Welcome to Hextris 0.1! Like Tetris, Hextris is a game where the player stacks falling shapes into a playing area. The difference is that Hextris uses hexagonal, instead of square, blocks to compose the falling pieces. This is a beta version, if even that. Perhaps more of an alpha. The game play should be very stable, though, so that's why I am making it available. Some features remaining to be implemented: (1) Add sound (2) Add high scores mechanism (3) Add Help panel, documentation (4) Clean up drawing behavior Any comments and suggestions about the game are welcome. A release with full source code will be provided once the game is in a more complete state. This will be a GameKit example. This game is freeware. Of course, that also means you get no support. If you don't like it, don't play it. If you do like it and want to send me money to show your appreciation, that is certainly welcome but by no means required. Any money that is sent on behalf of Hextris will be used to support further development of the game. I'll keep tweaking it anyway, but if people like it enough to support the development, the tweaks will happen sooner than later. I'm using this policy with other games I'll be releasing in the future to determine which are the most popular--and use that to prioritize the order in which they get time slices from me. So if you really, really like a particular game, let me know! :-) This game is (c) 1993-1998 Don Yacktman. --- Later, -Don Yacktman 4279 N. Ivy Lane Provo, UT, 84604 (801)221-0344 don@misckit.com don@iserver.com My home page From the original Hextris README: /* * hextris Copyright 1990 David Markley, dm3e@+andrew.cmu.edu, dam@cs.cmu.edu * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute, this software and its * documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that * the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting * documentation, and that the name of the copyright holders be used in * advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software with * specific, written prior permission, and that no fee is charged for further * distribution of this software, or any modifications thereof. The copyright * holder make no representations about the suitability of this software for * any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. * * THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, * INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO * EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR * CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, * DATA, PROFITS, QPA OR GPA, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE * OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR * PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. */