Cool but one thing is that the pieces, especially the pawn and knight, look like they were AI generated. It's kinda sad cause even if this is real it just looks like what AI often looks like but still this looks cool and I am gonna try it and see how it is!
Yeah, I got that remark in early prototype as well but it’s proper pixel art, even for pawns I simply put a basic set of emotions on the pawns for instance (literally a few pixels for mouth and eyes…). Same for the knight, I was even tempted to entirely remove the expression after the feedback, but it would have been way too different from other pieces… (you can see all the emotion-less versions in the market placeholders) For pawns, you can see all the type of emotions I initially designed for their animation in the full version of the game.