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The GameDev.tv Game Jam 2022 - Free Course For All Submissions!

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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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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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christhSubmitted2 years ago(+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.

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Lost in the Stars
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Sarah RawlinsonDeveloper2 years ago(+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.

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NjitRamSubmitted2 years ago(+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.

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Deathle Jumper
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Sarah RawlinsonDeveloper2 years ago

Thanx, great idea, ill probably add that :)

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christhSubmitted2 years ago

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

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ReienSubmitted2 years ago

I CRASHED THE GAME :D

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Bean Dying
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ReienSubmitted2 years ago

Game Crashing Moment

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Sarah RawlinsonDeveloper2 years ago

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

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ReienSubmitted2 years ago

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. :)

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andreytSubmitted2 years ago (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

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Reresurrected
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Sarah RawlinsonDeveloper2 years ago

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 :)

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Alais29Submitted2 years ago(+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 :)

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Dark Jump
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MarkPainSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

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

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Clone Ship
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Sarah RawlinsonDeveloper2 years ago(+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 :)

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MarkPainSubmitted2 years ago

Oh well I didn't notice haha

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gameboymarcusSubmitted2 years ago(+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

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Son of Lazarus
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OnnoxSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

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

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Graveyard Shift
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Sarah RawlinsonDeveloper2 years ago

thanx :)

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SkyeSubmitted2 years ago

very awesome chess game!

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EacawSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Nice work, chess isn't an easy one to replicate and make it look nice. Good job

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Inferno
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MarcusFromOzSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

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.

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[2022/Jam] GDTV - Ozball
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ike3Submitted2 years ago(+1)

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!!!

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Death Quest
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FuzzyTDTSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

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?

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Freed Souls: A They Die Tomorrow Story
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Sarah RawlinsonDeveloper2 years ago

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. 

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FuzzyTDTSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

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!

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Sarah RawlinsonDeveloper2 years ago

Thanx :)

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devilqubeSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

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. 

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His Master’s Bones
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Ste-GarSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Great job at implementing the mechanics and AI!

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The Battlefield
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kindmanSubmitted2 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

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.

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Kindman's: Life After Death
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kindmanSubmitted2 years ago

I'm stilling thinking about the name of the game. SO good

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iCameronSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

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!


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Target Shooter
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Laurence279Submitted2 years ago(+1)

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?

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The Psychopomp
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Sarah RawlinsonDeveloper2 years ago

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.

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MTBRGamingSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Great chess game

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Highway to Heaven
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Tangential Cold StudiosSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Congrats on your submission.  I see you did the jam solo.  Nice job.

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Event Horizon
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Sarah RawlinsonDeveloper2 years ago

thanx :)

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