What a clever concept! It did weird me out at first that I couldn't pick what chess piece I was gonna move, but I very much like the concept of you entering a battle and actually being able to fight off a piece in combat.
I noticed that pieces have slightly different shooting patterns, which is a cool touch. It'd be interesting to see them move differently as well. I also love the way they attack! It caught me off guard.
I did stop attacking pieces at one point because baiting them to attack me instead made things easier, considering that only one piece would be able to attack me while I'd have adjacent allies with me.
The concept is honestly super cool to me though, and seeing an expansion of this would be interesting. Very good game!
Thanks very much! Yes, maybe I could just have the player move all pieces in a different variation of this. I was trying to lean into the “you are the weapon” theme so that you are a “weapon” on a team with an AI captain.
Having the pieces also move differently is a great idea! Maybe I can do something like that in the future. Originally, I also wanted each piece to have a different “special attack,” but didn’t have time to implement it.
Sorry, that must be a bug! I made it very quickly, so still have some bugs haha. If I have time in the future, I’ll try to fix it, but not fixable at the moment since updates are disabled while the Game Jam voting is occurring.
Thank you very much for playing! If you enjoyed it and would like to play it again in future, I can try to make any suggestions/fixes for next release. :)
I’m trying a lot of them out just now, since didn’t have time previously. If you like chess, there is another chess-like submission called Rook’s Last Stand, which is not bad. I see you have a game on your profile, so I’ll try that out today as well!
Oh, that one. Heh, yeah, that was mine and a friend's first game jam game, so it's very barebones. You should play CTRL ALT Defeat. That one was my friend's submission which I helped with some ideas and testing. And yeah, Rook's Last Stand is a good one. I had found a bug with one of the upgrades that he was able to fix before the deadline.
← Return to game
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
What a clever concept! It did weird me out at first that I couldn't pick what chess piece I was gonna move, but I very much like the concept of you entering a battle and actually being able to fight off a piece in combat.
I noticed that pieces have slightly different shooting patterns, which is a cool touch. It'd be interesting to see them move differently as well. I also love the way they attack! It caught me off guard.
I did stop attacking pieces at one point because baiting them to attack me instead made things easier, considering that only one piece would be able to attack me while I'd have adjacent allies with me.
The concept is honestly super cool to me though, and seeing an expansion of this would be interesting. Very good game!
Thanks very much! Yes, maybe I could just have the player move all pieces in a different variation of this. I was trying to lean into the “you are the weapon” theme so that you are a “weapon” on a team with an AI captain.
Having the pieces also move differently is a great idea! Maybe I can do something like that in the future. Originally, I also wanted each piece to have a different “special attack,” but didn’t have time to implement it.
Uh, what happens when there are no more Captain pieces? Cause I got to that point and I'm softlocked. Cool game though! (The knight is so hard to use)
I like how goof the fights are!
And the idea to have all pieces nearby the fight join makes each fight unique. Great idea!
Sorry, that must be a bug! I made it very quickly, so still have some bugs haha. If I have time in the future, I’ll try to fix it, but not fixable at the moment since updates are disabled while the Game Jam voting is occurring.
Thank you very much for playing! If you enjoyed it and would like to play it again in future, I can try to make any suggestions/fixes for next release. :)
Right. Have you played many of the other games?
I’m trying a lot of them out just now, since didn’t have time previously. If you like chess, there is another chess-like submission called Rook’s Last Stand, which is not bad. I see you have a game on your profile, so I’ll try that out today as well!
Oh, that one. Heh, yeah, that was mine and a friend's first game jam game, so it's very barebones. You should play CTRL ALT Defeat. That one was my friend's submission which I helped with some ideas and testing. And yeah, Rook's Last Stand is a good one. I had found a bug with one of the upgrades that he was able to fix before the deadline.
FireWall was a pretty hard puzzler, if you want to try that one.