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A jam submission

Chess rules, please!View game page

A game where you play a chess referee. Catching all illegal moves and cheating actions.
Submitted by Vulcairn — 1 hour, 31 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#344.4724.472
Overall#9623.6423.642
Presentation#18243.4153.415
Enjoyment#20593.0383.038

Ranked from 53 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?
You play chess, except you're the referee, not a player.

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Submitted

Very clever game! I have some trouble to indicate some action to the game but most of them are easy to find. It's really fun as concept and work brilliantly !

Submitted (1 edit)

This is a ridiculously clever idea hidden by unexsisting difficulty ramp and hard-to-distingiush-sprites. Make pixels twice as small for detalization, do a series of levels with slowly adding new cheats, spicing with different cheat executions and turn speed, maybe adding two tables at once at the end of the game - and this would be a very unique and super pleasing experience!


And yeah, even not regarding anything I said, this is an outstanding game to make in 2 days, very good job!

Submitted

Really smart idea, and the difficulty is just right.

Great job!

Submitted

Fabulous Game! It has a creative, clever and engaging concept that forces you to concentrate on each turn so you don't miss any player trying to cheat. I love this idea and I would love to see it being expanded perhaps by adding different difficulties or even watching over multiple games at once. Great Job!

This a creative idea that piqued my interest since I am a big enjoyer of chess. I liked the concept of needing to spot cheating by player, and how sometimes the players will try to hide their cheating to make it more challenging to spot. However, the 8 bit style make it difficult to tell the difference between pieces. Also, sometimes it felt like they were playing a little too fast so you didn't have time to spot everything in time. You can restart the game which will have the exact same moves occur again, which does make it easier to spot every cheating attempt, however I'm not sure how good it is since there is no reason to play again once you found every mistake. Another thing is that finding these cheating attempts doesn't change anything on the board, I would expect it at least make the player that cheated go back or even disqualify someone after they attempted to cheat multiple times, but nothing changes when catch them cheating, which makes it feel a little pointless. Still, as a chess player I enjoyed this concept even if there was a few things I'd change.

Submitted

This is such a clever idea! But… even as someone who occasionally plays chess, the moves happened wayyyyy too quickly for me. I feel like it would’ve been a lot more fun to have different levels and ramp up the difficult over time. Maybe make the speed a lot slower in the beginning, start off with fewer types of illegal moves.

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