Viva Hexagon! Is a tile-matching versus puzzle game, where you have to match hexagonal cells by controlling a small playable platforming character on the board to pick up and move pieces. Test your wit and reflexes across three highly configurable game modes, either alone, with a friend, or against an artificial intelligence player!

This is only a demo version! A "minimum viable product", if you will. While this game certainly has all of the core features, it lacks a lot of substance, such as a complete lack of a single player campaign mode. If there's enough interest, I will continue development of a full Viva Hexagon! game, but regardless, all of the core ideas and concept are present in this simple first release.

IMPORTANT! 

Not every browser is equal! If you're experience poor performance, controller issues, or visual and audio issues with the game, it's likely due to an incompatible browse. Using Google Chrome is most likely to yield the best results, however, the ideal way to play would be to use the downloadable client for Windows, Linux, or Android

It is EXTREMELY DISCOURAGED to play this game on a mobile device's web browser. You can sure try, but expect massive performance and audio issues.

Note: Enabling supersampling in the options may make the game look much better at the cost of performance

About me and this project.

Hello! Thank you for taking the time to check out my game. It genuinely really means a lot to me. I'm a very small artist, who seldom shares anything they work on, the only stuff I post online is on my Newgrounds. A little over a year ago, I had the idea for this game, and for the first time in my life, I decided to finally put my foot down and work on a larger project. I've been working on this game for the past year, and almost nonstop for the last few months. This game marks a lot of firsts for me. This is my first time animating, my first time working with audio, my first time marketing, my first artificial intelligence, my first video game, but most importantly, this is my first finished project I've ever made. I've learnt so much from this experience, and this project means a lot to me. If I can even manage to have one person enjoy playing my game, it would mean the world to me.

BASIC CONTROLS

FOR BEST EXPERIENCE, USE A GAME CONTROLLER! SUPPORT MAY VARY DEPENDING ON YOUR WEB BROWSER!

Keyboard

• Arrow Keys to move
• Space to jump
• [V] to dash
• Shift to attack, or throw pieces
• [C] to place pieces
• [Z] & [X] to rotate pieces
• Hold both [Z] & [X] to reset position

Controller (Xbox Layout)

• D-pad to move
• (A) to jump
• (Y) to dash
• (B) to attack, or throw pieces
• (X) to place pieces
• (LB) & (RB) to rotate pieces
• Hold both (LB) & (RB) to reset position

Touch Screen

• D-pad to move
• (A) to jump
• (Y) to dash
• (B) to attack, or throw pieces
• (X) to place pieces
• Curved arrows above (ABXY) to rotate pieces
• Hold the (Skull Button) to reset position

Extra Buttons

• [F11] to toggle fullscreen (can also be toggled in options)
• [2] to switch window size between 1920x1080 and 1440x1080 (DOWNLOADABLE CLIENT ONLY)
• [ESC] or (start) to pause

GAME MODES

As mentioned earlier, Viva Hexagon! Features 3 game modes (and Ipulo!)

These include versus mode, which can be played against a friend or an A.I. opponent, solo mode, which can be played by yourself, and battle mode, which can be played against a friend or an A.I. opponent.

There is also a custom game option, which gives you a myriad of options to customize for all 3 game modes, as well as alternate rules such as changing what happens to the opponent when you score matches.

VERSUS MODE

Versus mode is the primary game mode of Viva Hexagon! Compete against an A.I. opponent, or your friend, in order to see who will survive the longest! Creating matches will fill up the "thermometer" next to the opponents board, which will cause complex corrupted pieces to generate for them, making their board trickier to manage, and ultimately leading to their demise. When hexagonal cells are placed above the top, a countdown will start. When the countdown hits 0, you lose.

SOLO MODE

Solo mode is much like versus mode, but is entirely single player! Score a certain amount of points to increase to the next level, which increases both speed and the sizes of falling pieces.

BATTLE MODE

Compete on the same board in battle mode! Kick your opponent to knock them away, and score matches to send "wisps" to the opponent, causing them to take damage. First players who's HP runs out loses. Avoid letting pieces get above the top, or else...

Credits

Huge thanks to my friends Dork Matter and LeviR.star for composing the OST for Viva Hexagon! Feat. Ipulo!!!! Check 'em out on their links below!

Dork Matter https://soundcloud.com/dork-matter

LeviR.star https://www.youtube.com/@levir.starsmusic

and don't for get to check out the OST album on bandcamp!

Viva Hexagon! Feat. Ipulo's source code can be found at it's GitLab repository, as well as be downloaded here on itch.

Enjoying the demo? Please consider leaving a donation! This helps me gauge interest in this project, in hopes of making a full release of the game.

 Game development is hard work, and unfortunately, life is even more work. There's a good chance that I wont be able to continue development on this game, as complications start to arise in my life, I have to focus on the financial security of my future, as opposed to developing a niche gimmicky puzzle game. I promise that if this project gets enough interest, I will develop the full release, and put all donations back into the project.