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Can'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?
You just have to be lucky and stumble upon a sequence that allows you to surive.
The RNG is seeeded though, always same seed, so you can determinarically explore all moves and find some sequences that lead to higher scores.
What 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/
Someone 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).
The AI can cheat, because it can move a blocking piece out of the way to then attack you in the same turn. Or maybe it's just something to keep in mind, but it caught me off guard.
The AI can cheat, because it can move a blocking piece out of the way to then attack you in the same turn. Or maybe it's just something to keep in mind, but it caught me off guard.
I think the order of enemy moves is deterministic. So if piece 1 blocks piece 2 from attacking you, piece 2 can attack if 1 moves out of the way.
Someone 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).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.