Hide-n-Stab is an online, multiplayer stealth action game. You can play in your browser at http://54.244.244.60/ (Flash plugin required.)
There are many cloaked figures that appear identical, but they differ beneath the surface - some are other players like yourself, while others are only harmless bundles of clothes. Your goal is to kill other players without being killed yourself. You can only kill someone by stabbing them from behind.
Whenever you attack, your eyes will glow and your knife will be visible, revealing you to other players as a human for a short time, so be careful and stay hidden until the time is right to strike.
Hide-n-Stab was made using the Haxe programming language and OpenFL with the HaxePunk game engine. Graphics were done using Inkscape and Spine for animation. Whew! I need a nap, but I'll post more of a technical writeup later :)
Thanks everyone. At the moment, if there are no other players, there's not much to do - if you don't see any, see if you can draft a friend into playing with you to get the full experience. I'd wanted to add some bots for when no players are online, but that's something I couldn't get to in 48 hours. I'm also going to work on mitigating the lag. It plays pretty smoothly on my desktop, but my laptop seems to stutter a bit more.
I made a small bug fix and the lag is now greatly reduced on my laptop (which has a really terrible network card) so hopefully people will have fewer problems from now on.
Really cool idea. I wish there were more people to play against, since it's hard to get a feel for the game when playing alone. I like how everyone plays in the same room. Is there a player limit? I wonder what would happen if a lot of players joined at once.
Awesome! You ought to put this up on a server with some more bandwidth; there's a bit of lag. Still quite fun, and there seem to be a lot of people playing; congrats!
Player animation is good. Concept isn't new really, but I haven't seen it done on a large scale multiplayer capacity like this before!
I really liked the animation of the characters, especially when they fell apart. I hit a few bugs with movement, and also it seemed that none of the guys I stabbed were real! Glad this is the direction you went for the theme.
Great concept, too bad it's hard to find someone who plays at the same time as you. I guess that's the problem when you do multiplayer for a Ludum Dare... Still, fits perfectly the theme, very original.
Gave it another try when I saw it on Hacker News... congratulations on 70+ simultaneous players! Unfortunately, the controls weren't working for me this time, I just stuttered in place.
A pity, there are no players online. Still a good idea, hope you'll develop the game and bring some more people to the game in the future, so the server will be more alive.
This was a really cool game. I enjoyed the hide and seek aspect. Using bots was a good idea since you can't guarantee the number of people online. Cool idea.
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Player animation is good. Concept isn't new really, but I haven't seen it done on a large scale multiplayer capacity like this before!
Player animation is good. Concept isn't new really, but I haven't seen it done on a large scale multiplayer capacity like this before!
It's rare to see a multiplayer game in LD and even rarer to see a good one.
It was actually quite fun, trying to back stab other players. =D
Please will you explain how to build it and its requirements on github?