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55 pointschillax7mo ago29 comments

29 comments

johnisgood7mo ago

On the website, there was a link to a game: https://www.familiars.io

I spent an hour playing it! It is quite good.

Is there a source code available for this game?

johnisgood7mo ago

FWIW I asked on their Discord server, and they told me that it is closed source. :(

Does anyone know of a game similar to this with source code available? That would be cool. I have so many ideas that I would like to implement!

HanClinto7mo ago

Holy moley, that is some high-octane dopamine right there.

Really fun game, thank you for linking it!

nicman237mo ago

femboy.cat with a casual 0.2% of the internet

mid-kid7mo ago

By topping the leaderboard plenty of people see it and donate their IP to them. What are you gonna do, claim your own IP for yourself and go up against those behemoths? Of course you're gonna form alliances.

vaylian7mo ago

But how do they achieve that? Do you use a lot of VPNs?

maverwa7mo ago

my first guess would be: server honors X-Forwarded-For where it should not?

Edit: looks like thats it: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/net/turfwar...

So basically someone is running a script iterates over the whole ipv4 range and calls the claim endpoint with each single adress in the X-Forwared-For http header once.

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nilsherzig7mo ago

Embedding images on a popular page?

But according to the servers status at http://35.223.193.241:443/statusz nearly all claim requests expected to get html back not images.

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justusthane7mo ago

I don't know, but check out the "Recent Successful Claims" on the right.

Edit: Apparently they run https://novo.tf/, a CAPTCHA service, so they're probably using that to call out to ipv4.games from their clients.

viraptor7mo ago

There are VPNs which use residential endpoints. You essentially use other users' IPs there.

bombcar7mo ago

They’re top of the list, so at least some is seeing that and choosing to add to it.

adzm7mo ago

I wouldn't be surprised if they had it call out from guns.lol or something

maldonad07mo ago

Maybe spoofing source IPs.

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cedws7mo ago

Botnet maybe.

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snvzz7mo ago

Somebody is obviously monopolizing ipv4 space.

redshiftza7mo ago

Heng Lu at it again it seems.

chrismorgan7mo ago

(2022)

Also, submission title “Welcome to the IPv4 Games” is altered; the original title is “IPv4 Turf War”.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32790429

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29 comments

johnisgood7mo ago

On the website, there was a link to a game: https://www.familiars.io

I spent an hour playing it! It is quite good.

Is there a source code available for this game?

johnisgood7mo ago

FWIW I asked on their Discord server, and they told me that it is closed source. :(

Does anyone know of a game similar to this with source code available? That would be cool. I have so many ideas that I would like to implement!

HanClinto7mo ago

Holy moley, that is some high-octane dopamine right there.

Really fun game, thank you for linking it!

nicman237mo ago

femboy.cat with a casual 0.2% of the internet

mid-kid7mo ago

vaylian7mo ago

But how do they achieve that? Do you use a lot of VPNs?

maverwa7mo ago

my first guess would be: server honors X-Forwarded-For where it should not?

Edit: looks like thats it: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/net/turfwar...

So basically someone is running a script iterates over the whole ipv4 range and calls the claim endpoint with each single adress in the X-Forwared-For http header once.

3 more replies

nilsherzig7mo ago

Embedding images on a popular page?

But according to the servers status at http://35.223.193.241:443/statusz nearly all claim requests expected to get html back not images.

1 more reply

justusthane7mo ago

I don't know, but check out the "Recent Successful Claims" on the right.

Edit: Apparently they run https://novo.tf/, a CAPTCHA service, so they're probably using that to call out to ipv4.games from their clients.

viraptor7mo ago

There are VPNs which use residential endpoints. You essentially use other users' IPs there.

bombcar7mo ago

They’re top of the list, so at least some is seeing that and choosing to add to it.

adzm7mo ago

I wouldn't be surprised if they had it call out from guns.lol or something

maldonad07mo ago

Maybe spoofing source IPs.

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cedws7mo ago

Botnet maybe.

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snvzz7mo ago

Somebody is obviously monopolizing ipv4 space.

redshiftza7mo ago

Heng Lu at it again it seems.

chrismorgan7mo ago

(2022)

Also, submission title “Welcome to the IPv4 Games” is altered; the original title is “IPv4 Turf War”.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32790429

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