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Ridiculous Chess

By toadpud

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness357
Humor3632.62
Fun7172.73
Theme7862.91
Audio9301.47
Graphics9472.21
Mood9532.15
Overall10032.55
Innovation11341.94

Comments

archaeometrician 2013-08-26 06:00

The white king is victorious while showing a black king made me laugh a lot lol I feel like I lost... at least I was playing against myself so I kinda win anyway :)

sebastian 2013-08-26 07:45

Nicely done, I just wish I had someone to play against!

thirteenwb 2013-08-26 14:13

It's really a shame there's no AI, that ending made it all worth it though :p

gre 2013-08-26 17:12

Funny graphics and nice take on the theme

toadpud 2013-08-26 22:57

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I'm uploading the first update. I inverted the colors on the victory screen (no idea what I was thinking). Also, it's now impossible to castle out of check. Luckily my chess-playing friend pointed this out to me when I showed him the game.

2013-08-27 02:22

Funtimes! I love playing chess against myself.

vandriver 2013-08-27 15:16

This is actually pretty playable with two on my nexus 7. Not original by any means, but I could totally see busting this out waiting somewhere with friends. Thanks!

ptsnoop 2013-08-27 22:04

Playing chess against yourself is surprisingly tricky... From the name, though, I was expecting the chess to be a bit more ridiculous. Ah well! :)

sheepolution 2013-08-27 22:05

It's not very innovative, but I guess it could turn out in a lot of fun when playing seriously.

vile-smile 2013-08-27 22:07

Not bad. I feel as thought the theme could have been implemented in more creative ways.

theholychicken 2013-08-27 22:08

Heheh that was pretty nice! The shabby looking pieces are rather cute :]

almax27 2013-08-27 22:11

Remind me of the Real time chess game , disturbing to play on a desktop and to see all these chess pieces reversed :)

2013-08-27 22:58

OH MY GOD YOUR GAME IS SO BAD -1/10 UNINSTALL WINDOWS

In all seriousness, pretty good job. See if you can take more than 12 hours next time, and get a larger game done.

toadpud 2013-08-28 00:28

@vandriver Awesome! I'm really glad someone tried it out on an Android. Honestly, that's how it was meant to be played.

@junkmail I read your post before seeing who you were... Good one. :P Next time I'll definitely do something original.

epiphane 2013-08-28 04:05

It's a solid chess game, it's really responsive and has a good UI, but it's not really as "Ridiculous" as the name implies :P Maybe you could mix it up with some sort of gimmick or clever mechanic?

anmorales 2013-08-29 00:28

This game looks cool, 12 hours to make this, wish you had more time to make it larger, add more rules to chess ;)

bushmango3 2013-08-30 20:29

Yeay, I won against myself!

imef 2013-08-30 20:29

That's how I try to play chess sometimes. ^^
You have no time to think so you must think fast.

It could be cool if you managed to make a chess AI (I know, it's not easy, MinMax might work as an algorithm).

ellipticaldoor 2013-08-30 23:12

The best is the horse :D

toadpud 2013-08-30 23:32

I tried drawing a better horse like three times... just couldn't do it. :P

nikkesen 2013-09-01 15:45

Adorable. Nice to see something other than a platformer. I like the timer for each turn.

onzephyr 2013-09-01 16:31

good game especially for 12 hrs nicely done.

foul 2013-09-03 22:53

The idea about Chess in 10 seconds per move is great. A super lame AI will be enough that way...

gaspard_ 2013-09-06 15:13

I love how you can just leave your king in check or even go like "Suicide time!"...