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 is to 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 features three difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard), and the AI can play first or second. "Play with Friends" allows multiplayer gameplay using separate devices, while "Pass & Play" enables local multiplayer on a single device.
Simple Hex is deceptively challenging. 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, preventing guaranteed wins. This feature is also not available in AI mode.
Three board sizes (7x7, 9x9, 11x11) provide a gradual increase in complexity. Learn more about the game of Hex at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_(board_game)
We acknowledge the contributions of interns Saatvik Inampudi and Shoheb Shaik for their work on performance improvements to the AI algorithm in the first version. The current AI uses a "stable" unbounded best-first minimax game technique. For more details, connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsvemuri/
What's New in Version 0.45 (Last updated December 18, 2024):
The easy AI level has been made genuinely easy, and the medium level has been slightly simplified.
