I think the cool thing about this progression is that I’m not expanding the concept – the concept is actually getting simpler, purer. I’ve made a bunch of small things along these lines in the past – the main ones being Self Destruct, Bullet Time, and the Super Gravitron mini game for VVVVVV. I love working on them, because they feel like they come much more intuitively to me than anything else I make. That is, these super fast, random, chaotic experiences that I often end up making at game jams. I basically see Super Hexagon as the culmination of a particular approach I often taken when making action games,” he explained. But while it may on the surface appear to be a more basic release than Cavanagh’s past successes, he describes it as the game his whole career has been leading towards.

A typical play session can last as little as three seconds. On the face of it the game is very simple.

People often confuse it with inaccessibility, but it doesn’t have to be that way – a difficult game can be very accessible, like Super Hexagon is.” The only ‘devious’ pleasure I got from this game is the same one I hope everyone who plays it feels the feeling of satisfaction when things start to click, when the timing and the wave progressions start to feel right, when you get into it and the game becomes second nature.Īlso, I think challenge gets a bad rap. There’s a particular idea that comes up again and again when people talk about hard games that I don’t think really applies to anything I make – the idea is ‘Why does this game hate me so much?’,” he told MCV. Which is part of the title’s brilliance, of course.īut creator Terry Cavanagh, famed for cult indie hits such as VVVVVV, At a Distance and Don’t Look Back, insists that Super Hexagon is not designed to punish the player.

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