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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Music | #284 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Fun | #330 | 3.117 | 3.117 |
| Mechanics | #344 | 2.983 | 2.983 |
| Aesthetics | #376 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| Sound | #542 | 1.917 | 1.917 |
| Story | #701 | 1.367 | 1.367 |
| Theme | #793 | 1.417 | 1.417 |
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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Nice work, chess isn't an easy one to replicate and make it look nice. Good job
Its a very strong start, particularly with the limited time available.
I would consider rotating the viewing angle slightly on the y axis, maybe 15 degrees, so you can better see the shape of the pieces.
As a game that will teach someone the way to play, i.e. how to move etc I like it. The green squares showing possible moves works very well.
Nicely done.
Loved it, haven't played chess in a while so I was a extremely rusty. But that was a lot of fun. The music was amazing loved it all the way through!!!
Long-time chess fan, so didn't mind trying this one out at all. :) It's impressive that you made a chess game in the span of the game jam, given the complexity of the game to begin with. You mentioned your original idea on the game page... What was the idea?
the original idea was to have a limited amount of chess pieces on the board at a time and to get them to the other side to cash the points and get another piece on the board in the starting row or take a piece from your opponent to cash the points with the opponent getting a new piece to place on the board. each new piece would be hidden from the opponent until you make the first move or something like that, but I've also had a few good suggestions from my friends and my boyfriend came up with an idea that was more on the theme but I broke the game trying to implement it.
Oh, that's cool! Kinda like the Crazyhouse chess variant but with a point system, dig it. :) If you decide to build the idea after the jam, best of luck!
Thanx :)
I enjoyed playing that, like you have mentioned in other comments the AI is not that smart,in my game the king took my queen when it was covered by a bishop which should have been illegal. The possible move highlighting works well.
Great job at implementing the mechanics and AI!
i'm telling you, your queen got me sweating for a hot second, killing off my dudes left and right - went on a proper killing spree before basically letting myself murder her.
was way more fun, then a regular chess computer and the possibilities of that TITLE!
it's a very good title.
like, a REALLY very good title.
I'm stilling thinking about the name of the game. SO good
Great job at getting the basic mechanics of chess to work!
Also love the atmosphere with the music you provide.
Nice job at creating a game and submitting!
This is really cool, I lost to the AI because I'm terrible at chess but it's fascinating to see how smart the computer is. What was the hardest part about building the AI?
Thanx the AI isn't that smart, it defiantly could do with improvements. At first, the AI just picked just random movements. I then enabled it to run through the opponent's possible moves and created a value on the move by the value piece, positive if it could capture and a negative if the oponent could take it. After that, I ordered the list of moves by value and pick a random move out of the highest value moves. I'm still not sure if that's actually working correctly though.
Great chess game
Congrats on your submission. I see you did the jam solo. Nice job.
thanx :)
Really good job for have made it in time!
Nice chess game, well done for submitting :)
thanx :)
good chess game
It's chess... but I don't see how it fits the game jam theme.
Also, the game doesn't end on a check. In fact, the AI made a move that should be illegal, by unprotecting the king from a check. XD
yeah I'm not exactly trying to win the game jam just wanted a free course and to see if I could make something in less than 3 days. I set my self a pretty low bar as I've been working a lot of extra hours at work. I know there are still some bugs I plan on working on those on the bank holidays. Thank you for your feedback.
Awesome job on the game. I love chess.
only issue I saw was that when you put white in check. they can still move any of the other pieces. Only pieces you should be able to move are any piece that can block the check or take the piece that has you in check.
Other then that.. very nice job
thank you for the feedback. I'll try and fix that tomorrow :)
I like the music and the fact that you could kill the king, it feels awesome :)
good job.
thank you for your feedback much appreciated :)
Game title made me laugh. I happen to like chess so you get a thumbs up from me! Great work
thank you :)
It’s a chess :) The music is cool! Would be cool if pieces would fit the theme though… btw… I couldn’t capture a pawn (maybe it’s not fully implemented yet?)
yeah to be honest I didn't start working on it till last Saturday as I've been working a lot of extra hours at my day job but I really wanted to have a go anyway. You should have been able to capture a pawn, it's only stuff like casting, pawn promotion and en passant I never implemented, but ill look into it and try and fix it, thank you for your feedback :)
I can't play the game because UnityPlayer.dll was not found.
Hi Iron, thank you for letting me know, I didn't realise, this is the first time actually sharing a game (I have made a few but never published any) I have now updated the windows file download and uploaded a WebGL as well to play in the browser.
I played many chess games over the years and jams but this was the first 3d one, I loved it and the music was just perfect for the vibe but that's only my opinion.
Keep it up ;)