Well, that's pretty amazing. Similar to how we would make maps for Starcraft Broodwar and literally decode the whole game, we now have people that do the same with Agar.

http://agar.gcommer.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

For example, here is the server protocol: http://agar.gcommer.com/index.php?title=Protocol

With that, you have people that make custom servers: http://agar.azure.gs/ (That's only one of them.)

Some server implementations: https://github.com/vram4/Ogar or even https://github.com/GTB3NW/Petri

Alternate clients that can connect to server IPs: http://agar.gcommer.com/index.php?title=Client_Implementations

On my side, I coded a bot that plays the game: https://github.com/Apostolique/Agar.io-bot

This game is brilliant. Got to #1 a couple times but was promptly hit by slingshotted viruses.

Made a character called "Riney". A friend found the same server, called himself "Riney's mom"

An hour later, half the server had incorporated "Riney" into their name somehow.

Okay, so it turns out you can control each cell separately. Normally, the client uses your mouse's X and Y coordinates and makes all your cells go that way, but with my bot, I can make each cell have a will of it's own.

Here is the result:




What sucks right now is that the server only sends the data for the visible area. The visible area's center is an average of your cells' coordinates. This means that cells don't see around themselves so they can never go really far apart.

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Awesome stuff Apos. Do you have your code anywhere?

It's still not release but since this is Sen <3:

https://gist.github.com/Apostolique/f21304a9ef35abd5b6db
https://gist.github.com/Apostolique/f21304a9ef35abd5b6db#file-launcher-user-js

If the cells are really far apart, press Q and bring them back to the center of the screen to merge back. Press S to select a cell and manually control it. It's very useful when you need to go around someone and virus them from the back

Right now, it's not optimized for performance so if it lags, you can help it by pressing R.

Edit: Here is a little adventure:

As awesome as that is, it's cheating.

It's not cheating. I am in touch with the creator and he specifically added that in so my bot could use it. I have no idea why he wanted a bot to use that though as it is some form of unfair advantage.

I'm going to be coding an RTS mod for Agar. It will allow you to control each cell independently without having assistance from the bot. This will allow people without bot to control each cells the same way which should remove the advantage for most people.

You just contradicted yourself: Cheating in video games involves a video game player using non-standard methods for creating an advantage beyond normal gameplay
In other games basically all cheat codes (for single player) were implemented by game developers. That doesn't make them not cheats. Agar.io developer just went a step further and allowed you to cheat in multiplayer.

But don't let these technicalities discourage you. Science go!

Well the thing is the creator says it's not cheating. I just go with it.

Well, now you have the means to explain to him why it is.

What about the 16 cell cap? Wouldn't this create a huge unfair advantage for you?


Ohh, well then I guess it's not too unfair an advantage then. My bad.

obviously the game is meant to be played by bots, playing as a human is just a demo