Welcome to Mor Chess
\nA chess puzzle game about building chess positions by following a few simple rules.
\nNote: When you place a second piece of the same type, the piece on the lower rank will be marked with a ‘2’.
\nWarning: Your progress won’t be saved if you refresh the browser, so be careful.
\nHave fun, and happy solving!
\n","source":"eguneys/morchess_js13k_25","stars":0,"post":"https://github.com/eguneys/morchess_js13k_25?tab=readme-ov-file#mor-chess","comments":[{"at":410338506,"author":"Andy Sommerville","login":"aksommerville","gh":1869768,"url":"http://aksommerville.com","text":"It took some trial and error before I started to understand the rules syntax. This is very interesting!
\n","games":["Nine Lives"]},{"at":410339554,"author":"F肯尼","login":"kennyfully881230","gh":208875314,"text":"I admit that it took a little bit of reading for me to start to understand how to play. Very interesting and I hope you further develop this game.
\n","games":["Heimao"]},{"typ":1,"at":410403777,"re":410339554,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"I have plans to develop it further, it’s basically a unique idea where Chess meets Sudoku. And thank you for saying that.
\n"},{"at":410340438,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"I clicked a bunch of stuff but was unable to decipher what the ultimate goal of the game was.
\nThe music was slow and beepy but methodical and quite good really. Maybe the instruments could have played some longer notes as opposed to the sharp sound.
\n","games":["Black Cat - Nine Lives, No Mercy"]},{"at":410371211,"author":"John Stimac","login":"jcubed111","gh":14258407,"url":"jstimac.com","text":"Really cool concept. I do wish the rule graphics had been a bit more intuitive, it took me quite a lot of reading to figure out what the rules meant. It was also a bit hard to tell the king and queen apart.
\n","games":["Mewnbeams Adventure"]},{"at":410388479,"author":"Anthony Cosgrave","login":"anthonycosgrave","gh":1410114,"url":"https://imtoospexy.com/","text":"I really like the idea of this game. It took me a while to fully understand what was going on with the rules and the ability to navigate between 0-0, 0-1, 0-2, while also being able to click the “Next” button at different times. With the later stages it was difficult to understand what the actual next rule was meant to be when all the other lines with symbols suddenly appeared and I ended up resorting to trial and error.
\n","games":["Chickpocalypse Meow"]},{"at":410415533,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Really interesting concept, but a bit confusing in the implementation. It doesn’t seem like normal chess rules and legal positions are followed when validating the rules. Either that or I didn’t understand something about it. The icons were honestly a bit hard to understand and the “equations” look confusing. Also from level to level, it would be nice if the new rules appeared separately.\nI don’t understand the interaction with the red puppy/cat. It turned green. and got sad when I clicked on it.\nThe music was a bit too harsh and loud.
\n","games":["Meow Mountain"]},{"at":410416135,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"The concept of the game is quite interesting (if you know how to play chess). By the way, disabling audio doesn’t seem to work.
\n","games":["Edgar's Mission"]},{"typ":1,"at":410417716,"re":410416135,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"I put 3 second delay on the mute button for some reason. But yeah there is a bug where the audio still plays while being muted if you switch chapters. And mute only effects music.
\n"},{"at":410418674,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"♟️ Very original concept! I really enjoy games that twist the rules of chess.\nIt’s not always readable, you just should have aligned every items, or just add tick/cross when an objective is not completed.\nLoved the puzzles, really tricky at the end!
\n","games":["Witchcat"]},{"at":410419887,"author":"Zang0l0tino","login":"Zang0l0tino","gh":167128079,"text":"I find the game rather interesting, and there’s a good engine for both handling the board and pieces and the chess logic. The downside of the game, however, is, that it doesn’t fit the theme. Good luck and congratulations for your game engine!
\n","games":["The Black Cat's Escape"]},{"typ":1,"at":410420738,"re":410419887,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"The chess logic for the rules is something I’ve been working on earlier I could really make use of existing code.
\n"},{"at":410431546,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"This all seems to work well, the sounds, graphics etc are nice. Seems complex and I have been trying to suceed but need a tutorial to get started? The symbols do not quite match the pieces?
\n","games":["Yarn Run"]},{"typ":1,"at":410481840,"re":410431546,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"You solve the puzzle by placing chess pieces. The game wants you to create certain relationships between them (like ‘this piece must attack that one’).
\nThe rules are shown as an equation: Target Relationships = Actual Relationships. Your job is to arrange the pieces so that the ‘Actual’ list on the left matches the ‘Target’ list on the right.
\nThe symbols are showing the meaning of the relationships like which piece is on the board, how many attackers it has etc.
\n"},{"at":410482671,"author":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909,"text":"Interesting but rules are a bit hard to read/understand.\nMusic could be a bit more melodic.\nNice responsive canvas.
\n","games":["I got up on the wrong foot"]},{"at":410498323,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"A little bit hard to start playing, it needs more guidance from the game.
\nInteresting concept though
\n","games":["Pacific Black Cats"]},{"at":410585581,"author":"smhaaker","login":"smhaaker","gh":10542292,"text":"Had some trouble figuring out what to do. But loved the concept and the look.
\n","games":["CatNFish"]},{"at":410727706,"author":"Can Altıparmak","login":"c6p","gh":80478,"url":"c6p.netlify.app","text":"Not quite fitting the theme, but I like the cat animations, simple graphics, and the mechanics. Congrats on implementing a complete chess engine!
\nIt took me some time to make sense of things at first, and the objective list quickly feels cluttered and congested. The icons for block/attack are also very similar, which makes them hard to distinguish at a glance. Because of this, I often found myself hovering over elements to understand what’s happening, which made it harder to keep playing even though I enjoyed the core mechanics. Adding some horizontal spacing between objectives and current conditions, plus more distinct colors for the icons, would make everything much clearer.
\nThe music could use some improvement, and a placement sound would add nice feedback.
\n","games":["SnapCat"]},{"at":410760817,"author":"Alexander Petrov","login":"baturinsky","gh":632779,"twitter":"baturinsky","text":"A very interesting idea ruined by a bad UI. Was it that necessary to make pieces and rules barely readable, and music that annoying?
\n","games":["All you have to do is Dream"]},{"at":410840909,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"Interesting take on chess, it took some time to understand the rules. The animations were cute.
\nUpdate: I tried the game again.
\nI carefully read the rules this time, and even after reading and hovering over the rules, it’s not obvious that the right side of the board are the rules we have to satisfy. Once we understand these fundamental game mechanics, the game becomes understandable and fun. I would suggest making the first levels tutorial levels, where the player is given only one piece to move, and teach the player how the game works.
\nThe icons on the right side are not intuitive, and writing out the rules could help make it easier to understand. I know we can hover over the “rules” to read them, but if I have to hover over the rules to read them all the time, they could be written explicitly instead. The layout becomes crucial to better understand what to do. After level 3, it became difficult to understand how to satisfy the rules, because there just too many icons.
\nThat being said. After completely understanding this, the game became a lot more fun, as I had to think about how to solve the puzzle. If the beginning of the game had more emphesis on how to play it, I think the game could become a better experience.
\n","games":["Triska the Ninja Cat"]},{"at":410871673,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"It took me quite a while to figure out the rules (if I even got them right at all). I have a feeling the gameplay mechanics are much smarter and more interesting than what I managed to grasp, but overall, it was engaging to try and understand them. The music is a bit sleep-inducing :) The controls are responsive, but the UI isn’t very intuitive. Good job though - I’m off to try the second version!
\n","games":["Cat Survivors"]},{"at":411448789,"author":"Romain Arnaud","login":"Rominou34","gh":17294713,"url":"https://osmova.com/","text":"I don’t think it fits the theme at all, but the gameplay is very innovative and well thought, I enjoyed the challenge even though some seemed weird to me (for example it seems my king was always defending my pawns, even from across the map).
\nThe music is nice and fits the mood well, and the graphics are very well done, it perfectly respects a pixel-art game chart.
\n","games":["Oggy's Curse"]},{"typ":1,"at":411455472,"re":411448789,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"Left side of the = sign states the target and not your board situation, so a far away pawn is shown as a red line meaning king needs to defend the pawn but it doesn’t. Right side of the = sign states your board situation.
\n"},{"at":411459417,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"That’s a cool idea of a chess-game! I like the rule-based puzzles, and the pixel-gfx together with the 8bit music create a good retro (chesscomputer) atmosphere .
\nNice Job!
\n","games":["Miami Mice"]},{"typ":2,"at":411515309,"author":"Emanuele Feronato","login":"triqui","gh":389551,"text":"Well, the cat isn’t even black, but I liked the chess-like gameplay, although the rules were a bit difficult to be figured out.
\n"},{"typ":1,"at":411517177,"re":411515309,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"You missed the story at the beginning where the cat is dropped a bucket of orange paint.
\n"},{"at":411877993,"author":"Mohammed Saud","login":"rottencandy","gh":20013884,"url":"saud.wtf","twitter":"rotttencandy","text":"Nice pixel art and sounds, I like these kinds of “satisfy the rules” games so this was fun. And the levels building on top of previous placements was cool to see.
\n","games":["Non-Mewtonian Cat"]},{"at":411897223,"author":"smiley405","login":"smiley405","gh":66162073,"url":"https://rlimbu.com/","text":"Very interesting concept! The goal is to make the left side match the right side-it sounds easy, but it’s actually quite challenging and rewarding at the same time. Along the way, you end up learning how to play chess!\nI was able to reach 0–5, and it was fun to play. I might come back later to play again.
\nBy the way, I love how you can reveal all the final matches by turning the cat green-it’s a really useful hint system!
\nJust a quick question: Was Mor-Chess 2 originally part of Mor-Chess and later split into two separate parts due to size limitations?
No, I just have similar ideas about abstracting chess into a system without playing on an actual board. These 2 games stem from my same goal but other than that they are not related.
\n"},{"at":411906370,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"The game is fun
\nI liked moving the pieces around and seeing if they were happy were they were put
\nInteresting music here
\nI wonder how this would play out if it was a 2 player game
\nNice idea, well done
\n","games":["Mochi and the midnight escape"]},{"typ":2,"at":411939585,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"I honestly don’t understand a thing. What am I supposed to do?
\nUPDATE: I was told the above reply wasn’t polite and that the rules are told in-game. Let me try again:
\nThe text on this page reads “A chess puzzle game about building chess positions by following a few simple rules.”
\nThis makes me think that it is chess game. I know chess. The game starts with an 8 by 8 board which is the same as in chess. The pieces do not look like chess pieces though. If I squint I can guess what’s what. You could easily double the resolution to get more detail in. Perhaps even a text below the pieces to tell what each piece is.
\nThe text reads “drag pieces onto the board, but there are some rules above. hover over them for details”. I hover them and get four texts:
\nOk, which one is the king? I’m going to try the piece far right since that is pictured in the rules. I now get a “the rule is satisfied”. What now? Hmm, ok, maybe I have to do the same for the “opponent”. Let’s try. Ah, yes, that was it. Next level.
\nThis was far from obvious coming into the game the first time. A rule of thumb in game design is that the game should be easy to understand at a glance (but perhaps have hidden complexity), or the rules should be gradually explained, perhaps by showing a successful solution and one that fails one or more rules. Right now if I start dragging pieces left and right I have no idea what’s wrong. Perhaps prevent the player from dragging the wrong pieces onto the board in the first few levels? Like an interactive tutorial.
\nAlso, if you look at the other feedback there are several other’s echoing my initial post that it was hard to understand what to do in the game. Sorry if my initial feedback came across as blunt.
\n"},{"typ":1,"at":411946520,"re":411939585,"author":"Emre Guneyler","login":"eguneys","gh":3844764,"url":"https://eguneys.github.io/jsgames/","text":"What you are supposed to do is told in-game. If you have a more specific question I am happy to answer. Also you are supposed to be more polite to developers and make some effort using basic logic of the world.
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