Chess with Dice!
Hi! Welcome to Chess with Dice! This is my entry to the "Game Makers' Club Competition (2025)" Game Jam.
I'd like to start by saying that, being based in the UK and submitting remotely, I won't be able to collect any prizes, but I still wanted to get some practice making games for jams and getting feedback for my submissions!
The game is simple - take a chess piece, give it a score cost, and roll a dice to see how many points you can spend moving pieces. Winner is whoever can capture the opponents king. This is for people who enjoy chess normally, but might want something more fast paced with an element of chance to kill some time with a friend.
I feel like there's a lot of opportunity for "house rules" - like saying pawns can't capture kings, or if you're gonna capture, you have to roll a 6, stuff like that. Feel free to play around and see what you can come up with! The only other rule implemented is you can only capture on piece maximum per turn. I also have no idea how en passant would work so it's not in this either.
Hope you enjoy this one!
- Tom
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Development log
- Jam Version 3.045 days ago
- Windows Build Released50 days ago
- v2.2 - bug fix51 days ago
- Learning51 days ago
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The concept is very creative! I think it should be stated that this is a two player game, as I found myself playing both black and white by default. It was also not very clear when a side has won. Definitely well related to the theme! I appreciate you submitting even though you won't be eligible for a prize!
Thank you! The feedback is appreciated :) I think you have a good point, should've made it more clear that it's a two player title, at least as it stands. Perhaps I'll come back to it and add an AI or online play mode - both pretty alien to me right now. Also could've done with more visual- & sound-effects for things like game overs and just generally moving pieces.
But it was fun! First jam I've actually been able to submit for and I'm happy with what I managed to put together :)
where game
i click game and there is no game
Should just run in the browser. Does refreshing the page work at all? What browser/device are you using?
google
PC
Hmm weird one. Not exactly sure why it's not working, but I just uploaded a windows build if you wanted to give it a go :)
its working now
thx