BoomiBois

BoomiBois is a multiplayer arcade action game about bombs, bling, and getting big.  Arrow keys nudge your square, and spacebar drops a new bomb or detonates your current bomb.  Blow up the bling with your bomb to get big.  You can neither blow up anything nor blow up while your square is inside the safe zone, regardless of where your bomb is.  Player 1 (decided by connection seniority) can cycle between obstacles with the 1 key, and toggle/randomize attactors and repulsors with the 2 key.  Supports at least 10 players with unique identifying colors.  Supports an unknown number of additional players without unique identifying colors.

BoomiBois can be played in the browser without downloading anything.  With the provided files, plus node.js and a few commands, you can host your own local network server to play with your (local) friends.  Hosting online is also possible, but generally requires a hosting service.  At time of writing, you can play on my server 

  bbrender.onrender.com

   without downloading anything.  The server is free tier, which means it's slow to start and sometimes a bit laggy, but if you host your own local server everything will be perfect (ish) and it won't cost you anything.

You will need to install node.js, npm, express, and socket.io. Node.js installs to your computer, and provides a command line interface where you install express, and then socket.io in the BoomiBois folder.

Commands:

npm init npm install express@4 npm install socket.io

There's a line in index.js, a "server.listen...." with an ip address. That needs to be set to the local network server ip. Join the server by browsing to that ip address and port.

I'm certain I've missed something in these instructions, let me know what it was.