Checkers for ages 4 and up — no jumping, there's bumping. No ads, no reading.
BumpHex is not on the store yet. It is finished and it is in review. When it lands, the button appears here — and the playtest list hears about it first.
Join the playtest listBumpHex is checkers for young children, from age four up. There is no jumping. There is bumping.
Move one piece to any hex touching it — forwards, sideways, backwards, it is all the same move. Every enemy piece standing next to where you landed gets shoved one hex directly away from you. Shove somebody off the edge of the board and they are out. Shove them into another piece and both of them go.
That is the whole game. A four-year-old can play it with you on the little boards; a five-year-old plays it alone, and a six-year-old starts playing it to win.
The first time BumpHex opens, it teaches itself. A hand moves from a piece to a hex, the hex glows, the thing happens, and a tick appears. Six lessons, one rule each, no words that have to be read and no way to fail — a wrong tap simply shows the hand again.
Every army wears the crest of one of the six factions of the Haunted Space Hotel, stamped on every piece — its own emblem as well as its own colour — so the board still reads on a cheap screen, and to a grown-up who is colour-blind.
Every seat picks its own faction and can be a person or the tablet. One child against the device, or six people passing one screen round the table. No accounts, no network, nothing to set up.
Race Home, where you run your army to the far side. Knock Out, where you are the last one standing. And Crowns, where reaching the far rank crowns a piece.
The game saves itself after every turn. Nobody has to remember to press anything, and wandering off in the middle never costs you the board.
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