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Massively Multiplayer Minesweeper
- robraven 8y agoCool idea. What's to stop a player from just right clicking and planting either a flag or uncovering a square?
- kav2k 8y agoScore. If a square is uncovered by right-click it's penalized.
- JimiofEden 8y agoNeat. I can just right click everything though Also is there a penalty for being a jerk and just clicking everything regardless of if it's a mine or not?
- nickthegreek 8y agoLove me some minesweeper. My favorite version is probably on the Vive. Nothing is cooler than FPV minesweeper, planting flags and working the field. I wish this one had some zoom control.
- Dibbles 8y agoConcept is pretty cool. Needs a little work still though.
- hossbeast 8y agoIt seems like there's a co-op aspect where clicks only take effect after multiple players have acted on a particular box?
- Thaxll 8y agoDoesn't work? I left / right click does nothing.
- teraflop 8y agoThere used to be a much more polished implementation of this idea at http://www.mienfield.com/ http://www.mienfield.com/, but it appears to have gone defunct sometime in the last few months.
- discussedbefore 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11158897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11158897 (Feb 2016) > game like this http://gameofbombs.com/ http://gameofbombs.com/ Apparently being offline has happened before: > it was down and didn't get back up for at least 200 days
- guessmyname 8y agoCan someone post a screenshot? This is the only thing I can see: > failed to start application on minesweep.glitch.me > This is most likely because your project has a code error. > Check your project logs, fix the error and try again.
- seba_dos1 8y ago"Multiplayer" - checked. "Massively" - not so much ;)
- GarethX 8y agoThe author of the app took the project down. As far as I know, it's a student project that is still a work in progress, so they might not yet be ready for full HN scrutiny.
- vinchuco 8y agohttps://imgur.com/a/CEtcm https://imgur.com/a/CEtcm
- _sdegutis 8y agoI love seeing little niche MMO games like this! Anyone remember mienfield.com? This site reminds me of that, but that site kept going down and coming back up, and reddit.com/r/mienfield kind of narrates the life and eventual death of that site, which is neat to see unfold over time. But what's most interesting to me is that although so many people found this kind of simple MMO game extremely fun and kept going back to it (our family played mienfield on and off for weeks, maybe months!), the site couldn't find a way to support itself financially and eventually died. I'm not sure what would have been the best financial model for it either. But either way, it's super cool and inspired me to buy editfight.com and transform it into a new kind of MMO game every few months. To me the best part of these kind of games like minesweep.glitch.me here is that people have to find ways to interact and communicate with very little conventional ways (no comments, no live chat, etc) and instead have to use the game itself to communicate, to coordinate and plan, or just to say hi to each other! It's like getting back to the raw fundamentals of human interaction before there was formalized speech or writing!
- kej 8y agoFor anyone really in to minesweeper, I want to recommend the Hexcells series of games, available on Steam. It's hexagonal minesweeper that gradually introduces new clues, and there is always enough information that you don't have to guess. It's a really well done puzzle game. (No affiliation, just a big fan)
- xellisx 8y agoNext up, Massive Multiplayer Solitaire.
- thelegendxp 8y agoi did not realize how addicting minesweeper can be until today
- camtarn 8y agoI'm not sure if there's a controls summary that I'm missing, but here we go: Left click: reveal a tile Right click: flag a tile as containing a mine, or reveal it if it doesn't contain one (score penalty) Drag (either button): move across the field
- camtarn 8y agoHuh. The server crashed (all the tiles reset)... and when it came back, every single tile contained a bomb. This is a bit odd... [edit] Five minutes later, it's back to normal.
- jamesfdickinson 8y agoAnother multiplayer minesweeper is http://minesweeper.io http://minesweeper.io
- senectus1 8y agoanyone remember "tetrinet" ? I used to love playing multiplayer tetris.. it was such a fun challenge!
- rover2341 8y agoYes i do, it was a very fun game.
- rover2341 8y agominesweeper.io Is another fun multiplayer minesweeper