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A jam submission

ChessVarianceView game page

A chess-like game where you can change the rules!
Submitted by devilintheEden — 11 hours, 46 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#542.9472.947
Fun#552.6322.632
Overall#622.7192.719
Presentation#682.5792.579

Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

I really like the concept, but there should be promoting option also, when you get to the edge with a pawn

Submitted

Nice idea, I'm missing some features from chess.com, however it still must have been challenging to create chess AI. Congrats! ;)

Submitted

Cool concept! Would have loved the ability to make new funky paths (like that of the knight) for all the pieces.

Submitted

Nice job! What kind of AI are you using here (or planning to use)?

Submitted (1 edit)

I really like the concept, but as other people mentioned, the AI seems to get stuck at some times.

Submitted

Cool concept, but the AI got stuck sometimes.

Submitted

Cool idea with a lot of potential. Unfortunately, the AI got stuck in the first couple of moves.  

Developer

I uploaded a gameplay video on Youtube ;> 

I had  a similar idea like this one but i changed my mind later. I think it'd be more challenging if you could change the rules when you get a certain score and it applies to the a.i opponent as well. It's a great job anyway!

Developer(+2)

From a design perspective, the rule changes should apply to all opponents. But apparently there are some bugs with the AI... Fixing ;>
Thanks for playing!

Submitted

I am not sure why but the enemy AI gets stuck from time to time.

The concept of enabling/disabling the rules of chess is cool. I can save my piece by just disabling the movement rule of the enemy pieces :)

Would love to see some feedback though, some sound, some animation, something.

Great job nonetheless!

Developer

Thanks for playing! And yes the AI is buggy for now, I am trying to fix it and make it smarter.

Submitted

I love the idea of being able to change the rules like that -pretty fun to play against the ai too!  Great work! :D

Developer(+1)

Thanks!