Hex Strategy Map — Turn-Based Strategy Toolkit for Godot 4.6+

Devlog

• v2.1 — Free-for-all and teams, without breaking two-player
  June 04, 2026 by Dimcairion#godot, #hex-grid, #free-for-all, #multiplayer, #teams, #turn-based-strategy

  v2.1 — Free-for-all and teams After 2.0 I made myself a promise: no more features. I'd only touch the addon for a structural problem or a performance one. The surface area was already big, the 600+... Continue reading
• It's not just for 4X; tactical RPGs, wargames, and hex crawls too
  May 31, 2026 by Dimcairion#godot, #hex-grid, #tactical-rpg, #wargame, #turn-based-strategy, #hexcrawl, #gamedev-tools, #pathfinding, #fog-of-war, #line-of-sight

  It's not just for 4X — tactical RPGs, wargames, and hex crawls too The addon is called Hex Strategy Map because that's the genre I built it for. But a hex grid with elevation-aware LOS, terrain modi... Continue reading
• Hex Strategy Map 2.0 is out
  May 29, 2026 by Dimcairion#release, #godot, #godot-4, #hex-grid, #wargame, #strategy, #turn-base-strategy, #fow, #fog-of-war, #pathfinding

  Hex Strategy Map 2.0.0 — release notes · May 29, 2026 2.0: the renderer had a 13-parameter constructor. That's fixed now — and it's 25% faster because of it. Short version: HexRenderer was doing... Continue reading
• The heuristic was loose — that's why the tiebreak didn't help.
  May 26, 2026 by Dimcairion#gamedev, #godot, #pathfinding, #astar, #hex, #addon, #gdscript, #strategy

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• 1.5 is out: A* that actually beats Dijkstra, fog texture in the strategy demo, and a bigger map to push it.
  May 24, 2026 by Dimcairion#godot, #hex-grid, #pathfinding, #wargame, #turn-based-strategy, #fow, #fog-of-war

  Hex Strategy Map 1.5.1 — release notes · May 24, 2026 1.5 is out: A* that actually beats Dijkstra, fog texture in the strategy demo, and a bigger map to push it. Short version: A* is finally pullin... Continue reading
• What do you mean A* is worse? It was an optimization over Dijkstra...
  May 20, 2026 by Dimcairion#godot, #gamedev, #hex-grid, #pathfinding, #a-star, #dijkstra, #benchmarks, #tutorial, #strategy, #turn-based-strategy

  Promised in the last devlog: numbers. Here they are, and they ate a small piece of my ego on the way out. Short version: I added A* to the addon assuming it would always be faster than Dijkstra. Bench... Continue reading
• v1.4.0; Fog of war that actually scales
  May 18, 2026 by Dimcairion#godot, #plugin, #hexagonal, #strategy, #fog-of-war, #pathfinding, #tactical-rpg, #wargame, #gamedev

  Short version: my fog of war was doing too much work, I rewrote it, and now the addon ships an example that runs fog on a 250×250 grid (62,500 hexes) using three nodes total . Pro tier. The original... Continue reading
• I built a hex strategy toolkit for Godot
  May 16, 2026 by Dimcairion

  I built a hex strategy toolkit for Godot Quick origin story, because the path here was nonlinear enough to be funny. The GDD for the game I'm building started as my final project for a ludic design di... Continue reading