2048 – multiplayer

[elorant]

Dude, we need to work. Please stop making variations of a highly addictive game. You’ve already destroyed our lives. Show some mercy.

[christiangenco]

"I am sorry '2048' users, 22 hours from now, I will take '2048' down. I cannot take this anymore."

[hablahaha]

While driving home from work, I almost thought about speeding into the car in front of me because it would make big number.

[mkaziz]

I got yelled at by my boss yesterday. :(

[karanA]

Someone please make multiplayer version where second player can be chosen by sharing link.

[neilk]

The other day I saw two identical items next to each other and thought "right-arrow".

[midas007]

Do we need an Indiegogo project to raise funds to pay them to shut it down and stop making variations?

:)

[edwardchiapet]

Agreed! This game is too addictive!

[adamnemecek]

I wonder what is it about the game that makes it so addictive.

[elleferrer]

I second this.

[dwaynemac]

+1

[gabemart]

Seems rather buggy to me I'm afraid. I've observed:

* Timer runs out, game proclaims both players winner

* One opponent makes no moves for the entire game, proclaimed winner when timer runs out

* One player proclaimed loser at arbitrary point with timer still running and legal moves left in play

[ljf]

Everyone I played seems to be a bot - or they have super-human finger speed!

[endijs]

I will add to those: * sometimes system gets stuck and no competitor is found (well - maybe there really is no one else) * once board was loaded, for competitor blocks were moving so fast as if computer would play or some sort of bot

[1986v]

How in the world? http://awesomescreenshot.com/0792hc1za8

[ishener]

he was too quick to release...

[panacea]

2048 is HN's Flappy Bird

[ak39]

LOL. Have you tried randomly hitting all the keys until you are around 128? :-)

[davidgerard]

Nice idea, but I don't believe there are no opponents available with this #1 on HN ...

[shiftpgdn]

I think we broke it.

[flixic]

It doesn't work very well. Why does this happen? http://cl.ly/UOfb

[cessor]

This happens to me all the time - the game somehow ends whenever ... in the middle...

[windsurfer]

Had this happen: http://i.imgur.com/ww8pgES.png

[jayvanguard]

Yeah, it is broken. I had a higher score and got to a high number and it said I lost.

[jlas]

This: http://i.imgur.com/E6QtRYn.png

Can be easily fixed by setting float:right on #player-online

Have a nice day.

[tyree732]

I'm having some difficulty getting competitors, with no indication of how long it will take to find one, and when I did find one, about 3 seconds into the game I was told I lost with my opponent having performed no moves. I feel like this needs some work.

[coutol]

I got a competitor pretty easily, but we won in few seconds (both of us)... something is wrong.

[Oculus]

Hey author here! Sorry for the buggyness, this is my first stab at realtime. I can confirm that everybody you're playing is a real person. I wasn't sure how to simulate latency for testing so that could be the source of the issues. I also have a mix of server/client msgs being sent, but plan on moving it all to the server except for moves.

You can find the repo at https://github.com/EmilS/2048-multiplayer, PR's are welcome! :)

[nosage]

Next up: Twitch Plays 2048

[Houshalter]

Someone tried it, but when I found the stream it was inactive.

[ramayac]

Ah, you beat me to this!, haha :D

[SimeVidas]

This is probably a secret Russian plot to destroy the US economy.

[nitid_name]

I've played four games, and each time it declares the player with the lower score the winner after a seemingly arbitrary amount of time.

[thedufer]

In the game I played, the winner did in fact have more points, but their tiles were a strict subset of the other player's (64,4,2,2 vs 64,32,16,8,4,4,2,2), so its not really clear what the scoring mechanism is.

[subir]

As if single-player hadn't ruined my life already -.-

[emehrkay]

Yeah. I just need to get a game in before I start my work day

[rtaibah]

All the players I played against play blazingly fast, seems almost just mindless bashing. Is it just me who actually takes their sweet time thinking about every move?

[tarblog]

I bash at the beginning because it's timed. Then, once I have a larger number on the board I begin playing normally.

[u2]

"Use your arrow keys to move the tiles" ? How about a few more words about rules.

How do you pick which tile you want to move?

And btw, when I tried, two tiles with same numbers were NOT merging most of the time. Other times it seemed that the entire row was moving. Then again, I could not figure out how to select a tile to move. Mouse seemed to work but only sometimes. Perhaps accidentally... Too buggy or just big time lag.., or just big time lag..

[u2]

Nobody knows?!

[jw2013]

So when there was only 15 secs left, I got 4xxx points and my opponents only got xxx points. Then I was told I was lost (because I got no possible move I assume) and he was won, but that is really a bad game-winning condition because there was no way my opponent would got 4000 points in 15 secs.

So why not let the game clock finish before the game tells who is the winner?

[jkochis]

Apparently you lose by getting the higher score.

[bannus]

There's some bug ending games early, so this is pretty much a button mashing contest. Also, when games end early, it doesn't properly declare the winner. I assume something's broken in detecting if the board has no moves: http://i.imgur.com/4XBGCzI.png

[brown9-2]

I got hooked up with someone who scored 500+ points in the first 10 seconds. Is someone playing this with bots?

[wudf]

http://i.imgur.com/Uju7dsa.png

[wudf]

http://i.imgur.com/0b3kUZ1.png

[janpieterz]

I've found a couple of issues:

- With a clear point advantage still both players get declared winner

- After one move I was declared loser, while actually I made the only move and it was a valid one as well, with loads of options left (as it was the first move)

- It thinks the game is finished on random occasions.