Hexes & Hexes

The Game

Hexes & Hexes is about defeating a growing horde of wizards on a hex-based game field. You do that by using a multitude of different attacks, trying to get a higher and higher score.

I created this game for a university project, where we were restricted to develop a game in C++ with OpenGL. While I think the game is fun, it lacks any deeper progression or general long term replayability. I mainly released it, so it would not rot away on some hard drive.

Gameplay

The core gameplay loop is relatively straight forward. 

Each character is activated in turn, the order for that can be seen on the top.

Once activated, a character needs to execute a specific amount of actions, for the player this is two. All different options can be used for that. Movement also only counts as one Action, regardless of distance.

The different Actions, the player has access to, can be seen on the left side of the screen, spread accross multiple pages. Each action features a description and a cooldown timer. Once an action is selected, a preview of the affected tiles will follow the mouse. The cooldowns are measured in Activations, meaning Characters taking an Action. Some Attacks require line of sight, which will be interrupted by the crystal obstacles. If you see the blue preview, it means you can hit something, if not, then you can't. Lastly enemies will only spawn at the beginning of the players activation, which means if nothing happens after an attack, you might need to move once or attack an empty tile to continue.

Additional Ressources

For more information on the technical implementation, please refer to the GitHub.

The assets I created can be found here.

Credits

Besides my own art and sound I also used:

• Minogram_6x10 as my font.
• Fantasy Choir 1 as my Background Music.

Feedback

Feel free to leave feedback in the comments. While I consider the project finished, and am unlikely to further develop it (because a remake in an engine would be more useful) I might have a surge of motivation and fix something. Otherwise you can always fork the GitHub and do that yourself. I also most likely won't port to other platforms, since debugging that is awful.