🏓 Agar.io?
Wikipedia defines agar.io as:
Agar.io is a massively multiplayer online action game created by Brazilian developer Matheus Valadares. Players control one or more cells in a map representing a Petri dish. The goal is to gain as much mass as possible by eating agar and cells smaller than the player’s cell while avoiding larger ones which can eat the player’s cells. Each player starts with one cell, but players can split a cell into two once it reaches a sufficient mass, allowing them to control multiple cells. The name comes from the substance agar, used to culture bacteria.
The massive success of this game created a massive influx of copycat clones which you can learn more about in this YouTube video about io Games and The Rise of Fake Multiplayer
🏗 Here is a list of .io games that I have found interesting
- Agar.io
- Mope.io
- Hole.io
- This game is a direct clone of donut country note that this game does not run in a browser.
🍦 Create your own .io game using JavaScript and html
If you haven’t heard of Daniel Shiffman the author of The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with Processing and his YouTube channel The Coding Train you should defiantly check him out.
Daniel Shiffman has created a agar.io clone on his YouTube channel. This series contains two parts: