There was no one online when I was playing.

Yeah i didnt get to know what i should do. But i won.

Hey all. In the weekend development rush it sort of flew by us that a small multiplayer game would be a bit dull without players. So over the past week we've been working on a tool to schedule play sessions for any multiplayer game really, check it out here: http://sleepystudios.net/dangle/ and add some play sessions for Shattered!

Great game - quality music and graphics. Fun with my friends!
I did install it though.

Not quite sure how you were able to play it and find it so fun with your friends without downloading it but thanks anyways.

There was no one online when I was playing.

Were you the person I killed who immediately left the game straight after? If so then yeah there was someone online :).

I didn't expect to find anybody online, but I did... that's amazing. I like the idea of the game but I couldn't experience the game well since it was pretty laggy for me (problem in my own net connection). The art and music is also good.

Haha yeah I think I know who you were you were lagging like hell!

That's a good idea for a tool. I didn't use it but fortunately there happened to be three other people playing - maybe you, or bots. Anyway it's a really neat idea. I like how the light bulbs light up when they're powered. I'm only about 80% sure I understood the exact mechanics - if you run into someone, the higher person wins, like Divekick? It was also very finicky to get yourself inserted into one of the sockets. Finally, a way to tell who was on which team would have been good. Very impressive to do an online multiplayer game in that time.

Well, there wasn't anybody when I played, so it is difficult to rate, but the concept was nice and the sounds were good. The physics were a bit strange, though.

Unfortunately I didn't encounter any other players while playing, but that doesn't change how impressed I am that you managed to create AN ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAME IN JAVA in 48 hours. I also made my game using java (no frameworks), and just the thought of this feat astonishes me. As for the game itself, I liked the controls as they felt fairly responsive - however I feel the player's rotation should change solely in reaction to player input (A and D); at its current state, rotating automatically while jumping makes it a little too difficult to orient the player. Seriously though, this is insanely impressive. Excellent job!

I honestly can't tell if I'm connected to the main server or not - I know I can connect to a server running locally, but I have no idea otherwise.

If I understand time zones right, there is supposedly somebody who has a session right now, but I can't see anybody on what is ostensibly the main server.

I thought I'd try the post-jam version to see if it would connect to the server, but it didn't really help and the collisions are actually significantly worse...

Things I do like: the music is good and the way lights light up is pretty cool.

@bmacintosh Sort of like divekick but it's whoever uses their base (of the bulb) to shatter the glass bit.

@Drachmor Yeah agreed on the rotation part to an extent. There was debate but I kept it in because it felt easier to jump in place in order to get in holes because of the auto-rotation. Now I'm probably leaning on the side of not keeping it in.

@TheMonsterFromTheDeep If you had 'auto' in your config file then you probably connected to the main server. We've got a twitter bot running to tell us if the server goes down. The timezones on Dangle are displayed in UTC (for now) so you were a bit early for me
EDIT: actually no, turns out they were in local time all along! My mistake, I've updated the tooltip on the website.

Seems like a great concept and really nice for a multiplayer game! However, a big portion of the time I had little idea what was going on, and why the energy was increasing/decreasing or not. The awkward motion and physics didn't help either. I'd love to see this a little more polished (and with more players...), and I hope you'll continue developing it! Great work! :)

Online multiplayer for a jam game? Really great! You don't have a version of local multiplayer as far as I can tell though which means I can't play this one.

I finally got a chance to play multiplayer, and it was quite fun. The collision issues really do become a problem, though, especially near the end of the game.

At one point it was, I think, 2v1, and it was quite unbalanced. I'm not really sure how to fix that, though. The other problem is that it's very difficult to tell who is on what team - some sort of team color would be a good thing.

It's also kind of unclear exactly how the combat mechanics works, and it's quite easy to exploit them e.g. by coming up through the middle platform while the other player is in the charger. (Sorry. :P)

But it's very very fun as a two-player game, and it would be even better if some of the bugs were worked out.

Haha thanks really appreciate that you took the time to come back and play! I think the other guy was actually on your team but yeah there was no way of knowing (except for the fact he spawned on the same side of the map as you).

I did try to play it a bit here and it's really nice! Though I felt controls and some of the collisions didn't work well for me (pluggin' in was kinda hard and I had to jump/roll to properly charge my base), but it's a pretty original take on the theme! :D

Nice lamps, btw! This could become even nice with local offline battles and more types of lamps. :P The audio in the game was really well done and fits perfectly after you start playing it! :D

Good job!

Wow, java game! this is unique!

-m