The fact it's chess is a little bit debatable, I do agree, but in the end it's turn based top down and things are mostly Deterministic. It's not necessarily made for the jam. The only thing that stands out against chess for me is the random ball movement, but chess already has been given random genres. Overall, I do agree that it's not necessarily chess-like, But I think it fits the jam. Thank you for raising the issue
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