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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #1 | 4.632 | 4.632 |
| Overall | #2 | 4.421 | 4.421 |
| Cohesion | #2 | 4.474 | 4.474 |
| Audio | #3 | 4.184 | 4.184 |
| Genre Incompatibility | #16 | 3.605 | 3.605 |
| Theme | #21 | 3.316 | 3.316 |
Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Chosen genres
Chess+Dungeon+Turnbased+Puzzle
What was the size of your team?
1
How did you incorporate the theme?
Story, reusable objects and moves/patterns
Resources used
Alkhemikal font
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So cool! I loved the pixel graphics and movement mechanics, really makes you think.
Good stuff!
Thank you!! :D
Yeah, incredible game! Good effort!
Thanks! :D
Awesome game, very polished and with an insane amount of things packed. The visuals and music are just great. Congrats!
Thank you!! :D
Very nice! Grat puzzles and very satisfying gameplay. Loved the progression!
Thank you!! :D
This is awesome! The levels feel so nice and polished, you've really done a great job. Overall the amount of effort you put into polishing the game shows, everything from the pre-main menu intro sequence to the way the character moves. Amazing job!
Thank you so much!! :D
Great job!. Awesome level of polish, love the mix of chess and dungeon crawling :D
Thank you so much!! :D
Just awesome!
The game mechanics are easy to understand (even if you don't play chess I think but it's not my case), the sound and the graphics are very nice and the length of the game session is also well done.
Thumbs up for you doing it solo!
Very awesome of you to say! Thank you!! :D
Wow, just wow, I've never played chess but this makes me interested in board games/chess in general, amazing game, good graphics, soundtrack, mechanics... I am really amazed that you made this in 1 week.
I was really hoping this would still be fun for people that don't play chess! Thank you so much!! :D
You nailed it! :)
As a chess player myself, I was very interested in the concept of this game. I'm amazed by what you have managed to create in a week; this is a very polished game that could very well be sold as a commercial product if there were a few more levels.
The whole experience was engaging and never frustrating, as if I was ever about to give up I would have one more go and end up finding the solution. I don't have much experience with chess puzzles, but I was familiar with these knight puzzles and I only one that I found slightly hard was the final puzzle, which makes sense. Even so, thanks to the high quality of the game I enjoyed the whole experience.
I do have one piece of feedback though: When I checked the king in the final puzzle, the bishop simply kept moving. Illegal move :P
Thank you so much!! I am planning to expand on the game and add some levels too -I didn't even get to add the queen who was going to be a sort of boss level too (I had her sprite made up -you can see it in the opening sequence -but didn't have the time to implement her)
Also, lmfao crap! You're right! I completely forgot about check/check mate rules -I blame the jam time crunch! xD Admittedly, there isn't much AI in this game but I may expand on that too and add that logic into finished version if it still feels fun! Thanks again for your awesome comment and feedback! :D
one of the best games for me this jam very good job every thing is nice and feels amazing to play
Amazing Job :D
Thank you!!! :D
Everything about this is absolutely incredible. Level design, mechanics, visuals, sound. Well done!
For real, this should be ported to mobile and published.
Thank you so much!! And I'm working on finishing the bits I couldn't finish in time for the jam first but definitely planning to do that! :D
Great game what can i say dude, i personally think we have a winner here no lies
Whaaaa -I don't know about that! xD -but thank you so much!! :D
I think this guy is right, there ain't many games that can compete with yours ^_^
Awww shucks -Thanks Mumin! :D
Woaaah, for now it's my favourite one! I would definitely see a full game like that! Really, I have nothing more to say, I am just impressed <3 If you would like to develop it more I would add move count that is your score, so you would have to think how to finish level as fast as possible and maybe additional achievements for beating figures? Like, there was a level with that rook moving around and I am not sure if it was possible to beat the level without killing it, but... It'll be interesting to make optional enemies that you have to figure out how to beat. Something like collectibles in other games :D
Did I really say that I have nothing more to say and then wrote like 5 more lines of text?
lmfao -i appreciated every one of those additional lines of text though! xD
Thank you so much!!! And those are great ideas!! I had similar ideas but was running out of jam time xD -will have to implement some of those when I come back to this project! Thanks again! :D
Very good game. Passed the game to the end.
Awesome! and thank you!! :D
This game is amazing and clever. I had a great time.
GJ :)
Thank you! :D
Woah, this is so polished! It’s hard to believe this was made in 7 days :0
Thank you!! and actually I started late -so it was closer to 4 -5 days -but they were crazy intense days!
Damn, it seems to be. Good job!
this is incredible, really. great job :D i can't believe how polished this experience is. kudos!!
Thank you so much Melwing! :D
This is soo well made. although im not sure if its intentional that if you move too 'fast' the enemies cant follow. like if I click d5 as an example then I immediately click to a possible future move, the enemies wont take a turn. however all the graphics, sounds, animation and idea are all executed very nicely.
Thank you so much! And maaaaaaan I thought I had fixed that bug but apparently I unfixed it at some point lmao -thank you for letting me know I will get that fixed...again xD
Very cool concept!
Thank you!! :D
Fun and VERY creative game! The last level really made me think!
Thank you!! :D