u/Yannis_15

Salut,

Je bosse depuis quelques mois sur un truc tout bête : on te montre deux jeux côte à côte, tu cliques sur celui que tu préfères, et c'est tout. Pas de note sur 10, pas de compte obligatoire. Derrière, chaque vote fait bouger un score ELO (le système des échecs), et de tous ces duels sort un classement mondial.

L'idée de départ, c'est que je trouve les notes sur 20 assez peu parlantes. Dire "ce jeu vaut 17" ne veut pas dire grand chose, alors que "entre ces deux là je préfère celui de gauche" c'est un truc sur lequel tout le monde a un avis en une seconde. Environ 27 000 jeux en base, dont un pool d'à peu près 5 000 qui passent en duel.

C'est là si vous voulez regarder : https://www.gameforever.app/fr/

Ce sur quoi j'aimerais vraiment votre avis :

- Est ce que le duel est un format qui vous parle, ou vous trouvez ça trop réducteur face à une vraie critique ?

- Comment comparer honnêtement un jeu de 1994 et un de 2024 ? J'ai le sentiment que la nostalgie fausse tout, mais je ne sais pas si c'est un problème à corriger ou juste le résultat assumé d'un vote populaire.

- Il manque un truc évident que vous iriez chercher en arrivant sur ce genre de site ?

Je prends aussi les critiques sèches, c'est pour ça que je poste 👍

Hey everyone,

We just shipped update 1.2.3 for HexaGalaxy, our free browser-based space strategy game. The headline feature is a full experience and leveling system that ties into things you already do in the game.

What's new:

- **Earn XP from gameplay**: winning battles, colonizing planets (neutral or enemy), completing expeditions, and finishing daily/weekly/alliance quests all grant experience. Expedition rewards scale with rarity and risk.

- **Levels up to 50**: each level permanently buffs your empire with passive bonuses to Quantium yield and Fuel regeneration (up to roughly +20% and +15% at max level), and every level-up instantly pays out a Quantium and Fuel reward.

- **Per-universe progression**: your level and XP are tracked separately in each universe, so starting fresh elsewhere means building a new legacy without losing your existing ones.

- **Visible everywhere**: a level badge on your avatar, a real-time XP bar, your commander card, and the leaderboard all show your progress.

- **XP shown before and after**: potential rewards appear on the attack panel, expeditions, and quest cards beforehand, and the actual XP gained shows up in combat results and expedition history afterwards.

- **Level-up feedback**: an on-screen message plus a dedicated sound when you hit a new level.

This release also includes various bug fixes and performance optimizations.

Feedback is very welcome. You can play here: https://hexagalaxy.com

Hey everyone, just pushed update 1.2.2 for HexaGalaxy, my free browser-based multiplayer space strategy game. The headline feature this time is a proper combat history:

- **New Combat tab** in the Empire window: a complete log of every battle you've been in, as attacker or target.

- Each entry shows the outcome (win/loss from your point of view), the opponent, the target type (ship or planet with coordinates), the power ratio with a gauge and matching win chance, and the date.

- **Summary banner** with totals for victories, defeats, planets conquered and planets lost, plus filters for All / Victories / Defeats.

- On planet battles, a button jumps you straight to that planet on the map.

- The history loads progressively as you scroll, instead of all at once.

Other changes:

- The Empire window now reopens on the last tab you were on (planets, ship or combat).

- Planet notifications (lost, conquered, defended) are now clickable and center the map on the planet.

- Cleaned up the notification center: quest-completion alerts no longer pile up as duplicates, since you already get a real-time message and a "rewards to claim" badge.

- Various bug fixes and performance optimizations.

Feedback always welcome.

You can play here: https://www.hexagalaxy.com

Hey everyone, just shipped update 1.2.1 for HexaGalaxy (free browser-based 4X space strategy). Three meaningful changes this patch:

Territorial borders on the star map

Every colonized planet now projects a visible influence zone, color-coded by diplomatic status:

- Purple: your planets

- Blue: your alliance

- Green: peace partners

- Red: enemies (war or alliance-targeted)

- Grey: neutral

Zones from the same side auto-merge into solid blocks, and enemy enclaves inside friendly territory stay distinctly visible (the closest hexagons go to the closest planet, no overlap fights). The influence radius scales with the planet's Quantium yield (1 to 5 hexagons), and legendary planets get a fixed 7-hex aura. Borders update in real time on conquest, peace, war declarations, alliance changes and infrastructure builds.

Ranking system, fully rebuilt

The global score used to be a flat aggregate of a few indicators. It now combines five distinct factors:

- Military power (warships + planetary defenses + planet intrinsic power)

- Economic infrastructure value (extractors, refineries, research labs, levels included)

- Number of colonized planets (heavily weighted)

- Combat victories (both offensive AND defensive - repelling an assault counts)

- Successful expeditions

Four separate leaderboards are now available: Global, Quantium, Power, Planets. Alliance ranking uses the same formula, summed across all members.

Unread badge on global chat

Global chat finally has an unread counter, like alliance chat. Shows on the tab, on the collapsed minichat, and aggregated in the social menu badge. Server-side persistence so it survives reconnects. Your own messages don't count.

Also some backend optimization on ranking queries (single RANK() pass instead of two), which should help on the bigger servers.

Play here: https://www.hexagalaxy.com

Hey folks,

Solo dev here. Just pushed v1.2.0 of [HexaGalaxy](https://www.hexagalaxy.com/), a free multiplayer space strategy game that runs in your browser. This one took a while because I basically rebuilt the entire planetary system from scratch.

Quick rundown of what changed.

Infrastructures

The old system only had Quantium Extractors, which made planets feel pretty flat. Now there are three buildings:

- Quantium Extractor (up to 5 per planet), now part of the unified slot system

- Quantium Refinery (new), boosts planet yield up to +20%

- Research Lab (new), cuts defense costs by up to -30%

Defenses got a big cleanup

The 5 old defenses were mostly the same thing with different numbers. They're now 3 types, and each actually does something different:

- Orbital Batteries deal pure damage, and they still chip the attacker even on a winning fight

- Shield Generators push defensive power up to +25%

- Mine Fields drag attacker power down by up to -25%

At max level with everything stacked, an attacker needs about +67% raw power just to hit a 50/50 against a fully fortified planet. Which feels about right for a serious fortress.

Construction queues

This is probably the biggest QoL change.

- No more instant purchases, everything goes through a real-time queue

- Each planet has its own queue (10 slots) for infrastructures and defenses

- Warships have a separate production queue

- Bulk orders deliver units one by one so you can react mid-build

- It keeps running while you're offline

- Full refund if you cancel

UI cleanup (desktop + mobile)

The interface had been accumulating rough edges for a while, so I took the time to clean it up. Panels are better organized on desktop, and mobile navigation was reworked so you can actually play with one hand without misclicking everything. Not glamorous to describe, but it makes a real difference when you play.

Other stuff

- Combat formula adjusted to make room for the new defense effects

- Neutral planet generation tuned for the new system

- Starting equipment was buffed too (15 Batteries + 1 Extractor per planet), otherwise newcomers got stomped

- Usual perf pass and bug fixes

Happy to answer questions in the comments. Would genuinely love feedback if you give it a spin.

https://www.hexagalaxy.com/