Awesome game. Easy to play and understand. The gameplay is fun and feels very polished. The art and audio is also very good. Great job :)
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Chess Dungeon's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #20 | 4.450 | 4.450 |
| Overall | #38 | 4.225 | 4.225 |
| Fun | #73 | 4.072 | 4.072 |
| Presentation | #216 | 4.189 | 4.189 |
Ranked from 111 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
I thought it would be cool to think about how a game of Chess could be made "out of control" and what I came up with was a game of Chess but as a roguelike, and where the piece you control keeps changing.
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all art during the game jam
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all audio during the game jam
Comments
This is by far my favorite game in the Jam. You can argue that you have no control over the next chess piece you will transform to but I felt quite in control. Nonetheless, it was unexpectedly fun to play and definitely can be made into a standalone title. By the way, I think that it was very hard to come up with something fitting very well with the theme of the Jam and still make it fun to play so I definitely wonder what the winner game's core idea will be. Keep up the good work!
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Phantom of the CastleThis was spectacular. It definitely needs a bit more explanation (what's the goal of each level) so I know what I am looking for I think it was my second game before I even saw the door. Art and interface work seamlessly very well designed. I did bug out at one point (switched to a bishop, had no moves. Hit Z to skip turn and game seems to freeze in place.) Can't wait to see this develop. Also forgot mention please put this on Android, I can definitely see this killing a ton of time on my phone :)
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CottonwoodReally fun game! Turning chess into a roguelike like this works surprisingly well. There's a lot of potential for this to be taken further and the possibilities are endless.
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Game Fixer Kit 2020Outstanding game! Great execution of a great idea, maybe a little more difficulty in the later levels would have been great
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Broken PipesSuper cool! We love chess and rouge-likes, what a great mix. We were wishing we changed pieces after being hit until you ran out of pieces, so a strategy might be to get hit on purpose to get an otherwise inaccessible treasure, at the cost of losing a piece.
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Snowball TsunamiVery fun idea, love the concept of a roguelike chess game! Could use some polish, but it could turn into a fantastic little game experience :D Cheers for submitting
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LAZY PIRATESWow, I liked this game a lot! The concept is pretty clever and the execution is very good too! It can easily become some zelda-like full indie game. Congrats!
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Plague OverflowReally fun and unique take on changing the game of chess. One bug that I may have found was when you spawn as a pawn you could only move forward until you can't make any more moves, so you just skip your turn. At the same time the AI was able to constantly attack me since I couldn't make any moves. Other than that the game was fantastic, I would get addicted to playing this.
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BrakeFailureI really like this concept!
The first level I found that the piece (I chose black) was too dark against the dark squares, and since the identifying silhouette of a chess piece is in the top half, if I was ever standing in a white square, it was kinda hard to see what piece I had turned into. Otherwise really neat! I'm sure there's a full game that can be made out of this.
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Factory PanicReally cool idea and relaxing music. It had a nice variety of items and interesting gameplay Very good work!
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