i remember playing this when you posted about it on reddit. i saw that you are still replying to people to this day, and i wanted to say this is still one of my favourite chess projects i have played. all the little secrets and challenges and strategy are just something i really adore and remember fondly.
i wish you goodluck in whatever future endeavours you may pursue!!!
Yeah, the AI is not that great, so you can beat it without hacks if you're good at chess :) Although in the later stages, the AI simply gets too many starting pieces (and there's just no way to trade effectively since most pieces will be guarded by something else).
Ah, well that makes sense then! Unfortunately, I'm not sure that I'm good enough at chess to ever be able to beat the final boss fight without those. But regardless, thank you for making a really fun twist on chess! I enjoyed it a lot :D
Thanks for the feedback! Fwiw, I do think the final boss can be really challenging depending on which hacks you have (and don't have). (However, you get hack points by beating the AI, so you can repeatedly defeat the AI on the non-final-battle mode to earn enough hack points to get every single hack.)
I looked at the screenshot you posted (which includes the hacks that you have used + the current board position). If you had the "mandatory capture" hack, I believe you would likely have won. The combination of "sacrificial pawn" + "mandatory capture" means that queens are required to capture your pawns, and they'll die when they do so. This means that the 5 enemy queens in your game would've all sacrificed themselves upon your remaining 7 pawns.
Thanks! I finally beat the end boss after grinding enough points to afford all the hacks. Though on my first attempt, I also managed to break the game somehow, so we both had only our kings left, endlessly chasing each other around the otherwise empty board 😂
Yeah, I didn't implement insufficient material checks so it is possible to have a situation where neither side can win and are just aimlessly moving pieces around heh
A hilarious game that is remarkably well thought out! Like, your hacks are indeed overpowered...
*Spoilers*
...at first. Then things start taking turns and it becomes more and more balanced.Even the nuke, which is preposterously powerful, only usually can chip off around half the queens in the final battle because the opponent's king gets in the way. So it turns into quite a interesting battle of unique rule additions that you need to utilize to the fullest.
Very fun to play and I love the variety of different ideas for the hacks! It’s so much fun when games allow you to be overpowered against the computer and feel like a boss. Thanks for making this game!
Thanks for the kind comments! Yeah, I wanted to give players the feeling of being completely overpowered, as if we were using cheat codes, or maybe going back to a low-level zone after being max level :)
No, it does not; it's the same content / same game.
The web download (ChessCompStompWithHacks_Web.zip) is just an html file; you can double-click it to open the game in a web browser. You can use this if you want to keep a local copy (which works without an internet connection).
The Windows (ChessCompStompWithHacks_Windows.zip) and Linux (ChessCompStompWithHacks_Linux.zip) versions are desktop versions of the game. It's the same game, just in a native format (e.g. on Windows, it's an .exe file that runs outside a web browser).
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hi!
i remember playing this when you posted about it on reddit.
i saw that you are still replying to people to this day, and i wanted to say this is still one of my favourite chess projects i have played. all the little secrets and challenges and strategy are just something i really adore and remember fondly.
i wish you goodluck in whatever future endeavours you may pursue!!!
Thanks for the nice words! I hope someday to finish a sequel to this game :)
beat the ai without using cheats, it has no upgrades but ill try that later
nvm the end is impossible
Thanks for playing!
Yeah, the AI is not that great, so you can beat it without hacks if you're good at chess :) Although in the later stages, the AI simply gets too many starting pieces (and there's just no way to trade effectively since most pieces will be guarded by something else).
The ai did give me a challange but i mainly started with black, soon when im not sick ill try white.
The anti stalemate hack doesn't seem to get applied in the case of three-/fivefold repetitions:
Thanks for playing!
That's true; unfortunately I didn't implement three-fold repetition or the 50-move rule. ><
Ah, well that makes sense then! Unfortunately, I'm not sure that I'm good enough at chess to ever be able to beat the final boss fight without those. But regardless, thank you for making a really fun twist on chess! I enjoyed it a lot :D
Thanks for the feedback! Fwiw, I do think the final boss can be really challenging depending on which hacks you have (and don't have). (However, you get hack points by beating the AI, so you can repeatedly defeat the AI on the non-final-battle mode to earn enough hack points to get every single hack.)
I looked at the screenshot you posted (which includes the hacks that you have used + the current board position). If you had the "mandatory capture" hack, I believe you would likely have won. The combination of "sacrificial pawn" + "mandatory capture" means that queens are required to capture your pawns, and they'll die when they do so. This means that the 5 enemy queens in your game would've all sacrificed themselves upon your remaining 7 pawns.
Thanks! I finally beat the end boss after grinding enough points to afford all the hacks. Though on my first attempt, I also managed to break the game somehow, so we both had only our kings left, endlessly chasing each other around the otherwise empty board 😂
Nice; congrats!
Yeah, I didn't implement insufficient material checks so it is possible to have a situation where neither side can win and are just aimlessly moving pieces around heh
A hilarious game that is remarkably well thought out! Like, your hacks are indeed overpowered...
*Spoilers*
...at first. Then things start taking turns and it becomes more and more balanced.Even the nuke, which is preposterously powerful, only usually can chip off around half the queens in the final battle because the opponent's king gets in the way. So it turns into quite a interesting battle of unique rule additions that you need to utilize to the fullest.
Thanks for playing!
I do like how the game turned out in terms of the difficulty curve / balance. :)
Very fun to play and I love the variety of different ideas for the hacks! It’s so much fun when games allow you to be overpowered against the computer and feel like a boss. Thanks for making this game!
Thanks for the kind comments! Yeah, I wanted to give players the feeling of being completely overpowered, as if we were using cheat codes, or maybe going back to a low-level zone after being max level :)
does the downloadable version have more content?
No, it does not; it's the same content / same game.
The web download (ChessCompStompWithHacks_Web.zip) is just an html file; you can double-click it to open the game in a web browser. You can use this if you want to keep a local copy (which works without an internet connection).
The Windows (ChessCompStompWithHacks_Windows.zip) and Linux (ChessCompStompWithHacks_Linux.zip) versions are desktop versions of the game. It's the same game, just in a native format (e.g. on Windows, it's an .exe file that runs outside a web browser).
You can't draw by repeating a position
That's true; I got kind of lazy and didn't implement the 3-fold repetition or the fifty-move rule.
I'll see if I can add that into the next version :)
ICBMb7 is now my favorite chess move ever.
Indeed, the nukes are super powerful :D
Thanks for playing my game!