Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike

16 comments

• Doches 7 minutes ago
  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...
• fhn 3 minutes ago
  no bad but the blue and red characters, I have no idea what they are
• WillAdams 14 minutes ago
  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....)
• orsenthil 35 minutes ago
  Very nice. Enjoyed playing this. I know Chess, what is Roguelike here ?
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  • coldcity_again 10 minutes ago
    In the most general terms, a procedurally generated world with permadeath. The term's inspired by Rogue[1].

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)
• impendia 3 days ago
  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.
• ChessGenome 17 minutes ago
  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
• fsddfsdfssdf 43 minutes ago
  Well done, Claude!
• 55555 43 minutes ago
  This is really really awesome
• rahatkabir 16 minutes ago
  i played some minutes, cool
• ecesena 3 days ago
  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!
• foobarqux 37 minutes ago
  What is Rogue-like about this?
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  • tweetle_beetle 12 minutes ago
    You're right, it's just a puzzle game. Strange to use the theme of chess and change a queen into a prince too.

    Pawnbarian is more chess-inspired than a chess themed, but actually rogue(lite)-like and very good.

    https://j4nw.com/pawnbarian/
• heyarviind2 4 days ago
  This is really cool, bookmarked it
• explosionpunch 5 hours ago
  This is really fun and intuitive. Pretty, too. What did you build it in?
• Calgaryp 4 days ago
  Really fun !
• akira_dev 3 days ago
  This is so cool bro
• Helloworldboy 10 minutes ago
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