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Re: Show HN: Laser, a new game played on a chess board

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rco8786 wrote: post #40

Is the queen broken or am I misunderstanding? I can't get it to "destroy" anything.

it's not broken but it's not intuitive. horizontal/vertical to move, but if you drag your queen to one of the point that is on a diagonal, it will destroy pawns and kings that are on the way but not pieces. A rook or a knight stops the laser. You can laser your own king right from the start and lose on move 1.

Re: Show HN: Laser, a new game played on a chess board

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Post by CGamesPlay »

cpfohl wrote: post #34
CGamesPlay wrote: post #19

Neat! I built a similar chess variant based on Chess 2 by Dave Sirlin[0]. You can play that one online here: https://www.chess2online.com The nice part about Chess 2 is that the different armies are playable in any combination, which adds lots of variety to the game (although there are some balance issues which are addressed through the official tournament rules). [0] Apparently Sirlin didn't really like the rule set…

This sounds like fun! How balanced does it wind up being?

If you play a few games of Reaper vs Empowered you’ll see that it’s very difficult for Reaper to win. Similarly, Realer is very strong against Nemesis. The tournament rules specify that the winner of a game can’t change their army, but the loser of the previous game has free choice.

Re: Show HN: Laser, a new game played on a chess board

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Post by rco8786 »

column wrote: post #41
rco8786 wrote: post #40

Is the queen broken or am I misunderstanding? I can't get it to "destroy" anything.

it's not broken but it's not intuitive. horizontal/vertical to move, but if you drag your queen to one of the point that is on a diagonal, it will destroy pawns and kings that are on the way but not pieces. A rook or a knight stops the laser. You can laser your own king right from the start and lose on move 1.

Ah I see. I feel like that’s poorly explained. I was imagining that I move the queen, and then anything on the diagonals from the new position would be destroyed (via the “laser”)

Re: Show HN: Laser, a new game played on a chess board

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Post by toolz »

rco8786 wrote: post #43
column wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's not broken but it's not intuitive. horizontal/vertical to move, but if you drag your queen to one of the point that is on a diagonal, it will destroy pawns and kings that are on the way but not pieces. A rook or a knight stops the laser. You can laser your own king right from the start and lose on move 1.

Ah I see. I feel like that’s poorly explained. I was imagining that I move the queen, and then anything on the diagonals from the new position would be destroyed (via the “laser”)

Maybe even worse, I assumed the lazer was always active and only required moving blockers.

Re: Show HN: Laser, a new game played on a chess board

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Post by xgboop »

Hey everyone, this has gained way more attention than I thought it would, 250 people playing right now, wow! 1. Thanks to everyone finding bugs, I just fixed what I think was causing people to have clocks go to zero and games end unexpectedly. If I'm correct, this only should have happened during games when the previous game was won or lost due to the win conditions instead of running out of time. Let me know if you are still experiencing these or other issues. 2. Thanks for all the recommendations about making the rules more clear about how the laser works, will update!
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