HEXODIC — PRESS KIT
Generated for the reveal-2026-09 campaign. Full reveal: September 17, 2026.
Canonical, always-current version: https://hexodic.com/press

BOILERPLATE

hexodic is a mobile-first abstract strategy game on a 37-cell hexagonal
board — one piece type, fully deterministic rules, and games of about five
to six minutes. Its measured decision depth exceeds the chess-class
branching-factor target it was designed against, and its bots improve
through a transparent evolution loop driven by real human play: every
decisive win over the production bot spawns a candidate that must beat
every current bot, by a strict statistical test, before it ships.

FACT SHEET
(Status tags: SHIPPED = live and measured. IN-FLIGHT = committed, not yet
live. VISION = aspirational, no committed date.)

Genre                     Abstract strategy (perfect information, zero luck)
Board                     37 cells, radius-3 hexagon; one piece type,
                          three tiers                              SHIPPED
Session length            ~5-6 minutes (measured mean 5.92)        SHIPPED (measured)
Branching factor          911 / 1,009 / 665 at half-moves 5 / 10 / 20
                          (target >=35)                             SHIPPED (measured)
Draw rate / 1st-player win 0.25% / 46.38%                           SHIPPED (measured)
Bots                      6 difficulty tiers, on-device             SHIPPED
Platform                  iOS - private TestFlight beta now, App
                          Store launch coming                       IN-FLIGHT
Price                     Free; 7 cosmetic in-app purchases; no
                          pay-to-win, no forced ads                  IN-FLIGHT (listing locked)
Online ranked play        Built and returning (ran in the web phase) IN-FLIGHT
Play-to-train bot loop    Live mechanism (classical evolution +
                          statistical promotion gate)                SHIPPED
Full reveal               September 17, 2026                        IN-FLIGHT
National bots             Vision - country-trained bots representing
                          their players                              VISION

ACCURACY NOTES FOR JOURNALISTS

We'd rather lose a headline than ship a false one, so: hexodic's bot loop
is NOT deep learning - call it an evolution loop or a bot tournament, not
a neural network. National bots have not shipped - present-tense phrasing
would be wrong. The iOS app is in TestFlight, not the App Store (yet).
The iOS app contains no gambling or wagering of any kind. And the beta is
private TestFlight today - "download now" phrasing would be early. Full
accuracy notes, the three story angles, and FAQ: https://hexodic.com/press
If you catch this site ahead of reality anywhere, tell us - the claim gets
fixed, fast.

MEDIA CONTACT

https://meanmod3.github.io/hexodic-legal/

WHAT'S IN THIS PACK

Key art - reveal-2026-09, direction "one move from Network": a real,
engine-verified board position, never composed decoratively.
  keyart-master-3x2(.png/.svg)          3000x2000 - master / hero
  keyart-master-3x2-notext(.png/.svg)   3000x2000 - no-text variant
  keyart-square-1x1(.png/.svg)          2000x2000 - social / profile
  keyart-square-1x1-notext(.png/.svg)   2000x2000 - no-text variant
  keyart-wide-16x9(.png/.svg)           2560x1440 - video thumbnail
  keyart-wide-16x9-notext(.png/.svg)    2560x1440 - no-text variant
  keyart-tall-9x16(.png/.svg)           1080x1920 - shorts / stories
  keyart-tall-9x16-notext(.png/.svg)    1080x1920 - no-text variant
  keyart-teaser-3x2(.png/.svg)          3000x2000 - pre-reveal, fogged crop

This file (PRESSKIT.txt) plus the 18 image files above make up
hexodic-press-kit.zip.
