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Very nice game, really liked the custom piece rules and quite cute sprites and ran smoothly for me! As for suggestions, art-wise I think it would've been better if the other side uses pallete swaps of your pieces/characters, in particular since chess is supposed to be symmetric, also makes it easier to tell what the other side can do. Plus a bit more of story would've been nice, not asking anything too special but something like a few dialogue lines between the sisters between levels would've been cool, or maybe when you pick a new piece they say something to present themselves. Still enjoyed it quite a lot!


Also see some other people complaining about the AI, but considering the limited time and the use of custom chess rules and that the unit composition is always changing, I think you really did a great job with your AI. Many strategy games just make the AI blindly charge at you, but here sometimes the other pieces actually tried to maneuver around and aim at sniping the king sister, which is better than most others similar games I've tried.

Thanks for playing! I didn't think about the symmetry part of it too much, but maybe having them be palettes swaps would make it easier to tell which piece is which. I guess I thought it'd be weird if she was also fighting against magical girls story wise, but doppelganger monsters are fairly common too. I'll consider this some more. That's a good idea about the dialogue though, having little scenes in between levels or when you pick characters would be a good way to add a lot of personality.

AI was tough to balance, and there's still a lot of improvement I want to be made. I think it prioritizes the major pieces too much, so a lot of times the pawns will just be awkwardly sitting in their starting positions the whole game...