REAXXION

Ataxx on a hex board, in 3D. Grow your colony, swallow the pieces next to you, and watch the AI think out loud.

Playable
[ 01 ]BriefGame Dev
A board game, grown inside the site itself.

Reaxxion is Ataxx on a hex grid. Play a five-level AI, or a friend on the same device. Every piece is a living blob of liquid that absorbs whatever it captures, and while the AI thinks, it shows you the moves it is weighing. It runs in the same WebGPU canvas as the rest of this site: no iframe, no separate game engine.

[ 02 ]Build Log10 Phases
  • P1Hex grid and a board drawn in a single pass
  • P2Liquid creature shader
  • P3Five-level AI that thinks off the main thread
  • P4Hand-off from this page into the live game
  • P5Win states, scoring and match replay
  • P6A faster search engine for the AI
  • P7Captures: the colour takeover and reaching arms
  • P8Idle life: creatures drift, fidget and react
  • P9Synthesised sound and the end-of-game flood
  • P10Named boards, keyboard play and an assist mode
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[ 03 ]Stack
WebGPUThree.jsR3FTSL ShadersWeb WorkersTypeScript
[ 04 ]Inputs
DRAGOrbit camera
PINCHZoom (touch)
CLICK / TAPSelect tile / move
SCROLLZoom (desktop)
ARROWSMove cursor
ENTERSelect / move
ESCDeselect / cancel
HHint
UUndo
NNew game
RRematch
TToggle assist
VReset view
MToggle sound
[ 05 ]TelemetryLive
Rendersampling…
Board55 hex cells · 51 playable
Roster8 named arenas
AI5 tiers · worker thread
CreaturesMetaball bodies · per-vertex colour

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