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Jimbo
Jimbo
by Weapi
Jimbo is a multiplayer game, a death-race!
Judging Instructions
It’s easy! Play with navigation keys, fire with space!!
It’s a multiplayer game, it may not be fun to play it alone. So try to find someone to play with
Also It works under Chrome,Firefox,Opera 11+, Safari etc. but we built for Chrome! It should work on IE with chrome frame, as well.
If you get stuck on “connecting…” please try again by refreshing the page. Sometimes Socket.io can not connect to server ( not our issue, a linode socket.io problem! ).
Who
milani — Tehran, Iran
farhadi — Mashhad, Iran
esmaeilpour — Mashhad, Iran
How
We used PaperJS ( a cool vector graphic library for canvas ), Socket.io ( another cool module for javascript ) and our brains ( this is not JS related, We are human! ) to build this game!
Everything is calculated in node, then the results are rendered on the clientside. It is an action game, but node is faster than players!! Special thanks to V5 Prophit font face :)
Votes
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Other Votes
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okaysamuraijudge- contestant
Thanks! We want to improve the game after judging with extra weapons as you said. We are working on that.
zapnapjudgeCould be a fun concept but needs a lot of work in both gameplay and design. Since you start “racing” as soon as you hit the site there’s never any real competition with others (unless everyone visits at the same time), which is a pretty big flaw in the game logic.
Still, you got the basic interaction and multi-player aspects working in a very short amount of time, which is a promising start. Good luck!
- contestant
Thank you:)
You know, As I said in replies to other votes, we were working on bots and rocks, even on extra powers but the time ran out too quickly! The game will be more fun and more interactive when we complete it.
3rd-Eden
contestantSo basically all you can do is fly in forward facing static airplane and shoot lagging yellow dots..
If there are no connect users you should probably send in some AI planes or targets.. I got bored after 10 seconds so I can’t really give any higher scores than this sorry!
- contestant
Thank you. You know, actually the time ran out soon and we was working to find out how to reconnect sockets after we call disconnect:D you know our problem, I told u before. So we could not add bots to the game. sorry if you got bored.
tomngjudgeI have a weak spot for parallax scrolling, and the starfield was fun to see. Tried playing the game in multiple tabs since no one else was playing. But the two ships didn’t seem to interact, and there weren’t any enemies or obstacles, so not sure if the game was working. Tried in the latest Chrome.
- contestant
I’m sure the game works even in multiple tabs. you should see other ships somewhere behind.
mattcshorejudgedylang
contestantIt looks nice but i wish there were people to play. it might be helpful to always have the game open or ask friends to so the real judges can enjoy it more.
- contestant
Thank you. yes it is not fun to play alone:)
codepo8judgeLike asteroids, just not round :)
chapel
contestant
therazorbladejudgeMaybe I’m missing something but it seems way too easy to win this game. The missions don’t get any harder (or evolve in any way). There was never someone ahead of me to shoot – not sure how you sync multiple players together for a race. Also, why do I need to enter my name every time?
rmurpheyjudge
Simple but fun! I could definitely see this concept being expanded into something bigger, with more weapons, directions, etc. Game stuttered/froze on me a couple of times. Giving an extra star for design for the parallax scrolling stars – nice touch!