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Flappy Bird MMO
- lsiunsuex 13y agoNow that's a cool spin on this. Any chance sharing the server side? Curious how something like that is done.
- anilgulecha 13y agoYup.. I'd like to see the code which handles these concurrent connections.
- binocarlos 13y agoWow that is nicely done - front page HN - ~700 concurrent users and I'm having fun playing! Good Work!
- emhart 13y agoI have generally ignored this flappy bird malarkey, but this sucked me right in. Nicely done!
- Uberphallus 13y agoNot working on Firefox nor Chrome on Win7, is it slammed by traffic?
- lectrick 13y agoNot working as of 8:23 AM EST on Chrome
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoNot working as of 14:12 GMT on Chrome either ;)
- Ronsenshi 13y agoStill not working. HN killed its node.js server.
- philliphaydon 13y agolol It's so slow with 800 players I can't even see where my bird is.
- Robadob 13y agoIt was much more reactive at ~200 players, I was playing around modifying the javascript to remove collision detection (there's a method with a long ternary statement that ends ? !1 : !0, change the both to !1) etc until it hit ~700 users and started dying for me (presumably when it hit hacker news).
- swah 13y agoJavascript games = cheating?
- mdpane 13y agoTo write a secure online multiplayer game in javascript, the server would have to assume the client has been compromised by default and verify everything server-side. This wouldn't work for anything fast paced, but it'd suffice for RPGs and puzzle games. For example, in an RPG, a client says it's moved 5 tiles north. The server receives it, but before broadcasting it to other players, the server would have to read the map and make sure it's valid (e.g. there's nothing in the way).
- LinaLauneBaer 13y agoI am at 200. Who can catch me? :) https://www.dropbox.com/s/gnemb53o287ae0b/Screen%20Shot%202014-02-11%20at%202.26.41%20PM.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/gnemb53o287ae0b/Screen%20Shot%2020...
- deletes 13y agoNot to invalidate your achievement, but with the current gameplay all it takes to weight down the spacebar, and wait. A score of 200 would be much more impressive.
- LinaLauneBaer 13y agoThat's why I wrote "who can catch" me and not "who can beat me?".
- anonymousab 13y agoSorry, the text field got stripped by a faulty browser plugin. I found this on 4chan. The creator said to go ahead and post it elsewhere but didn't seem interested in sharing the source or anything. Though I'd imagine this will be backlinked at some point.
- Antwan 13y agoDown. HN effect
- deletes 13y agoThe gameplay would be more interesting if, instead of progressing even if you don't jump trough one pipe( like now ), you would always start from the beginning. Then the bird population would get more and more sparse as you progress; with a possible checkpoint system.
- loceng 13y agoWhat are the copyright issues involved with this? People get upset about Zynga and other big game companies cloning games, yet this 'clone' is a direct copy of graphics, etc. - minus adding multi-player capability. Not a single mention of this in this thread either at the time of posting this comment.
- squintychino 13y agoThe original creator gave up $50k/day and took the #1 game off the market. If he had no interest in continuing to make money off of this game, why would he be interested in pursuing legal action against someone? He'd probably just withdraw the lawsuit when it got too complicated, as that seems to be his M.O.
- downandout 13y agoAgreed. He is incredibly unlikely to pursue anyone and has actually given a few of the knockoffs his blessing. You're wrong on one point though...the $50k/day isn't going anywhere. The ads are still active on 100M+ installs. He is still raking in cash and will until people stop opening the game on their devices.
- loceng 13y agoOh, so because you get away with it - it's okay? Is that your stance with Zynga and other big companies then too?
- downandout 13y agoMy stance on this particular matter is that he has done everything short of open sourcing this game, up to and including giving his blessing to several knockoffs. 100M+ people have the original game, and that game is still generating substantial revenue for him. Everyone that already had the game when he pulled it is likely sticking to playing the original. I'm not making a Flappy Bird clone, but I think that those who are probably aren't going to be facing any lawsuits. That's all I said.
- MichaelTieso 13y agoThis is actually pretty clever and one of the better remakes that I've seen around. Nice job on this.
- Oculus 13y agoSeems to not be working for me, is the server down?
- eviluncle 13y agoit's getting HN hammered, there are ~600 players concurrently playing right now.
- XorNot 13y agoIs the responsiveness of this actually the original Flappy Bird responsiveness? I'm assuming no, because good lord it's terrible.
- Blara 13y agoit's back
- codeulike 13y agoThe 'bubble' that it shows around the bird really messes with my sense of collision detection.
- codeulike 13y agoIt just changed so that the pipes have a bigger gap, its pretty fun now, you can really race people. Someone called 'flappy swag' was just ahead of me ...
- nmeofthestate 13y agoI'm going to write a Flappy Bird text adventure, where you play a desperate attention-grabbing software developer. The aim of the game is to get onto the HN front page by in some way leveraging Flappy Bird fever. (not a dig at this specific example - this one is quite cool)
- visakanv 13y agoExtra credit if you kill the game just as it starts to get popular.
- deluvas 13y agoI know, right? Atleast he wrote a notice: >Sorry guys, I can't handle the pressure. Just kidding. Server will be back in a few hours (about 8 hours or so).
- prottmann 13y agoAnd i will write a post about playing the flappy bird adventure ;-)
- nmeofthestate 13y agoFlappy Bird Text Adventure By The Numbers (medium.com) [300 votes] Why Can't I Be a Female Hacker in Flappy Bird Text Adventure? (blogspot.com) [500000 votes] [100000 comments]
- gauravpandey 13y agoWhat is with "The Day We Fight Back"? Anonymous group?
- gauravpandey 13y agoGot it.. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1xm761/we_are_the_day_we_fight_back_organizers_ask_us/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1xm761/we_are_the_day_...
- caiob 13y agoBest 404 ever. ha!
- prottmann 13y agoNew header title: "The Day We Flappy Back" !
- beratozay 13y agoasd