# timriker/bzo

> A free 3D multiplayer tank game in the browser for desktop, phone and VR that interoperates with BZFlag clients and servers. Node.js server, Three.js client over WebSockets, WebTransport and WebRTC.

- Magnitude: 3.3 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 33 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:00–04:09 UTC, ≈ 14 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: JavaScript · Created: 2025-12-06 · Last push: 2026-10-19
- GitHub: https://github.com/timriker/bzo · Homepage: https://bz.rikers.org · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/timriker/bzo

## Useful for

- Run your own game server from the ghcr.io Docker image
- Join public BZFlag servers proxied through bzo
- Play multiplayer tank matches in a VR headset without installing a client

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 00:00–04:09: 33 → 33 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +13 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- Hacker News: “Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser” — 39 points, 23 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2
- Issues and pull requests: 193
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 6 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v1.3.59 (2026-10-18)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-23 … 2026-10-22: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 20, 0

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

10-21 1.7, 10-22 3.6

## Hacker News

- Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser — 39 points, 29 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50176298

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-22 04:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.