Did you spot it? The MMO Asteroids I mentioned yesterday was in fact completely fake – there are no other players at all. Each ship is just a particle with some simple physics to make them move around. To be … Continue reading
Ever since Remy Sharp’s excellent Node.js workshop a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been working on this little multiplayer demo – it’s an Asteroids style shoot-em-up. Use the cursor keys and space to shoot. The BrowserQuest game we featured last … Continue reading
There’s buzz aplenty across the interwebs with the launch of this new Mozilla game experiment: BrowserQuest. Summarised by Paul Rouget as “a tribute to classic video games with a multiplayer twist”, it certainly lives up to expectation. Made by French … Continue reading
It’s 1983. It’s very late. You’ve got school tomorrow but you’re damned if you’ll accede to ridiculous demands for sleep with such an epic score hanging in the balance… Survivor was one of those games that frequently led to suspension … Continue reading
Everyone loves old school arcade games (if they say they don’t, they’re probably lying). The only real problem with them is that unless you’re Billy Mitchell it’s quite difficult to get away with finding an excuse to play them for … Continue reading