Show HN: Puzzle with Strangers. A free multiplayer jigsaw(endtime-instruments.org)
endtime-instruments.org
Show HN: Puzzle with Strangers. A free multiplayer jigsaw
https://endtime-instruments.org/puzzle/
I built this over the last few days. Me and handful of friends are successfully hooked. I recently went to a — for lack of a better word – social/collaborative performance at an art gallery in Berlin where a group of artists filled a huge industrial hall with wooden 10x10cm cubes for people to build structures with. It was beautiful how universal the concept of playing with wooden blocks is and how ephemeral the structures were, people of all ages were put back into a childlike play. The thought about what kind of games need zero explanation stuck with me and i built an anonymous multiplayer jigsaw. We've already spent hours in there and you're invited now as well. Hope you enjoy.
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This is delightful, and I love the choice of artwork. Curious what you built it in, is it open source?
Ah sorry, just saw that you already answered the stack question.
thank you, appreciate it! the backend is really as lo-fi as you can imagine, a JSON storing the pieces positions, a directory of curated images, some light session management, a little math to track connected pieces in groups.
stack is vanilla JS and node.js web socket spaghetti code. only really works on desktop right now, but probably will figure out a way to get it to work on mobile.