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A jam submission

Chess Kind OfView game page

For GameDev TV Game Jam (not very creative or on theme sorry)
Submitted by Sarah Rawlinson — 2 hours, 38 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Music#2843.1673.167
Fun#3303.1173.117
Mechanics#3442.9832.983
Aesthetics#3763.2503.250
Sound#5421.9171.917
Story#7011.3671.367
Theme#7931.4171.417

Ranked from 60 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How many people worked on this game total?
1

Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/props/low-poly-chess-set-board-and-timer-216547

Link to your source?
https://github.com/SarahRawlinson/ChessLikeGame

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Submitted

great work! congratulations! keep it up!

Submitted(+1)

Implementing chess in 2 days is an extreme accomplishment. Props to you. I was working on chess for weeks without a working AI. I love to see the code.

Developer

Thank you :)

Submitted

Fun implementation of chess. You get another vote for implementing casting :-) Great job for two days of work. How did you do the AI?

Developer

I didn't get round to castling yet but thank you. I did my AI by having a controller class and the AI inherits from that. The AI is given a list of moves and orders it by the value of the move and takes a random move from all moves that are equal to the top value. A value is assigned by if a piece can be taken then it adds on the value of that piece and if the piece that's moving can be taken in the next move it should take away the value of the piece. I also added a value if the piece doesn't move and can be taken it adds the value of the piece to the move. I'm still not sure if all that works because when playing the AI still does some moves I wouldn't expect it to.

Submitted(+1)

You made chess. That's not an easy thing to do. I know that by experience.

Developer

Thank you. Yeah I didn't find it too difficult but the stuff I still need to do I'm finding difficult working out check for instance. I've nearly got pawn progression working in my development version but no choice at the minute it just picks a random piece. I haven't even looked at castling or en passant yet. I also had to do a drastic refactoring after my boyfriend looked at my code and called it spaghetti lol.

Submitted(+1)

I hadn't played chess in a long while, that was fun.

Some random thoughts:

  • I like your choice of music for this game, it goes very well with it.
  • The chess assets look good!
  • Did you do the AI by hand? it's not a particularly strong chess AI, compared to professional chess games, but if you have done it by hand it's actually quite impressive!
  • Perhaps some kind of animation only for the AI pieces could be helpful to track their movement. I wouldn't use it for the player pieces though, instant movement feels better for those (for me at least).

Very good job, even more so considering your time constraints!

Developer

thank you for the feedback. Yeah i enjoy problem solving so just built it all from scratch. Looking how other people have made theres would have taken the fun out of it. I'll look at making the pieces move slowly instead of instant thank you :)

Submitted(+1)

Excellent work. A fully functioning chess game with pretty good AI. I was kinda hoping some kind of twist, I thought something will pop out of the screen or something after I win but it just says black piece win.  There is no story in the game and it does not exactly follow the theme. Despite that pretty amazing coding skills there to create a chess game. Well done.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback yeah I wanted to tie in the theme but ran out of time although I didn't have any idea for story.

Submitted(+1)

Things I liked:

-Chess is fun and you have a lot of the core mechanics down!

-Music was fun to make the mood more interesting and engaging


Things to improve:

-let the pieces slide or move into place instead of instantly moving. Will help identifying what move the enemy team chose

-enemy team can still move even in checkmate. I won by capturing the king which felt weird, but that's a small thing haha


Overall:

-You did a really good job making chess! This was awesome! Keep up the good work!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback I'll try and add the sliding chess pieces at some point :)

Submitted(+1)

I like chess.  Played for a while and it then said black won.  Wasnt in check and I'd just taken the black queen.  Weird.  Was a little hard to tell what moves the black did without studying the board.  Try to make it more apparent.  Fix the castling.  Was a little hard to tell the pieces apart and what they were supposed to be.  Also, not sure how it was tied to the theme

Developer

Thank you for the feedback. I'll keep that in mind when I work on this next. yeah I know it wasn't tied to the theme but I had two days and instead of spending a long time trying to come up with something creative I just thought of something that I would like to do and ran with it.

Submitted(+1)

I like me some chest once in a while :D Where does the "worse" come from? It's a totally okay chess simulator! Yeah the computer does take every bait, but so does my wife! Buahahaha!

If you have the time, play and rate mine too, please :P

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thank you the worse just was because I hadn't implemented full chess and left out castling, en passant, pawn progression and detection of check.

Submitted(+1)

Great work on knocking this out in only 2 days. Well put together and good music choice!

Submitted(+1)

nice for 2 days. I won in 1 min :)

Submitted(+1)

Nice one, you got a functional chess game out in two days (with AI), and made a couple of tracks of music. That's good going for sure.

Poor white king didn't manage to get himself out of check (don't think that's a legal move - so I think I'm calling that a bug ;))

Only other thing is that one of the tracks (the first one if they're not randomly ordered) is a bit loud and clips a bit. Really liked the music.

Developer(+1)

Thank you. I'll have a look at trying to sort the clipping out although I did make the songs before working on the game I just thought they would work well with it. Which was good as they are the only song I have made.

Submitted(+1)

Impressive that you managed this in only 2 days. I must admit I was a bit disappointed that I was not able to castle and the AI is... not too smart :P But it looks good and plays smooth as butter especially with the lovely music. One improvement would be to also highlight the opponents last move as sometimes I was unsure whether I missed a move or whether the AI was still thinking.

Developer

Thanx, great idea, ill probably add that :)

Submitted

Another vote for castling from me - I tried to do that during my game, too. Cheers :)

Submitted

I CRASHED THE GAME :D

Submitted

Game Crashing Moment

Developer

Thank you for letting me know what happened when it crashed? 

Submitted

Oh it's just a memory overload on my browser. I was just memeing it with my viewers when I was streaming so I thought it would be funny to then if I posted it like this. It happens from time to time for me so you don't have to worry about anything. :)

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Yea, I've made! Anyway, greate work on algorithm! I think, this is the frist game I look into code to see the realisation

Developer

Thank you, well my code is probably a bit messy at the min I was thinking of making a change to deviate away from normal chess but it didn't quite work well as a game so I just commented it out. I didn't follow any tutorials on this so I'm sure there will be some inefficiencies and mistakes :)

Submitted(+1)

Good job! I imagine it wasn't easy to develop. I saw in another comment that you're still working out the check, that explains why the white pieces put themselves into check and I won by taking the king xD solid effor though! I hope you keep improbing it :)

Submitted(+1)

Awesome, I can't believe I actually won! I bet it wasn't easy to program, either. Well done!

Developer(+1)

Thanx, it wasn't too bad, trying to work out check I've found hard which is why that's still not implemented but I really enjoy the programming side most of all, so it was pretty fun :)

Submitted

Oh well I didn't notice haha

Submitted(+1)

Well, I forgot I sucked at chess haha. I’m really impressed that you were able to put all that together so quickly. Looking forward to what your original idea is from the comments! Till then, I better practice lol

Submitted(+1)

Wow, good job on the submission! This is quite an achievement in such a short amount of time.

Developer

thanx :)

Submitted

very awesome chess game!

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