I improved a 1500 year old game in one weekend - the making of Chaotic Chess - 2023 GMTK Game Jam
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- In this video, I improved the classic game, Chess. I was also participating in the 2023 GMTK game jam, so I only have 48 hours. Is it even possible? (yes it is, that's why I made the video)
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION: you have to be on a computer to play the game, sorry mobile friends!
Chess has many flaws but the biggest one is that it relies 100% on your wits. If you play smarter, you win. It’s as simple as that. This fact creates situations where you can really only play against people who have very similar skill levels to you, because if they’re too good, you just lose every time, and if they suck, you aren’t challenged at all.
My improved version of chess, Chaotic Chess, fixes this problem with Chess by introducing a new element into chess, randomness. The roles of each piece swap which makes Chaotic Chess starts off as a very familiar experience. The knights move in L's, the bishops move in x's, and the queens are blatantly the best piece in the game. Shortly after playing, the game descends into madness when the roles of the pieces reverse causing them to behave like others. Remember that overpowered queen, well now she's just a pawn. Remember that bishop, well now he moves like a rook. And all those pawns, well now they're queens...
The GMTK 2023 game jam was a lot of fun, and my submission to the 2023 GMTK game jam, Chaotic Chess, was made with the unity game engine. The Game Jam had me make a video game in only 48 hours. This means I only have one weekend to make a video game. You could say that Chaotic Chess is Chess 2, but it isn't. Many people like chess, so they should co-exist as separate games.
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Come on YT, give this guy his 1 Million views
no reason
@@tooru no reason having you here
Yes, he deserve it❤
I didn't realize when I woke up this morning that I'd hear someone refer to a checkmate as a "wack move".
Great video, you definitely deserve more subs!
Thanks!
man kudos for the ideas and the execution, I'm sure you'll grow a lot if you keep creating content of this quality
Thanks!
Yo the editing is pretty good ngl
Thank you!!
Welcome to the club
Removing a core concept of an ancient yet still well working game and turning it into a whole experience despite the roughly similar mechanics sounds like a stupid idea on paper, but I think you've succeeded in what you wanted to do. I mean, turning out a clever and slowly paced strategy game into an RNG crap show is hilarious and yet it somehow ended up working out! Also all the interactions with you and the ''average commenter who'd try to defend chess from you'' was really great and funny as well. Overall, I felt like you did chess dirty with most of your comments, but those bits really balanced the vibe out, and that ending was pitch perfect (Even though there is no such thing as a perfect... Game, yeah).
Thanks for watching!
I was looking on the internet to learn how to make a 3D chess game in unity and I found myself here. A Very Innovating Idea and A Very Entertaining Video.
Haha thanks!
Nice vid. You will blow up %100
🤞
As someone who has heavily studied chess and chess like games FROM a design perspective, the game has achieved what you wanted, and is targeting an interesting audience. You could add back a good amount of the stuff the strong players like by just making the randomness be telegraphed a few turns in advance! Think like tetris showing a piece before dropping it. Bye for now!
Ooo that’s a good idea! It keeps the chaos but adds some strategy back in!
Actually, the chaos being telegraphed ALONE would make the game form an RNG crapfest into a game that's *almost* as strategic as actual chess! Together with all the new and fun, creative and *chaotic* elements of course.
Bro said that chess are boring☠️
Love the character arc in this video
Hahaha glad you liked it!
Mind you, this video will explode once.
I hope so! Thanks for watching!
i was wondering what would happen if i switched the role of chess pieces yesterday and today this video popped up
How convenient!
This guy is funny as heck
I just played it and I liked it, AI is pretty good!
Thanks for playing!!!
Between us I followed tutorials on UA-cam and I didn't found a good result
This video bout to go viral. No kapp. As a chess player, I enjoyed the video chief 👍 nice work
Appreciate it!
great video +1sub
Thank you so much!!!
Your videos are just great. Love it!
Glad you like them!
Actually a brilliant implementation. Even minimal chaos would be more interesting than the stock game.
Thanks for watching!!!
This man removed checkmate
Indeed I did…
@WillHessGameDev sorry if this is a stupid question. How do you win
You kill the king
10/10 acting
Hahaha thanks for watching!
this thing glitches when i try to play it
seems like a good idea though
Thanks for watching and checking it out! Are you on your phone or a computer? because it doesn't work on mobile :(
@@WillHessGameDev computer
after a few goes, it just stops and returns a massive error
You might have the ai difficulty cranked up too high. The way it works, if you are curious, is it looks at every move it can make and then for every move it looks at every response, and for every response it looks at all the responses to that. It does this little cycle for however long the difficulty is at. The algorithm does something called alpha beta pruning which cuts down the number of “futures” to look at but it is random whether it actually works well because it depends on how good the moves work if that makes sense. My guess is it got unlucky with the prunes and too many calls to the evaluation function were made. I left it in like that just in case someone has a crazy powerful computer.
@@WillHessGameDev this is godly smart
i like it
This man is genius
Haha thanks! IDK if I'd go that far tho lol
Hey friend I want to learn unity and be a pro like you how can I start learning
The biggest thing is that you need to understand that it takes time. If you know how to program, it becomes significantly easier. I first learned how to make basic console games in Java (like a guess the number sort of thing) before learning c# with unity (Java and C# are VERY similar), so I'd recommend spending a month or two learning how to program before jumping into everything unity has to offer. A great way to learn programming is with treehouse (teamtreehouse.com). Out of everything I did, a subscription to treehouse was most beneficial. Once you have the basics of programming down, clone some very simple games like pong, flappy bird, etc. There are a bunch of recourses on that stuff if you get stuck and you can always reach out to me! Good luck!
@@WillHessGameDev I have an above average knowledge of python and I make some advanced games and simulations I think that may help
Thanks a lot
it would be intresting if the player could change the behaviour of pieces
Yeah maybe, but then it would take a lot of the chaos out of it because you can just chose to make everything a queen and have a super easy game. Plus it also takes out that sweet sweet randomness! Thanks for watching!
Nice try
Thanks!
You should do Sebastian Lague's chessbot challenge!! @Sebastian_Lague1
I was planning on it :)
Game on 😈🤝