Chessformer
Chessformer is a grid-based puzzle platformer with Chess pieces. Each of the pieces moves as expected, but they fall down after moving and can't move again until they stop falling. The goal in each level is to capture the opposing king, who is lazy and never moves, so don't worry about losing any pieces.
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Great idea and some cool puzzles.
I managed to beat this game. Good. Also, I saw this game in Just Fall in github, it have some Poki games on it. I'm not sure if it was Robert who put those there (probably no), or if THEY put his Poki-exclusive games in there.
and 24
In level 24, you must use the four pieces to make a tower, then use he bishops to reach that platform on the top. Then, make another tower on the right now, so the knights to get up to the platform there too, then, make a tower using the two bishops, and then placing the knight on the to, to reach the key, now, just lead everyone to the place where the second rook is in, so make another tower to make the king able to reach that high place, and then use the knight to reach the button. And then the king can reach he king. Probably, you won't understand, you should just watch a gameplay of this level.
level 21 pls
What am I supposed to do with level 12 it's literally frustrating
move the knight to the top left, 1st pawn 4 up, 2nd pawn 2 up, rook under 1st pawn than on the 2nd, rook up 2 than 2 under 1 right of the knight, here you can move the knight to the king
level 12?
yeah its impossible
No, I solved it
Yeah, me too a while after this comment
The last one took so long omg but this is such a good game tysm
Just goat game.
Great game
we need a level editor
Did it
Great game
"[...] so don't worry about losing any pieces."
You can actually lose a piece when there is a purple trigger:
1) You move a piece on the trigger to make the purple blocks be disabled
2) You put a piece behind one of the disabled purple block.
3) Then remove your piece on the trigger to re-enable the purple blocks.
Even if you re-enable the trigger, the piece is now forever gone!
This can be reproduced on Level 21.
That was probably not "intended"? But we can reset the level when that happen. ;-)
I closed a door with a rook in it and it died
Loved the game, music didn't get on my nerves, the puzzles were difficult.
Lol yeah the music is very repetitive but also really good so it doesn't get annoying
Game too easy for me !
The mechanics seems easy to set up, but the level building and the difficulty curve show skill. This is a great game today.
Music is very nice. Can I have mp3 or midi for listening please?
Awesome... It took me a while to figure out pawn promotion in level 15.
That last level was absolutely insane. The way it combined every mechanic was just perfect.
i love it
hi! this is yours? https://www.silvergames.com/en/chess-move
Nope, just a bad clone
as I suspected ;)
have you thought about making another chess based game?
🧐Which came first, this or the modern Atari homebrew Fallen Kingdom? http://www.indieretronews.com/2021/09/fallen-kingdom-upcoming-atari-xlxe.html
Chessformer came first at the start of 2021. This isn't the first clone I've seen and probably won't be the last.
Great game, how many levels are there in the steam version?
Double the levels which is 48.
You should probably write this explicitly on Steam and in this itch.io page. Maybe consider giving it a name to qualify the more complete version on Steam?
Bonus questions:
Ideas:
All this being said, I really enjoyed beating this version, level 24 was an interesting challenge. Very clever usage of chess to make a puzzle game. THANKS! :)
Congratulations for getting #1 on Bart Bonte's list of the top ten indie logic games of 2021! You absolutely deserved it!
https://www.bontegames.com/2021/12/the-bontegames-2021-top-games.html
I CANNOT SOLVE IT. PLEASE SEND A WALKTROUGH
Great game, challenging but not too difficult as to be frustrating. My six year old likes it too. Some suggestions: Keep track of the number of moves so you can try for a higher score. Add some opponent pieces that can threaten your pieces and thus limit your movement (excepting the king, of course) and that you can capture. Oh, and I want to see a pawn capture the king!
lvl12 is impossibl
possible
no
yes
Excellent puzzle game! It just needs an undo button.
Bravo! I found the game on Cool Math Games because I was bored and putting off studying for a test, and I discovered this game of brilliant design! So brilliant and properly difficult, but once you solve a level you feel a good sense of accomplishment. The way it works you really have to understand the puzzle to make it through, at least with the later harder levels. You can't really stumble upon the solution without understanding it, and it's so welly created! I love the use of these classic mechanics of chess pieces being used in such a creative out of the box way! I played the game and thought, "I wish I had thought of this and made it! It would've been so cool to take credit for such an awesome and brilliant game!" I had to look up the game on google to find it here on itch.io, bravo! One of the cleverest small games I've seen, great job!
What piece do I pick on the first piece picking level?
What do you mean "piece picking"? Do you mean pawn promotion
well it is either the knight or the queen (bishop and rook are just bad, partially functioned queen)
Beat the game! Puzzles are tough but fair, great use of chess pieces and mechanics.
I liked how you sometimes it's better to turn your peon into a Knight, rather than a Queen (just like in real chess!)
I loved it!
Really fun, with right level of difficulty and quite original!
The last level was challenging but it was nice to never have to restart it. Good job really, very polished and interesting levels!
when the bishop can change the color square it's on.