Steal the points&quot; is about as  minimalist as it gets ;) BTW: It just sits on the home page unless there is one other player connected (no login is needed) - I had to wait a few minutes before someone came... then you just have to bash them to steal there dots."},{"author_name":"ndssia","author_uid":"22566","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:30pm","epoch":1367249100,"text":"Trippy! Well done :)"},{"author_name":"tonic","author_uid":"66","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:32pm","epoch":1367249220,"text":"Haha, the music makes it pretty funny! Nice idea. :)"},{"author_name":"shaircast","author_uid":"23050","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:33pm","epoch":1367249280,"text":"AI moves so hard lol. Is that black dot is points, right? Really enjoyed, but a little bit laggy and hard to know how to play at once."},{"author_name":"CagedRat","author_uid":"557","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:34pm","epoch":1367249340,"text":"Good job making a multiplayer game!"},{"author_name":"Idovoodoo","author_uid":"18162","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:39pm","epoch":1367332440,"text":"Awesome job. Love the audio :)"},{"author_name":"antonijn","author_uid":"17363","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:13pm","epoch":1367334480,"text":"Certainly minimalistic! I was able to play with another person who happened to play it simultaneously, and I had fun despite the lag."},{"author_name":"patrickward","author_uid":"22335","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:14pm","epoch":1367338140,"text":"Kudos for the multiplayer idea. Well done. I had a problem on the iPhone, but the web worked great. Loved the audio."},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 10:10am","epoch":1367402700,"text":"Thanks guys!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Making something multiplayer for a LudumDare was a challenge.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>My &quot;game&quot; could definitely have been better, I hadn't enough time to work on the &quot;prediction&quot; and &quot;lag compensation&quot; problems but I will definitely learn it to be more prepared for the next LD and do something multiplayer :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I would also like to avoid to be alone in the game and provide some bots.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I lost a lot of time playing around and building the &quot;framework&quot; to make the bridge between the client-side and the server-side (in playframework\/akka) and also setting up the server infrastructure... But I learned a lot and I think for next time I'll be able to have a framework ready.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>My target was completely another game but I restart everything from scratch to make this game in ~3 hours.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, I'm quite satisfy that I made it working on an iPad, an iPhone, an Android (tablet \/ mobile) and a web browser, that's pretty amazing for the future of the web for targetting multi-platform.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>See you!"},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 10:30am","epoch":1367403900,"text":"Requires friends."},{"author_name":"Fenmar","author_uid":"3866","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 11:22am","epoch":1367407020,"text":"This is great! It took me a while to figure out that the holes are my score and not how often I've been caught. Had a lot of fun trying to be sneaky and stealing points from two other players who where online :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>One feature you could add are computer controlled characters so people can play the game if no other players are online."},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 12:30pm","epoch":1367411100,"text":"Dark Acre Jack, Fenmar : \r<br\/>yes exactly, bots would have been funnier.\r<br\/>I was running out of time to submit the game, but next time definitely I will have bots if it is multiplayer :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks"},{"author_name":"MauMaGau","author_uid":"21414","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:15pm","epoch":1367413800,"text":"Big props for experimenting with websockets. The thought crossed my mind when I was coming up with ideas, but I didn't have the guts to go with it."},{"author_name":"ilovepixel","author_uid":"13148","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 5:58pm","epoch":1367430780,"text":"I had to open two windows as there was no one online. Very interesting idea, I would love to see this evolve into a more solid idea. ++ for using WebSockets!"},{"author_name":"DaveDobson","author_uid":"10977","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 10:54pm","epoch":1367448540,"text":"I think this would be fun to play with others from the description, but there's nobody here, so I can't really try it out.  I opened up another window and played with myself to see how it works.  Looks cool, and kudos on the multplayer implementation - very hard to do in 48 hours."},{"author_name":"GranaDa","author_uid":"11561","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 3:19pm","epoch":1367507640,"text":"Good idea. I know that AI is a bit hard but would be great to play in single mode."},{"author_name":"Martin_Monosys","author_uid":"20047","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 7:54pm","epoch":1367610540,"text":"Forever alone guy..."},{"author_name":"netmute","author_uid":"11213","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 8:25pm","epoch":1367612400,"text":"Forever alone.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>(I only rated the music, because it's the only part of the game I have access to, and because it's frickin awesome.)"},{"author_name":"joekinley","author_uid":"3012","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 9:28pm","epoch":1367702580,"text":"Had fun playing that one with my wife. Although we had no idea how to get points, she somehow won. Maybe she knew and just didn't tell me.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I like that game. It was fun, simple, and fun. The audio was nice and fitting. The graphics were cool, the particle effects too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I like that. Great work, kudos to you. Also congratulations on doing a multiplayer game."},{"author_name":"rezoner","author_uid":"21594","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 1:14pm","epoch":1367932140,"text":"With 10 people it is getting actually fun.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Could be easily improved if the balls had acceleration and collisions instead of instant movement.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Then you can easily tell who should get the point by comparing velocity and direction vectors http:\/\/cssdeck.com\/labs\/i2yncyr8\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Psychadelic soundtrack :P"}],"images":["ld26\/18803-7fb1da48cffdf442830a2cdf4731d137.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ld26.greweb.fr\/","text":"Web\/Mobile\/Tablet"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/gre\/ld26","text":"Github"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24975","g_author":"18803","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"25005","g_title":"Minimalist Multiplayer","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"800","g_commentcount":"22","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/18803-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Try to touch the other players without being catched.\r\n\r\nYou will steal points by touching others, be fast and you become very hard to be touched.\r\n\r\n\r\n* Plateforms: Web, Tablet and Mobile. (WebSocket required, tested on Chrome, Firefox, iPhone, Chrome Mobile on Android 4+)\r\n\r\n* Technologies: HTML5, Javascript, WebSocket, server in Playframework\/Akka (with Scala)\r\n\r\n* Tools used: GVim, SunVox, GIMP\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nMy whole weekend was experimenting some WebSocket with Playframework and also some SunVox for the music. I've lost a lot of time in that but learned a lot, I've actually restart the game from scratch and change my game idea a few hours ago.","title":"Minimalist Multiplayer"}