Birds of Borg
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We are Birds of Borg
Resistance Is Futile
You Will Be Assimilated
We are Borg. We are one mind. We all fly in the same direction.
We are directed by left and right cursor keys (or A and D).
We are strongest attacking together.
We regenerate when we are not under attack.
We are in the internet. If we choose to do so.
We are green. Prey ist gray. Other Borg are colored differently.
We will assimilate them. All of them.
Birds of Borg is a HTML5 web game written with phaser with a node.js/express/socket.io based server, both client and server written from scratch.
It's best to be played with Chrome (also tested in Firefox). It has a single player mode with AI opponents, and there is an internet based multiplayer variant for 2 to 5 borgs. Due to time constraints the node server only supports trivial match making, as soon as enough players enter the same mode (2 players up to 5 players), a new game is started.
I have no idea how well the node server scales, please bear with me that a 48h multiplayer game isn't completely tuned ;-)
The "growing" theme was supposed to be supported as well, but I'd rather wanted to submit a reasonably working game than one with the game design changed in the last minute... It is 2 button only, though!
Have fun, and vote!
21.12.2015 Update: I updated the server to notify visitors about potential multiplayer games in order to increase their possibility; as the game hasn't changed at all, I consider this to be within the rules.
Resistance Is Futile
You Will Be Assimilated
We are Borg. We are one mind. We all fly in the same direction.
We are directed by left and right cursor keys (or A and D).
We are strongest attacking together.
We regenerate when we are not under attack.
We are in the internet. If we choose to do so.
We are green. Prey ist gray. Other Borg are colored differently.
We will assimilate them. All of them.
Birds of Borg is a HTML5 web game written with phaser with a node.js/express/socket.io based server, both client and server written from scratch.
It's best to be played with Chrome (also tested in Firefox). It has a single player mode with AI opponents, and there is an internet based multiplayer variant for 2 to 5 borgs. Due to time constraints the node server only supports trivial match making, as soon as enough players enter the same mode (2 players up to 5 players), a new game is started.
I have no idea how well the node server scales, please bear with me that a 48h multiplayer game isn't completely tuned ;-)
The "growing" theme was supposed to be supported as well, but I'd rather wanted to submit a reasonably working game than one with the game design changed in the last minute... It is 2 button only, though!
Have fun, and vote!
21.12.2015 Update: I updated the server to notify visitors about potential multiplayer games in order to increase their possibility; as the game hasn't changed at all, I consider this to be within the rules.