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by jozan 3721 days ago
Looks really cool! Have you thought about adding multiplayer?

I really wish someone would do the same for Elma/Elastomania. I feel like it has much more funnier physics with it's elastic suspensions etc. Even the third party extension which added multiplayer support was amazing ten years back.

Btw, is this project still active? Last commit was nine months ago.

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Yes of course I had multiplayer in mind the whole time. I even started a Rails application here for that purpose: https://github.com/michaelhoste/xmoto.io (it was more of a proof-of-concept)

But I'm afraid of the tweaking of the physics once the multiplayer game is started (and replays are created). Do I need to freeze them once-for-all and only work on supporting more levels or create an editor?

I still have plans for this project, but this is a side-project and like always, life happens and free time disappears...

EDIT : the work-in-progress is in fact in the "pixijs" branch, I almost finished the rendering engine switch to http://www.pixijs.com/ (higher level of abstraction, more cool 2D effects)