Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Checkmate
By paullyaudet, charliemrl and mathis-bressaud
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 36 | 4.28 | 50 | |
| Fun | 74 | 4.13 | 48 | |
| Innovation | 66 | 4.14 | 49 | |
| Theme | 49 | 4.36 | 50 | |
| Graphics | 237 | 4.34 | 49 | |
| Audio | 564 | 3.62 | 47 | |
| Humor | 577 | 3.42 | 43 | |
| Mood | 490 | 3.79 | 46 |
Bin comme d'hab c'est excellent ! L'idée est vraiment sympa et bien réalisé. Le pire ennemies étant le fou pour moi. Ça représente bien ce qui se passe dans la tête d'un joueur d'échec qui à tout perdu mais qui essaye de se rattraper et qui ne lâche rien ;). Bravo les gars !
If only real chess was this good!
This is such a good entry! The movement, combat and AI all felt very refined! The combat was also very intuitive and fun! Something that really stood out to me were the cut scenes as well as the atmospheric graphics! The different chess pieces surprisingly turned out to transfer well into a 3rd person shooter! Overall, this is an amazing game!
Nice Idea, but my laptop is freezing and I can't play normally - what a pity!
Blown away by this one! SO DAMN GOOD, impressed you managed this in a couple of days! A very unique take on the theme!
I love the game. The idea of defending another piece (the king) reminded me a lot of the game I developed, it's also a shooter of escorting someone. The feeling and the game experience are incredible, congratulations.
A pretty tough game, but the aesthetics are really good! (I'm bad at fps, I got stuck in the corridor where there are bishops and towers at the same time) :smile:
Escort Missions done right! Creative theme and really nice execution. You are up there with the best of the best. Keep it up!
++ Very nice! Fits the theme to a tee and the army hat on the pawn is just too cute. Loved the cutscenes and the premise of this is what the pawn sees in a regular game of chess.
-- I think the enemy spawn amounts were a bit too high, and could generally just rush to the enemy king rather than having to keep back and clear the waves. I do wish it had leaned more into the spooky theme with the music it had going.
THIS IS AWESOME! I love it, at first with the menu I was already like "wow this is incredibly polished" for example when you change colors it fades from white to black instead of just directly changing and how the pawns don't just move they move from one place to another, the way you have to escort the king. and then when I started it the cutscene and the particle effects and the way the pawn reloads. all of it, BEAUTIFUL! also props to you guys for making a 3D game not many of those on here (mine is also 3D).
and then last of all the best surprise of them all was when you introduced the Bishop because at first I kept getting killed but then I realised that they can only stay on one color so I moved the king to the other color and the bishop couldn't do anything!
Amazing game! it started lagging a bit once there were a lot of enemies, which is strange because my pc isn't bad at all. but the game was super fun, in fact i completed it :D
oooooh wow, this was really good. I'm super impressed that you managed to get all this done in 72 hours! As an amateur chess fan I realize that I'm a bit biased here but I would have loved for the 'chess' aspect to be more integrated in the game-play/level design, like instead of something like a knife as a secondary weapon you could kill opposing pawns 'an passant' or something.
I was also kind of expecting the black queen to be waiting for me fully decked out with a machine gun and a pawn army ready to f my shit up. so I was a little disappointed.
As a minor note, I almost just dropped the game at the start because I didn't realize that you could move the king! that's on me to some extent but maybe really make sure you tutorialize the player so that idiots like me get it :)
but this was fantastic, good job guys!
This is epic
Pros: Really nice game, I had lots of fun with it! - The level design was really cool, I always looked back to see if we don't gent ambushed! - Also huge shoutout to the cool enemy design!
Cons: - The constant cinematics in the beginning to show where enemies come from bother me a bit, it took me out of the gameplay. - Sometimes the enemies went directly past my king, seemed buggy.
Finished the game thanks for the checkpoint. Really impressive one, can't imagine how you guys did this in only 3 days. The combat is exciting and needs strategy, the enemy design and level design are reasonable and clever. And I love the design of chess holding a gun XD.
L'idée est vraiment cool le gameplay sympa, personnellement j'ai été stressé tout au long du jeu (sauf au combat final que j'ai trouvé trop rapide et pas assez difficile à mon goût) la musique d'ailleurs est bien sauf que la boucle est évidemment trop répétitive au bout d'un moment (ce qui est assez normal je blâme pas) en tout cas je vais le recommander ! :)
What a cool game, so polished ! I think it cool be easily a complete game :) May be you can improve it by make enemies die quicker abd less a bullet sponge. Also adding more feedback to the weapon. But overrall it's really cool idea and very well executed
Best LDJAM46 game yet! Feels very polished and the intro/tutorial was excellent! Innovative gameplay aswell. 10/10 would play again.
Amazing polished game! So much fun and the idea of a chess piece with an automatic rifle is nuts! Genuinely impressed, well done!
Trop bien ! l'idée est incroyable, j'ai adoré du début à la fin.
pros : + il y a des headshots + les libertés des mouvements + avoir à réelement réfléchir au placement de son roi
cons : - la sensibilité ralenti beaucoup quand on vise (c'est quelque chose que je désactive dans tout les jeux personellement)
@rasti We had some optimization problems during the development we didn't manage to solve entirely for the deadline, that can cause freeze on some computers. Sorry for that. We planned to solve them on the next update.
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I drop this here to remember the first brainstorm saturday morning !
Nice gameplay, enjoyed it overall
Checkpoint was clutch. Loved this experience! Only downside is that while originally I had a horde of enemies *plus* the Queen to deal with, once I died it was just a 1v1 (1v2?) fight that was less epic. I also wish the King only took one bullet to kill since he's so weak, even in Chess. Great job overall with this and you did great with the theme!!
this is genuinely amazing. i've never thought i'd play as a pawn with a gun. it's very hard though, i couldn't get past the start part where all the pawns horde the king far away from you. otherwise it's incredible.
@studionokoi Thank you. Do you know that you can move your king with E ?
@mathis-bressaud did not
This was a great game! The movement was super smooth and the firing and reloading was satisfying. It wasn't too hard or too easy! Loved the story! It had nice peaceful audio. Overall it was a great game.
Amazing concept, insane and fun! super smooth action, fast pace and panic mode to defend your king. Movement on this game really smooth including the transistion of camera. I can imagine the game full release with harder stages, new weapons and a new ways to defend your king! Please keep this up, I'm a big fan of this. Welldone.
I like the idea of a chessboard FPS, I think it has a lot of potential. Get's a bit repetitive but still was quite fun to play!
Needs some polish here and there but still looks and plays nice.
how the hell did they have that many pawns?? :) awesome game! really loved the way you could move the king, and would love to play an actual game of chess this way :)))
@washington-irving They have many pawns, you have a M4.
really neat, The shooter gameplay felt quite good. If I had to be picky about something I would say the movement felt a bit slow and unresponsive, but that is cherry picking.
I loved the cinematics and how the opponents actually moved like the chess pieces. Overall it felt verry good to play!
A very nice approach of changing up a classic chess game to something great! It is definitley very promising concept with a great future ahead!
@rasti We have fixed this freeze problem. You should be able to play the game properly. Sorry again.
I love the movement of enemies it makes you think how to place the king! I love the style. And the gameplay looks really solid. Good work!
This game is quite good and special. I enjoyed playing it also enjoyed playing [drift boss](https://driftboss.co) driving game. I used to play it when I was in school. Is anyone addicted to this game like me?