Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD41 → Action Chess
By siimphh
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 3.28 | 9 | ||
| Fun | 3.35 | 9 | ||
| Innovation | 3.28 | 9 | ||
| Theme | 3.78 | 9 | ||
| Graphics | 3.08 | 8 | ||
| Audio | 3.00 | 3 | ||
| Humor | 3.75 | 4 | ||
| Mood | 3.16 | 5 |
Looks like we had similar ideas. I went for real time chess too. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/street-chess
Unfortunately I couldn't get yours to run on Mac OSX. It says it failed to load the sprites in the terminal window. I hope you get the OSX build running before the compo voting ends as I really want to compare how we both interpreted real time chess.
Thanks for testing on MacOS! I'm pretty sure I have a fix and have uploaded new binaries if you have a chance to take another look.
BTW, in case you haven't seen them already, there are also at least:
* https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/action-chess * https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/space-chess * https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/super-fun-action-chess * https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/street-chess * https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/rapid-bullet-hell-blitz-chess
Should start a list of all real-time chess games that got made :)
Its even more fun if you make the opponents move for them.
Nice, I'm terrible at chess thankfully I can click quick. Nice idea. How did you do the AI?
Hahaha I love it ! I can finally win :D Just need to be quick ! Great idea :) The chess idea was popular but your entry is quite interesting, the graphics, the game is complete. Good work !
@SelfTitled, as it stands, it just has values associated with each piece + extra value for checks and mates. It then tries random moves and picks the one with the highest `own_value - opponent_value`.
I technically added some min-max style deep reading support too where the value of a position becomes `0.5 * cur_pos_value + 0.5 * sum(child_pos_values)`. But I didn't have time to test that code so I'm not sure it's adding any value or maybe it's just buggy and does nothing :)
interesting AI.
Was this all made during the jam or something you already had laying around?
@matt-pattabhi, this was done during the jam (except I copied a few util functions like sprite loading).
I got it running on OSX. The menu screen glitched out, but I was able to play the game. Great entry. I like that you kept the winning condition as check mate. For some reason I didn't think that would work in real time, but it does. Good stuff :8ball: