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

Comments3

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.

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.

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 (:clap:)! I've been playing the original *Punch-out* on the Nintendo Switch recently, so this was really fun to try! :smile:

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