Chess Wars is a Fire Emblem-style game where you move your units in a turn based strategy to defeat your opponent.
You can play in two modes: Hero mode where you lead a small force of elite units
Army mode where you control a chess army
Controls: WASD to move cursor Space to select Q to end turn R to generate new map Left Shift to speed up movement Escape to close game
Has DVORAK support!
Known bugs: Game is currently unwinnable/unlosable. This is not much of a problem since you can easily generate a new board at any time.
Units are unbalanced. This'll be dealt with shortly.
Changelog: Did some rough balancing. Hero mode is still unwinnable, but army mode is playable. Added small menu to make getting to game modes easier. Updated game to load all assets properly Fixed flavor text clipping off the screen Fixed several crashes when generating a new board Compiled in Release configuration (Gotta love optimizations)
Thanks for letting me know. I've gotten that issue before, but I don't know how to fix it. Chrome seems to default flagging binaries it does not recognise.
I can try to find a workaround if this continues to be a problem, but for now I'd recommend downloading in another browser or temporarily turning off malware and phishing protection in Chrome, as that's what blocks the download.
Interesting variation of chess game. Some units are difficult to see on some terrain types, especially after they make a move. And I would prefer to use mouse.
Great idea, I love FE. Feels like there's not much going on, but I guess that's bound to happen with the time limit, isn't it? It's a great start though, and extra features aren't a biggy to add. This could explode pretty nicely.
Nice start. You've got an impressive amount done in just the 48h. I agree with some above points that the game is currently a bit overwhelming and this also makes it feela bit slow. So maybe a furture feature could be maps that start of small then increase in size?
Tried Hero mode at first and thought that my units will be OP -- nope ^^ I died a pretty fast death. Would be fun to see how far one could get with really OPed heroes. Liked the graphics and the arrow where your units go.
For Army mode there are a bit too many units on the board for my taste, which makes the game a bit slow.
Thanks! The AI is actually really simple. It just generates a few threat maps and a distance map and paths to the tile with the lowest value if it cannot find an enemy. Nothing too fancy.
A cool idea. I love fire emblem and I really want to like this. The problem IMO is the sheer number of pieces. It really makes it overwhelming and time consuming to move pieces and watch the enemy move theirs. Good job though!
Neat idea. I wish the game was more complete/finish-able though. I hope you finish the bits you have left and re-release it. This could be very fun with 2 players.
This game is actually quite cool, but its a little to easy, other than that its a good game. oh yeah, the charecters are too small, maybe like a custom map that is smaller or that you can scroll through
Overall not a bad game. Would benefit from sound though. I also found it a bit boring and tedious, it's just a side effect of having like 30 things to control (and then waiting for the computer to do the same). The graphics also blend in with the terrain a bit too much sometimes. Another major issue is it's hard, almost impossible to tell the difference between your pieces and the computer's
Really interesting idea. Like others, I found it a bit too big / overwhelming / slow to really get into it at the moment. I hope you keep going with it.
I forgot to rate this game when I first played it! Anyway, this was really really well done. These mechanics were a really bold move, and the concept was really interesting.
The only thing I would change is to add mouse selection. Having to use WASD to traverse 625 cells got a bit slow.
It's pretty great seeing some turn based strategy here, and I think you've done a good job at making this game interesting!
I'm a bit at a loss why you went with the chess theme, but didn't give any of the units their chess movesets though. I also agree with the people who say scale it down; the game takes unreasonably long as is.
All in all though, this is a very impressive little game, and I'm interested in seeing more!
Interesting entry, quite cool to see a fire emblem-like for LD! I found it really difficult to tell which units were mine - the only one which really stood out was the girl, everyone else was just grey. I quite liked the implementation of the movement mechanics and terrain system, as well as the chess inspired-design. I felt it was quite tedious waiting for the CPU to move its 50 or so units across the board since it took longer than my own turn. Overall a pretty good entry, keep it up!
Rockhopper, that's the plan for when I continue development. The idea is tobgi e each unit slight perks based on their type. For instance, pawns might have a burst of speed on thier first turn. I didn't have nearly enough time to implemebt it, though.
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I can try to find a workaround if this continues to be a problem, but for now I'd recommend downloading in another browser or temporarily turning off malware and phishing protection in Chrome, as that's what blocks the download.
I had problem with a missing OpenAL32.dll file when running the game. This link fixed it for me https://code.google.com/p/rallyraid/downloads/detail?name=oalinst.zip&can=2&q=
Nice graphics too
For Army mode there are a bit too many units on the board for my taste, which makes the game a bit slow.
The only thing I would change is to add mouse selection. Having to use WASD to traverse 625 cells got a bit slow.
Awesome job! =)
I'm a bit at a loss why you went with the chess theme, but didn't give any of the units their chess movesets though. I also agree with the people who say scale it down; the game takes unreasonably long as is.
All in all though, this is a very impressive little game, and I'm interested in seeing more!