Simple Hex

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 game 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 gameplay modes: Play with AI, Play with Friend, and Pass & Play. The AI mode features three difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard), with the AI able to play first or second. "Play with Friend" allows for multiplayer games using separate devices, while "Pass & Play" enables local multiplayer on a single device.

Simple Hex is deceptively challenging. While easy to pick up, mastering the game requires skill and strategy. An undo button lets you reverse your last move(s) – though this feature isn't yet available in AI mode.

To balance the inherent first-player advantage in Hex, a "Steal Move" option allows the second player to switch places with the first player after the first move is made. This forces the first player to consider moves that don't guarantee a win. This option is also unavailable in AI mode.

Three board sizes (7x7, 9x9, and 11x11) provide a gradual increase in complexity, allowing players to progress to longer, more strategic games.

Learn more about the game of Hex at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_(board_game)

Special thanks to interns Saatvik Inampudi and Shoheb Shaik for their work on performance improvements to the AI algorithm in the first version. The current AI utilizes a "stable" unbounded best-first minimax game technique. For more information, connect with me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsvemuri/

What's New in Version 0.45 (Last updated December 18, 2024):

• The easy AI difficulty level has been adjusted to be genuinely easy, and the medium level has been made slightly easier.

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