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This is a great puzzle game. I think it actually teaches the concept of "piece coordination" in chess very well.
One suggestion is to have all enemy pieces move simultaneously. I expected that the losing condition is that I am threatened and there are no unthreatened squares to move (checkmate).
However, since the opponents move one-at-a-time, I found that even if I moved to a safe square, sometimes I could be both threatened and captured in the same move! Which is somewhat different from normal chess, since now you have to consider the possible orders in which the opponents move. So even moving to unthreatened squares could be a game over.
Great game. I love playing chess so this is quite a unique way to play it.
One piece of feedback: dragging a piece on mobile seems inaccurate at times. I’m used to chess apps where it works great. Here it seems the dragged piece doesn’t always end up where I’ve left my finger. I’ve lost a few rounds like this.
Excellent work, very nice!
One tiny UI nitpick: I found the squares' hitboxes to be unintuitively small, requiring more-than-expected precision to get Chazz to land in the square I wanted. (I was initially confused about whether I was making an illegal move.) You might want to either increase the size of the squares, or make the "this square is the target" indicator more obvious.
This is so fun! It would be cool to reuse the replay functionality in order to see how the top scorers managed to get such good scores.
Dang, that's really fun! I think its solid all-around and no notes on the core game loop.
If you want to make it more accessible to folks like myself who stink at chess, I'd recommend adding some sort of power-ups so that you can take multiple pieces, jump over obstacles, or freeze enemies in place. And with that you probably have a great little game to sell on Steam :)
Can't go over 19, seems to be a lot of RNG, sometimes pieces spawn around protecting each-other and you stuck between them, so not much you can do.
This is cool!
One suggestion: some way to tell what the enemy pieces are? Maybe a legend to the right of the board? I ended up discovering by trial and error.
Charming!
Reminds me of Alice:
https://folklore.org/Alice.html
(which I played manically until I managed _1_ perfect game of --- still have the box/disk....)
The AI can cheat, because it can move a blocking piece out of the way to then attack you in the same turn. Or maybe it's just something to keep in mind, but it caught me off guard.
Someone on the leaderboard got to 118? Would be fun to watch that replay.
Looks like enemy movements are deterministic, wonder how feasible it is to script this. Was able to increase my score by 4 points trying alternate lines near the end
Very nice. Enjoyed playing this. I know Chess, what is Roguelike here ?
This game is fun af man you were on to something
Interesting, reminds me of Really Bad Chess where the pieces change whether you win or lose. If you're really bad the game might give you all queens or rooks.
The game is quite great, but the queen movement is flaky. Even if it carefully drag and drop it, it just moves to a different block
That's fun. I may have missed it when starting: What are the rules of movement for the opponents?
Great game! Is it a different board each day?
Well done. I think it's deterministic, i.e. playing the same board + same moves again spawns same enemies.
no bad but the blue and red characters, I have no idea what they are
Fun game! There should be a check mate though, right?
Very cool concept only annoying thing was I exited out of the instructions panel and then wanted to revisit it later but it seemed impossible
I think I found a mini bug. Say I do a score of 10. Then I change board. Then I die with score < 10. I still have 10 for that board. It makes it easy to cheat the leaderboard :) Fun game!
Wait until you see my curling rogue like. Spoilerz curling fucking sucks solo.
This is really really awesome
This is awesome :) thanks OP
This is amazing!
Fun, responsive and intuitive. Congrats.
Genuinely interesting, thank you.
Big chess fan here.
This is great!
That was a lot of fun
great game well done i could easily play this for far too long
This is really cool, bookmarked it
Looks really cool, keep going!
This is amazing!
This is really fun and intuitive. Pretty, too. What did you build it in?
i played some minutes, cool
Really fun !
well done!
This is so cool bro
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There must be something in the water! I’ve been working on a (very different) chess-like roguelike, and just released the demo. Check it out if you’re a fan of weird chess puzzles, bad chess puns, and Hnefatafl!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3856240/Pieces_of_the_Kin...