Philip Muwanga’s Hexy Trench X360 game

Summary

Mischievous Monkey Studios proudly announces the release of Philip Muwanga's Hexy Trench on XNA Community Games. Hexy trench (Hexy) is a multiplayer focused, tile placing, take on trench warfare. Combining intense strategy and puzzle elements together to create a unique gameplay experience. Players start with a single HQ tile and vie for control of a hexagonal based grid by placing randomly allocated trench tiles to form a trench system, before building offensives and defensive structures to wage war on their enemies and claim victory.

Gameplay Overview

Battle is waged between 2 to 4 human or A.I players over a hexagonal grid. Each player starts with a HQ tile and can spend supplies to build a trench system by placing randomly allocated trench tiles to form a trench system. Players try to connect to outposts scattered over each map, as each outpost connected to their HQ will increase the rate at which player generates supplies.

Players can also spend supplies on offensive and defensive structures to fortify their trenches. They can build bunkers to launch assaults and machines-guns defend their trenches. Bunkers will spawn troops, known as Grunts, at regulate intervals. These Grunts will move forward in a straight line based on bunkers rotation. They will fearlessly charge onwards until they are killed, hit enemy trenches, or leave the map. If Grunts manage to get to enemy trench tile they will destroy it, while if enough Grunts manage to get to an enemy controlled outpost they will capture it for that players team. Machine-guns can be placed on trenches to counter enemy Grunts and will shoot any Grunts that are in range, protecting the trenches that are placed on. However machine-guns have a limited field of fire, so players need to be careful with their placement.

To get passed machine-guns players can build artillery, and use it to batter the enemy into submission. Once built, artillery will charge up and can be fired at any point on the map. Any trenches caught in the blast will be suppressed, temporarily disabling any structures on the tile. This is very useful against machine-guns as it will allow Grunts to get to the enemy trenches unmolested and destroy them. However artillery is wildly inaccurate so additional pieces of artillery can by built to increase the effectiveness of each barrage and guaranty hitting the target location.

In order to stop stalemates from happening devastation special weapons will drop on to the battlefield in the form of supply crates. These crates are collected by connect trenches to their location. They will then travel back through the player trenches to their HQ. Once a crate reaches a players HQ it will grant the player one of four special weapons ( Attack Helicopters, Air strikes, Orbital Lasers and Nukes) that can be used to tip the balance of the battle in the player's favour or to break deadlocks.

Each match of 'hexy' is a battle to the death with the last player standing wining. Players are knocked out of the game if enough enemy grunts manage to get to their HQ tile. Each time a the base its attacked the player will lose a life. Once three live are lost that player is defeated and their base self-destructs in a nuclear explosion.

Features

• Intense, trench building, action for 1-4 players.
• Play through 15 different missions of the single player campaign.
• Place 'Bunkers', 'Machine-guns' and 'Artillery' to fortify your trenches.
• Collect and unleash devastating special weapons to turn the tide of battle, including 'Air strikes', 'Orbital Lasers' and 'Nukes'.
• Play multi-player matches locally on the same screen or over Xbox Live.
• Set-up and play through custom leagues or tournaments against human or A.I. Players.
• Play against 5 levels of A.I difficulty, from 'Super Easy' to the 'Extreme'.
• Use the built in 'Map Editor' to create and share new maps.
• Create new custom game-types with the 'Gameplay Editor', by changing the games rules.
• Try and beat the high scores in the bonus dual stick shooter: 'Grunt Assault'.