Show HN: MMO snake over ssh – ssh snakes.run

2 points by eieio a month ago · 0 comments · 1 min read

snakes.run is massively multiplayer snake, played over ssh. ssh snakes.run to play.

I spent a while reducing the game's bandwidth footprint as much as I could; I have a writeup on my site about how the game works if you're curious[1].

That said - there is only a single server here (Anycast shenanigans were out of scope), so latency does get worse the further you are from the server (NYC). I think the game is pretty playable for a surprising number of people, but you'll definitely struggle to play from, say, Australia.

Fun fact: two sub-problems that I encountered while thinking about this game made their way to HN's front-page - TCP_NODELAY[2] and SSH keystroke obfuscation[3].

    [1] https://eieio.games/blog/secure-massively-multiplayer-snake/ 
    [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359120
    [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723990

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