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There's a version of bomberman here that supports unlimited players. You connect to wifi via your phone and your phone becomes a controller. I've had up to 89 p
by tokyodude 8y ago
There's a version of bomberman here that supports unlimited players. You connect to wifi via your phone and your phone becomes a controller. I've had up to 89 people play at once although pretty much everyone dies before they can figure out where they are.
https://github.com/greggman/hft-boomboom https://github.com/greggman/hft-boomboom
There's also a browser version that supports USB controllers, as many as you can connect (I think some browsers only allow 4 but another a browser has no limit except whatever the USB limit is)
https://greggman.github.io/hft-boomboom/ https://greggman.github.io/hft-boomboom/
Warning: Music. Also it won't start until there are at least 2 players.
You can see it run with 125 players with random inputs here
http://greggman.github.io/hft-boomboom/?settings=%7BnumLocalPlayers:125,forceScale:true,scale:1,bombStartSize:10%7D http://greggman.github.io/hft-boomboom/?settings=%7BnumLocal...
Actually it's better to look at if you crank up the number of players so there's less dirt and increase the starting bomb size
http://greggman.github.io/hft-boomboom/?settings={numLocalPlayers:500,forceScale:true,scale:1,bombStartSize:100} http://greggman.github.io/hft-boomboom/?settings={numLocalPl...
If you zoom out to say 25% in your browser you can bump up the number of players to 1000s. It's not optimized at the moment for 1000s of players.
You could easily extend it to use some other types of controllers.
It also points out what appears to be a bug in MacOS. Even with the OS volume at the lowest setting the game will be very loud when all the explosions start. On the one hand this is probably a bug in Chrome's audio system but on the other hand an individual app should arguably not be able to make loud sounds if the OS is set to it's quietest setting.
- 0db532a0 8y agoThanks. Will give this a whirl this evening.
- antidaily 8y agoThanks. Going to check it out. Bomberman on the Sega Dreamcast, especially with 4 people, was some of the most fun gaming I've ever had. Also, I'm old.
- puzzle 8y agoI loved the Dreamcast's Bomberman Online. It had multiple play modes, two of which (submarine and ring match) I have never seen in any other incarnation of the game.
- rendx 8y agoThanks! There is also http://gameofbombs.com/ http://gameofbombs.com/ , quite fun to play online. Unfortunately it is not open source and cannot be used for closed groups/LAN.