Simple Hex: A Two-Player Connection Game
Simple Hex is a captivating two-player connection game with straightforward rules, making it easy to learn. Players choose red or blue and take turns coloring empty cells on the board. The objective? Create a connected path of your colored cells linking opposite sides of the board. The first player to complete this connection wins.
The game offers three modes: Play with AI, Play with Friends, and Pass & Play. The AI mode provides three difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard), with the AI playing as either the first or second player. Alternatively, "Play with Friends" allows multiplayer gameplay using separate devices, while "Pass & Play" enables local multiplayer on a single device.
While simple to learn, Simple Hex presents a challenging strategic depth. An undo button lets you reverse your last move(s) – currently unavailable in AI mode.
To balance the inherent first-player advantage, a "Steal Move" option allows the second player to switch places with the first player after the first move. This forces the first player to make a move that doesn't guarantee victory (also unavailable in AI mode).
Three board sizes (7x7, 9x9, 11x11) offer progressively more complex gameplay.
Learn more about Hex at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_(board_game)
Special thanks to interns Saatvik Inampudi and Shoheb Shaik for their contributions to AI performance improvements in the first version. The current AI uses a "stable" unbounded best-first minimax game technique. Contact me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsvemuri/ to learn more.
What's New in Version 0.45 (Last updated Dec 18, 2024):
- The easy AI difficulty has been adjusted to be genuinely easy, and the medium difficulty has been made slightly easier.
