Salmon Tag

An experimental online multiplayer game of tag.  The player who is the catcher must find, chase, and tag another player to hand off the catcher role.  Meanwhile, runners must explore the level to collect the stars that spawn. The player with the most collected stars wins!

Control your character with WASD, and use space to tag.

The first two players in a lobby will be admins, with the power to start and end games. Late arrivals get to spectate, and will be able to join the next game in the lobby.

At time of writing the default settings will connect to a dedicated server (13337) or relay (13336) that I'm running, but I can't guarantee that will still be the case at time of reading!

Hosting a game using a relay will show you a room code in the bottom-left of the game. Give this to other players so they can join your game.

Alternatively, you can run a dedicated game server of your own with:

$ salmon-tag.x86_64 --headless [--port PORT]

Or run a dedicated relay server (for NAT traversal when hosting the actual game locally) with:

$ salmon-tag.x86_64 --headless --salmon-relay [--relay-port PORT]

I'd very much appreciate feedback about the networking and NAT punching. So if you know or suspect your ISP has some funky NAT setup, please try hosting a game via the relay, and then joining from a second client (it can be on the same machine).