ghextris(6)

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💖 ghextris — the Games Manual glow-up ✨

okay bestie, welcome to ghextris(6) 🎀 — yes that's the manual section, section 6 is games, we love a category 💅

🌈 NAME 🌈

ghextris — Hextris game for GNOME 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ghextris

that's it. that's the whole thing. no flags, no args, no drama. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so ghextris is a Python/GNOME reimplementation of the semi-free Xhextris by David Markley 🌸 and the whole vibe is basically Tetris but make it hexagons.

the object of the game is lowkey the same as in Tetris: you take the pieces that fall down from the top of the game area and use them to construct fully filled lines, which then disappear to make room for more pieces 💫

but here's the twist — as first introduced by Markley — the pieces are composed of hexagonal blocks, so your visualization skills will get an extra workout 🧠💪 no cap, it's giving geometry class but fun.

🎮 RULES 🎮

  • you can move pieces left and right with the respective arrow keys ⬅️➡️
  • you can rotate them with the up and down arrow keys ⬆️⬇️
  • if you're satisfied with where a piece is going, drop it by pressing the space bar 🫶
  • fully formed lines will disappear from the playing field ✨ poof, gone, ate
  • the game will end when the pile of pieces reaches the top of the game area 💀 so like, don't let it do that

💯 Score 💯

okay the scoring math, listen up:

  • you get 1 point for every line that you drop a piece 🍓
  • you get 100, 200, 400 or 800 points for 1, 2, 3 or 4 simultaneously destroyed lines, respectively 🔥

so yeah, stack em up and clear a bunch at once, that's the main character move 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Mikko Rauhala <mjr@iki.fi> 💜

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 🌈

this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 🙈

ngl bestie, that warranty disclaimer is doing a lot of heavy lifting, read it fr fr

and that's the whole page, we're done here 💅 this was ghextris(6) from X Version 11, dated May 20, 2004 — yeah she's an elder but she's still slaying, periodt ✨🦋🎀

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