Rawkets - A massively multiplayer HTML5 space game (canvas and WebSockets)

http://rawkets.com

by robhawkes • 16 years ago

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rawkets.com

erisds• 16 years ago

The most amazing browser-based game EVER made!

lnanek• 16 years ago

Reminds me of Continuum: http://www.getcontinuum.com/

Although that's a thick client and was a pain to get running on Linux through Wine last time I tried.

kristaps2• 16 years ago

Why won't it give me the time of the day without signing in with twitter first?

robhawkes6• 16 years ago

I'm using Twitter to give people usernames and ensure there aren't duplicate players. Eventually you'll be able to to play the game as a guest without Twitter.

Andrewski• 16 years ago

Monetize that shit with partner linking baby!

kristaps2• 16 years ago

You could at least make the "about" page reachable without logging in.

nir• 16 years ago

Very cool! (Would be nice to be able to just get a random username instead of logging in via Twitter though..)

robhawkes6• 16 years ago

That is in the pipeline for the game :)

troels2• 16 years ago

"The application Rawkets by would like the ability to access and update your data on Twitter."

I think I'll pass.

robhawkes6• 16 years ago

You're missing out. It's just to log into the game, I'm not going to tweet from your account or anything stupid. All the code is on Github as well so I can prove that.

troels2• 16 years ago

I don't really think you would, but it still seems strange to me. If you want to identify people somehow, why not use openid?

By the way, that's not proof of anything. Unless you give me root access to your box, so I can verify that you are in fact running the same code there. I promise I won't abuse my root access ;)

mrcharles• 16 years ago

And I'm not interested in going and reading through a bunch of source just to test out a web-game.

IMO, the web is getting a little too crazy with linking all the various social networking sites in to everything. I am a game developer, I would very much love to try out your game. However, I am not interested in doing so by providing this much information. I have no reason to trust you at all, your site won't give me any information until I give you mine first.

Sites need to provide value to me before I provide value for them. Because even if it's just a twitter ID, it's still value to you that creates a lopsided situation.

robhawkes6• 16 years ago

The reason I'm using Twitter is because there will be tight integration with Twitter in the future. If you don't want to trust me then I can't help that, but it's not a problem with the game.

However, in the future I will be allowing guests to play without a Twitter account, and I will be making it more obvious why you need to use Twitter if you want more from the game.

mattwijas• 16 years ago

Awesome game Rob, but, related to the comments about the twitter login, next time it would probably be a better idea to use a different login system even if it's just a proof of concept.

robhawkes6• 16 years ago

Fair point. The game originally started without Twitter integration and people asked for it, so I can't please everyone just yet. However, I will be letting people play without a Twitter account in the near-future, once I suss out the best way to manage that.

DjDarkman• 16 years ago

Got 5 kills :)

hedaru• 16 years ago

It's gonna be more huge! But sometimes I hate the guns :(

Rawkets - A massively multiplayer HTML5 space game (canvas and WebSockets)

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