
Welcome to Hextris 0.11!

Like Tetris, Hextris is a game where the player stacks falling shapes
into a playing area.  The difference is that Hextris uses hexagonal,
instead of square, blocks to compose the falling pieces.

This is a beta version, if even that.  Perhaps more of an alpha.
The game play should be very stable, though, so that's why I am
making it available.  Some features remaining to be implemented:

(1)  Add sound

(2)  Add high scores mechanism

(3)  Add Help panel, documentation

(4)  Clean up drawing behavior

Any comments and suggestions about the game are welcome.  A release
with full source code will be provided once the game is in a more
complete state.  This will be a GameKit example.

This game is freeware.  Of course, that also means you get no
support.  If you don't like it, don't play it.  If you do like
it and want to send me money to show your appreciation, that is
certainly welcome but by no means required.  Any money that is
sent on behalf of Hextris will be used to support further
development of the game.  I'll keep tweaking it anyway, but if
people like it enough to support the development, the tweaks
will happen sooner than later.  I'm using this policy with other
games I'll be releasing in the future to determine which are
the most popular--and use that to prioritize the order in which
they get time slices from me.  So if you really, really like
a particular game, let me know!  :-)

This game is (c) 1993-1999 Don Yacktman.

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Later,

-Don Yacktman
4279 N. Ivy Lane
Provo, UT, 84604
(801)221-0344
don@misckit.com
don@iserver.com
<a href="http://www.misckit.com/don.html">My home page</a>



From the original Hextris README:

/*
 * hextris Copyright 1990 David Markley, dm3e@+andrew.cmu.edu, dam@cs.cmu.edu
 *
 * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute, this software and its
 * documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
 * the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
 * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
 * documentation, and that the name of the copyright holders be used in
 * advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software with
 * specific, written prior permission, and that no fee is charged for further
 * distribution of this software, or any modifications thereof.  The copyright
 * holder make no representations about the suitability of this software for
 * any purpose.  It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
 *
 * THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
 * INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
 * EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR
 * CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE,
 * DATA, PROFITS, QPA OR GPA, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE 
 * OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
 * PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 */
