Curvytron
A multiplayer tron-like game in the browser
Curvytron launched on May 5, 2015 with 91 votes, #496 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.
What it does
The ultimate addictive multiplayer game, come and play with friends or fellow workers !
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Curvytron 2, I rewrote my browser party game, 10 years laterJun 2026 · curvytron2.com · ▲15Hi everyone, french web dev here, About 10 years ago I did a little party game in the browser inspired by Achtung die Kurve genre, it reached HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9494619) and everything went crazy, it's still largely played in open-spaces all over the world today. This past year, I've been working on a sequel: https://curvytron2.com is live. Same goal as the first one: challenge myself, perfect my skills, have fun and give back to the internet community the best way I know; by just putting a free little fun game out there. No ads, no tracking, no…
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I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…
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