You’ve always wanted to be a chess master! But you aren’t one! Are you! Now you can at least look like one! Pretend you’re playing chess! Make moves! Act like you feel things! Smirk! Frown! Weep! Chess!
It is as if you were playing chess was written in JavaScript/HTML5 using the Phaser game framework. It's a game that allows you to pretend to be playing chess. You know, impress your friends and strangers on the metro...
Timeline
Made quite a lot of progress on this yesterday evening in the end. Have the basic UI and interaction working. Mostly need to insert the underlying chess game(s) and then come up with a way to generate emotional cues at the bottom, most likely through Tracery for some variety with a grammar. Then it’d be done because it just ain’t that complex babe.
Todos:
- Work on the emotion timing, right now it feels too fast and kind of out of synch (But also think about how it will affect the game over stuff.)
- Add a “look here” symbol that plays between moves, moves around, probably an arrow or X
Issues:
- Dragging super fast at beginning leaves arrow faded in SEEMS TO HAVE VANISHED? Possible to have both events be null on showGameOver No, still possible for both events to be null (co-incided with arrow faded in once)
- Seems to be if you manage to end the game before any emotion?
- Super fast drag to game over leave dashed line unfaded
- Use minimal phaser build
Release