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Minefield: HTML5 Massively Multiplayer Online Minesweeper
- dilap 11y agovery cool!
- sdegutis 11y agoSomeone just clicked randomly in the middle! How dangerous! Come on, we're working together here, let's not be irresponsible! But man, this is satisfyingly cool. Teamwork! With real people! In something I'm slightly competent in!
- xaduha 11y agoGuilty as charged.
- gipp 11y agoThis is awesome! (However, talk about a back-button hijack)
- MrSourz 11y agoYa, it's really really bad at that.
- Vivtek 11y agoIt's ... full of bombs...
- iamthepieman 11y agoclicked, 20 mintues later, what was I doing? It's a great simple idea executed well.
- paxtonab 11y agoYes - this in no way conveys productivity when full screen on a thunderbolt display.
- josephmx 11y agoDoes it convey productivity when full screen on a HDMI display?
- adanto6840 11y agoVery little productivity will _ever_ be conveyed if you're stuck using a low-res HDMI display connection!
- fiatjaf 11y agoNot simple at all.
- OJFord 11y agoParent said a simple idea, not that it didn't take a good deal of awesome work to make it happen.
- fiatjaf 11y agoOk, but which idea is not simple?
- danparsonson 11y agoQuantum mechanics
- schwarrrtz 11y agoformal proofs of correctness
- htns 11y agoI wish I had known about this earlier. I have put so many hours into minesweeper over years of office work.
- sago 11y agoI recommend the commercial game Hexcell (and its sequels) if you want to turn the same logic into a really crafty puzzle.
- sbarre 11y agoMax players reached. :( I'll come back to this later I guess
- yock 11y agoReally cool, though there may be a problem with the adjacent bomb counts.
- MattSteelblade 11y agoConnection to the server has been lost :( Trying to reconnect . . .
- MattSteelblade 11y agoI don't like that the URL is mienfield.com
- halflings 11y agoIt seems even "Massively" Multiplayer Online games can't survive the HN effect. :)
- conkrete 11y agoIndeed. The creator should add a "donate to the creator" button when receiving maximum user limit message. We could help him quit his job so he could work on this full time.
- GauntletWizard 11y agoUnfortunately, I tried to donate, but the creator is in the Ukraine, and Paypal has blocked incoming payments there. There's some pretty nasty implications there that are probably worth discussion in another thread.
- splatcollision 11y agoDoes the whole thing still blow up if someone clicks a mine? Seems ripe for griefers, but I couldn't bring myself to do it!
- rtkwe 11y agoNo it looks like it's all score based so you get points for correctly flagging mines and lose for incorrect flags and hitting bombs.
- mochamadrochim 11y agoNo
- mochamadrochim 11y agoY componen
- denderson 11y agoFor those who haven't been able to connect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
- KineticLensman 11y agoThis is one of the most impressive film versions of a video game that I've seen, and I am counting Rihanna in Battleship. It really captures the essence of the game, and (spoiler alert) has a superb final lead into a sequel('Anyone want to play Hearts?'). // Ha Ha only serious. Hollywood has spent millions producing poorer quality game-derived films than this one.
- silent90 11y agohttp://i.imgur.com/f1Fpb9D.jpg http://i.imgur.com/f1Fpb9D.jpg
- j2bax 11y agoAny details on the tech behind it?
- donretag 11y agonode.js
- Hortinstein 11y agoany details? source?
- donretag 11y agoFrom the about page: "Game is being built with powers of Node.js and HTML5."
- haser_au 11y agoFirst posted to HN 1078 days ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mienfield.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mienfield.com
- vanattab 11y agoWell I for one am glad it was posted again because I missed it three years ago. Also I am pretty sure there are quite a few new members to HN in the last 3 years.
- mxfh 11y agoshould add a well deserved head tip to: @superlevel https://twitter.com/superlevel/status/702134669500923904 https://twitter.com/superlevel/status/702134669500923904
- blippe 11y agoWell, just 400 days ago it was down and didn't get back up for at least 200 days. I thought it was gone and am glad it was reposted.
- fiatjaf 11y agoThat's amazing.
- kyle_u 11y agoI love it when people put a modern twist on a ubiquitous game like this. I'm reminded of http://bombermine.com http://bombermine.com (no longer up?), a massively multiplayer Bomberman clone. Personally, I've tried to modernize Solitare with http://solitaire.gg http://solitaire.gg , but haven't figured out a way to make it massively multiplayer yet...
- avel 11y agoBombermine has been renamed to Game of Bombs: https://clay.io/game/bombermine https://clay.io/game/bombermine
- me_bx 11y agothere it is: http://gameofbombs.com/ http://gameofbombs.com/
- cpeterso 11y agoOther classic games that I've thought might make good massively multiplayer games include Battleship or Stratego with teams on a huge map.
- jaredsohn 11y agoMultiplayer solitaire (analog version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJoOom3f5mU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJoOom3f5mU This was my favorite card game to play with my family as a kid.
- vanattab 11y agoFor those interested this type of multiplayer "solitaire" is commonly known as pounce or nertz.
- bduerst 11y agoSo I used my touch screen to speed things up, and was banned: http://i.imgur.com/ZqsCqfO.png http://i.imgur.com/ZqsCqfO.png
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoIt says "Ping me on Twitter if you have any questions." Have you done that? This seems like a bug that the creator would appreciate knowing about.
- bduerst 11y agoYeah, I read that too. I don't use twitter :)
- fokinsean 11y agohaha me too
- pg_is_a_butt 11y ago"Massively" multiplayer, yet the page says in broken english that i can't play because he needs to do optimizations to make it work. pure garbage. don't just throw words like "Massively" if you don't mean in, liars.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago> Minefield: HTML5 Massively Multiplayer Online Minesweeper Post title is wrong, the site's name is "Mienfeld", a (presumably intentional) misspelling of "Minefield", not "Minefield".
- y4mi 11y agoits "minefield" on the splash screen though...
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoIndeed. I'm guessing that minefield.com wasn't available.
- delinka 11y agoDefinitely fun. Good work adapting the original to being multiplayer. Rename it to "Ourfield" and you've got yourself a nice pun, too.
- bisby 11y agoI can't tell if I'm far above average in minesweeper, or if most people are bad. My best expert score is 72, and i average in 90-110 somewhere. Watching other people play... they go quite slow. Do most people play minesweeper very casually? I always find it as an adrenaline filled rush to get to the end.
- pmarreck 11y agoPerhaps it wouldn't have died if it was powered by Erlang or Elixir instead
- Can_Not 11y agoHow much capacity do you think Erlang would provide, assuming no additional servers are added?
- stevebmark 11y agoThis game has ruined my life and the lives of my wretched sons
- xaduha 11y agoUgh.
- jokoon 11y agoI can't figure out how points are calculated. Most of the times I just 7 8 or 9, but sometimes I get 100.
- nayuki 11y agoJust how big is the entire world map in this game? There seems to be no end in sight when I move around the mini-map...