Battleship + Ajax = SinkMyShip

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1. Andreas
   

   May 25th, 2006 at 9:16 am

   As an old game developer, this is something for me

2. Darren McLaughlin
   

   May 25th, 2006 at 9:29 am

   Nice looking. Worth a good 3 minutes of anyones time

3. Drew Olanoff
   

   May 25th, 2006 at 10:17 am

   Seemed really clunky during our test, a lot of delays, didn’t make it worth playing a round.

4. Startups.in
   

   May 25th, 2006 at 10:22 am

   Revenue model? Exit Strategy?
   Luv this one..

   NagB /at/
   Startups.in

5. Don Wilson
   

   May 25th, 2006 at 10:22 am

   Not working at the moment, website isn’t responding.

6. Qian Wang
   

   May 25th, 2006 at 11:05 am

   Site is TechCrunched for the moment, wait ’til they’ve got VC money for some load balancing servers. But how long until GoogleMyShip sinks this one?

7. Brian Benzinger
   

   May 25th, 2006 at 11:40 am

   Ut oh. What’d we do, Arrington :-). Always manage to bring these Ajax apps to their knees (remember ajchat? hehe). Thanks for the link back.

8. Pete
   

   May 25th, 2006 at 12:05 pm

   digg it here: http://www.digg.com/gaming/Bat.....SinkMyShip

9. Chris Coyier
   

   May 25th, 2006 at 12:41 pm

   This is so great. Brings back great memories. In about 1994 or 1995 I wrote a program in Turbo Pascal that would allow two players to play BattleShip across an AppleTalk network. I remember I integrated a feature where once per game you could shoot a “Clusterbomb” at your opponent which blasted about 5 random squares near where you chose to shoot it.

   How times have changed.

10. Colin Strummer
    

    May 25th, 2006 at 2:34 pm

    you sunk their battleship….

11. Phillip G
    

    May 25th, 2006 at 2:41 pm

    Its a little clunky… it didn’t registar all my moves for some reason… I even clicked on a spot twice, just for it not to work twice.

    Good idea though.

12. Rob Poitras
    

    May 25th, 2006 at 2:57 pm

    It would be fun to setup a TC tourny and see who has the skillz to pay the billz.

13. Artem
    

    May 25th, 2006 at 7:02 pm

    Tournaments are in the list of future features. Also we’re planning to implement 3+ user games. That’s if users pour in as much as before. The original digg is http://digg.com/gaming/Origina.....layer_game
    Thank you all kind people, we hit 4000+ users today alone. If that continues we might invest in better hosting. Who knows.

14. Andy
    

    May 28th, 2006 at 6:11 am

    Not keen on it - never seem to be able to “keep” an opponent for more than two moves before they bugger off, never to be seen again.

    I guess once it stops being full of people who want to look at the AJAX and fills with people who are playing the game, it’ll improve.

15. sam
    

    May 30th, 2006 at 9:01 pm

    The server did slow down when we got 4k hits from techcrunch in a few hours. Our battleship didn’t sink, but we are thinking of upgrading our hosting plan:) Thanks Michael for the review.

16. Michael Arrington
    

    May 30th, 2006 at 9:05 pm

    Sure sam, even though you liked my review the least.

17. sam
    

    June 1st, 2006 at 5:14 pm

    It couldn’t be us, as you brought SMS to life :). It might have been our server.