Curvytron 2, I rewrote my browser party game, 10 years later
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Hi everyone, french web dev here,About 10 years ago I did a little party game in the browser inspired by Achtung die Kurve genre, it reached HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9494619) and everything went crazy, it's still largely played in open-spaces all over the world today.This past year, I've been working on a sequel: https://curvytron2.com is live.Same goal as the first one: challenge myself, perfect my skills, have fun and give back to the internet community the best way I know; by just putting a free little fun game out there. No ads, no tracking, no business plan.A decade of professional web development and hours of GMTK have raised my expectations and this time I aimed for:- a good looking top-down 3D view with improved gameplay and real game juice: I learn Three.JS and WebGL for this project, worked on the camera movements, screen shake, sound design, gameplay feedback and I'm proud of the portal-like effect of the bonus that allows you to peak and cross over to the other side of the map. - a solid 100fps server simulation (in Go) serving clients with a really bandwidth efficient netcode (it's binary websocket instead of plain JSON and I open-sourced it: https://github.com/Tom32i/netcode). - Instant reconnection, at any time: I had this requirement from day one, in the first curvytron losing connexion meant dropping out of the game permanently. Not anymore. You can just refresh the page mid-game and keep playing, try it yourself.The game runs in any desktop and mobile browser and supports gamepads I've put up servers in US and Europe to offer a good ping to as much players as I can afford at the moment.I still maintain and host the first game to keep the original experience live.I'd love to get feedback from HN, and don't hesitate to stress-test the game of course!I'll be around to answer questions and discuss if you're interested. Cheers!
HN · launched Jun 30, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 30%) · 0 views
Niche: multiplayer browser games · 159 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A 2D curve/tron browser game with WebSocket-based multiplayer lobbies is a standard, well-documented project that can easily be vibe-coded using HTML5 Canvas and Node.js/WebSockets.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Curve Fever 2, Achtung die Kurve, Recurve Game, Halo 3 (game modes inspiration)
Concerns raised: Performance optimization for dynamic trail geometry, Reconnection reliability in multiplayer
Feature requests: CTF game mode, Zone control game mode, More game mode variety
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Launched 242 days after the earliest competitor.
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