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Infinite Multiplayer Minesweeper

37 points| _jomo | 6 years ago |sweeper.unobtanium.de

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Waterluvian|6 years ago

I visit HN for experiments like this. Love it.

The aliasing or whatever on the gridlines is causing that moire effect optical illusion for me and making it hard to enjoy looking for more than a few minutes.

farhaven|6 years ago

Good point. I'll fix that. Do you mind telling me your screen resolution? I think this problem may be more pronounced on relatively low-res screens.

kroltan|6 years ago

It seems it was hugged!

Nice game, was able to play it for a bit, got 8 right tops.

It seems like the density of bombs is much larger than a regular minesweeper? Or I've just been playing on easy mode in other times...

iforgotpassword|6 years ago

Not working for me either right now. There was a game like this before, something like minefield.net, but it eventually disappeared. Played it every now and then with a couple colleagues during lunch break.

dwd|6 years ago

Needs a different size grid for mobile so you don't fat finger mines, otherwise pretty cool.

Do not trust other people's flags though as they can be wrong - possibly intentionally.

farhaven|6 years ago

Yeah, adjustable viewport size is on my TODO list.

> Do not trust other people's flags though as they can be wrong - possibly intentionally.

Yes, this is intentional. I want to see how people start collaborating across very limited channels. Or how they start playing against each other :)

Toto778455|6 years ago

Nice but:

1. Do not debug in production (console.log ...)

2. Secure the session (do not display the session ID in high-scores)

3. This is not infinite (in64 * in64) square + weird border :)

4. Balance the score for big discovered area

5. For the new players start the position on an playable area

6. Limit the total of high-scores returned by the ws

7. Limit the ws data as much as possible

...

Thanks and sorry :)

farhaven|6 years ago

1, 2, 6, 7: All good points, I've fixed those.

3: 64 bits are close enough to infinity :)

4: Good idea. Maybe something like a logarithmic curve on the number of discovered fields would be good.

5: Also a good point. I'll try to build that

rmbeard|6 years ago

502 bad gateway

butz|6 years ago

Probably someone found a mine already.