Hextension (aka HexConnex)

An HTML and JavaScript-based single-player puzzle/strategy game to play in the browser.

Play it and leave feedback on Itch.io or raise an issue.

Purpose

This repo is non-commercial and is provided as-is for no other purpose than entertainment, education and curiosity. Fork it, play with it, inspect it, but don't do anything that depends on it.

Technologies used

Frontend

• MooTools 1.6 - the jQuery alternative (includes modules from MooTools More - most notably Draggable)

Backend

• Node.js
• Express.js - serves the highscores API
• node-persist - a lightweight data-store for the highscores

Installing

Easy way (frontend only)

Running the game with its backend server is not mandatory. In fact you can run the frontend in standalone mode, by editing static/js/game.js:

var standalone = true;

This disables the AJAX communications between game.js and localhost.

Then, just visit static/index.html in your web browser.

Convoluted way (frontend + backend)

Node.js is required.

npm install

then

node server.js

then visit localhost:3000 in your browser.

Project status

More or less completed, one or two issues outstanding, these may be addressed with time.

Contributing

This project is not looking for contributions.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Acknowledgments

• Idea - Spear's Games, 1983