slither.io

[Hadoblado]

Do not click me.

Better than agar.io

I'd tell you about it but that would be time spent not playing.

 

[Cognisant]

Did you find this through Mini Ladd's channel like I did?

I can't play the game, it just doesn't load, too much network traffic I'm guessing.

 

[Hadoblado]

Nah, just saw an old starcraftII personality with a let's play on my feed.

A pity that. I assume that there'll be better support for it later, it's only a week or two old.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Too laggy and jerky with a smaller field of view as downsides. Makes for a more random game than agar.

 

[onesteptwostep]

I don't get the point of these games. How do the developers make money off of them?

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

They get recognition, they test their ideas, they might have some advertisement plan, they gather data which they can use to sell or implement in new net games, etc.

It's not that expensive to set up a server and domain for people to play on and that's all it costs them. Not all projects are for profit.

 

[The Gopher]

Did you find this through Mini Ladd's channel like I did?

I can't play the game, it just doesn't load, too much network traffic I'm guessing.

Didn't work for me on chrome or opera. Firefox worked though. Might be something to do with flash/html5.

 

[Hadoblado]

Field of view scales with size just like agar.io

No idea about the server lag thing. It's mostly fine for me, on chrome.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

I don't like that I don't see my tail, I guess that's intentional design. I have lags on firefox, though it shouldn't matter, host location is more important than browser settings.

 

[redbaron]

I don't get the point of these games. How do the developers make money off of them?

In agar.io they charge money for skins for your blob, points and a bunch of other stuff. They probably make a lot of money off them.

 

[onesteptwostep]

^ Yeah that's pretty amazing. I mean cost-effort-efficient wise it probably beats any gaming company.