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  • It's smooth in Chrome but its buggy and unplayable in Firefox :( but fun!
    by ballon_monkey
  • Is it really massively multiplayer? There are 7 players online.
    by StilesCrisis
  • I'd like to see a vibe coded re-implementation of progress quest:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest

    by walrus01
  • Honestly, combat & movement feel pretty good and and it's very comparable to what a normal engineer would put together after 6 weeks. The hard part, when making games at least, is figuing out what makes things fun and (more specifically when it comes to RPGs) how to do the scaling. Both of these are pretty hard and require a ton of experimentation.

    Since it's vibe-coded, I was really hoping to see some AI-generated storylines (turn `go to <x,y> and do z` into a fun quest) and more worldbuilding. AI is surprisingly good at generating passable prose, certainly comparable to a middle-of-the-road RPG.

    by dvt
  • Apologies for anyone that got kicked -- I wasn't ready for the 300 players in 1hr. It does indeed scale with player usage, but wasn't quite ready for 35 players at a time!
    by josiahturnq
  • I learned coding on private MMO emulators (lineage 2 primarily). I had my own private server I was building in my spare time, implementing all the needed server features for the client one by one. Packet sniffing to know what any of the messages even meant. I was in the middle of that when I was approached by my business partner to do my first startup, and I haven't touched it since (2014).

    It'd be a whole lot easier to get that done (and adapted to another client) now if I pulled that code back out.

    Edit: After playing for a few min, not too bad! One thing I did notice, is the netcode/movement feels a little bit janky. I had jitter and ghosting on other players and NPCs.

    Cool project!

    by Tostino
  • I really enjoyed myself for 5 minutes, which is more than I can say for 100 games in my steam lib. For some reason my screen is shaking a lot when I play and it hurts my eyes. Would also recommend talking to show above the head in bold text to encourage social interaction, so easy to miss the chat box.
    by tab_jockey

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