a hundred players

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This is a talk I gave at London Node User Group (LNUG) in November 2019. The multiplayer live audience game was an idea I'd had brewing for a while - ever since I was writing little mini games with Flash and building some museum exhibitions in the early 2000s. I was reading a lot at the time about game design and an anecdote I read told a story about a game of Pong for large audiences, with collective energy and excitement of the auditorium where everyone was playing the same game. I wanted to do that.

My initial intention was to one day recreate the Pong experience via a local network and phones as controllers. But it was the opportunity to showcase technology from Pusher, one of our meetup sponsors, was the spark that got me to do it...