I remember using this article to create this dumb game! https://andrewbelt.name/hexgame/ Hexagons have a lot of neat geometrical properties like their tight packing and symmetry, yet their ability to be indexed easily with two coordinates.
I made a Tiled library for Monkey X supporting hexes with the help of this article.
Fun game and hilarious homepage!
That's incredibly fun. Have you considered making an Android/iPhone version?
No, but I probably should. Maybe I'll use a cheap web view app bundler so I don't have to port the code. I don't know much about that field.
Check out Influence by Teremok Games on Android. Nicely done hex-based strategy game, and one of the best Android games I've played period.
What a fun game! Thank you!
Wow. I need to close that right away :) (yeah, I work on Sundays, OK?)
This is amazing! Thanks
this game should exist on Android/iPhone
Well, that occupied way more time than I'd intended! Thanks!
And man it gets hard on maps where there's only one hex between regions. Long protracted battles. Like real life, I suppose.
What's nice about hex grids is it's actually easy to implement as a regular 2D array by just using simple "if odd add 1" type math to traversing/displaying. This article was immensely helpful to me finally wrapping my head around their implementation.