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A jam submission

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Chess... with gravity
Submitted by Draelent (@draelent) — 6 hours, 37 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay#63.9523.952
How well does the game fit the themes?#64.1434.143
How much do you enjoy the game overall?#143.4763.476
How well did the game make use of diversifiers?#203.2383.238
Overall#233.2543.254
Visuals#253.2863.286
Audio#461.4291.429

Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How much time was taken?
3 hours for each build. Sadly had to disable a button on the main menu at the last minute as I could'nt make the AI level 1 work in time...

Use of theme?
Novel Twist on Classic Game, obviously and small chain reaction where pieces fall when you remove one below

Use of diversifiers?
Joined Trijam Discord,
game uses randomness.
game has a main menu.
game should be clear for color-blind people.

Did you have fun?

Definitely

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Comments

JafCrazeSubmitted4 years ago

You got me hyped when you mentioned Zelda :D

Great twist, can't wait to play against a smarter opponent

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TetriFlow
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DraelentDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Thanks, I'm already working on the update (but sorry there won't be any Link in the next version.. but maybe in the future, who knows ?  ;)

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McJohnSubmitted4 years ago

Fun take on a great game :D  It took me a sec to figure it out, but with this kinda thing in mind you could almost make some kind of a turn based side scroller!  The AI leaves something to be desired, but the fact that you put it in is still awesome so thanks for sharing.

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Space Clowns
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DraelentDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Thank you ! And a turn based side scroller seems like a complex but pretty interesting idea, thank you for suggesting it !
Yeah, AI is pretty bad atm (hence the level 0...), but will be updated after the jam !

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Rafael Sean IgnacioSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Fun and interesting concept! I'd love to see this as an online multiplayer game! I recommend Mirror if you wanna try it!

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Kirby has a Gun
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DraelentDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Thank you, that's part of the plan indeed, and I had nothing in mind for the multiplayer, so thanks a lot, I will definitely give a it a try !

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divagatedSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Interesting twist on chess. Figuring out how to avoid stalemate is some situations was quite the challenge.

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Gnop's Revenge (9 hour)
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DraelentDeveloper4 years ago

Indeed, turns out to be the main difficulty if you play versus the random AI, that's why I want to add a more complex one and improve the multiplayer.

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Hyperspace WizardSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

This is beautiful.  A very elegant mashup. 10/10

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Hyper Drone
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DraelentDeveloper4 years ago

Thank you, I need to update the graphics though, I went for really small sprites to keep things simple at start.. kinda need to add some details for a future upgrade..

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AlfacinhaSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

i am reallly like your game. Great idea :) 

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Fire In The Stick (Fogo No Pauzinho)
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DraelentDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks ! I will definitely update it in a few days...

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Dhruv YadavSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Hi!
This is a very interesting game, I love the combination of Chess and Gravity, you have to completely change your tactics from the original game to win. I'd love to play this with my friends!
I agree with adriendittrick that sometimes AI pieces don't move, but that's okay. making a 'good' AI is pretty difficult.
Nonetheless, I had a lot of fun!

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Robman
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DraelentDeveloper4 years ago

Thank you, I'm pretty excited too to see how it could be played with two players or with an interesting AI. It seem to me that it could become complex in an interesting way..

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deusalgorSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Awesome concept, but my browser tab with game freezed when opponent AI got last pawn locked with my pawn in front and officer from the top.

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Shoot Them Down
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DraelentDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Ouch ! That's definitely a bug with the stalemate, it seems that I broke it by the end..

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deusalgorSubmitted4 years ago

Thats a downside of such limited time for build release. There is no way to properly test 100% of game mechanics. You only hope that you got lucky/skilled enough to write without bugs =)

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Adrien DittrickSubmitted4 years ago (1 edit) (+2)

That was a neat concept!

Having to wrap my head around the gravity system was fun.

There is maybe one major flaw which kind of breaks my thoughtful planning: sometimes the enemy AI doesn't move at all. (or maybe it does something like moving a piece one space up and it immediately falls down? I'm not sure it's quite fast) it makes it hard to lure the AI into checks :p

Otherwise, I had fun with this one!

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Laser Dames
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DraelentDeveloper4 years ago

Thank you ! If the enemy does not seem to be moving, it usually exchanged 2 pieces and it happens a bit too fast to be seen indeed, or there can even be no differences if the exchange happened between two pawns...

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