Hexfray in 2021

ondrej · January 9, 2021, 9:20pm

Hello Hexfray players!

(At least) for Hexfray, 2020 was a good year. The game is now fun to play on variety of maps and the overall experience isn’t rough anymore (remember entering map id manually?). With this foundation it’s time to build a community of players to truly enjoy the game with the multitude of strategies, approaches and ideas they bring – in 2021, the main focus for Hexfray will be to build a thriving player base.

As far as features go we’re likely to see:

Invite by email (Friend invitation)
In-game chat (but visit us on Discord!)
Player profiles
Income hexes
Some form of in-game healing

There’s a lot of planned improvements besides this list and as always I am very happy to receive suggestions!

ondrej · January 9, 2021, 9:09pm

ondrej · January 17, 2021, 8:39pm

Decreased penalty for SUV to move over bases, forest, swamp, and mountains by 1 (to 1, 6, 6, 8 respectively).
Fixed/improved the parameters page to show movement penalty over bases for each unit.
Also rewrote the penalty function to allow different cost depending on base colour in the future.

ondrej · March 14, 2021, 6:31pm

Fixed map preview generator.

ondrej · August 14, 2021, 4:45pm

Fixed an occasionally observed, long term, (formerly) mysterious bug that would sometimes break the whole game server.

(Technical details: Quite a funny story where an occasional auto-update sometimes installs a new PostgreSQL version, causing the database to restart and the game to lose connection but not restart (and thus (not) acquire a new db connection – admittedly it’s not the most resilient code!)).