Yea, locked tiles were planned to use a different tile but that was not implemented before the deadline. Also the hidden symbols are not guaranteed to have a matching tile so sometimes it's was not going to be possible to solve the 10x10 grid .
Yes, it's connecting to a server and is always syncing with the server. There's no client side smoothing which is why you can notice the jitter.
Client server architecture is the simplest on the web. It should possible to use WebRTC for p2p but none of the libraries I am using has an API available for that at the moment.
At one point when I dint have any keyboard input being sent to the server, I just had the server move the characters in ellipses with each character using different radii which made it look like a dance floor. Should definitely add some dance animations ;)
It was a few hours, pretty much did everything other than the broiler plate required for window, sockets, load and display images images under 7 hours on the last day. Had plans to work on it for the 2 weeks prior but had extremely limited time during the week after work and no time on the weekends.
I almost did not submit anything but then on the last day was like ok let's see how far I can get. So that's why the only thing to do in the game is walk about.
The only thing you can do is walk around with anyone else connected to the server, was little time constrained on this one, only had about 7 hours putting it together.
It's supposed to look like the cover image ( I am using FireFox on Windows). On Android the map and player don't display properly (textures look skewed ). I wrote the renderer from scratch last night, so I am probably messing up an order of operation or not calculating byte offset properly somewhere
Send me a screenshot of the console if you can, usually it will throw up errors there if you setup opengl options incorrectly.
