A collaborative pixel drawing game for when you're bored
Hello HN. This is a project me and some friends built at university in 2017. It was originally built in a rush, but we've added a few improvements over the years. It's a fun game to host at a demoparty and project on a big screen - We did that at Instanssi many times. The implementation is still rough, and suffers from the fast pace of the modern web - The frontend is likely very outdated, and the backend is built with Vapor 2 and Swift 3.1, both no longer supported. You can host this yourself, but it might be a bit of a pain to set up. The WebSocket protocol is fairly trivial to work out…
A collaborative pixel drawing game for when you're bored launched on February 1, 2022 with 69 votes, #744 of 2,645 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
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A collaborative pixel drawing game built by university students in 2017 where multiple players draw on a shared canvas together. Originally created for displaying on large screens at demo parties, it allows groups to create pixel art in real-time. The project uses outdated technology and was designed with simple WebSocket communication, making it feasible to self-host for events or communities, though setup requires some technical effort.
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Hello HN. This is a project me and some friends built at university in 2017. It was originally built in a rush, but we've added a few improvements over the years. It's a fun game to host at a demoparty and project on a big screen - We did that at Instanssi many times. The implementation is still rough, and suffers…
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