hex map has been a favourite for game designers since 1961, when Charles S. Roberts of the Avalon Hill game company published the second edition of Gettysburg with a hex map. The hex grid is a distinguishing feature of the games from many wargame publishers, and a few other games (such as The Settlers of Catan). The hex map has also been popular for role-playing game wilderness maps. They were used in the Dungeons & Dragons boxed sets of the 1980s and related TSR products. GDW also used a hex grid map in mapping space for their science-fiction RPG Traveller. A few abstract games are played on a hex grid, such as Abalone. the six games of the GIPF series. Hex. Havannah. Y. Chinese Checkers and several variants of chess have also been invented for a hex board. The television game show Blockbusters from the 1980s was also based on a hex grid. Early examples of strategy video games that use hex maps include 1983's Nobunaga's Ambition, 1989's Military Madness (the first entry in the Nectaris series), and 1991's Master of Monsters. The first Civilization had a hex map version during development, but designers decided against it because "the world was not ready ... it was too freaky". While the first four iterations of the popular Civilization computer game franchise used square maps, Civilization V and Civilization VI use hexagonal maps. Other games that uses hex maps are The Battle for Wesnoth, Dragon Age Journeys, Heroes of Might and Magic III, Forge of Empires and UniWar. See also Hexxagon, a board game Hexagonal tiling Agon (game), a two player game played on a 6×6×6 hexagonal gameboard References External links mkhexgrid, a hex grid and hex paper utility Free online hexagonal graph paper PDF generator Hexographer, a program for making role-playing game wilderness hex maps in a "classic" style Hextml, an online program to make hex maps GM Friend hex mapping tool, an online program to make hex maps with a random map generator RedBlobGames, Hexagonal Grids, a reference for hexagonal grid algorithms supraHex A supra-hexagonal map for analysing high-dimensional omics data. mathematical discussion of implementing the x,y,z axis in hexagonal applications Unreal Engine 4 HexMap grid extension Board game terminology Map types