The Last Square

by caribou
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.34
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.82
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.55
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.24
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.97
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.96
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.55
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★71%
The Last Square is a multiplayer online game.

Note : If you are not in Europe you should expect lags, lots of them, i made a lagfree version but note that it's a post submission version so try the lagging version as well :)

LAGFREE server > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8211966/prog/s2_LD23LF.swf

Rules :

You move the mouse over the squares to conquer them.

At the bottom of the window is the energy bar.

The red bar represents the energy max, the more dots you get the bigger is your energy max. If the bar goes over the 3 black bars you unlock 1, 2 and 3 towers.

To put a tower you need a 3x3 square and click on the center.

I'll try to host a server for the time of voting at the Web link. But you can also host a server yourself.

Line 338 > LD23.hx : Change the server ip

Line 386 > server.py : Change the server port

Note : I didn't work on lag at all, so it might feel sluggish for you (especially if you are not in Europe), i'll work on that after the votings. Also some of you have pointed that instructions are not visible enough so be sure to read the rules. It's also a part of things i won't allow me to change before the end of votings but the list at the right is actually a ranking not just a list of participants.

screenshot

Comments25

cornedor23 Apr 2012, 15:45
Very nice game, even better because it is multiplayer.
callidus
callidus24 Apr 2012, 09:15
heh nice to see a multiplayer game, good effort fitting it to the theme
Lidfrid
Lidfrid24 Apr 2012, 09:20
Multiplayer?!? UAaaaa
Awesome, can i help you to finish this game, and sell it over the world?!?!?!? Pleaaase :)
Danik
Danik24 Apr 2012, 09:25
Great fun!!
amodo24 Apr 2012, 10:15
AWESOME! ADDICTED!
roundcrisis24 Apr 2012, 11:47
Like that you dont have to click to select, it definitely works better when there is more people there. Chat is a good addition
caribouauthor24 Apr 2012, 12:32
Thanks for the comments guys ! For those poor alone souls, just paste the link in IRC and you'll have opponents in seconds.
Jigxor24 Apr 2012, 13:34
Really fun game. Great idea and great mechanic.

It's awesome that you were able to complete a multiplayer game in such a short amount of time. I hope you polish it up and finish it off.

One of my favourite Jam entries! Nice job!
Lidfrid
Lidfrid24 Apr 2012, 14:26
i'm in the screenshot...omg :)
quickfingers
quickfingers24 Apr 2012, 17:49
Very cool! Super impressed you got such a reliable multiplayer working in the jam! I caught you for a game and had a little play, the mechanics were pretty nice :)
jonnopon3000
jonnopon300024 Apr 2012, 19:41
I love to see a successful multiplayer Ludum Dare game, nice work!
Ace
Ace24 Apr 2012, 19:43
Unable to test it due to a "socket security error" in LD23.hx line 637
Make A Game
Make A Game24 Apr 2012, 19:45
I tried to play in Firefox and Chrome but either way I ended up getting this error: LD23.hx:637:socket security error . =(
caribouauthor24 Apr 2012, 21:12
Sorry for those who couldn't connect that was actually a connection issue, that should work now.
caribouauthor24 Apr 2012, 21:33
I actually had an IP reset which put me offline, i'm not sure the server can handle reconnection but still the ip is hardcoded so it couldn't have worked anyway. It should be fixed by now.
bburbank24 Apr 2012, 22:24
WHOAH it's MMO-y. Supre impressed with that, but I always felt like I had no idea what I was doing.
Make A Game
Make A Game24 Apr 2012, 23:03
=D this is amazing! The multiplayer really adds a lot. I couldn't win, but I got hooked for quite a while =D.
Congratulations =D
Norgg
Norgg25 Apr 2012, 15:31
Awesomeness.
levelbylevel
levelbylevel26 Apr 2012, 08:19
Great fun, love the multiplayer gameplay :)
Dr.Pingu
Dr.Pingu26 Apr 2012, 10:50
very interesting !
to aim a mulltiplayer game in 72h is very audacious.

Great work :)
orangepascal
orangepascal26 Apr 2012, 14:42
first multiplayer game I run into!
deejorg
deejorg1 May 2012, 18:10
Great concept!
runsintowalls
runsintowalls4 May 2012, 19:07
Awesome! I really like the multiplayer component. How did you set that up?
caribouauthor7 May 2012, 08:23
Thanks, I'm using python with twisted. I will make a post-mortem with more details i guess.
azurenimbus
azurenimbus9 May 2012, 23:40
Looks fascinating. I need to get someone to play it with soon.

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