Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
Show HN: Color War (jointhecolorwar.com)
29 points by xentac 5206 days ago
10 comments
xentac 5206 days ago
Try to make the screen all one color while your opponents do the same.
link
xentac 5206 days ago
Written in Node.js, hosted on Amazon EC2, uses Socket.IO.
link
tomg 5206 days ago
Is the code available somewhere? I'm working on a somewhat similar game concept on an identical stack.
link
xentac 5193 days ago
I know it's a little belated, but here's the code. I haven't written the blog post yet.

https://github.com/xentac/colorwar

link
xentac 5206 days ago
Not yet, but I plan on doing a little blog post about it and posting the code.
link
msluyter 5206 days ago
Addictive for about 40 seconds. I was like "GO GREEN! GREEN! GREEN! GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!" and then realized it was futile. Neat though!
link
stock_toaster 5206 days ago
I was entertained through a boring meeting. :)
link
psadauskas 5206 days ago 

    var x=0,y=0;
    
    function f() {
      if(y > 600) { y = 0; }
      if(x > 800) { x = 0; y += 10; }
    
      socket.emit('move', {x:x, y:y, id:myId});
    
      x += 10;
    
      setTimeout(f, 5);
    }
link
rubidium 5206 days ago
It was just a matter of time before someone stopped using a mouse and started some scripts.
link
xentac 5206 days ago
Yeah, I limit the number of moves you can make per second, but mice/multi-touch move pretty fast...
link
DanBC 5206 days ago
Do you take into account mouse acceleration?
link
xentac 5206 days ago
It just reads mouse move events, so there are only so many per second. If you send me more events than I allow, I drop the rest of them on the floor.
link
DanBC 5206 days ago
I'm red. I have no idea why I'm winning. Green has a really nice lissajous going on, but I don't think it's scoring them that much.
link
xentac 5206 days ago
I did do some stuff to try and limit scripts. We'll see if they can figure it out.

Also, it's multi-touch enabled...

link
m104 5206 days ago
Ha, some bots are being written as we speak! Or, someone out there has some killer hand-eye coordination.
link
abraham 5206 days ago
There is a bug. My dots would randomly change to a different color shortly after I placed them.
link
xentac 5206 days ago
That's actually not a bug, someone wrote a bot that plays in every position that someone else plays.
link
abraham 5206 days ago
Ha. That does not surprise me at all. At first I thought it was someone else but the dots matched exactly so I thought it was a bug instead.
link
bobidden 5206 days ago
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { socket.emit('move', {x:Math.floor(Math.random()* 750), y:Math.floor(Math.random()* 750), id:myId}); }
link