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Snakes is a project mainly written in JAVASCRIPT and SHELL, it's free.

Multiplayer Snake Game

Multiplayer Snake Game. This game was created in 15 hours during HTML 5 Game Jam on 9.10.2010 - 10.10.2010 October in Hilversum, the Netherlands.


Snakes is based on simple concept of usual Snake games. The main difference is that Snakes is a multiplayer game and therefore allows interaction between players. Thanks to the HTML 5 and CSS 3 technology, various 3D effects are present.


Authors: David Durman & Ales Sturala.


Snakes uses latest HTML 5 features like Websockets, Canvas and Audio. The communication between browsers is implemented thanks to Nodejs, antinode and node-websocket-server.

The only browser tested was Google Chrome 7.0.544.0 dev.


INSTALLATION:

  1. Install Node (www.nodejs.org).
  2. Install npm (Node package manager, http://www.github.com/isaacs/npm).
  3. npm install websocket-server
  4. npm install paperboy
  5. Set SERVER properties in ./client/globals.js
  6. ./run.sh
  7. Open browser, go to http://localhost:8080/index.html
  8. Other player on the same net goes to http://:/index.html.
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