Action Chess

Waiting for your turn? How very nineties!

Enjoy age-old tactical mechanics in a new frantic setting!

Game Rules

Action Chess implements standard chess rules. Except the rule about taking turns to move pieces.

The implementation has known limitations:

1. No castling
2. No en passant
3. Pawn always promotes to Queen
4. Check-mate code does not look for blocking the check and probably has other bugs.
5. Turns out I forgot to stop you for moving the opponents pieces, too :)

Controls

For mouse control:

1. Click on a piece
2. Click on the target square
3. Good job, try another move!

For keyboard control:

1. Select the file to move from by typing a letter from a to h
2. Select the rank to move from by typing a number from: 1 to 8
3. Repeat (file and rank) for the target square
4. Good job!

Extra help:

• Type SPACE to re-select the last moved piece to and move it again
• Type X to reset an in-progress move

Builds

The linux and osx builds have been tested. If windows doesn't work, sorry :( LMK and I'll try to fix it.

Changelog

Changes past submission deadline:

1. Fix sprite relative path loading (d'oh)