Making a Fake Multiplayer .io Game

The internet is filled with Fake Multiplayer .io Games, but how difficult are they to make?

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[sewpungyow]

You should add in some code that lets bots be vindictive. So if a bot gets killed by the player, there's a chance that on the next respawn, the bot will have the same name but it'll be one of the Chad bots that are slightly better than the player, and it'll pursue the player either for a set amount of time or until the player gets killed once. I think this is realistic for how some players would act

[-CookieRogue-]

how much you want to bet a kid will think its real people (try putting it on poki or crazygames)

[SeviloBrth]

I got so big that i glitched out of the blue zone and wall border, and now im wandering around in the grey area

[maxbrauer]

You can still escape the map easily:
Step 1: Grow normally until you have the size of about 1/4 to 1/3 of the map and chase always top 2 and 3 to grow further.
Step 2: Stay idle. The minions will feed itself to you.
Step 3: Wait until you have a larger size than the outside boundaries.
Step 4: Flip with the space bar
Step 5: Profit. You are outside the map.

[axhraf]

lol you can get so big in the game to the point where the other waffles die as soon as they spawn, the leaderboard just flashes their name for like 10ms before they die

[TitaniumNitro]

The grid background should be red and white, resembling a picnic blanket

[chisolz]

At this point don't even put fake in the title cuz basically every .io game is offline💀💀

[candybluebird]

Take these with a grain of salt since I have never published a game, but here are some suggestions: make the blue squares scale up to match you every once in a while to prevent the detail from being lost at large sizes, randomize your list of names then pick from the top to prevent duplicates, give bots a chance to change names when respawning, and instead of using collision boxes just use bounds checks for the edges because if you get big enough you can still flip out of the current map

[MalfetKiren]

i play the game for 30 minutes now, my screen is 3/4 grey background, my waffle is almost the size of the dark square that surrounds the map and there is an unpleasant ASMR in my ears.

[aussiebox]

Alternate title: making the average .io game

[ShugGmail]

Well, just never flip and always run away until you are the biggest, then chase those 2-3 ranks below you, until you are clearly double size from rank #2, then chase highgest rank until you hit all borders at once. You will get to a point where you spawnkill everyone and eventually outgrow the play area glitching back and forth. at some point you outgrow even the dark grey area.

Had loved if when you hit the wall size you turn into a syrup and another even bigger one comes to grab you.

[MariothefatItalian.]

You should add a feature to make it that when you or one of the bots are the king they get some sort of thing that makes them stand out from the player or other bots, other than the leader bored, like maybe the king would have a piece of butter on them, or they have syrup covering their character, that would make the player (or bot) with the most syrup stand out from everyone else.

[craigmoon]

First, I just wanted to say really cool concept!

I played it for a bit, and I have 3 suggestions:
1. Make it so you can see more of your direct surroundings. When you're going at the highest speed, it makes it difficult to play because of how small your direct vicinity is.
2. Between games, the ranking on the game is randomized. That makes it really easy to tell that it's fake. Because I was playing and Billy was #1 in the game. Then I died and immediately respawned. Suddenly Billy is #8. If I hadn't watched this video, it would only take a few attempts for me to realize it's fake multiplayer.
3. In its current state, it's possible to spawn under one of the bots. I suggest changing the spawn code so that it first checks to make sure the spawn location isn't touching someone else's hitbox.

EDIT: There was a point where I got so big that everyone got spawnkilled by me. Then I did a flip and it put me completely out of bounds (even past the shadowy walls, so I can freely move around the entire wall)

[Sideofsyrup]

Bro I can’t believe you added me into this insane game

[snowowy]

I became bigger than the arena itself and then flipped to get out of the map. Imagine if that happened on an actual multiplayer game

[JaceSomers]

I managed to get so massive that I'm starting to outgrow the boundaries lol.

[patatachoda_]

can't believe you've already started having sponsors, pretty epic ngl 🥔

[ReBufff]

2:09 BROOOO why didnt u just write a little code to scale on 1 axis😭

[salimsalim]

As a 1000 elo chess player I loved the Magnus joke so much lol. I love seeing chess refrences on non-chess videos❤

[boogashabi]

Hey there! I was watching some of your old videos and I would like to say that I admire your work! I am currently a college freshman getting into programming and I have a base sense on how coding works (I did a couple months of Lua). I would love to watch more of how you work and create games if you’d allow it! Truly an inspiration!