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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #1 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Fun | #143 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| WOWIE! | #143 | 3.633 | 3.633 |
| Topic | #225 | 3.633 | 3.633 |
| Visuals | #304 | 3.433 | 3.433 |
| Sound | #517 | 2.733 | 2.733 |
| Simplicity | #632 | 3.100 | 3.100 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Music Source
The game has no music, and all sound effects are my own
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AdonisDevs
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I think this is a very interesting idea but, as it is now, it is very confusing and leads you to just copy the other player a lot because you are not able to plan ahead. I think that it could be cool to make the board asynchronous, so having the pieces in random spots from each other on each side like the game 'Really Bad Chess'. Another thing that could be helpful is to have half of your pieces be your "native" units where you know how they move. This would also give the feeling of humans that got some alien weapons but don't know what they do yet. You may also want to consider less movement that is jumpy, like the knight, and more slidey like the other pieces in Chess.
I really like the native piece idea - maybe the player can bring some of their own pieces to the game that Alien has to learn... Thanks for playing!
A great concept.
Had a small bug where I couldn't start a new match but it was fixed when I reloaded the page. And you can get softlocked when you can't move any more pieces.
Would like to see some more interesting Chess rules in there like upgrading pieces that get to the other side.
Wow!!! A really unique idea that's really polished for such a short amount of time. An interesting take on the theme where you learn more moves as you go, it allowed for a really cool board game.
Pretty fun idea! Each new match keeps you guessing instead of losing once and learning the mechanics. Nice idea!
I love any game that puts a new spin on an existing game like chess. I very much enjoyed this one. I hope you'll check out my game too.
I'm impressed you made this in 3 days. Great job. I imagine a chess AI is not too easy so really good work to have a playable game here! I think the game could benefit from some more sound effects and animations, but overall I liked it!
You had me at chess! Cool concept overall, always looking to try out new variants of the game.