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  Doches
  There must be something in the water! I’ve been working on a (very different) chess-like roguelike, and just released the demo. Check it out if you’re a fan of weird chess puzzles, bad chess puns, and Hnefatafl!https://store.steampowered.com/app/3856240/Pieces_of_the_Kin...
• eig
  This is a great puzzle game. I think it actually teaches the concept of "piece coordination" in chess very well.One suggestion is to have all enemy pieces move simultaneously. I expected that the losing condition is that I am threatened and there are no unthreatened squares to move (checkmate).However, since the opponents move one-at-a-time, I found that even if I moved to a safe square, sometimes I could be both threatened and captured in the same move! Which is somewhat different from normal chess, since now you have to consider the possible orders in which the opponents move. So even moving to unthreatened squares could be a game over.
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  bbx
  Great game. I love playing chess so this is quite a unique way to play it.One piece of feedback: dragging a piece on mobile seems inaccurate at times. I’m used to chess apps where it works great. Here it seems the dragged piece doesn’t always end up where I’ve left my finger. I’ve lost a few rounds like this.
• TheGRS
  Dang, that's really fun! I think its solid all-around and no notes on the core game loop.If you want to make it more accessible to folks like myself who stink at chess, I'd recommend adding some sort of power-ups so that you can take multiple pieces, jump over obstacles, or freeze enemies in place. And with that you probably have a great little game to sell on Steam :)
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  XCSme
  Can't go over 19, seems to be a lot of RNG, sometimes pieces spawn around protecting each-other and you stuck between them, so not much you can do.
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  impendia
  This is cool!One suggestion: some way to tell what the enemy pieces are? Maybe a legend to the right of the board? I ended up discovering by trial and error.
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  addandsubtract
  The AI can cheat, because it can move a blocking piece out of the way to then attack you in the same turn. Or maybe it's just something to keep in mind, but it caught me off guard.
• WillAdams
  Charming!Reminds me of Alice:https://folklore.org/Alice.html(which I played manically until I managed _1_ perfect game of --- still have the box/disk....)
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  sandgraham
  Someone on the leaderboard got to 118? Would be fun to watch that replay.
• medbar
  Looks like enemy movements are deterministic, wonder how feasible it is to script this. Was able to increase my score by 4 points trying alternate lines near the end
• devdoxxx
  This game is fun af man you were on to something
• AgentMasterRace
  Wait until you see my curling rogue like. Spoilerz curling fucking sucks solo.
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  orsenthil
  Very nice. Enjoyed playing this. I know Chess, what is Roguelike here ?
• jerlam
  Interesting, reminds me of Really Bad Chess where the pieces change whether you win or lose. If you're really bad the game might give you all queens or rooks.
• sajithdilshan
  The game is quite great, but the queen movement is flaky. Even if it carefully drag and drop it, it just moves to a different block
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  bastardo
  That's fun. I may have missed it when starting: What are the rules of movement for the opponents?
• purple-leafy
  Great game! Is it a different board each day?
• amenghra
  Well done. I think it's deterministic, i.e. playing the same board + same moves again spawns same enemies.
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  fsddfsdfssdf
  Well done, Claude!
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  fhn
  no bad but the blue and red characters, I have no idea what they are
• Zebfross
  Fun game! There should be a check mate though, right?
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  foobarqux
  What is Rogue-like about this?
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  ChessGenome
  Very cool concept only annoying thing was I exited out of the instructions panel and then wanted to revisit it later but it seemed impossible
• ecesena
  I think I found a mini bug. Say I do a score of 10. Then I change board. Then I die with score < 10. I still have 10 for that board. It makes it easy to cheat the leaderboard :) Fun game!
• Hugsbox
  This is awesome :) thanks OP
• Chipatama90
  This is amazing!
• 55555
  This is really really awesome
• alexhans
  Fun, responsive and intuitive. Congrats.
• lxe
  Genuinely interesting, thank you.
• NickC25
  Big chess fan here.This is great!
• egyptianblue
  That was a lot of fun
• pjm331
  great game well done i could easily play this for far too long
• ahmedehab_01
  Looks really cool, keep going!
• heyarviind2
  This is really cool, bookmarked it
• docheinestages
  This is amazing!
• explosionpunch
  This is really fun and intuitive. Pretty, too. What did you build it in?
• rahatkabir
  i played some minutes, cool
• Calgaryp
  Really fun !
• octopus143
  well done!
• akira_dev
  This is so cool bro
• Helloworldboy
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