Personal game library in C.
This repo is built around CMake and reused across multiple targets.
The top-level Makefile contains the most useful commands.
The build system was mostly borrowed from willGuimont/faisceau,
another raylib project reimplementing algorithms.
# Build the Hexatak Classic desktop target in debug mode
make build-debug APP=hexatak_classic
# Run the Hexatak Classic desktop target in release mode
make run-release APP=hexatak_classic
# Build the Hexatak Classic web target
make web-build-app APP=hexatak_classic
# Serve the web build locally (requires python)
make web-serve
# Deploy the web build (gh-pages)
make web-deploy
The game is available here.
This game was submitted to the raylib 6.x gamejam.
Hexatak is a hex-grid puzzle about merging and stacking stones to build a contiguous road between two board edges. You move whole stacks one tile at a time, spread towers across multiple cells, merge matching stone values, and satisfy exact bridge conditions to complete each level within a move limit. To add a bit of challenge, your road must navigate gates that require specific stone values, or height gates that require a specific stack height.
When the jam themes were revealed to be hex + merge, I was completely stumped.
I couldn't think of any idea that felt interesting to make.
At first, I considered making a Zachtronics-style organic chemistry game, where you would build cyclic molecules
like benzene and fuse monomers into polymers, but I just could not find a way to make it fun.
So I started looking at board games I like to see how they might fit the theme.
That led me back to Tak, a game I often played with friends, and for
which I had already designed a 3D-printable board.
I stole the ideas of stacking and spreading stacks, added a few gates to make things a bit more interesting, and
Hexatak was born!
- 18 handcrafted puzzle levels with escalating mechanics
- Stack movement, spreading, and value merges
- Puzzle elements: blocked cells, fixed bridge anchors, value gates, and height gates
- Built-in level editor for testing and authoring new puzzles (I used it to design the puzzles of the game!)
- Some dev tooling only available when building in
debug- Simple solver to verify that levels are solvable (will crash for larger levels if the search space is too large...)
- Partial solving for larger levels (you can mark stones as static to speed up the search)
- Dev buttons to quickly load existing levels
Keyboard:
U: undoY: redoR: reset the current level (you can undo a reset)Esc: return to the menu or leave the editorSpace/Enter: advance dialogs and continue after a cleared level
Mouse:
- Left click a stack, then left click a target cell to move it one step
- Left click and drag from a stack to spread it in a direction
- Right click while a stack is selected to cancel the selection
- Use the on-screen buttons for undo, redo, reset, etc.
- William Guimont-Martin: design, code
- Web build: https://willguimont.com/cgame/hexatak_classic/
- Source repository: https://github.com/willGuimont/cgame
- itch.io Release: https://willguimont.itch.io/hexatak