You can see my full post here, but I'll post the specific changes here as well without all the extra details!
Visual Updates
New main menu visuals, this is just a copy of the actual in game setup.
New in game visuals, the chess board and table are now surrounded by an actual room with lighting. You can't see a ton from in the game, but you can see the full surroundings in the main menu. The lighting mechanism has also been changed to give a more dynamic and natural lighting to the board and pieces.
Audio updates
Added sounds to the UI for both hovering and clicking on buttons.
Cards now have sounds for when you draw, shuffle, or hover over them.
Pieces and Squares also have sounds when hovered and can be selected now as well. The sounds are slightly different to help distinguish them. I'm looking to continue improving this for accessibility in a future update.
When you select an object there is now a select sound as well.
Pieces moving also have a thunk sound when they reach their destination.
Gameplay Updates
You can now discard cards and also play a card in a single turn. Discarding used to end your turn, but it does not do so any more.
Added the ability to end your turn without doing anything. You can now choose to just do nothing if you desire. This is in combination with the discarding change so you have to now explicitly end your turn.
The starting deck has been improved! Before is was randomly build (IE pick 52 random cards), but this lead to some not awesome decks which made the game not as enjoyable (and also tripped up the bot a lot). Now instead the deck has a set amount of each card. I'm hoping this makes it more enjoyable as the 52 card card was split proportionally to the pieces on the board. I'm still working on a future update that allows you to build your own.
I know that the version says v0.0.8 this is the initial release of the Game! Below is a list of features in this release.
Base bot "Random Randy" who determines a set of best moves to take and then chooses a random one. Not super intelligent, but gets the job done!
Base normal match mode, play a normal game of chess against the bot. Your color will be chosen at random upon start. The deck of cards is also a deck of 52 random cards.
Howdy! The cards you see in the game currently are a placeholder that I had commissioned very quickly. I'm looking for either something that matches the theme of the game or something to drive the theme of the game. This will be commissioned as I am willing to pay for the work, both as a one time commission or an ongoing one.
Thanks for playing! We encountered some of these bugs in our playtesting but sadly didn't have time to fix it. We're working to push out a much more polished version with those bugs fixed!
Thank you for the comment! We're working on some things to help with attack feedback like enemy knock backs and effects! We didn't get a chance to put it in for the jam though due to time constraints.
thank you for your comment so much! We definitely plan to stick as a group and keep making things! It was fun teaming up with everyone for the first time.
I loved the gameplay, but I have to say the same as other comments, the glitch in the audio hurt my ears while was wearing my headset and had to stop playing due to it.
Use of the theme was good, I got lost in the dark a lot and I wasn't 100% on what I was supposed to be doing. Also lack of sounds kinda throws you off, but it's promising!
I thought the game was super fun! I missed the mutation notifications at first, but after a bit I understood it. When I died it kinda bugged out and I could still make punching sounds, but nothing happened and my player went away.
Fun concept! The camera is a little finicky, maybe making it tied to the mouse movement rather than edge of screen panning. I often clipped through objects with the camera making it so I couldn't see too.
Very good game! Art style is wonderful and well done, audio is amazing, and relation to the theme is good! Only feedback would be to either make the level auto restart on death, or add a quick reset button.
Yes, I believe it's because of the lack of feedback, we wanted to add a knock back to the weapons/damage animation but didn't have time which I think would help with it. Thank you for the feedback!
Thanks! Both of our artists were busting out art super fast, and are super talented so much thanks to them! Thank you for the feedback, we'll probably try to fix a few and smooth out some stuff after the jam is rated.
