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sdegutis
Someone just clicked randomly in the middle! How dangerous! Come on, we're working together here, let's not be irresponsible!

But man, this is satisfyingly cool. Teamwork! With real people! In something I'm slightly competent in!

gipp
This is awesome! (However, talk about a back-button hijack)
MrSourz
Ya, it's really really bad at that.
Vivtek
It's ... full of bombs...
iamthepieman
clicked, 20 mintues later, what was I doing?

It's a great simple idea executed well.

paxtonab
Yes - this in no way conveys productivity when full screen on a thunderbolt display.
josephmx
Does it convey productivity when full screen on a HDMI display?
adanto6840
Very little productivity will _ever_ be conveyed if you're stuck using a low-res HDMI display connection!
fiatjaf
Not simple at all.
OJFord
Parent said a simple idea, not that it didn't take a good deal of awesome work to make it happen.
htns
I wish I had known about this earlier. I have put so many hours into minesweeper over years of office work.
sago
I recommend the commercial game Hexcell (and its sequels) if you want to turn the same logic into a really crafty puzzle.
sbarre
Max players reached. :(

I'll come back to this later I guess

yock
Really cool, though there may be a problem with the adjacent bomb counts.
MattSteelblade
Connection to the server has been lost :( Trying to reconnect . . .
MattSteelblade
I don't like that the URL is mienfield.com
doodpants
I agree. If it were "meinfield", it would at least be a German pun.
halflings
It seems even "Massively" Multiplayer Online games can't survive the HN effect. :)
conkrete
Indeed. The creator should add a "donate to the creator" button when receiving maximum user limit message. We could help him quit his job so he could work on this full time.
GauntletWizard
Unfortunately, I tried to donate, but the creator is in the Ukraine, and Paypal has blocked incoming payments there. There's some pretty nasty implications there that are probably worth discussion in another thread.
splatcollision
Does the whole thing still blow up if someone clicks a mine? Seems ripe for griefers, but I couldn't bring myself to do it!
rtkwe
No it looks like it's all score based so you get points for correctly flagging mines and lose for incorrect flags and hitting bombs.
asciimo
Also, the number of exploded mines and incorrectly flagged squares go on your permanent record (if you create a profile).
rtkwe
Good point I was at work so I couldn't get to the login email and find out what that gives/changes.
denderson
For those who haven't been able to connect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
KineticLensman
This is one of the most impressive film versions of a video game that I've seen, and I am counting Rihanna in Battleship. It really captures the essence of the game, and (spoiler alert) has a superb final lead into a sequel('Anyone want to play Hearts?').

// Ha Ha only serious. Hollywood has spent millions producing poorer quality game-derived films than this one.

j2bax
Any details on the tech behind it?
donretag
node.js
Hortinstein
any details? source?
donretag
From the about page:

"Game is being built with powers of Node.js and HTML5."

haser_au
First posted to HN 1078 days ago...

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mienfield.com

vanattab
Well I for one am glad it was posted again because I missed it three years ago. Also I am pretty sure there are quite a few new members to HN in the last 3 years.
blippe
Well, just 400 days ago it was down and didn't get back up for at least 200 days. I thought it was gone and am glad it was reposted.
kyle_u
I love it when people put a modern twist on a ubiquitous game like this. I'm reminded of http://bombermine.com (no longer up?), a massively multiplayer Bomberman clone. Personally, I've tried to modernize Solitare with http://solitaire.gg , but haven't figured out a way to make it massively multiplayer yet...
cpeterso
Other classic games that I've thought might make good massively multiplayer games include Battleship or Stratego with teams on a huge map.
bduerst
So I used my touch screen to speed things up, and was banned:

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

PhasmaFelis
It says "Ping me on Twitter if you have any questions." Have you done that? This seems like a bug that the creator would appreciate knowing about.
bduerst
Yeah, I read that too. I don't use twitter :)
[dead] pg_is_a_butt
"Massively" multiplayer, yet the page says in broken english that i can't play because he needs to do optimizations to make it work. pure garbage. don't just throw words like "Massively" if you don't mean in, liars.
TazeTSchnitzel
> Minefield: HTML5 Massively Multiplayer Online Minesweeper

Post title is wrong, the site's name is "Mienfeld", a (presumably intentional) misspelling of "Minefield", not "Minefield".

y4mi
its "minefield" on the splash screen though...
PhasmaFelis
Indeed. I'm guessing that minefield.com wasn't available.
delinka
Definitely fun. Good work adapting the original to being multiplayer. Rename it to "Ourfield" and you've got yourself a nice pun, too.
bisby
I can't tell if I'm far above average in minesweeper, or if most people are bad. My best expert score is 72, and i average in 90-110 somewhere. Watching other people play... they go quite slow.

Do most people play minesweeper very casually? I always find it as an adrenaline filled rush to get to the end.

pmarreck
Perhaps it wouldn't have died if it was powered by Erlang or Elixir instead
Can_Not
How much capacity do you think Erlang would provide, assuming no additional servers are added?