Good-bye, productivity
February 23, 2016 8:02 AM   Subscribe

Mienfield, a massively multiplayer online minesweeper.
posted by slater (27 comments total) 25 users marked this as a favorite
 
Aaaaaand, we broke it.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 8:05 AM on February 23, 2016 [2 favorites]


Seems to be overwhelmed a bit at the moment.

I am interested in seeing this thing and hope it is not susceptible to trolling intentional bomb clickers.

In the meantime you should play tagpro and may God have mercy on my soul for corrupting your Tuesday.
posted by RolandOfEld at 8:05 AM on February 23, 2016


Oh. My. It's beautiful.
posted by RolandOfEld at 8:11 AM on February 23, 2016


RECONNECTING TO THE SERVER HAS BEEN FAILED
posted by brokkr at 8:26 AM on February 23, 2016


Okay I played a bit, and now I never have to play again
posted by aubilenon at 8:30 AM on February 23, 2016 [8 favorites]


(that 10m leaderboard is great because you can win without having to play more than anybody else in the entire world)
posted by aubilenon at 8:31 AM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]


Sorry, but maximum limit of players online has been reached. Try again a bit later please . Due to current server ended up very slow and produced glitches when lots of people were playing, I decided to start working on scaling and performance optimizations. I work on Minefield on my spare time, since it is my hobby project. Hopefully, I will fix things up in the nearest future. Ping me on Twitter if you have any questions.
Productivity saved!
posted by cjorgensen at 8:38 AM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]


Mienfield?
posted by cjorgensen at 8:39 AM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]


Can you spare a square?
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 8:41 AM on February 23, 2016 [2 favorites]


I really wanted it to be Meinfeld, and have a slap-bass soundtrack, and when the bombs go off they're all Newman's face and Jerry says "Newman!" and then there's some more slap bass.
posted by cortex at 8:41 AM on February 23, 2016 [4 favorites]


I take it we all went into the 'Design Your Own Flag' option and fashioned a rudimentary cock & balls?

Top work, people.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 8:45 AM on February 23, 2016 [1 favorite]


We killed it, guys.
posted by OverlappingElvis at 8:45 AM on February 23, 2016


I really wanted it to be Meinfeld, and have a slap-bass soundtrack, and when the bombs go off they're all Newman's face and Jerry says "Newman!" and then there's some more slap bass.

I expect a playable demo of that by 4 pm Eastern.
posted by Rock Steady at 8:48 AM on February 23, 2016


No slap for you.
posted by flabdablet at 8:52 AM on February 23, 2016 [2 favorites]


Apparently they are not masters of their domain.
posted by Atom Eyes at 8:54 AM on February 23, 2016 [2 favorites]


Good-bye, productivity

That is an understatement.
posted by jeffamaphone at 9:23 AM on February 23, 2016


Now that you know you can do it aubileneon, you must wonder whether you can do it again...
posted by cubby at 10:29 AM on February 23, 2016


Couldn't get in so I will take this time to mention the amazing, text based, multiplayer Minesweeper game my then protogé created in our MUD back in the day. Player-kills were a complicating factor in solving the maze/field. It was glorious and he is a genius. Still online actually.
posted by Iteki at 10:44 AM on February 23, 2016


Now that you know you can do it, aubilenon, you must wonder whether you can do it again...

I'm positive some 10-minute intervals I would come out on top again, and I'm positive other 10-minute intervals someone else would. I am a little curious what the distribution of those two outcomes would be, but I am absolutely not curious enough to play enough to deliver a statistically significant answer to that question.

I have much better ways to spend my time, like thinking of stuff like "OursSweeper would have been a good name for this, if it weren't incredibly awkward."
posted by aubilenon at 11:55 AM on February 23, 2016 [3 favorites]


What would amuse me to no end is if this ends up being a single player port of Minefield and the maximum player limit is 1.
posted by cjorgensen at 12:33 PM on February 23, 2016


or zero.
posted by pjmoy at 2:50 PM on February 23, 2016


I loaded this up twice yesterday and I am never doing so ever again.
posted by advil at 9:00 AM on February 24, 2016


I read that as Meinfeld, and then I was like “What’s the deal with mines!?”
posted by blueberry at 6:48 PM on February 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


Fun. Leaderboards are a tricky thing. Never cracked the top 10 I don't think in the 10m interval. Seems like all the points are in finding and clearing a five. Probably if I had my own little niche I could save up a few clusters to solve on my own and ace a given 10m session, but it'd be at least an hour of setup.
posted by pwnguin at 11:15 PM on February 25, 2016


I was being completist for a while, but then decided I was more interested in pioneering and so I started trying to aggressively map out new territory, building long land-bridges between existing chunks of territory, which has its own weird appeal.

I've lost several hours to this in the last few days, which is weird considering how I never really got into Minesweeper itself. But I've spent a lot of time in the last few years with puzzles like nonograms and kenken and, probably most on-point here, nurikabe, and I think that's sort of gotten some of my proximity-and-deduction muscles toned up compared to when Minesweeper was just What Was On This Work Computer back in the day.

There's something very meditative about it, a subtle, quiet Just One More trap that can eat quiet but attentive hour like nothing. If they add some shallow RPG character mechanics of some sort I might actually die in there.
posted by cortex at 7:20 AM on February 26, 2016


What I ended up doing for most of the time was finding the 5s people couldn't solve and go after them. It's worth about the same number of points as the corner 1s, but the multiplier bonus is a nice reward for how much obviously smarter I am than the poor souls who came before. Or so I tell myself.

But like, I have a job, and Fire Emblem Fates just came out. At least sgt-puzzles have an end, even if the puzzle generation is too weak.
posted by pwnguin at 2:38 PM on February 26, 2016


eye of newt in this topic just reminded me of this game again, and finally my work IT security has categorized the site so it's accessible. This will be the end of me.

I'm numiner on there if you guys run into me. My flags are the portal companion cube.
posted by numaner at 10:20 AM on March 9, 2016


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