Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

Re:Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game by Decabytes on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:01PM (#15892889)

Is it just me or is this becoming a more popular Internet game format. The reason I ask is because Slither.io uses this same idea.

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Re:Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game by PhasmaFelis on Sunday December 10, 2017 @06:16PM (#15894027)

Here's a list of several hundred(!) games in the IO format: http://iogames.space/

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Re:Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game by DiThi on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:46PM (#15893120)

This is the so called "io game" genre, started by agar.io.

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Re:Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game by djsumdog on Sunday December 10, 2017 @04:06PM (#15893499)

The new era of Flash-type games?

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Re:Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game by DiThi on Sunday December 10, 2017 @06:04PM (#15893976)

"io games": Massively multi-player, real time, no login, no rounds (continuous game), just type your name and play.

There probably were a few flash games like this, but didn't caught on like it has now.

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Re:Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game by milofeynman on Monday December 11, 2017 @02:36AM (#15895668)

How do they pay for server cost? Someone told me slither.io had made it's owner millions. I'm assuming there are ads?

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Re:Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game by ag_47 on Monday December 11, 2017 @01:45PM (#15899226)

Yea they show ads in between game sessions.

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Re:Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game by samschooler on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @05:03AM (#15904298)

Casual Collective with their robot battle games from 10 years ago. Though they did have more configuration, you could just add your name, pick a bot and play.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/CasualCollective/minions

http://everybodyedits.com was one of the first MMOs I played with no config (except a name and a map to join). In addition all of the maps were editable. So it was unique in that every map was completely user created.

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Re:Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game by DiThi on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:58PM (#15908348)

What I said... It's not a new idea, but it didn't made a genre back then. It was a very different internet world, too.

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