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And we wonder why we don't have more women, girls and queer folk in technology. Just plain offensive.

- edit To be clear, the ridiculous names people are using are offensive. Game was fun until the children showed up.

Not sure I agree with your characterisation of women as grave and prudish. Surely human beings of all creeds can see the funny side of being absorbed by a giant circle labeled "COCK".

Or maybe it's just me.

I think it's fucking hilarious and that people should not try their hardest to be offended at every chance.
I'm not offended but I'd like to show it to my child.
There is a settings option to choose no names. That should allow you to spare your child the vulgarities of words, He or She will still have to deal with being eaten however.
I'm guessing it's various adults that are preventing it from being child-friendly. Fun game though.
and what makes you think adults don't do the same lol.
If it makes you feel any better, mine was 'FREE HUGS!'.
Everyone is having fun, and someone with victim-mentality tries to spoil it. Typical. Grow up Harriet.
This is an amazingly fun game. This reminds me of the first (and only fun) stage of spore.
This is a really fun game. BTW you can use the space bar to shoot and divide yourself to _attack_ other cells.
Smaller cells are faster, so division will help you outrun a big attacker if you're totally cornered.
Is it possible to merge back in to one? Can you 'eat' yourself?
Yes, though I'm still not sure what triggers it.
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You just need to feed one of the parts to be big enough to swallow the smaller parts, and then you can remerge after you pass the threshold
I'm pretty sure it's a timer. Cells cannot merge for X seconds after splitting, but after that any two cells that have passed the threshold can be merged.
Doesn't work for me. Is there a threshold for dividing? OTOH, the game is choppy as hell for me, maybe that's the reason.
I have Vimperator for Firefox, and I had to ignore those keys (Shift + Esc) while playing in order to use the keyboard. Just FYI in case anyone else ran into the same thing.
I think you can't divide if you have 16 cells.

If you have 16 cells, your big ones can also eat the green things and grow, instead of getting split up.

Nice, it reminds me of Osmos.
Cool, it's quite fun to play. I wouldn't mind a short intro on how to play it besides the controls or is this intentional?
Fun game, I hated the controls though.
Well, that's far too much fun for 8:20 on a workday.
A list of custom bubblies "poland;usa;china;russia;canada;australia;spain;brazil;germany;ukraine;france;sweden;north korea;south korea;japan"
Here's some more, from this pastebin: http://pastebin.com/kXQDhQEr

Also Googled and found, thanks to TJjokerR on steamcommunity forums, that the list is in "main_out.js" in the source code.

Alphabetical order: 2ch.hk, 4chan, 8ch, 9gag, argentina, australia, austria, ayy lmao, bait, bangladesh, belarus, belgium, bosnia, botswana, brazil, bulgaria, byzantium, cambodia, canada, chile, china, cia, confederate, croatia, denmark, doge, ea, earth, estonia, european union, facepunch, feminism, finland, france, german empire, germany, greece, hitler, hong kong, hungary, imperial japan, india, indiana, indonesia, iran, iraq, ireland, isis, italy, jamaica, japan, kc, kingdom of france, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, maldivas, mars, matriarchy, mexico, moon, nasa, nazi, netherlands, nigeria, north korea, norway, origin, pakistan, patriarchy, peru, pewdiepie, piccolo, pokerface, poland, portugal, prodota, prussia, qing dynasty, quebec, reddit, romania, russia, sanik, satanist, scotland, sealand, sir, somalia, south korea, spain, stalin, steam, stussy, sweden, switzerland, taiwan, texas, thailand, tsarist russia, tumblr, turkey, ukraine, united kingdom, usa, ussr, vinesauce, wojak, yaranaika

Order in which skins were added: poland, usa, china, russia, canada, australia, spain, brazil, germany, ukraine, france, sweden, hitler, north korea, south korea, japan, united kingdom, earth, greece, latvia, lithuania, estonia, finland, norway, cia, maldivas, austria, nigeria, reddit, yaranaika, confederate, 9gag, indiana, 4chan, italy, ussr, pewdiepie, bulgaria, tumblr, 2ch.hk, hong kong, portugal, jamaica, german empire, mexico, sanik, switzerland, croatia, chile, indonesia, bangladesh, thailand, iran, iraq, peru, moon, botswana, bosnia, netherlands, european union, taiwan, pakistan, hungary, satanist, qing dynasty, nazi, matriarchy, patriarchy, feminism, ireland, texas, facepunch, prodota, cambodia, steam, piccolo, ea, india, kc, denmark, quebec, ayy lmao, sealand, bait, tsarist russia, origin, vinesauce, stalin, belgium, luxembourg, stussy, prussia, 8ch, argentina, scotland, sir, romania, belarus, wojak, isis, doge, nasa, byzantium, imperial japan, kingdom of france, somalia, turkey, mars, pokerface

P.S. This game is going to be huge!

Wow, this is really fun.

Feature request:

* minimap

* visible world borders

The invisible map border are really annoying.
Useful for preying on the unaware though!
Yea they are, although I have been on the wrong end of it. :)
I'd like a minimap where you can see resources but not other players.
Was loving it until I built up to a decent size then died because I accidentally moved the mouse to a screen corner that locked the screen.
What is the tech stack of this game?
I would like to know as well.
This looks like Socket.IO app.
Dev here. Client side is javascript, no frameworks or anything. Server side is C++ with libuv for abstracting networking (I test it on windows but the actual servers are linux).
I found your inclusion of Bootstrap to be mildly amusing :)
Ops. I reused some code from another game, I forgot I had bootstrap only for that one button, lol.
Had fun playing this game, keyboard navigation will be awesome though.
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Well that was incredibly fun
ProTip: Eat cells smaller than half your size by splitting while chasing.
I ate "Russia", who was trying to eat "Putin". Then "Putin" ate me. This is so wrong but extremely addicting. http://i.imgur.com/oS7Ayl2.png
After reading your comment I expected that the game will be some kind of countryball/landball meme spin-off :)
Trying setting "Poland" as your name
Lol, I was "Oxygen" and ate a pair of "Hydrogen".
I wonder if modeling this as a complex system with self interested agents and randomly appearing nodes could show some interesting emergent properties. At least it would be a worthwhile simulation. Does anyone know who is the creator of this game and whether the code is open source?
After the MMO Asteroids incident [1], I had to switch off my network connection to reassure myself that it isn't fake.

If you're looking for a more in-depth experience, check out Osmos [2], the single-player game that probably inspired this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378475

[2] http://www.osmos-game.com/

It doesn't appear your [1] MMO Asteroids link is correct. It's a comment about doing Cocoa dev for 10 years
so much fun
Not working for me. Getting Access Control Allow Origin Error.
Thank you I don't remember the last time I laughed so much.