simple1

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I created Aberoth, a MMORPG that is playable in any web browser. Works on mobile too!

You can play Aberoth at http://www.aberoth.com or on Steam at http://store.steampowered.com/app/354200/

I also made Asteroid Anarchy, a massively multiplayer Asteroids: https://www.asteroidanarchy.com

My emails are: support at aberoth.com or support at asteroidanarchy.com

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Comment · 5 years ago
This is great! I was recently thinking of creating something like this for my own personal use to follow a bunch of YouTube channels.

Would you consider making visited links a different color? That would vastly improve the experience for me, since I could see at a glance which content I have not viewed yet, if any.

Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks for the feedback! I just put in an update that makes it much easier to capture the crystals and ore.
Comment · 9 years ago
You might be interested in a site I created, Day Old Hacker News (http://dayoldhackernews.com). This shows Hacker News as it was exactly one day ago, so the comments are always full.
Comment · 10 years ago
I wrote an online multiplayer game called Aberoth: http://aberoth.com. I released the first version to the world in January 2010, but the game did not have many features initially, and there was no way to buy anything. Toward the end of 2012 I felt good enough about the product to start selling memberships.

I continued to work on the game on the side over the years, and I released the game on Steam in July 2015: http://store.steampowered.com/app/354200/.

It does not make near as much a normal software engineer's full time salary, but it is profitable.

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
One way to intuitively believe the answer is to imagine there were 100 doors, you picked one, then the host opened up 98 of the other doors, revealing goats. Switching would be the obvious answer in that case.
Comment · 11 years ago
The problem was not with the killing itself, but that it was instant death with virtually no way to escape and no warning.
Comment · 11 years ago
The problem with emergence in MMOs is that once an emergent trick is found, it becomes an exploit, and then the emergent behavior has to be eliminated somehow, for the good of the game.

For example, in the MMO I am creating, you can catch bats, hold them for a while, and then they become your pets (if you don't hold them long enough, they remain wild). Some people gathered up hundreds of bats, then released them in a small room. When other players came into that room, they were swarmed and die. After letting the trap sit for a while, they would return, cast a fear spell to disperse the bats, and then collect the loot.

It was a cool trick, and probably super fun for the players involved. But, if I left the exploit in, it would be happening all the time, and would wreck the game for everyone else. In single player games, the worst a player can do is beat the game using an exploit, which is not necessarily bad.

Comment · 12 years ago
The questions and answers are presented in the order that they were answered, which I believe gives the best flow to the "interview".
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
OVH prices are so amazing, I wonder if they must be running at a loss. I use them to run Aberoth (http://www.aberoth.com), and I always keep my eye out for a better deal, but nothing comes close for high RAM servers. They also seem to be continuously sold out: http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers.xml, so there is clearly a huge market for these cheap servers. I wonder why no one else seems to be able to compete close to their price point.
Comment · 12 years ago
Having all players move on when there is a tie has always baffled me. If any three contestants ever agreed to always lose down to the lowest score in final Jeopardy, they could all win forever until the rules changed.
Comment · 13 years ago
Thanks for pointing this out! I went ahead and registered and disputed the 'threat', so hopefully this warning will go away once they have manually reviewed the site.

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