Hexagonl Map Grids for War Game Developers

Hello…

I have been researching the use of hexagonal map grids for the development of strategy\wargames for quite a while.

So far I have used Monogame quite successfully to build the initial infrastructure for my own hex-map engine. It took a lot of work, tinkering, and research.

To give a little of my efforts back to the community you may find the following papers for download and\or reading at the following links…

A PDF version of Amit’s writings of hexagonal grids (Red Blob Games), which I created from his major articles he has posted on his own site. I created the PDF for those like myself who would like to be able to print the information out to read it in a more leisurely manner…

Download the PDF here…

Next up is my own paper that I wrote and which has been published on several sites. This paper describes in detail how I went about developing this first part of my game engine and includes source code throughout the paper.

Download the PDF here…

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