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Zekio
ahh, yes the old game Achtung de curve revived as a browser game nice!
gbachik
So much fun thanks :D <3
p0nce
I feel like a tinier hit box would lead to longer lived trails thus more excitement.
tacone
very nice.

suggestions:

1 - a stronger indicator of which point is you (the arrow at the beginning is not enough)

2 - control instructions (it wasn't obvious you had to use the keyboard arrows, also because of (1).

3 - if the room is crowded, the game will never start as long people keep joining. Put a timer or similar.

4 - i've seen some 90 degrees turns, probably because of lag or similar. it is probably a bug you may want to take a look to.

Other than that, congratulations!

Zekio
90 degree turns is a power up :)
detaro
2 - the "pick a username and color" dialog clearly shows the controls and asks if you want to change them already?
[dead] irascible
Enforce a minimum color brightness. There's a bunch of chantards in there using background colors to cheat invisible. Make the kicking UI easier to find.
olivier1664
also: let our direction arrow visible while playing (or draw a small car), It will be easier to predict our trajectory.
misteredison12
I liked cursors.io better.
allthetime
definitely more creative. This is more satisfying as a player vs. player thing though.
Shengbo
Me and my friends loved playing "Achtung, die Kurve!", this is definitely one of the better remakes. It can get a little laggy from time to time, but I'm sure you're already aware of that.
vhost-
This is like waiting for people to click "ACCEPT" in a Counter Strike: GO match.
glaberficken
Impressed by the UI polish, well done, fun to play, the pwups are great.

only minus is it keeps crashing to home page =(

iovar
Very fun game! I also liked the radio idea.
csdrane
The server seems to keep crashing on me. Otherwise, well done.
cheeze
Connecting... Something went wrong :(

You are not connected to the server.

cjslep
Great fun, just prevent people from choosing the same color as the grey background -- can be hard to see!
iovar
Somewhat of a cheat I've seen, someone using a color very close to that of the background. Or is the color auto-assigned?
carb
You can change it manually
lnanek2
Was kind of fun the 10 seconds it worked between "SOMETHING WENT WRONG :( You are not connected to the server." messages the several times I tried.
joeyspn
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yuchi
Fantastic, brought up memories of hours of Armagetron.
film42
I came here to mention Armagetron, too. No other game stole my time quite like Armagetron did. If you many people out there want something new to try, give Armagetron a chance, you won't regret it!
kagamine
Every time I am reminded of Armagetron I hear that low buzz sound of the lightcycles in my head. Right back in the saddle. Capture the flag Armagetron is awesome, going to have to reinstall it now!
datalus
It's funny that picking a dark color is pretty advantageous :)

Although I saw some rooms titled "No dark colors" hehe.

jsat
It would be nice if there were some indicator to where I start. Many colors look the same, and I have trouble finding my "lightcycle".
mherdeg
There's an arrow next to your dot.
tcdent
It's open source; somebody install it on another server so we can actually play...

https://github.com/Elao/curvytron

arcatek
Manually compensating for lags is still interesting :)
hvm
I installed it but I get 404 on /js/dependencies.js. I'm not experienced with node.js and the like, what can I do?
tom32i
If you need any help don't hesitate to contact the team :)
hvm
I followed the installation doc, everything seems fine and the server starts (node bin/curvytron.js).

When I access the server I get an error page. I looked at the browser log and it shows 404 for /js/dependencies.js.

I thought it was because I set it up behind apache but wget localhost:curvy_port/js/dependencies.js also yields 404.

I don't exactly know how to contact the team about this since I can't say it's a bug so I thought opening a github issue about it would be bad form.

tom32i
Did you run these 3 commands? - npm install - bower install - gulp

Can you check if the file web/js/dependencies.js exists in the game folder?

hvm
OK, there are no errors now but I still get the error. Does it use some other port? Do I need to open one?

OK. I see it opens a websocket which I guess I need to also forward to my server.

hvm
There is no mention of bower install in the install doc. I'll try that
ponytech
And now it's github being down !
delinka
holy crap - we killed github.
bazzargh
This really, really needs a button for the room controller to lock it against new players. Busy rooms end up as an alternative 'game' of whack-a-mole trying to kick all the new arrivals so the game can begin
tom32i
Hi guys, the server is fixed ... for now ;) Thanks for all the feedbacks, you guys are awesome. We'll be working hard on the majors problems you observed: - Where am I? - Background colored player - Crashes!

Thank you all again.

monk_e_boy
So much fun! And the random music is fun too.
samstave
Have 2-second pause of the movement of my guy as a power up that can be executed by the space bar
tgbrter
That wouldn't work because it would introduce a new key. Also every power-up takes effect immediately, this would break the consistency.

@developers

This is a bug on firefox, sometimes the dotted border from the remove wall power-up doesn't disappear giving the impression that the power-up is still active, thus killing players

Gmo
Just wanted to say it is great, don't pay attention to the negative non-constructive comments !
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