As we already knew, Blizzard would be attending GamesCom this year to show off some D3, WoW, and HotS stuff. It looks like the HotS Demo they showed at GamesCom was the two missions that I covered in the Press Event from May though. In addition, Blizzard has added a few new pieces to the SC2 Fan Art section! I also suppose I should've let you all know this earlier as well, the 2011 Blizzard Global Writing Contest has begun, so be sure to submit your best fan fiction stories!
Chess Wars by SamirLugel
Looks like progammer's ol' ChessCraft will be seeing some competition with Samir's release of Chess Wars! I think the gameplay, for the most part, is self-explanatory, ;). Though, it is worth mentioning that there are some awesome Multiplayer modes, which allow for 1v1, 1v2 and 2v2 games.
BattleField Tutorial
Hello all.
Chesswars BattleField Tutorial is now available.
check it out.
Some minor UI Enhancements have been applied
See the imagebelow for reference.
@Dustin374: Go
Hello Dustin. If you like Chess you will love the game as it fully support it.
The Chess game is meant to be played very fast peaced and having pieces for each race make it visually enjoyable.
Check out the first gameplay video featuring a Kostics Trap.
Chess wars also tracks your wins on multiplayer games, so you can sneak peak your opponents stats and eventually get an idea on who are you playing with.
Specially in checkmate, ChessWars have been tested in a lot of weird checkmate scenarios and It detects it very very well. (of course bugs might be there... ). Im sure you will not be dissapointed.
For the Chess Masters, Chess + Battlefield is more suitable as they will be forced to have their attention set in two different battle field while the clock is thiking.
Based on the recieved feedback on my mail im already working on a couple of minor enhancements).
Shoot me a message in game if you want to try it out: samirlugel # 824
Regards
Doesn't look that fun from the trailer, but I'll give it a shot.
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@Keyeszx: Go
Hello There.
Believe me...The game is balanced in term of Races.. Your pieces set will be determined by the race selection in the lobby. ( Terran, Zerg or Protoss)
The chess board region is a real classic chess game with all the rules support. No more and no less. (King Castle, double checks, en passants, etc.)
I've tested several popular chess oppenings successfully like Rubenstein's Defense, Queen's Gambit , Kostics Trap, Scholar's Mate, Caro-Kann Defense, Sicilian Defense etc.
The youtube trailer shows a bit more of the battlefield RTS action as I expect most of the public to know the classic chess game.
Now If you are reffering to the final trailer scene, it is part of the in game innitial menu and is not the actual gameplay. (woops.. spolier :P)
Check the game within SC2. just search for "chesswars". You can start it as single player and it automatically detect the hotseat mode.
Your comments are highly appreciated. And let me know if you happen to find any bug as testing in multiplayer enviroment have way more variants than I have tested.
ChessCraft, good times :)
Looks like it's going in more of a path of sc2 melee as a turn based game. It doesn't seem as chess like to me. If it is it looks like he's using mainly terran units. Programmer balanced it out among the races.