Piece info

Rarity

Legend
	Move or capture
	Move
	Capture
	Move or capture (jump)
	Move (jump)
	Capture (jump)
	Move or capture on first action
	Move on first action
	Capture on first action
	Move or capture on first action (jump)
	Move on first action (jump)
	Capture on first action (jump)
	Move, capture enemy, or swap position with ally (jump)
	Move or swap position (jump)
	Move by jumping over one intervening piece, captures intervening piece if enemy
	Move, or capture by jumping over one intervening piece
	Capture (jump) without moving
	Push piece up to 3 squares away
	Pull all pieces that are exactly 2 squares away 1 square toward this
	Nullify enemy piece (it can no longer capture, loses all special abilities except promotion, and no longer needs to be captured to win by bare)
	Transform into a copy of enemy non-Banner piece
	Capture (jump) without moving, then push all adjacent pieces 1 square away
	Place NAME and transform into NAME
	Pull piece until it's adjacent
Can move (jump) to any square in the center ring (c6-f6,f6-f3,f3-c3,c3-c6)
Owner loses if this is captured (loss by mate) or is their only piece left (loss by bare)
Can only capture or be captured by Banners
When captured, captures attacker if it's on this piece's location
Captures itself after one non-move action
Does not need to be captured to lose by bare
Promotes to NAME
Promotes on the last VALUE ranks instead of just the last

Options

Show attacked squares Less good AI

Chess Roguelike Prototype

A prototype for a "Slay the Spire but it's chess" idea I had. The UI is janky cause I just wanted the prototype to be playable.

You start with an army and progress through the map, aquiring new pieces as you defeat fights and in chests and stuff to reinforce your army.

To win a match, capture the enemy Banner (mate) or all enemy non-Banner pieces (bare), and you lose the same way. Hover over a piece to see its movement.

There is no check or checkmate, so be careful you can get your last non-Banner piece captured by the enemy Banner when in normal chess they could not cause of check.

There is also no castling or en passant. And if a chess stalemate somehow occurs (current player has no valid move (very hard cause of no check)) then the stalemated player loses.

Have fun!

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Changelog

04/12/2024

2 new pieces:
- 1 common back row: Uhlan
- 1 uncommon back row: Ruined Queen

01/12/2024

Added Transmuters on the map, who trades some of your pieces and coins for other pieces or coins
Chests no longer appear on the map outside of their designated layer or through ? spaces
4 new pieces:
- 1 uncommon front row: Hook
- 1 rare front row: Delivery Spider
- 2 uncommon back row: Twin Swords, Angler
Abbot can now move/capture one extra bishop space
Removed Cannon (common back row) cause it could do turn 0 checkmates and I don't have a good fix (act 2 normal fight that used it was replaced)
Piece rewards and shop content are now more likely to be uncommon or rare on act 2
Shops now show a cosmetic shopkeeper
Added 2 new act 1 normal fights
Added a new act 2 normal fight
Added a new act 2 elite fight
Moved map legend shadow a lil bit
Show attacked squares is now ticked by default
Fixed hovering over the button row in the inventory showing pieces from the next page

31/03/2024

NOTE: didn't get to fully playtest this update, but I'd rather get update out than wait on it for longer
Added an act 2 to beat after act 1, with new encounters and bosses (mostly using the new pieces)
36 new pieces:
- 3 common front row: Froglet, Sword, Culverin
- 7 uncommon front row: Fire Tome, Portal Tome, Bomb, Wind Tome, Gravity Tome, Infiltrator, Null Tome
- 3 rare front row: Cavalier, Mega Spear, Explosion Tome
- 8 common back row: Frog, Cannon, Lancer, Charging Horse, Gnohmon, Ruined Rook, Syntagmatarchis, Pigeon
- 11 uncommon back row: Fire Mage, Ghost Torch, Portal Mage, Spiky Beetle, Crowned Bishop, Eagle, Wind Mage, Gravity Mage, Assassin, Null Mage, Mimic
- 4 rare back row: Nemesis, Ring Demon, Archmage, Explosion Mage
Fast Pawns now promote to Abbot (instead of Bishop)
Removed Cube (rare back row) cause it was a bit too insane
Chests now also give some coins
Elite fights now reward at least an uncommon back row piece (instead of at least common)
Redone most of the act 1 elite fights
Added a new act 1 normal fight
Added a new act 1 boss fight
Nerfed Bride Queens boss a lil bit
Fixed luck start giving a rare back row more often than intended

13/03/2024

1 new common back row piece: Springy Guard
Springy Pawns now promote to Springy Guard (instead of Kirin)
Added page arrows to board edit just in case someone gets more than 40 types of pieces (previous could display 47)
Added option to show attacked squares (like in Chess Evolved Online)
Added option to make the AI less good (I hope it works)
Added a title text to greet people
Added a changelog (hello it's this!)

11/03/2024

Improved AI performance
AI now has a more consistent depth (so it can always see when you're about to checkmate it)

10/03/2024

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