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This is amazing. I have fond memories of playing Lightcycle/tron-style games on some older computers against my brother as a kid. We got that program installed and we played forever.

This has a lot of potential, some suggested improvements:

* Chat System

* Rematch (both players agree, then yes, one says no, then no)

* Names for players

I like this and I'm sure you could monetize this with ads if you wanted to. Have you thought about supporting more than 2 players? There are many directions you could go with this, but this is an excellent MVP, if you want it to be an MVP.



Thanks for your feedback! A chat system might get a little ugly, but I like the rematch idea!


Also, have the two snakes face each other when they start. This teaches the users from the first second into the match that they can, and must, control the snake.

Great job; totally wasted a morning on this.


Good idea. I'll add that.


I would pay to play snake tournaments! Look into this please.


I've played WAAAY to much tron to be bothered to collect the blue dots :P If nicknames are added, mine's gonna be Mongoose.


Might be hard to chat and play snake at the same time. I guess you could smack talk between matches.


i'd like to see a score system, and some kind of score ladder scheme where you only play people with on adjacent rungs of the ladder. then the folks that are really good don't end up playing against people like me who just crash into themselves all the time :-)




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