Really cool game! Funnily enough I've been trying to get into chess recently so this was fun to see! On my first playthrough I didn't quite get the extra mechanics as the screen was too zoomed in to see the whole shop, I didn't really interact with the timer on pieces and then eventually the game soft locked with the enemy team not making a move, but I was enjoying playing chess with different piece positions than usual. Second playthrough I learnt about zooming out so I could see the whole shop, and I pressed e to see all the timers and then things clicked, I really liked the idea, I started playing the game as intended and was properly thinking about what pieces to use. Eventually having multiple queens to checkmate in less than 5 turns was very fun. Selling pieces is a really cool idea too, especially with the shop being randomized (I think), so I also had to consider if there were any pieces I actually wanted from the shop. The game did softlock again sadly, but I think I got to experience the core of the game. This is really fun, such a good idea on the theme and also chess in general lol. Excellent work on this!
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The softlocking seemed to be a reacurring issue and we managed to fix it in post, sadly we didnt notice it in time for the jam.
If we participate in another jam, we definetley learned to make the core mechanics of a game more obvious, as we noticed a lot of people couldnt really tell them in time.
Overall we really appreciate ur detailed feedback on the project, it will help us a lot in future projects <3