We’ve pushed a new version of the server. Several bugs related to score reporting, fairly handling head-to-head collisions, and server stability have been fixed.
For those of you who felt deceived by the bots with random human names, bots are now named “Botn“. We generally keep 8 bots in the game so that it’s not entirely boring when only one person is playing.
We’ve also changed the game so that if another snake dies by running into your snake, your snake grows.
someone945 said
The game isn’t even working
mikexstudios said
Hi someone945, it’s working for me right now. Are you still having issues?
b33f said
Now it seems that only bots play and there are hardly any human players on anymore.
mikexstudios said
Hi b33f, yes, it’s difficult trying to get many human players on at the same time (despite that Multisnake can handle hundreds of players at once). We also don’t do any marketing of the game at all. So we put a number of bots in so that at least some interaction occurs. Thanks for playing!
Eugene said
Tell your friends to play.
Emily said
im trying to play, theres no other snakes, no red boxes, and i ‘commit suicide’ every few seconds in a loop
Emily said
ok so i decided to give it one more refresh and it’s up now. a bug perhaps? i joined during the intermission if that helps.
CircuitSteph said
The first time I tried playing, I experienced the exact same problems as Emily (I also joined during intermission). I also had the magic ability to tunnel through walls for arbitrary periods of time. All subsequent refreshes led to nothing displaying other than a score of 0 points, and the time left (which briefly flashed at 0m 0s before vanishing).
I like the new obstacles (you want head-on collisions, don’t you), though I’m not so keen on rather prominent partitioning. Also, I approve of the chat…too bad I’m the only human around.
Eugene said
Thanks for letting us know about these bugs. We’ve been trying to improve certain aspects of the server, but apparently the added complexity has introduced some timing bugs.
It turns out that multisnake is most fun when played with other people in the same room. Text chat is somewhat awkward for this game because it requires constant focus. It would be cool to have a browser-embedded group voice chat that you join while you’re playing the game (assuming more people played).
...................YIPPIE!! MULTISNAKE!! said
yes, I have something about the bots….
It seems that the bots that play are invincible unless there only a 1-unit-snake. Please fix this.
...................YIPPIE!! MULTISNAKE!! said
Also, some bots are STILL naming themselves like real people; the “bot 1, bot 2, etc.” is not effecting ALL bots.
Pom said
Hmmm, this game is pretty fun now that the chat is back….. too bad nobody plays anymore >.> Look; almost no one commented the game since October 2008
I hope I will be able to play with other people sometimes. Anyway, very nice game =)
P.S.: I was there when you just put this game on Internet!