King-Out

by killerb

co-authored: @deas, @teresaellayne

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.74

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.78

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00

King-Out is based on the real-life sport of Chessboxing. As the name and theme imply, every ten seconds the game swaps from a chess match to a boxing match. The match ends when either player is in checkmated in chess or knocked out in boxing.

Chess Controls:
Left-Click - Select/Move Piece
Right-Click - Unselect Piece (A work around for selecting the wrong piece)

NOTE: CHESS BOT BUGS OUT, SO BOTH CHESS PLAYERS ARE HUMAN CONTROLLED AS A WORKAROUND

Boxing Controls:
Z - Punch Left
X - Punch Right
Left Arrow - Dodge Left
Right Arrow - Dodge Right

Comments17

PenguinMunch4 Oct 2022, 00:14

Super fun game! This was a great idea! Something I thought might be helpful to mention; if there's supposed to be a win condition, I'm not sure if it's triggering (it's obviously fine if not, we didn't get around to having a win condition in ours yet).

LDJam user 306251author4 Oct 2022, 00:27

@penguinmunch Thanks for the kind words. There is a win condition, but a bug kept it from triggering. I just fixed that, but you'll have to refresh the page to restart the game. Sigh.

KillerBauthor4 Oct 2022, 00:27

@penguinmunch Thanks for the kind words. There is a win condition, but a bug kept it from triggering. I just fixed that, but you'll have to refresh the page to restart the game. Sigh.

Hydezeke4 Oct 2022, 04:03

Really neat concept- I only recently became aware of chess boxing so it was fun seeing LD game simulating it hahaha
I love the extra effort to animate the punch-out sequence. The music is a banger too 👍

lunkums4 Oct 2022, 13:34

Great idea! I was a bit confused when the opponent wasn't moving in chess, especially since there's an AI for the boxer. Otherwise solid.

LDJam user 306251author5 Oct 2022, 01:02

@lunkums Yeah, I wasn't able to get the chess bot working before submission time, so I left the chess segment as two player. I'm going to send an email to (or tweet at) Mike to see if I can fix it or if that would count as adding a new feature. The code is there, it's just commented out.

Thanks for the feedback.

KillerBauthor5 Oct 2022, 01:02

bobo_oh5 Oct 2022, 08:46

Nice game! I had some bugs with the chess part, but overall, nice idea! keep it up!

stewthepoo5 Oct 2022, 08:51

Fun idea, I dig the presentation and sound. Jank aside, I'd love to play a polished version of this.

saikai5 Oct 2022, 09:12

Really great idea to use chess boxing. Sad that the chess ai bugs out, but was fun anyways.

Johnsensei5 Oct 2022, 22:47

Good job guys. Making either a chess or boxing game in a jam would be a challenge. You accomplished both. Playing chess against myself was kind of weird...

MarcoDeevil7 Oct 2022, 16:44

Nice use of theme, really smooth boxing mechanics.

David Stevenson9 Oct 2022, 00:05

Switching back in forth between the two messed with my brain in the best way possible :)

LDJam user 25090510 Oct 2022, 04:10

Really innovative game! I wish some of the mechanics worked more smoothly (chess bot, anticipation frames for boxing...), but I had a fun time playing through it! The music does it's job fantastically, and I'm having trouble turning it off, so here's a little applause to whoever composed it (👏)! I've been playing the original *Punch-out* on the Nintendo Switch recently, so this was really fun to try! 😄

SephoWepho10 Oct 2022, 04:10

Hexela11 Oct 2022, 16:18

A really fun concept of reacreating a totaly real sport as a videogame. I wish chess bot worked, but i totally understand that making a good chess bot in 2-3 days is insanely hard, heck, i cant do that)), the visuals look very good, the music is sick + i really liked that the change in games is perfectly in rythm, overall great job!!

AdrianGray16 Oct 2022, 18:27

Nice idea and pretty good implementation. Would be great to have the CPU working as playing with outselves sounds weird )))

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