the Triangle game
a JavaScript simulation of an interesting game to play with many people.
The rules are simple:
You (in blue) are in a room with many people.
You choose two other people in the room, your 2 buddies (orange). (And for illustration purposes only, you point at them.)
Now, your job is to place yourself in the space, so that you and your buddies form a perfect triangle. A perfect triangle has all three sides of equal length.
There is two of those points, one on either side of the line between your buddies, unless that point is beyond a wall (the screen). You choose the point closer to you.
As your buddies will move around as well, forming their respective triangles, you have to adjust constantly.
For clarification: Your buddies don't know you point at them, and don't necessarily point back at you.
Click here or press Q on your keyboard to start and stop. If it gets boring, press S to add a player or press G to send the blue player somewhere.
And as you are the master, you have the following commands at your hand: (click or use your keyboard) Press M for more options.
key
The rules are simple:
You (in blue) are in a room with many people.
You choose two other people in the room, your 2 buddies (orange). (And for illustration purposes only, you point at them.)
Now, your job is to place yourself in the space, so that you and your buddies form a perfect triangle. A perfect triangle has all three sides of equal length.
There is two of those points, one on either side of the line between your buddies, unless that point is beyond a wall (the screen). You choose the point closer to you.
As your buddies will move around as well, forming their respective triangles, you have to adjust constantly.
For clarification: Your buddies don't know you point at them, and don't necessarily point back at you.
Click here or press Q on your keyboard to start and stop. If it gets boring, press S to add a player or press G to send the blue player somewhere.
And as you are the master, you have the following commands at your hand: (click or use your keyboard) Press M for more options.
key
| Q | run! | freeze! | ||
| W | welcome! | good bye! | ||
| E | R | | go fullscreen | |
| A | S | one less | more player! | |
| D | F | change triangle: blue player only | all rule failed | |
| G | H | run randomly: blue player only | all | |
| M |
| Y | X | less | more speed | |
| C | V | less | more momentum | |
| B | N | less | more spread | |
| U | color: all black! | color! | ||
| I | size: off | momentum | acceleration | current speed | current triangle size | ||
| O | face: nada | name | name & buddies | counts of players pointing at you • buddies pointing at you • players with same buddies | ||
| J | triangle rule: avoid | allow people choosing exact same buddies | ||
| K | triangle rule: players pointing at you: doesn't matter | exactly 2 | 1 2 or 3 | 1 or 3 | 0 or many | ||
| L | triangle rule: buddies pointing back at you: doesn't matter | zero | max one | exactly one | not one | ||
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This is complex. Might burden your CPU. Might even crash your browser.
This is complex. Might burden your CPU. Might even crash your browser.