roddyrap / hexasweeper

A hex grid version of minesweeper I made. Hosted on Kongregate.

Hexagonal MineSweeper

Link to the game

Controls

Zoom with the scroll wheel or the + and - keys.
Move the board with the arrows or the WASD keys.
Left clicking on tiles reveals whats under them.
Right clicking on tiles sets flags on them.
Middle clicking (clicking on the scroll wheel) on a tile with the same amount of adjacent flags as bombs nearby will reveal all tiles near it that aren't flagged. Including bombs if the adjacent flags were placed incorrectly.

Rules:

The goal of Minesweeper is to uncover all the tiles on a grid that do not contain mines without being "blown up" by clicking on a tile with a mine underneath.
Bombs:

Example of a won game:

The location of most mines is discovered through a logical process, but some require guessing, usually with a 50-50 chance of being correct.

Clicking on a tile will reveal what is hidden underneath it. If a tile has no bombs near it (marked as a tile without a number when revealed) all adjacent tiles to it will also automatically be revealed. This can trigger a chain reaction of empty tiles that are being revealed together. other tiles contain numbers (from 1 to 6), with each number being the number of mines adjacent to the uncovered tile.

To help the player avoid hitting a mine, the location of a suspected mine can be marked by flagging it with the right mouse button.

The game is won once all blank or numbered squares have been uncovered by the player and all mines were flagged.

The game board comes in three set sizes with a predetermined number of mines: "beginner", "intermediate", and "expert".

Note: If you have no access to a proper mouse, clicking on the logo in the screen of the game would allow every button to function like a middle button when clicking on a revealed tile.

hexasweeper's Issues

Getting wanted tile with mouse selection

Currently, I know of no way to match mouse clicks to tile position. If the tiles were rectangular this would not have been a problem but they are so it is.

Simultaneous left and right click to equate to middle click

Some people have asked for it.
I tried to do it, but it didn't go too well and I gave up in the end. I am leaving it here though because who knows what the future will entail.

Canvas at fixed size

Make it so the canvas can adjust its size, and that the ratio will be the thing that's fixed (instead of both).

Make movement slower on higher zoom levels

Currently, movement speed across the board seems to be independent of current zoom level.
The problem is that on high zoom levels, this movement speed is too high.
In addition, any suitable movement speed on high zoom levels would be too slow on low ones.
Therefore, I suggest that movement speed will depend on current zoom level such that the portion of the screen that is moved per unit time is constant.