Really cool idea! I just wanted to scream to everyone on my team to just pick a spot and stay there so we cover the entire side rather than everyone trying to hit the ball.
At first, I thought it was awesome that it was semi-MMO pong. Then I realised that it wasn't actually multiplayer, and then I knew the meaning of awesome.
I have just been through a roller coaster of emotions.
First, I read the description. Oh wow, I thought. Someone really tried to go for a large scale multiplayer game? And it's pong? What a cool idea! I have to see this!
Then, I saw the message about how many hundreds of players were playing right now, and I thought, really? I don't know, maybe... if so, awesome!
Then, I saw all the other players paddles. That's when I started to get suspicious. Nobody was AFK. People are always AFK with stuff like this. They were also all moving in very similar ways that looked like AI control to me. Very suspicious at this point.
Then, I clicked away from my browser and saw that the game paused. Boom! I thought! Busted! What a scam! This isn't multiplayer at all! This dev is trying to pass off a fake MMO. Pfft. Loser.
Then, I saw the fake error message and the Admin mode and the crazy Multiball stuff. Oh! Wait! It's a joke. The dev is in on it, and I am just now getting it. Back to "This is awesome!"
I liked it a lot, super fun! :) Where did the list of player names come from, because I was "Pacifist Games" and I saw another player on my team called "PacifistGames" did you pull them from your twitter followers?
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First, I read the description. Oh wow, I thought. Someone really tried to go for a large scale multiplayer game? And it's pong? What a cool idea! I have to see this!
Then, I saw the message about how many hundreds of players were playing right now, and I thought, really? I don't know, maybe... if so, awesome!
Then, I saw all the other players paddles. That's when I started to get suspicious. Nobody was AFK. People are always AFK with stuff like this. They were also all moving in very similar ways that looked like AI control to me. Very suspicious at this point.
Then, I clicked away from my browser and saw that the game paused. Boom! I thought! Busted! What a scam! This isn't multiplayer at all! This dev is trying to pass off a fake MMO. Pfft. Loser.
Then, I saw the fake error message and the Admin mode and the crazy Multiball stuff. Oh! Wait! It's a joke. The dev is in on it, and I am just now getting it. Back to "This is awesome!"
Well played, sir. Well played. :)
So blown away that I had to download the source and Check. Through. Every. File. to find out exactly how it worked.
You can't do that to my sleep-deprived brain.
Where did the list of player names come from, because I was "Pacifist Games" and I saw another player on my team called "PacifistGames" did you pull them from your twitter followers?
Fun, well done.