This is amazing!
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#32Well done, Claude!
There is some polish with Claude over the past few weeks, but we wrote the engine over 10 years ago actually. Each piece moves using a modified version of A* to simply find the shortest path to Prince Chazz (the piece controlled by the player).
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#33Very nice. Enjoyed playing this. I know Chess, what is Roguelike here ?
In the most general terms, a procedurally generated world with permadeath. The term's inspired by Rogue[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)
In this game, I think _some_ of the less general terms (stricter definition) also apply: turn-based movement, grid-based movement.
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#34no bad but the blue and red characters, I have no idea what they are
I think those are bishops, and they have different colors based on which color spaces they start on.
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#35Genuinely interesting, thank you.
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#36What is Rogue-like about this?
You're right, it's just a puzzle game. Strange to use the theme of chess and change a queen into a prince too. Pawnbarian is more chess-inspired than a chess themed, but actually rogue(lite)-like and very good. https://j4nw.com/pawnbarian/
"Rogue-like" is the most over-used term these days. It now has almost no meaning, compared to what it used to mean.
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#37Can't go over 19, seems to be a lot of RNG, sometimes pieces spawn around protecting each-other and you stuck between them, so not much you can do.
Impossible?
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#38Someone 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).
It was a matter of time I suppose. Would love to see the solver!
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#39Fun, responsive and intuitive. Congrats.
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#40That was a lot of fun