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Android port of Super Hexagon is coming soon, to everyone but Nexus 7 owners

The bug's the thing

Android port of Super Hexagon is coming soon, to everyone but Nexus 7 owners
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There's good news and bad news for Android gamers waiting on the release of Terry Cavanagh's Pocket Gamer Bronze Award-winning Super Hexagon.

The good news, as Joystiq reports, is that the Android port is "basically done" and was sent out to beta testers before Christmas.

The bad news is for those who own Nexus 7 tablets. Beta testing revealed a rather serious input bug that creates a substantial amount of lag between when the screen is touched and when the game responds.

Here today, hexagon tomorrow

Cavanagh, who rose to fame with the release of the gold-award winning platformer VVVVVV, and his coding partner Laurence Muller are researching whether the latency bug identified with the Nexus 7 will affect other Android devices or not.

At current, Cavanagh has only seen the bug on the Nexus 7, and stated that it was bad enough to render the later levels of the game "unplayable". Because of this, the Android release of Super Hexagon will exclude the Nexus 7 entirely.

Cavanagh ended his post on the matter with a positive spin: the Android port will be out "very soon" for the devices that can handle it.

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Matthew Diener
Matthew Diener
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