HexWorld
A downloadable game
Latest version released = v0.1.5 => 27th July 2023
What is HexWorld?
HexWorld is a Tower defence-like game where you begin with 1 tile and a dream, expanding your way out by making homes for your fellow goblins, by building homes and claiming resource tiles on the map.
However, the world is full many hostile goblins who don't seek to live peacefully. Your days are numbered, but you get to decide for how long.
Techy stuff
This is a demo/prototype for fast paced turn-based game where I would try my first top-down 2.5d game. The hexes are programmatically created and the maps read a CSV file to assign land/water types and resources to them.
The pathfinding for enemy NPC uses A*, and the algorithm used to find possible movements for your own units is breadth-first-search.
I would be extremely grateful for any feedback you may have, good or bad, as I only want to improve this game and expand it if people like it overall :)
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Two broken things: If you click on a unit with bad timing while the game's thinking about something else you can get the unit selection out of sync with itself, such that when you click on the unit it toggles between showing the unit's movement but saying nothing is selected, and showing no movement but saying 'unit' is selected. In neither state will the unit move. Also, purchasing new units is multiply broken. After purchasing the first unit, an image of the unit is frozen onto that square for all time. You can move the unit away, but an image will always remain on the tower square. Also, purchasing a unit does not seem to actually remove gold from your purse. Between those two things, it would be really hard to know whether you had clicked the button, except for the third way purchasing units is broken: Once you click that button, nothing else works except the end turn button.
Hey altruismhelps, thanks so much for playing and testing the game. I wasnt aware of these issues previously so your comment is a huge help for me, I'll take a look and fix this asap!
NP I understand the price of free entertainment is constructive feedback ~~