chess thing

What's this?

Status: Quite playable but still very much a prototype!

Navigate through an infinite generated chessboard while staying ahead of the crumbling blocks behind you! You are a chess piece that constantly changes its type. Each turn, click on one of the allowed squares to move your piece. Your piece will then assume the form of the next piece in your draw pile. You can see which pieces you will become from either the right side of the screen, or you can quickly see the next piece you will become by hovering over the square where you plan to move. See how far you can go until you get stuck.

Comment with your high scores!

Credits

@LunarPenguin said 'chess endless runner' when we were brainstorming for ideas on a jam I didn't end up joining. I thought that sounded cool, so thanks to Lunar for the idea. :)

Code, Graphics, Gameplay by me, @lopar

Known issues

• Occasionally the RNG leaves you with no options (such as when there are no gaps only 1 block wide, so you can't use a knight to get to the next island. I'll work on it.. sorry. 🙃
• There's no 'game over' indication yet. Just hit New Game if you're stuck.
• There isn't really any difficulty progression yet, it's all about the same speed and complexity. I will likely address that along with the RNG things.

Tips

• Knights are super useful. They're the only way to jump over gaps.
• Pawns are usually how I lose, so always watch your next pieces.
• The 'pace line of death' moves up one row every 1.5 seconds.
• The way the pieces are shuffled is similar to Tetris. First we take each piece from a standard chess setup and 2 sets of those in a bag. The one change I made is to cut the amount of pawns in half as many pawns. So, each bag contains: 8x pawns, 4x knights, bishops, and rooks, 2x queens, 2x kings. The current bag is drawn from until empty, then another bag is shuffled, so each sequence of 24 pieces drawn will be the same pieces but in a random shuffling order. You may be able to use this to plan your strategy.