SpaceTraders: A multiplayer game built on a free web API

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  • fuse

    Multiplayer Online Standard (by tinspin)

  • While this seems focused on trading, kinda like EVE (spreadsheet MMO), I think physical action is the real attraction of 3D graphics/audio:

    So I made a very scalable MMO protocol: https://github.com/tinspin/fuse

    It's event based so analog movement should be compressed, which means headshot FPS are not the target audience. But it works fine with action games that take scalability into concern.

    I'm curious how hard people find it to adopt. I'm guessing I need to deliver a good and open game on top of it to see adoption.

  • pioneer

    A game of lonely space adventure

  • Not to be confused with Pioneer Spacesim, the remake of Elite 2, a free online game

    https://pioneerspacesim.net/

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  • restwars

    An online game (like the good old browsergames) which can be played via a REST interface

  • Try RESTwars: https://github.com/phxql/restwars

    We used to play this together in the same LAN, it’s pretty similar to SpaceTraders.

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