I Made a Fake Multiplayer .io Game 

That's why we have an universal way of determining if a player is a bot, you spin in circle near them, and if they spin back, they are real.

How to make true fake multiplayer: - *random name* joined the game -*random name69* logs off

As someone who writes AIs for other games, I'd say that there's many ways to make the AI more believable. Like trying to backstab players who are already fighting, running away when losing, actively searching for pickups, etc. Basically: Actively think about what you'd do yourself in a given situation and then code that into AI.

When the bots are always perfectly looking at the middle of the player, it looks a bit awkward. It would be slightly more believable if they looked like they were delayed and trying to acquire the target

it's a problem that most enemies go directly to the player. They AIs should see NPCs and player as the same

says multiplayer game, all enemies constantly aim at you

Another good thing to add is to have the ai switch focus on other ai from time to time if they get close so it looks more real. And make the player tracking slightly less precise

The way almost all enemies always face you I think would give it away. Having them face a random enemy with closer ones being more likely might look more natural

Simple ai to implement: every tick, pick the nearest enemy within a certain range to fight. If hp >25% then commit to fighting (even if hp drops below 25%) but if hp

U shoud add a an 'enemy ' that spins around upon seeing you intending to team,it starts to follow you for a while without attacking you then all of a sudden it backstabs you. Cant have a game without teamers and backstabers. (Hope you tak e my suggestion 😉)

Add: - Characters will stand for a moment, slowly spinning, or will simply stand there rather than immediateky engaging with the player upon spawn. - Some enemies may randomly attack the "noob" player upon sight, seeing a free and easy kill, with the exclusion of the "noob" player, who is a total idiot. - A secondary noob player, who is much like the "enemy", but will occasionally try to attack, only at a slower, much more poor rate. - Actual leaderboard, but with kills capped at 234 because who tf would play this game for that long?

Ive watched at least a dozen other game design channels on RU-vid and gonna be honest, im 3 minutes in and your sense of humour is already astronomically better than anything ive seen. Bravo.

I like how he made Minecraft and an FPS shooter in Gamemaker, a 2D Engine Edit : Ik there are a lot of smart people out there who can ruin a joke by logical explanations, I don't have any problem with your comments but stop commenting the same thing as that stickman guy. You can still debate on 2d and 3d though.

not only do 90% of other "players" always aim at you, they do so with unnaturally smooth & accurate turning

There are many games that give you the option of communication, and the other players show intelligence and understanding that no common AI can show. So, unless IO games secretly hold the technology of incredibly complex AI, i think it is safe to say the some IO games are actually multiplayer (also if you can play with your friends it means a server actually exists which defeats half the points of faking multiplayer

That’s one of the best channel I ever seen… you largely deserve a million subscribers. Keep going on.

The “players” never target other “players” but me. Some “players” while fight happens to be out of a screen for a second and vanished. But still, it’s a quite fun game:))

"isn't really multiplayer" **shows a game that's known for being actually multiplayer**

You should add a lagging enemy for the true multiplayer Also make it so that the player sometimes bugs out

Maybe a fun little addition would be a score traker that would calculate all the different people' scores and put them into the leaderboard even tho they are not playing multiplayer, another thing would be if the enemies were attacking you by chance and not always straight up coming towards you, for an example: When you're new into the game higher % enemies would attack you due to your lack of strenght and as you progress some of them will try running away instead of fighting to death with you, but otherwise, a fun lil' game

I love how he was inspired by slither io when it's not fake multiplayer, there's just an option to play with bots on mobile when you have no internet

you should make the ai turn from regular enemy to hostile when another bot is closer than the player Also add "regions" where when selected, set the list of names to a different list with different names EDIT: Since this has gotten more likes, make the leaderboard work (via giving the ai random amounts of kills, and when the ai kill other bots, they gain a kill, and having the player be able to climb up the ranks, and making killed ai get knocked to zero when killed.) And make the actual game a website too.

Thank you for the entertaining and useful in some way video!

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„Hostile AI“: Make 2 out of 100 AI fight against each other so the player won’t notice the other 98 fight only the player sMoARt

Just some quick feedback, the AI locking on to you flawlessly looks VERY bot-like. Maybe adding more jittery looking directions or a degree of inaccuracy would be more human-like

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You designed the enemy AI with the wrong approach. Why can the enemies tell the difference between the player and other enemies? There's no reason to do this if you want fake multiplayer.

just set the name spin=team and spin, if it's online, someone would definitely spin with you

You should make them stand still for a split second when they spawn in to emulate someone processing everything going on

To make this more believable, I would suggest that the skill of the enemy is changed if the enemy spawns with a better weapon, showing experience and skill because of the time it requires to gain each starter weapon.

It kinda ruins the illusion when most of the enemies face you despite having other enemies nearby

- make bots attack each other more often - add fake lagging to some bots ie teleport them around a few pixels in random intervals - make bots not move for 1 to 5 seconds after spawning, as if a player needs a few secs to realize the game has started

how he casually says "I accidentily made a first person shooter" and then "oh crap"

8:35 lol that was so good I almost subscribed

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Things I would change: More AI variations and more AI players that attack other AI players. There’s still too many players just attacking you. Make an actual leaderboard, but make it easy to get to the top: Most of the fun comes from being the best.

Just subbed!

"Aw crap i accidently made minecraft from scratch this always happens." Same bud

i tried to play these games with my brother once, i always wondered why we never got in the same match together.

Another thing this would need to be convincing that I haven't seen anyone mention is.. they need to not perfectly face you all the time. No human player is that pixel perfect with their mouse. They would need to turn randomly and at different speeds, with the odd random flick around towards another enemy for instance. Stuff like that

Some videos I just 'like' before I even watch them. Case in point.

it's a bit weird for bot/s to spawn right next, to you to make it more realistic you make them spawn out of the player's sight so it also looks they were looking for someone as well, like out of the the whole map they decided to spawn right next to you

I'd say instead of having a separate hostile ai to attack the other ai's just have the ai target who's closest regardless of if it's the player or ai (or actually what I would probably do is have it "lock on" to someone within a certain range and then change when they die or leave range and maybe have a chance of changing to someone closer to simulate how people kinda get tunnel vision when focused on one target and to prevent just like, wildly switching back and forth between pursuing different targets.)

There is always these players in ever game: The Teamers They will run around the map, close together, and if one get below half health they will run away and their friend will battle you. If they both get below half health, they will attempt to run away, however they are very scared and doesn’t go in a straight line (which means you’ll be able to catch up to them.)

I like how the first two pickups were potion effects and then you switched to armor enchantments.

That turned out decent, definitely release it

Would suggest 3 things: 1. all enemies need to go after the health drops at some point, maybe it needs a radius but that radius needs to be a conceivable screen size. 2. Normal enemies should randomly switch to the hostile enemy type when in range of other enemies, The random chance should be proportional to how close the enemies are together. 3. There should be a small chance of a n00b player becoming either a hostile enemy or a normal enemy at any time, and an even smaller chance that a normal enemy will freeze, become a n00b or disappear with the words "disconnected" over head... I think these would take the believability of the game to over 9000.

Just see if the game has chat, if it does, you know it’s multiplayer Edit: read replies before replying Edit 2: since some people won’t read the replies like I ask them to IN THE COMMENT I’m going to put it here that bots can use chat, but they can’t have realistic back-and-forth conversations with a player that don’t break.

You should make it so if you kill someone with a higher weapon, you get the weapon. Also make it so that the name list picker doesn’t pick a name that has already been picked

Please add teamers and Npcs that are using GIOG (guy in orange gi), because it wouldn't make sense if you only can be him, and the teamers npcs spawn together and as you guess it, they fight together, and make the noob actually fight but they will most likely lose

If you could figure out how to make it the playable on mobile phones, I'm sure it will get more downloads. It would be a better way to get more people to download it

Him: "Look how much money this fake multiplayer game make!" **while showing an actual real multiplayer .io game**

Suggestion, maybe Make the enemies like Turn slowly or faster depending after Fighting other bot, and like some bots are just Facing other direction and when you are in a certain distance they will face you.

A sorta good way to detect if a game has fake multiplayer is to name yourself a slur, if it lets you: it's fake.

I would add a health bar above or by the enemy's name. In my opinion, it would be a lot more fun to pick up a defeated enemy weapon instead of buying them. New spawn players would scramble to find a weapon on the ground quickly, be faced to outsmart a wielding enemy, or take advantage of a low health enemy.

"So that no more than like two people spawn with the same username." 12:01

Some io games have a chat where you talk to actual people in the game that are playing it with you.

I got to play this! Glad to have known this to begin with

A couple things to consider when making fake multiplayer: Movement: It would be more realistic if the AI movement had the same 8 directions and acceleration/velocity as the player. Aim: It would be more realistic if the AI had to move their aim the same way a player would.

there should be something put in to make sure that most ais dont perfectly track where you are, since not everyone is gonna be very good at aiming, and almost no one would be perfectly following you move. not sure how that'd be done but it'd help with making it feel like you're playing multiplayer. another thing would be to have enemies space themselves away from other enemies, or if they get too close to another enemy, to quickly attack that enemy before turning back to you or something. again, not sure how easily that could be done. very good so far tho :)))

I love dragon ba... I mean orange gi z so you adding orange gi man is really cool

2000s game dev: I made a working multi-player for my game, now players can play together! 2020s game dev: I made a fake multi-player so I can trick people into thinking they're playing with others!

3:32 he had the chance to create the lagging player

Should make new ai like: (updated edit) Teamers: which teams with a random player (player or npc) Passive (or scaredy-cat) : avoids fighting and runs away from players Annoying players(camper) : just only attacks you and camps in your spawn Color gang: up to 3-5 npc which are same color and gangs up on other npc or you (unless the same color)*really dumb* Hacker: extra speed extra damage and extra HP with 100% hits and no misses Aggressive noob: Charges at you but only has a fist Laggy: Teleports, longer range, 50% of getting hit and does 20% more dmg and maybe attacks 2 times per hit AFK: free XP Grindy player: somehow has like 80% more better items than you Op noob: better items but still a noob

Congrats! You recreated the cell stage from Spore

One thing you should add for authenticity is when enemies spawn in right in front of you, they have a brief pause, and after they kill another they pause as well. the instant snap isn't something all players will do.

2:51 bro i hate when that happens

It’s so funny that I completely forgot at one point this game wasn’t multiplayer and I was about to comment about how starting weapons and the secret goku aren’t fair to the other players, LOL

The enemies tracking their target perfectly like they're aim locked on is a big giveaway ;)

My immediate thought when you first started describing the initial fighting game concept was "even this already seems too good to be an .io game"

6:05 When you walk into a lobby and everyone is facing you; NORMAL

keep growing brother

when you log in tf2 and everyone in the server is targeting one single person

Ideas for new bots + others for the game: Bots Warrior A.I - Attacks no matter what. Scared A.I - Runs away no matter what. Power Ups Invisibility - A.Is doesn't see the player. Weapons Pistol - 75 Kills Ak-47 - 80 Kills Minigun - 90 Kills Golden Minigun - 100 Kills

Add a coward enemy that just runs around and avoids fights

Could make it so other "players" fight each other if they are close enough to one another, just to be more belivable

A fake multiplayer would be a great bait and switch for a horror game since it's the last place you'd expect it

I think the few things I'd add are random strafing to the bots and if another bot or the player comes close the can switch targets. Could even check how much damage they've done to the other bot to see if it's worth to rush them down before changing targets or not. Oh and fleeing towards boosts when low health.

Bit late to this but wanted to add my 2 cents. The enemies should have simulated "mouse drift" and shouldn't always be facing the player. They track far too well. Way to pull the the curtain back, send my regards to Oz.

There should always be a high probability that any given player or bot is fighting multiple enemies at once

Man, this reminds me so much of Stick Arena Ballistick. So many good times with that game, and all the Xgen games.

Amazing the title of this video describes almost every .io game

Looks great, you should make one of the stronger bots be guy in orange gi, and have another secret character be vageta or something.......maybe king Kai or oolong

A nice addition would be being able to pick up dead enemy's weapons so theres an incentive to team up against those katanas (if it was in real multiplayer) or just being rewarded by hard to kill bots

The fact that the enemies constantly face you are a dead giveaway.

I would 100% enjoy this.

3:00 well, about that...

BadGameDev: enemies with katanas are extremely rare me: boots game, first found bot has a katana BRUH

You should make it so that bot randomly target someone, shouldn't be bias and choose the player the most, so it feels more realistic

I think you need add stuff like biomes/backgrounds you know.. Stuff like lakes, rivers, plains, snow and things like this. I think that's a good idea.

"I accidentally made minecraft from scratch" is the best line ever

This reminded me of the time in 4th grade me and one of my friends had computer class together and decided to test the fake multiplayer. After a few tries logging on one after the other, we found two things: One, that there are about 3 set servers at any time/place, as we saw 2-4 different leaderboards pop up (which was how we figured out if we were playing on the same server). 2, that because of the leaderboard thing, we could see that there were a good number of fake players, BUT as me and my friend were able to meet in a corner of the map and play the game together, some players must also be real. It's kinda like taking a really shitty-functioning product and making it look amazing so more people buy it.

None of the ones I used to play had fake multiplayer. They usually have a chat, and you always had to deal with players that teamed in solo gametypes.

I think Guy in Orange Gi is a very neat addition to the game. He really adds the story of the game, and i think the red stick he holds is very key to the lore. Him being faster is also a key lore element, explaining the reason he- wait I can't say it yet. Guy in Orange Gi is a very interesting character, with his orange gi, that helps him differentiate from the other characters.

The fact that the enemies dont attack each other makes this very unbelievable

bots should have the possibility of becoming hostile when close to each other, enemies with higher weapons should be worth more KOs (ramp up # of KOs needed for latter upgrades when you do so), have noobs sometimes 'return to the game'

the way the npc's move slower than the player and are always perfectly aimed at the player still gives it away really quick. cool video though.

Ah yes I love it when all these very real people are all going after me or ignoring me completely

Id like to see some AI improvements. Them being able to rotate would go a huge way in making them more believable.