Simple Hex
This two-player connection game, SimpleHex, offers easy-to-learn gameplay with challenging strategic depth. Players choose red or blue and take turns coloring empty cells on the board. The objective is to create a connected path of your colored cells linking opposite sides of the board. The first to complete their connection wins.
The game features "Play with AI," "Play with Friend," and "Pass & Play" modes. The AI offers three difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard) and can play first or second. "Play with Friend" allows for multiplayer games across different devices, while "Pass & Play" enables local multiplayer. An undo button lets you retract moves (currently unavailable in AI mode).
To balance the inherent first-player advantage in Hex, a "Steal Move" option lets the second player swap places with the first player after the first move. This forces the first player to avoid moves that guarantee a win (also unavailable in AI mode). Three board sizes (7x7, 9x9, and 11x11) provide escalating challenges.
Learn more about Hex at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_(board_game)
Special thanks to interns Saatvik Inampudi and Shoheb Shaik for performance improvements to the AI algorithm. The current AI uses a "stable" unbounded best-first minimax game technique. For more details, contact me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsvemuri/
What's New in Version 0.45 (Last updated Dec 18, 2024):
The easy difficulty level has been adjusted to be genuinely easy, and the medium level is now slightly easier.
Simple Hex
This two-player connection game, SimpleHex, offers easy-to-learn gameplay with challenging strategic depth. Players choose red or blue and take turns coloring empty cells on the board. The objective is to create a connected path of your colored cells linking opposite sides of the board. The first to complete their connection wins.
The game features "Play with AI," "Play with Friend," and "Pass & Play" modes. The AI offers three difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard) and can play first or second. "Play with Friend" allows for multiplayer games across different devices, while "Pass & Play" enables local multiplayer. An undo button lets you retract moves (currently unavailable in AI mode).
To balance the inherent first-player advantage in Hex, a "Steal Move" option lets the second player swap places with the first player after the first move. This forces the first player to avoid moves that guarantee a win (also unavailable in AI mode). Three board sizes (7x7, 9x9, and 11x11) provide escalating challenges.
Learn more about Hex at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_(board_game)
Special thanks to interns Saatvik Inampudi and Shoheb Shaik for performance improvements to the AI algorithm. The current AI uses a "stable" unbounded best-first minimax game technique. For more details, contact me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsvemuri/
What's New in Version 0.45 (Last updated Dec 18, 2024):
The easy difficulty level has been adjusted to be genuinely easy, and the medium level is now slightly easier.
