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Mini Jam 116: Pocket Sized

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A jam submission

Death ChessView game page

Physics-based chess game

Submitted by Esben Nyboe (@EsbenNyboe), kong_gak, AL Sounddesign — 6 hours, 6 minutes before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Presentation	#30	2.858	3.500
Concept	#31	2.858	3.500
Overall	#35	2.552	3.125
Use of the Limitation	#37	2.449	3.000
Enjoyment	#37	2.041	2.500

Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
Mikkel Rohde, Andreas Liboriussen, Esben Nyboe

Software used
Unity 3D. Fmod.

Use of the limitation
AI movement follows 2D grid patterns from chess

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BlodyxSubmitted1 year ago (1 edit)

Neat idea, but all movement had to be tile based, and your player is moving in all directions

Submitted

Pockets Are Handy!

Esben NyboeDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Fair enough ;)

Thanks for playing!

axi*Submitted1 year ago(+1)

I like the concept! It's neat to incorporate chess and warp the rules a bit!

I did find that the optimal strategy quickly became just moving left and right and spamming the spacebar which wasn't too engaging, maybe something to spice up the shooting to encourage timing and positioning? Some super bouncy dice which you'd want to shoot at the sides to bounce as much as possible, or some powerful die which explodes so you'd try to wait a bit for enemies to group up, maybe? ,,,I'm just throwing around ideas, they're probably not great examples haha

Still think it's a neat game! It's definitely got an atmosphere to it!

Also, got a score of 268 myself! ,,,dunno if that's good!

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kong_gakDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Awesome man thanks a lot for a very constructive input! Of course we had more features we wanted to implement, but time ran out lol.

I think we reached 300+ points play testing ;p

Thanks for giving it a spin!

Esben NyboeDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

I really like those ideas! Especially having some sort of exploding dice! That would fit perfectly with the broken physics of the game :D

Thanks for the inspiring input :)

petunio123Submitted1 year ago(+2)

Really cool concept art.

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Esben NyboeDeveloper1 year ago

Thanks for the nice comment! Credit goes to Andreas's niece. She did us the favor of drawing something based on the game concept :)

jimiasophSubmitted1 year ago

i can't really understand how to play

Submitted

No Hamster's Sky

kong_gakDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Check game page for more info. Movement: 'wasd', shooting: 'space'. Have fun!