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xentac
Try to make the screen all one color while your opponents do the same.
xentac
Written in Node.js, hosted on Amazon EC2, uses Socket.IO.
tomg
Is the code available somewhere? I'm working on a somewhat similar game concept on an identical stack.
xentac
Not yet, but I plan on doing a little blog post about it and posting the code.
msluyter
Addictive for about 40 seconds. I was like "GO GREEN! GREEN! GREEN! GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!" and then realized it was futile. Neat though!
rubidium
It was just a matter of time before someone stopped using a mouse and started some scripts.
xentac
Yeah, I limit the number of moves you can make per second, but mice/multi-touch move pretty fast...
DanBC
Do you take into account mouse acceleration?
xentac
It just reads mouse move events, so there are only so many per second. If you send me more events than I allow, I drop the rest of them on the floor.
m104
Ha, some bots are being written as we speak! Or, someone out there has some killer hand-eye coordination.
xentac
I did do some stuff to try and limit scripts. We'll see if they can figure it out.

Also, it's multi-touch enabled...

bobidden
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { socket.emit('move', {x:Math.floor(Math.random()* 750), y:Math.floor(Math.random()* 750), id:myId}); }
psadauskas 

    var x=0,y=0;
    
    function f() {
      if(y > 600) { y = 0; }
      if(x > 800) { x = 0; y += 10; }
    
      socket.emit('move', {x:x, y:y, id:myId});
    
      x += 10;
    
      setTimeout(f, 5);
    }
DanBC
I'm red. I have no idea why I'm winning. Green has a really nice lissajous going on, but I don't think it's scoring them that much.
abraham
There is a bug. My dots would randomly change to a different color shortly after I placed them.
xentac
That's actually not a bug, someone wrote a bot that plays in every position that someone else plays.
abraham
Ha. That does not surprise me at all. At first I thought it was someone else but the dots matched exactly so I thought it was a bug instead.