Show HN: I made a multiplayer browser game

http://boxfight.xyz/

by andai • 2 years ago

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boxfight.xyz

andai6• 2 years ago

I made it with raylib and Odin.

The game is open source https://github.com/avelican/boxfight

andai6• 2 years ago

Update: Someone already made a hacked client!

gukov• 2 years ago

"rip headphone users" as they say. What's with the extremely loud noise?

andai6• 2 years ago

Someone made a hacked game client and is spawning a bullet every frame

TriangleEdge• 2 years ago

I have some feedback: please reduce the volume.

adamwong246• 2 years ago

When I clicked that link, I heard a lot of horrible noise and saw some racial epithet spam in a chat box. Was that supposed to happen? Anyways, 10/10 would click again.

lars_thomas• 2 years ago

Front page worthy effort?

woofcat• 2 years ago

What are even the controls... I get moving around, no concept of how to fire, or even the rules.

andai6• 2 years ago

WASD / Arrow keys to move.

Click to shoot.

You can't move on phone yet (but you can shoot!), I'm not sure how to do the controls there. Maybe a multitouch thing where the first touch makes a joystick appear for movement, and 2nd tap shoots in the tap direction?

spywaregorilla• 2 years ago

Arrow keys seem to get hijacked by the scroll bar which gets worse with longer chat

DonnyV2• 2 years ago

How do you fire???

DonnyV2• 2 years ago

You point at enemy with mouse pointer and left click to fire

andai6• 2 years ago

Forgot to mention "In 50 KB of WASM" :)

Sound effects are generated on the fly (with sfxr), there is Text to Speech (with Software Automatic Mouth, from the Commodore 64)

xtiansimon• 2 years ago

Funny. On iPhone I’m stuck in the middle. Assume it’s beca I don’t have a mouse? Still, I played for 5 minutes or so shooting user 2 —fracking gnat— from the center of the game. hehe

andai6• 2 years ago

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Update: got rid of webassembly (for my usecase it was pure overhead).

Game is now 24KB (down from 170KB)

Will ship new version tomorrow and start fixing all the bugs / complaints.

Netcode needs major overhaul.

Need to move the game logic into server for anti-cheat and for more consistent experience.

(Currently collision is done locally, which coupled with the lag is terrible. (On that note, I need more servers...))

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