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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #87 | 3.863 | 3.863 |
| Audio | #156 | 3.698 | 3.698 |
| Enjoyment | #299 | 3.698 | 3.698 |
| Overall | #300 | 3.552 | 3.552 |
| Visuals | #364 | 3.917 | 3.917 |
| Innovation | #389 | 3.351 | 3.351 |
| Theme | #1122 | 2.785 | 2.785 |
Ranked from 205 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
The King plays chess to earn his coin—and indulge in new sweets
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
I didn’t use any asset packs or third-party resources—everything was made from scratch. I drew inspiration from the design of Balatro and Gambonanza
How many people worked on the game?1
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This game has a lot of potential.
The Chess + Balatro combo actually seems to work well!
thank you bro<3
Clean and easy to understand looks, love how the pieces move, makes me comparing risk every moment I choose. Wish the danger or getting attacked is made more clear and impactful, but this is truly the king!
Thank you so much for a kind words! If you want support project, adding CHARK to your Steam wishlist would really help me out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3371170/CHARK/
Really polished game, great art and music. Felt a bit easy and I didn't really feel a lot of risk, but still an amazing game for this jam!
It's amazing what you accomplished in a week. The art, music and general polish is really good! Totally felt the vibe of Balatro and Gambonanza!
This is awesome! I didnt play chess before but its really visual and easy to understand
Wow, that looks and plays like a full release AND it is fun. Really good work :)
I don't know why but this game is like a mix of chess and Balatro
Because I was inspired by this game!
Yea, Balatro is very coll
"Cool"
This was absolutely amazing. Once I got the whole using the moves of different pieces thing, it got really fun and I had to think about my moves. If I had feedback, it's that it was really confusing at first, I didn't understood why I'd loose, or how the turns worked, but it's simple and intuitive so I got it eventually. Awesome work!
There are still quite a few shortcomings in the game; I didn’t manage to fix literally everything in a whole week. There are crutches in many places, but I’m going to release this game on Steam, thank you so much!!!
If you want support project, adding CHARK to your Steam wishlist would really help me out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3371170/CHARK/
Very cool, to be able to brainstorm, create all the art and polish all within such a short time frame is so unbelievable. This is super similiar to Balatro, assuming you got a lot of inspirations from it, from the art style down to the colours!
Hopefully it wasn't something you had pre designed :P
Regardless, good job!
Thanks a lot, but no — I played by the rules and did everything in 7 days. It’s just that the mechanics of chess aren’t as complicated as many people think
The graphics look super polished, and it’s really easy to play.
I am so happy to hear it, thank you!
This is an outstanding entry. So incredibly polished with impressive visuals, audio AND gameplay to all be made by one person in a week. Mechanics feel deep but simple enough to get into. The effort you put into it definitely shows. Congrats man :)
I'm incredibly happy that people like it, thank you very much!
This is so addicting! love the concept
Thank you, so much!
This was a lot of fun, very impressive scope for a game jam!
You do not imagine how you inspire me with your words. Thank you very much)
Wow looks really polished cant believe you did this in one week good job
Thank you so much, it is very pleasant for me to read this. I slept only 23 hours, during this week I drank more than 20 Monsters and did on some pills in order to stay as productive as possible and sleep as little as possible. Even though this is an unhealthy practice and I do not recommend anyone to do so, my desire to make the game exactly the way I made it, make me work at 100% Though I won’t lie, after such work, I want to go on a long vacation…
This is the Chess 2 update we need! Very impressive for a week long jam project from a solo dev!
THANK YOU, I am so glad to read it<3
Balatro IF IT WAS GOOD. Really amazing job, the polish is amazing. The SFX and music were on point and the graphics/gameplay were really satisfying. You could definitely take this further and put it out there as a full release!
hahaha, thank you so much, this is such a honor to read that!
Thank you so much for a kind words! If you want support project, adding CHARK to your Steam wishlist would really help me out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3371170/CHARK/
Yep, great balatro inspired game to loose yourself in.
Thank you!
Holy, now this is a fun one!
pretty fun, really nice graphics! but i feel like its bordering the line between "a game inspired by balatro" and just "balatro but chess".... (i mean... the presentation is almost the exact same, down to the CRT filter)
Really cool, had a blast playing!