Pawndemonium Demo [OST Jam]

I think I may have found a bug with the bishop's ability, mass heal. Whenever you activate it and there are none of your pieces in the area it gets confused and so you're unable to do anything, you get stuck and are unable to do anything with the pieces or even start the next round. Even when starting a different game the bug persists and you are unable to start the first round. The only way out of it is to restart the program. 

Great game! 

It was kinda cool, love the idea! However, I'd enjoy a bit more control over my pieces, watching them making bad moves automatically and interfering with eachother took most of the strategy out of the game imo (please don't let your game become an "autochess" game :) ). Anyway, I quickly reached a perpetual winning situation in each game (even in "no" difficulty) and finally left with hundreds of material (I thought I would someday see a whole army of queens coming against me, but no :( ).

Also, why is the king so hated? :( It's one of my favorite piece, i'd imagine him as a very tanky piece but somehow with low attack. Why not include him in a "protect the king" mode? Or even in current game?

The healing mechanic is really what makes the game easy and in the end it's what you do during almost all your turns (which takes the fun away). As the knight and the bishop seem pretty similar to me (also kind of useless btw), why not somehow make a healing mechanic with the bishops instead?

ideas :

• upgrades (health, damage, new spawning tile, number of actions per turn...)
• control over your pieces (as mentioned above)
• collectables (resources/healing/offensive spells) on the chessboard. Collecting them would be a great job for knights/bishops as they are pretty weak but have some mobility (whereas you can't afford to not use queen/rooks in combat, and pawns are too slow)
• obstacles / different maps
• new pieces ? making a game with a (imo underexploited) damage/health system is a great opportunity! I want to see cannons, catapults, archers, wizards, clerics, paladins, walls, spearmen :D

Seeing as I'm not much into chess or tower defense games, I didn't think I'd really get into this game all that much. But I was wrong. I've been finding myself opening this up on Casual as a way to kill a bit of time, or wind down before bed.

This looks really cool! Suggesting an idea for the fuller game you said you're working on, how about different levels with different board sizes/shapes?

Great fun! love the idea, very cool twist on a classic

Man that was awesome to see such innovative idea!

I'm loving the concept of this game! It must have been tedious to code, but it came out great! How did you come up with the idea?

Really interesting concept! The blend between the two types of games is really cool. I particularly like how you can see the moves being made as the pieces jump around the board in a really gratifying way. I almost think that the default speed should be set to "Fast" or "Medium" so you can get a better understanding on how the pieces are reacting without messing around with settings.

I know it mentioned it at the end, but I curious to see stats mainly how long I went for. But things like pieces taken out, upgrades purchased, etc would be cool too!

I also think that the game really does do a good job blending with the OST. I think in particular the main menu and credits theme feel like they fit the most with the aesthetic, while the chess theme fits the game play more so than the aesthetic of the game (not saying it is bad, just not as well meshed as the others).

Really good stuff Ben!

The game is pretty fun and a cool idea overall.

It's kinda tricky to plan ahead, especially when there is more than one possible targets and I'm not sure where the piece will attack. Maybe there a rule of thumb on what the piece will pick but I didn't figure it out.

I would also liked to have an undo button if I select a unit but then want to pick a different one, but I guess that's not "true" chess if i could do that, is it?

Well done!

Nice! This was pretty cool! Definitely an interesting mash-up of chess and tower-defense. At first I didn't quite get the upgrade piece feature and was quickly over-run lol. After getting that I was able to last quite a while!

Nice tunes for the game also. :) Great job!