Yet another .io game. A pretty good one, too, but rather heavy on resources, which tends to be a theme among the .io games.<p>Come on guys, test and optimize your code! it's not rocket science.
Confession: I had to uninstall the app from my iphone because it was eating up too much of my time.<p>This game has a lot of interesting things to balance - defend my territory vs. expand into new, deciding when to grab territory boldly and when to be conservative, deciding whether another player is vulnerable to be cut off vs. the risk you put yourself into by trying to cut them off.<p>There's complexity that emerges from a simple ruleset that's more interesting than you'd think.<p>Also: watching other players to deduce their strategy, skill level,and understanding of the game.<p>I'm surprised that more players don't expand diagonally, which seems to me to be strategically strong.<p>I also like how the game requires different things as your territory grows: early stages are about survival, middle stages about growth, later stages involve defense.
Oh, and I noticed that the youtube gamers enjoy it as well.
For people saying this is the new agar.io/slither.io. There are loads of "io games" nowadays competing to be the next big thing. This is just another version of landix.io so it's nothing unique and will probably not be a landslide success. It does look more polished though.
game doesn't seem to require flash, but the ads(?) do, and if you don't have flash, it blocks on the ad page seemingly indefinitely. FF 49.0.1 arch linux
For those who like webgames: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/</a><p>And in particular multiplayer webgames: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/comments/57v9jb/multiplayer_monday/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/comments/57v9jb/multiplaye...</a>
Wow! The reincarnation of Xonix [0] in multi-player! You should check out Antix [1] as well!<p>[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonix" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonix</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antix_(video_game)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antix_(video_game)</a>
WebSocket connection is failing for me but it's probably because of my workplace's network limitations.<p>Shame, I was quite excited when I first saw the game :)