thanks! yup, totally agree with everything.
player controls are crucial.
still polishing up some small (but important) things about joining games/kicking inactive people and such, and then I'll get to core gameplay.

also, yes, I'd like to publish version history and development plan, will implement some kind of a small light forum within the website I think,



the server is down atm, not sure what's going on, the service started eating memory like crazy, should be back up in a few hours

having some issues, this happened once before when we launched, I'm investigating. might be some kind of an attack, but who knows.

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not at home right now, will work on it soon

there is very little cr*p I'm actually surprised at how well this has been receieved and how awesome and enthusiastic the small community around the game is. thanks everyone.

yes, I am considering looking for investors and getting more people on board with the development (not php though, this is written on top of nodejs), (I do have everything under control, but this is a job for more people. there is a lot of work to do and a lot of new stuff I'd still like to see)

not sure how to proceed with investors atm, didn't have time to do research. will consider things like btc based crowdfunding, selling stock (again - btc), or asking for a more standard (more serious?) sillicon valley style investor. I will meet some ppl to talk about this soon.
 

yup, didn't sleep much in the last few days, a lot of small changes have been introduced which together, make the whole exprience much better. (try clicking on avatars:)) its still early and rough though, and I have a lot of fixes and features to still finish.

I'm fixing critical UI stuff now, and then will get back to the most important thing: gameplay itself. its a bit rough around the edges atm and I'd like to make it way smoother.

battlecoin.org admin here,
this is a double post, lets keep this in a single thread. my reply is here,

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1010288.msg13058383#msg13058383

I'm also hoping to end this annoying conversation so I can get back to work, dude, spend your time on something more productive.

can you please stop spreading fear? do you own a gambling site? This is getting a bit annoying.

This will be my last comment on bots/cheating and I will link to this post if it gets mentioned again:

1 All multiplayer games have a potential problem with cheaters (aimbots in FPS and such) this game is no different. Web is just a transport mecahnism.
Multiplayer games rarely die or fail or get destroyed due to this issue.

With this game, everyone has all the information, so the only way to cheat would be to make a very good bomberman AI. If you actually do this, (which you probably won't) please share it! a singleplayer mode for practice or addable bot players would be awesome

2 There are many very varied and subtile approaches to detecting bots. A few of the top of my head would be client fingerprinting, polymorphic api, statistical analysis. I will not go into details.
I'm prepared for an arms race in this context but would really like to postpone this, as I (and everyone else) would prefer me to work on cool new features then on bot detection.

3 If playing for money you'd usually play a few games with a person, introduce BTC if you have a similar skill and is fun, you also chat together. it would be tons of manual labor together with technical knowledge to scam people.

4 Anyone able to keep from being detected for any significant amount of time would be highly skilled, and could profit waaay more from spending time on something else, like a well paying job.

5, and most importantly
If needed we can implement some kind of trust/registration/ban/similar skill matching system.
visible win/lose statistics for all players are already implemented.
I'm nerdy so I'd actually love to see bots playing against each other once matched together by simmilar skill matching system.


and now to reply to the only concrete things that you did say:


All multiplayer games have client side of course. In this case, the gameplay itself is simulated on the serverside, server decides who wins. you can't hack your way to victory.
You'd have to implement a great bomberman AI for this. (again plz share it if you do, a singleplayer mode would be great to have)


tell me exactly where I lied about something and of course provide evidence for your accusations.


lastly, let's stop with talking, your next reply, instead of spreading this vague fear, should be your first place on the leaderboards

just started a san francisco server
hopefully it doesn't split the crowd too much. with a central chat and server hopping, I think it should be fine.


yup! I agree on both things, they are already on a TODO list, just not that high of a priority atm



mobile works really well through the browser, will do touch support soon.
but also yeah, mobile app is possible, long term.

about being laggy: your ping should be below 50 for game to work ok, and also, there is a big fix for lag coming in the following days (that's probably the most anticipated fix)

haha I don't see it as a rant but a request, ok, I'll create an Australian server within 24 hours!

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actually, doing it now, give me a few minutes

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sydney is online!

there is no need to discuss interpretations of the rules, will not post twice in the future if anyone minds, that's enough. I don't care much.

wasn't very careful, sorry, missed those rules. Sometimes I did this to keep website related updates & answers to questions seperate as I felt things are more clear this way. My intention was never to be spammy if that's what you are supposing.

There is no need for screenshots as "EVIDENCE", judge dred like approach, (or (imho) being this annoyed)

I hope to stop this irrelevant conversation asap, won't do this ever again.

yeah, it took a while to finish up. tnx!

hm, I'm pretty sure its the connection problem. try later from a different network maybe? let me know if that doesn't help

server is not down, was up for a while, I think you might be having troubles with your internet connection?

the bug you screenshoted is related to typing in chat while game is starting on firefox. will fix it soon,
try chrome! chrome works the best

yup touch support is planned and is very easy to implement, will come soon

things are way smoother and much more stable now, a lot of fixes got pushed out in the last two days.

clicking on user gives you statistics for that user (preparation for a vote-kick menu for people that join but never press ready)
you can switch servers now, (even though that's probably a bad idea due to ping)
tons of small features and bugfixes, can't remember them all.

tournament release - not sure, still polishing everything up, a month or two unfortunately? I want the core gameplay and UI to be super smooth. tournaments were supposed to be something to get the game popular, but it got popular by itself already

the basic idea was to repeat game rounds until everyone but one player died, and then give btc rewards to top few players. 
the idea was for the initial tournament prize to come out of my pocket, but later to be automatic, something like some percentage of that days (hours?) earnings.

but we could also do pay to participate tournaments, that way prize could get larger the more people joins, will play with it, see how it goes.

thank you!

allright people, it was a long day. need to go to sleep.

I got TONS of traffic suddenly, things held up ok, but there is some kind of a memory leak on the server, so the service will restart every once in a while I know - awful, everything is being logged though so I will be able to refund if anyone gets any btc issues.

errors are to be expected with a new service as complex as this, Nothing I can't handle, I'll polish everything up in the following days and weeks to come.

most of the feature requests, and more are already on a todo list and will also be implemented.

you are having issues?

I just restarted the server for the update, but other then that you should be able to play

(yes gameplay and ui needs to be polished still:)

yeah, that's useless, will start an australia server in the following days

yup, tnx, watching already