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148 pointsnaftaliharris45 comments

Yet another .io game. A pretty good one, too, but rather heavy on resources, which tends to be a theme among the .io games.

Come on guys, test and optimize your code! it's not rocket science.

It could use better memory management.

No kidding -- after a couple of minutes of play, it brought my 32GB Mac to a near halt.

In one minute, I had to force Quit chrome on my mac.

Doesn't that mean your OS is rather broken as well?

Broken for respecting it's owners wish to run a program with most of the resources available to it?

Tangentially related — and I'm not dissing on OS X here — but I really like the Linux kernel's Magic SysRq keys. It's a simple concept: no matter what software does, the hardware will always pass through the kernel first; so set up special keybindings to command the kernel to do special things.

Alt-SysRq-f pulls out the OOM killer, which targets the worst memory abusing process and just mercilessly kills it. It's super handy on a desktop OS that's frequently pushed to its limits. Chrome eating too much RAM? Pull out Alt-SysRq-f and kill the fattest Chrome process!

It is never my wish to devote so many resources to a program that the desktop becomes unresponsive.

Yep. There should at least be some kind of high-priority kill switch for that sort of thing.

yep, had to reboot

It ate up all my system memory after I got to about 9th place or something after 2 minutes and I had to force quit Chrome.

Locked up my Macbook in the same manner, quite impressive

Weird.. it works easily on my iPad.

Played a 21 minute game without issues on my 16GB laptop on chrome.

Confession: I had to uninstall the app from my iphone because it was eating up too much of my time.

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.

There's complexity that emerges from a simple ruleset that's more interesting than you'd think.

Also: watching other players to deduce their strategy, skill level,and understanding of the game.

I'm surprised that more players don't expand diagonally, which seems to me to be strategically strong.

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

No flash, no ads here. Played fine. ArchLinux Firefox 49.0.2.

Same here

I had this problem too. ctrl-shift-i and delete your Local Storage + Cookies for splix.io should let you play more than once.

For those who like webgames: https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/

And in particular multiplayer webgames: https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/comments/57v9jb/multiplaye...

This game is broken in so many ways.

What technique does it use to keep the state consistent over all clients and the server?

wow, it ates all the free memory available in the system regardless how much it is.

Wow! The reincarnation of Xonix [0] in multi-player! You should check out Antix [1] as well!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonix

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antix_(video_game)

thx nikolay!! I remember playing this game many years ago, but never managed to find it online.

And you can still do: http://www.vemix.com/Games/xonix/xonix.php

new agar.io/slither.io

though interesting to see how long and how well this game concept will evolve.

I like the name

Quite hooked to it. Best rank #3 Yes its a little heavy on resources, but then I was playing on my laptop so it was fine. A big thumbs up from me :)

WebSocket connection is failing for me but it's probably because of my workplace's network limitations.

Shame, I was quite excited when I first saw the game :)

The new agar.io , before that game became bloated :)

Careful if you get addicted to simple games. This swallowed up several hours a few weeks ago :-D

Yes quite addictive indeed.

Is it FLOSS ? or librejs friendly ?

It's a rogue-like snake landgrab . Great concept and lovely minimal execution. More fun than it seems after 1 play.

How is it a roguelike?

That would be interesting. This is only a snake like. Bored after 5 seconds, not my kind of games anymore.

Probably GP wrote roguelike because the general look of the game.

He was referring to permadeath, but he's wrong. In an RL, the world would be regened when you died, and it would likely be singleplayer: this is just an multiplayer snakelike.

You start over when you die

disconnects way too fast.

It says I'm disconnected after a couple seconds too. Also, like most browser games, it manages to rev up the fan on my fairly modern laptop almost immediately.

Multiplayer Snake from Nokia 3310 :D Amazing!

RIP RAM

got bored after 5 mins

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