Chess Dungeon
Welcome to Chess Dungeon
In this game, every turn you will change pieces. Click on the square to move there. Defeat enemies to add them to your queue of avaliable pieces. Reach the flag at the end of the dungeon to win.
How to play
You start out as 3 kings. As a king, you can only move 1 square at a time. You goal is to reach the flag somewhere near the end of the dungeon. Enemy pieces will come and harass you as you progress. If you move into their line of sight, you'll die and lose the game. If you beat them, you add them to your queue and you can change into those pieces.
Potential Questions
How big is the Dungeon?
The dungeon itself is only 5x5, not including the starting area and the area where you earn a freebie piece. Procedural generation was planned but there wasn't enough time to work it out.
Is there only 1 javascript file?
Yes, the design is less than stellar. If I was to continue on this, I would definitely start with refactoring the existing code.
Any future plans for the game?
Originally it was suppose to be procedurally generated, but time constraints prevented me from finishing that. Also, another idea was to do some kind of deck building so you get to pick your pieces before the game started. If I had more time, I would also make more custom pieces that have unique move patterns, along with an endless mode. Also sound and nicer animations would be nice.
Why did you pick this?
This was the easiest idea with minimal assets. Basically I didn't have time to create anything, nor did I have time to search for assets, so the idea of using chess pieces for a dungeon crawler seemed brilliant at the time. The only thing I did make was the flag.
Comments
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Pretty neat idea! Trying to figure out the way through by thinking ahead across the piece switch and enemy moves so you don't get trapped is interesting throughout. You can sometimes get trapped when you blindly enter some rooms with certain pieces, which is a bummer. This is seems to happen mostly with the knight though (bishop trappings are rare and king/queen/rooks seem like they never trap you), so I guess in theory you can try to avoid capturing knights to keep them out of the switch queue and minimize the risk. It's also a little odd that to restart you have to refresh the page. But that's pretty minor.
i cant play, its froze
click the squares the king can mov
this is probably the most fun i have ever had on itch.io
I like the movement of each chess character normally, and I think this is a splendid way to incorporate them into another game style! Great job!
This was a pretty neat way to incorporate chess into a different game style! The fact you have to change pieces every turn makes it pretty fun to think about the best way to defeat the enemy with what you've got! Fun prototype!
Only thing is that when you enter a room with a knight sometimes you have a situation where no matter what you do it's game over, otherwise it's good
Only taking queens and dodging everything else to find the flag seemed to work well for me, It's an interesting concept putting two things I enjoy together and I think it could shine if it had a bit more polish.
Plus chess has really blown up lately.
I almost did a chess style game for the jam, so I love seeing this. Really cool idea. Could definitely play this for a little while...and I probably will 😆 Great job