NEXT HEXAGON - ZX Spectrum Next 2026 Homebrew game! - DVDfeverGames

NEXT HEXAGON - ZX Spectrum Next 2026 Homebrew game! - DVDfeverGames Next Hexagon comes from Shrek128. DVDfeverGames brings you the Best Quality ZX Spectrum gameplay around! Next Hexagon Gameplay Walkthrough PS5 Xbox Series X PC No Commentary 2160p 60fps HD let's play playthrough review guide FREE ways to support this channel 😉 👍🏼 Liking the video 📺 Playing the video for the entire duration 💬 Leaving a comment (polite, please!) 👯‍♀️ Sharing this video with your friends on social media 🔔 Subscribe to this channel, and hit the bell icon Buy me a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/dvdfever Also, you can HYPE the video for FREE! 1. Swipe left on the comment preview carousel until the option to hype the video surfaces, or tap like, and the carousel will change to show the option to hype. 2. Tap Hype 3. On the card, select the number of points that you would like to send. YouTube automatically updates the number of points that your hype is worth based on the creator's subscriber count. 4. Hype at no cost: Select the number of points and then Hype! Opinion: Clever, but frustrating! Description from creator: A frantic one-button reflex game for ZX Spectrum Next. Stay alive in the rotating hexagonal maze, dodge incoming wave-rings synced to PT3 chiptune music, and push the global leaderboard from a real Spectrum over Wi-Fi. "Strongly inspired by Micro Hexagon for the Commodore 64 — re-imagined for the Next with full Layer 2 graphics, a rotating bitmap background, beat-synced visuals and online high scores uploaded directly from your Spectrum." WHAT IT IS You are the small triangle orbiting the center hexagon. The whole world rotates around you. Concentric rings of pulses close in from outside — each ring has one or more safe gaps. Rotate yourself into a gap, survive, repeat. The game speeds up, switches direction, doubles up the rings, and eventually fires three at once with single-gap nightmare patterns. How long can you last? Nine difficulty phases, two game modes, and a single life. That's the whole loop. FEATURES: Two hardware variants in one .NEX — runs on 1 MB/2MB ZX Spectrum Next. Two game modes — EASY (smooth direction changes, you ride the rotation, gentler ring tempo) and HARD (instant direction flips, manual rotation tracking, tighter timing). Switch with H on the title screen. Nine progressive phases — START, LEVEL 2, TWO RINGS, LEVEL 4, TRIPLE, WARP, HYPER, CHAOS, NIGHTMARE. Each phase changes shrink speed, respawn delay and the active ring-pattern sequence. Keyboard and Kempston joystick — O/P or arrow keys, or Kempston left/right + fire. Switch with K on the title screen. PT3 chiptune soundtrack by Jamie Mallender. Beat-synced hexagon — the central hexagon pulses to scripted beat events embedded in the soundtrack. Online leaderboard via built-in Wi-Fi — upload your score, best phase, total games played and difficulty straight from the game over the ESP modem in the Spectrum Next. Press U after a run. Manual leaderboard upload — no Wi-Fi? No problem. Drop your NEXTHEX.CFG file into the upload form on the leaderboard page. Link to the editor: https://mb-maniax.cz/nhexagon/editor.html Persistent CFG on SD card — high score, best phase, control mode, difficulty, games played and an optional separate custom-pattern hi-score slot are saved to NEXTHEX.CFG via the NextZXOS esxDOS API. Optional custom patterns — drop a PATTERN.BIN next to the game and you can override phase timings, ring shrink limits and all four ring-gap sequences (early, mid, hard, nightmare). Custom-pattern scores are saved in a separate slot and never uploaded online. Attract-mode demo — leave the title screen alone for a few seconds and the game plays itself. The demo AI runs about three minutes, then loops. Credits screen — press C on the title screen for the full credits roll over a static loading background. Layer 2 graphics, smooth rotation — double-buffered Layer 2 at 256x192, eight-directional rotation, DMA-driven background restore on the 2 MB variant. Download it free from here: https://shrek128.itch.io/next-hexagon Also check out these great ZX Spectrum websites: Planeta Sinclair: https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com Spectrum Computing: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/ World Of Spectrum: https://worldofspectrum.org/ ZX81 / ZX Spectrum / Next 2026 Games playlist: https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLE6P92CIQ4nkLf-4ph0TfdQaekFhwYfPE/videos Subscribe! https://youtube.com/user/DVDfeverGames?sub_confirmation=1 Buy stuff from Amazon! https://amzn.to/2RZXYT6 (affiliate link) Merch: https://www.youtube.com/@DVDfeverGames/store (affiliate link) New DVDs and Blu-rays out now and coming soon: https://dvd-fever.co.uk/forthcoming-uk-blu-ray-and-dvd-releases/ (C) DVDfeverGames 2026 #NextHexagon #ZXSpectrum #ZXSpectrumNext Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DVDfeverGames Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DVDfever