Developer Terry Cavanagh (known for gravity-flipping platformer VVVVVV) said he feels like this is the game his previous action titles have "been heading towards all along." The entire playfield is constantly rotating around the central point, changing speed and direction periodically, while the encroaching walls and central polygon change color and pulse to the beat of a driving techno soundtrack. It's an incredibly basic concept that's given extra life by some incredibly trippy presentation. The goal is to survive as long as possible but, like the greatest arcade games of old, each session always ends with failure and a "Game Over" screen. At its most basic, I suppose, you're just rotating a small triangle around a central hexagon to avoid segmented walls that are constantly encroaching from the edges of the screen. The written word seems particularly unsuited to describe what playing Super Hexagon is like. As I'm writing this, my brain has been temporarily rewired by playing a half hour or so of Super Hexagon, one of the most maddeningly addictive iOS gaming experiences I've ever played. As I type this, my brain is semi-consciously calling attention to the gaps between the letters and words in front of me and mapping out the most efficient path to navigate through them. You haven’t earned it.As I write this, it's taking all my willpower to tell myself the letters I'm typing aren't pulsing and rotating and changing colors as they appear on the screen. “A video of the end of Super Hexagon now exists,” Cavanagh told his fans on Twitter Friday. He just released it so he could have the pleasure of ruling us and sponging up our worship,” Killingsworth says. Only 19 of its roughly 50,000 owners, he says, have seen the game’s ending screens by lasting longer than a minute during its breakneck final level - on which Cavanagh still holds the high score. Even if he’s not the best at everything, Cavanagh still delights in having created a brutally difficult game.
If he regains his top spot in all the leaderboards, it’ll be fair and square, he says.Ĭavanagh congratulated Killingsworth over Twitter when he posted proof of his new high score.
#Super hexagon markiplier update#
He promises that he won’t ever update the game at all - not to make it easier, not even to add new content. If he’s upset with the leaderboards, he could just tweak the game. The video footage that he records of his gameplay videos often elicits incredulous reactions from other players.īut Cavanagh isn’t just a player, he’s the game master. Other than Cavanagh himself, he’s the only player to take a spot in the top five on every difficulty. gaming magazine Edge, is one of only two people in the world to best Cavanagh on the Super Hexagon leaderboards. He’s even gotten every achievement in Spelunky, which for most players is borderline impossible.Īnd he’s dumped at least 40 hours into Super Hexagon. Finishing every single track in the hair-pullingly hard Trials: Evolution without a single fault took Killingsworth over 100 hours, but he plowed through. Most players never dream of conquering every challenge that the insanely difficult indie platform game Super Meat Boy has to offer, but Killingsworth has done it. “I want to spend my gaming hours breaking crazy-eyed, bucking stallions.” “Most games these days feel like cow-tipping - the only requirement to succeed is to possess at least one working arm,” he says. “I have near-crippling levels of perfectionism,” Killingsworth says, and a penchant for exquisite challenges. “I should sort that out later tonight,” Cavanagh says - with a chuckle, but I know that he’s dead serious. (My top score, by way of comparison, is 11.45 seconds.)
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