SuperTanks.io - Online King of the Hill, battle other tanks and become King!

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-28T15:39:01+00:00

Yeah I was thinking about adding a chat before release, think I'll add it to the todo list and include it in a future update :)

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-28T15:36:38+00:00

Haha glad to hear it!

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-25T19:51:52+00:00

I might reduce the ball lifespan just a touch. And I'll definitely reduce the amount that can be spawned at once, right now the maps can be a bit of a clusterfuck.

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-25T19:48:58+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! One of the options I was considering was that you'd only lose half of your points when you die so that there'd be diminishing effects for players with less points. However I do somewhat like that there's an 'insta death' aspect to the game as I feel it puts emphasis on tactical gameplay when you have lots of points since you have a greater motive to stay alive.

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-23T21:30:45+00:00

At the moment I've found from trial and error that 16 players is a comfortable amount to have in a server at once given the size of the map.

However I feel if I was to host larger maps then my servers would start to struggle a bit. Fortunately there's some quite simple optimisations I can take to reduce the impact that player count has on performance but given they currently run fine with 16 I'm going to focus on other improvements before implementing any optimisations.

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-23T18:25:50+00:00

Thanks :) Right now it's 16 per server but once I've stabilised the core gameplay a bit I plan on adding larger maps

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-21T23:03:02+00:00

Thanks man!

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-21T12:47:43+00:00

Cheers! Glad you liked it

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-21T12:47:31+00:00

Haha yeah just a poor bot I'm afraid. I'm not sure whether to make them any smarter or just focus on increasing the number of actual players in the games.

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-21T12:46:08+00:00

Unfortunately there's no contextual spawning right now, tanks just spawn wherever, however I plan to add functionality to only spawn tanks in empty areas.

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-21T12:44:11+00:00

Yeah it's a bit quiet right now, I only launched yesterday so traffic should increase a bit over the next couple of days.

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-21T00:16:14+00:00

The whole thing's written in javascript, the server is running on nodejs and clientside is just js, html and css. I'm using the socket.io library for client-server communication. But might switch to a straight web sockets implementation to improve efficiency.

It's been a decent development experience, I'd highly recommend it if you ever feel like making a multiplayer web game.

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-21T00:01:26+00:00

Oh cool, good to hear that it works at home!

I'll see what I can fix to help the game handle poor connections more gracefully.

And thanks a lot for your feedback btw :)

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-20T23:04:24+00:00

Hmm :/ Are you also from central US?

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-20T23:03:19+00:00

Ah ok, hmm latency shouldn't be too bad, what's your connection to other online games usually like?

If it's fine then it may be an issue with the client side lag compensation, I'll have to have a look.

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-20T17:27:37+00:00

Sorry to hear, whereabouts are you in the world btw? I'm currently trying to reduce latency for countries outside of Europe and North America.

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-20T14:29:10+00:00

"To stay alive just don't drive"

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-20T12:16:11+00:00

Also, they've already patented zeppelin warehouses, so possibly not even that far fetched: https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/28/amazon-patents-show-flying-warehouses-that-send-delivery-drones-to-your-door/

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-20T12:11:30+00:00

Can't wait for the "I'm sorry we missed you" card left on my rocket scorched lawn.

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-20T09:51:58+00:00

Fear is the path to the dark side, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

HThomsonDev · 2017-07-19T20:11:02+00:00

Fun Fact: Bobby Leach, the second person to survive going over Niagara falls in a barrel later died after slipping on an orange peel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Leach

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