Summoner's Chess is a weird mix of chess + checkers + killing enemy pieces to summon your own.

Thanks to everyone for their awesome feedback so far! I've been busy working on a post-jam version and wanted to preview some of the ongoing work:

✨ Visual Revamp

I'm still fairly new to game dev, so making things looks nice is pretty tricky - especially in only 48 hours. Improvements were also needed to make the summoning button much more obvious.

| Before | After | | ------ | ----- | | | |

♟️ Upgrading Pieces

When pawns in chess and men in checkers reach the end of the board, they upgrade to stronger pieces. Previously I was able to include the automatic upgrades for checkers men, but wasn't able to finish it for the pawns - this is now possible!

🎥 Camera Views

By default, I included a fixed persons-eye-view of the board, which can now be rotated. I've also added a new top-down view - it's essentially Civ V's "Strategic View".

🛠️ Custom Matches

The compo submission includes 10 progressively more difficult levels, but I kept finding myself wanting to create more and more more wackier custom layouts. So the post-jam version will include a 'Custom Match' mode for creating any layout you want. This is currently on-going work, but going well so far.

The post-jam version will be available on itch after LD55 ends - so go follow me there if you're interested. Thanks!