Super Hexagon spins onto Steam next week
Super Hexagon is coming to Steam for PC and Mac on Tuesday, November 27, for $3 (with the potential for a discount at launch). That’s the same price as the iOS version that we are extremely fond of, even though it’s “an overwhelming experience – for a few seconds at a time.”
Super Hexagon prides itself on creating a challenge, with death generally a given after seconds of play, rather than minutes or hours – unless, of course, you’re developer Terry Cavanagh, who can calmly complete his own game on the “Hexagonest” mode, in front of a room full of people. Like a wizard.
“I’m sorry this has taken so long,” Cavanagh writes on his Steam announcement. “I appreciate your patience with me! I wanted to launch much sooner than this, but ultimately I just wasn’t happy with the performance of the flash version.” Cavanagh rewrote the entire game in C++, meaning the Steam version runs at a higher resolution than the iOS version, and it’s “fast and silky smooth on every machine I’ve been able to get my hands on – a very important thing for a game like this.”
Super Hexagon on Steam won’t support gamepads at the outset, though Cavanagh hopes to add that after launch, along with a Linux version once Steam Linux goes public. As Cavanagh says, “See you on the leaderboards!”Super Hexagon spins onto Steam next week originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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