The game is quite great, but the queen movement is flaky. Even if it carefully drag and drop it, it just moves to a different block
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#62Dang, that's really fun! I think its solid all-around and no notes on the core game loop.
If you want to make it more accessible to folks like myself who stink at chess, I'd recommend adding some sort of power-ups so that you can take multiple pieces, jump over obstacles, or freeze enemies in place. And with that you probably have a great little game to sell on Steam :)
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#63This is cool! One suggestion: some way to tell what the enemy pieces are? Maybe a legend to the right of the board? I ended up discovering by trial and error.
I think it makes a pretty good assumption on understanding core chess rules, but yea that would be nice. The thing that did trip me up at first was not realizing the red and blue bishops were the same piece, I was wondering if I was missing something.
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#64That's fun. I may have missed it when starting: What are the rules of movement for the opponents?
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#65Fun game! There should be a check mate though, right?
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#66That's fun. I may have missed it when starting: What are the rules of movement for the opponents?
They have the same movement as their equivalent chess pieces.
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#67Someone on the leaderboard got to 118? Would be fun to watch that replay.
That was me. The engine is deterministic so I wrote a beam solver for it. My score should've been 208 (pretty sure it could play forever; I capped the solver at a max time limit) but I messed up one of my moves (I was manually moving the pieces instead of submitting the final move list with curl).
Well done for scoring 2nd place. :)
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#68This is amazing!
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#69Great game. I love playing chess so this is quite a unique way to play it. One piece of feedback: dragging a piece on mobile seems inaccurate at times. I’m used to chess apps where it works great. Here it seems the dragged piece doesn’t always end up where I’ve left my finger. I’ve lost a few rounds like this.
Simply click, don't drag
That's not very Product Manager of you.
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#70This game is fun af man you were on to something