Shotgun King: the Final Checkmate by benjamin
We finished the full post-jam version!!
It features a new story game mode with multiple difficulties! It has a reworked interface, some rebalancing, and new unique cards adding moats, pikemen, magic wands, grenades and other crazy things!
Get it on Itch io or with our Patreon!! 👑💥♟️♟️♟️


Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun.
The Black King has been dispossessed of everything...
Everything except their royal shotgun.
His wrath shall be his undoing, yet he cares not.
In his dark folly, bits of white pieces will fly.
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Shotgun King: the Last Checkmate is PUNKCAKE Délicieux's collective entry to Ludum Dare #50, Jam category! It was made entirely in under 72 hours.
Game design, code, graphics, sound effects: Benjamin Soulé
Original soundtrack: Pentadrangle
Writing and shaderwork: Rémy Devaux
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As allowed by the rules, we did a very minor fix of things that turned out to be broken, namely: - Shells should no longer ever remain from one floor to the next - Fixed Cavalry and Conclave's reinforcement event so that it can happen more than just once
| Link | https://punkcake.itch.io/shotgun-king |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/shotgun-king |
Ratings
| Overall | 1th | 4.624⭐ | 244🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1th | 4.599⭐ | 244🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 2th | 4.618⭐ | 244🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 729th | 3.629⭐ | 243🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 68th | 4.523⭐ | 246🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 25th | 4.369⭐ | 243🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 216th | 3.844⭐ | 239🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 59th | 4.282⭐ | 241🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 33🗳️ | 23🗨️ |