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Jingle Chess's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #28 | 3.292 | 3.292 |
| Enjoyment | #32 | 2.958 | 2.958 |
| Gameplay | #33 | 2.875 | 2.875 |
| Audio | #33 | 2.833 | 2.833 |
| Christmas Feeling | #37 | 3.125 | 3.125 |
| Overall | #45 | 2.708 | 2.708 |
| Special Object Implementation | #48 | 2.417 | 2.417 |
| Theme Implementation | #82 | 1.458 | 1.458 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How did you implement the Theme?
I added a white background with colorful snowflakes and lighting to give the game a bright Christmas theme.
How did you add the Special Object?
The objective of the game is to capture the 3 jingle bells.
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Okay, I think I broke the game hahaha. Maybe it's my terrible chess skills, but I got to the end of phase 3 with only my bishop, one of my pawns, and the other player's bell, and there's nothing else I can do hahaha. Normally there's checkmate in regular chess, so it got pretty confusing.
But like, the art is amazing. Congratulations.
Loved the idea of Christmas chess, though was very confused about pawns being taken by bishops on the first turn until I realised it's not a standard chess set-up. The AI was pretty easy to beat, but I play a fair amount of chess so that's understandable. Didn't really see the theme implemented at all, but that didn't stop me enjoying it. Well done!
the AI is fun to play against!
The models are so cute! Amazing job crafting them, and good work coding a chess engine. Not a simple task.
Chess engines are a bit hard to build! This was a nice take. I liked the randomness of the pieces on the board. I do wish it were the same for *every* level, it could have added some replayability.
This one was super cute! Not much of a chess guy myself but I enjoyed it quite a bit!
The idea is fun! :) What I liked the most is the atmosphere and the piece models, it would be awesome to have a board like this in real life.
It's chess! But Christmas! Are my pieces supposed to be in unusual spots at the start of the game! Who knows! Well done either way, chess can be a head scratcher to implement :)
Very cool game! I really like chess anyways. But where is the "light" and the "bell"? And sometimes the knight jumped bigger than it shoud.
I appreciate it! I used jingle bells as the objective of the player but in hindsight I should have probably used a regular bell. And yeah I realized after uploading the game the knight was moving one extra square when moving one down and three over on both sides. I fixed it but I don't know how to update a game since it's my first one haha. Thanks!
Cool concept! would love to see a more polished version
Thanks for the kind words! :}
fun & creative idea! i was a bit confused initially about the order of the pieces, since it's a bit unconventional, but i think that's meant to be part of the puzzle right? managed to get all the bells and i enjoyed it :)) i'm curious how you did the chess ai, did you implement it yourself? regardless, great work!!
Yeah sorry about that! I didn't want to make a complete copy of chess but now that you mention it, it feels awkward having an unorthodox pattern as the setup doesn't it? And to answer your chess ai question, I did do it all myself but I didn't use any sort of complicated pathfinding formula. I just calculated each possible move the enemy can do and then gave priority to the pieces that can capture a player piece. Amongst those pieces I gave priority based on the piece value. The piece values mimic the value of real chess. Pawn = 1 Knight = 3 Bishop = 3 Rook = 5 Queen = 8 and I gave King 9. Though the king isn't a lose factor so his value should be a lot lower lol. Anyways, thanks for your nice comment!
no i think it's neat! its like a custom chess variant, i think it was just a bit hard to identify which custom piece mapped to what chess pieces but i think it's cool, it's difficult to be cleverer with the game design to signal that sort of stuff with such short time ya know. i really liked the game tho, and it's neat to see a fellow puzzle game maker!
and yea that makes sense, i figured out you could use the king as bait because of that lol
I really enjoyed this game. I would love to see this be expanded further with maybe some custom rules or something. Overall good game! Great Job, and Happy Holidays
Thank you!!! :)