This is What The Hex?, a geometric puzzle game made in C#, using the Godot Game Engine.

The pursuit of true hexcellence requires that you clear your mind and become one with the geometry of the universe...

Rules

• You begin with an 8 x 5 grid of hexagons

• Each hexagon has one of 4 colors on each edge

• You can rotate any given hexagon 60 degrees counterclockwise with a left click, 60 degrees clockwise with a right click

• You start with 100 seconds (configurable) on the clock

• If a rhombus with 4 hexagons bordering it has all 4 edges the same color, you get a match

• Most matches are worth 100 points, but each match you make with the current advantage color gives you 300 instead

• Every 10 seconds, random hexagons are regenerated

• Hexagons are internally black by default but turn blue when they are selected for replacement

• The number of hexagons refreshed per cycle increases by 1 every 3 refresh cycles

• You win if you make 20 matches (configurable)

Controls

Joystick (Supported on all platforms):

• D-Pad: Change currently selected hexagon
• Left shoulder buttons/triggers (L, L1, L2, LB, ZL, etc.) OR B (Switch), A (Xbox), X (PlayStation): Rotate currently selected hexagon counterclockwise
• Right shoulder buttons/triggers (R, R1, R2, RB, ZR, etc.) OR A (Switch), B (Xbox), Circle (PlayStation): Rotate currently selected hexagon clockwise
• Y (Switch), X (Xbox), and Square (PlayStation): Activate powerup

Mouse (Supported on desktop and web only):

• Left Click: Rotate hexagon under mouse cursor counterclockwise
• Right Click: Rotate hexagon under mouse cursor clockwise

Keyboard (Supported on desktop and web only):

• Arrow Keys: Change currently selected hexagon
• Space Bar: Rotate currently selected hexagon clockwise

Touch (Supported on Android only, might work on desktop platforms with a touch screen):

• Tap on any hexagon: Select
• Specific touch buttons in the top-right handle rotation of the current hexagon

Supported Platforms

Tier 1 (Should Work Well):

• Android/Chrome OS/Fire OS (ARM)
• GNU/Linux (amd64)
• HTML5/Web Browsers
  • Note that mobile browsers on iOS do not support the screen orientation API, so you may have trouble fitting that one onto the screen.
• Windows (x86)

Tier 2 (Will Probably Work Well):

• macOS (Can't test this at the moment, but no reason to believe it will be an issue)

Tier 3 (Might work if compiled from source, but no promises)

• iOS (I lack the hardware to compile for this)
• Raspberry Pi and other non-Android ARM devices: I don't want to compile my own build templates, so this is unsupported until they add one by default.

Tier 4 (Might work in the future, but I don't currently expect it to)

• Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S: Currently UWP targets do not support Mono. If this is fixed in the future I'm definitely interested. The relevant GitHub Issue is godotengine/godot#20271

Multiplayer Support

What The Hex? features a 2-player mode. Currently, only hotseat is supported and I'm not currently planning on implementing network support.

It is only enabled if at least 2 gamepads are connected. The mouse and keyboard controls still work, but for the moment they are both assumed to be the first player's.

At the moment, it is a simple timed score-attack mode. I'm also considering implementing a match race mode and/or a zone control mode.

Reporting Bugs

To report a bug, please send an email to Bob "Wombat" Hogg <wombat@rwhogg.site>.

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Copyright

See the file LICENSE.txt

Exception: If you are redistributing modified versions of What The Hex? in binary form, please remove the Boarish Entertainment splash screen. See NOTICE for details.

Third-Party Licenses

See the file THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt

Acknowledgements

What The Hex? is built on the Godot Engine and on Mono.

Special thanks to www.kenney.nl and to the Superpowers app team for providing a number of the assets.