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A jam submission

ArchesspelagoView game page

Submitted by anttihaavikko (@anttihaavikko) — 1 day, 17 hours before the deadline

Rated by 11 people so far

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Did development of the game take place during the 7DRL Challenge week?

Yes

Is your game a roguelike?

Yes

Turn-based

Yes

Meta-Progression

Yes

Roguelike Elements
Permanent death, procedural level generation (very naive island generation where it just keeps slapping rectangles on top of each other in a grid), random events

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Comments

coderill2 days ago

great game! still needs developent, but that is fine

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chreeshendoloSubmitted10 days ago

Absolutely excellent in every way. Yes, there are “bad maps”. Yes, there are frustrating moments. Yes, there are some unexpected UI interactions. Yes, there are even some bugs. But all in all this is an incredible game for a week’s worth of work - bravo 👏🏻

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7drl2026

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"The Plush Girls"Submitted16 days ago

Neat idea and very well made overall, but map generation could use some work. My bishop gets stuck behind corridors way too often.

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Sleepwalk (through The Long Winter Nights till Childhood's End)

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Jupiter_Hadley18 days ago

Very neat idea!

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Lee ReillySubmitted23 days ago

I recognize your games immediately from various game jams and I always love seeing them pop up. This one is another really charming idea - the chess + roguelike mashup works great and it's very polished.

I did run into quite a few stalemates during my runs. If that gets addressed I can easily see this being very popular. Really lovely experience as always <3

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SN@KELIKE

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SundlerSubmitted25 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Incredible amount of polish and content for a one week game jam. I almost made a chess Roguelike myself. Glad I hadn't now.

My bishop couldn't got stuck on one level:

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Roguefall

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anttihaavikkoDeveloper25 days ago(+1)

Thanks! Yeah islands having those one wide bridges does indeed trap bishops pretty annoyingly. I have already improved this for a future version a bit. I'm sure there are already many different chess roguelikes out there but I intentionally didn't even check not to be unintentionally influenced (or unmotivated) by them. But there are so many directions you could take the genre combination so the world can easily fit multiple!

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ourotorrusSubmitted25 days ago

I'm amazed by the level of polish for this excellent entry. Very well done!

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Mechanomaly

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anttihaavikkoDeveloper25 days ago

Thanks! ❤️

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