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Name

 WeaponizedChess 

 

Developer

 Arational Entertainment 

 

Publisher

 Arational Entertainment 

 

Tags

 Strategy 

 

Singleplayer 

 

Multiplayer 

Release

 2016-07-29 

 

Steam

 5,69€ 5,19£ 6,99$ / 0 % 

 

News

 7 

 

Controls

 Keyboard 

 

 Mouse 

 

Players online

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Steam store

 https://store.steampowered.com/app/400560 

 

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Public Linux depots

 WeaponizedChess:AI & No MatchMaking [376.22 M] 


 WeaponizedChess Depot:Free To Play [353.11 M] 




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About the game
Weaponized Chess = chess + weapons

WeaponizedChess is like regular chess but in 3-D with weapons and stealth.

WeaponizedChess is derived from regular chess but makes many changes. It adds weapons, three-dimensionality, and tunable stealth. It is intended to be a more modern version of chess. Old chess is about knights capturing kings. WeaponizedChess is about stealthy, weapon-armed pieces contending on a modern battlefield. Have no fear, the basic nature of chess is retained: black-and-white checkerboard, one side moves then the other, defeating the enemy king is still the goal. However; as in real war, an enemy king that won't switch sides is subject to a decapitation strike.

WeaponizedChess is also an experiment in creating a game where a human player will always have an advantage over any conceivable artificial-intelligence player. This is achieved by deliberately and radically increasing the exponential burden of a computer player but in a way that any human can naturally handle. Humans will always be better guessers than computers and stealth (and other features of the game) ensheathe this nature into the game. You don't like playing chess by mail or email remotely with someone because you fear they may cheat (get advice from a chess-playing computer program)? Play this game instead. Tired of playing chess against people who have spent a lot of time building up book knowledge about chess? Play this game instead.

WeaponizedChess has an integrated board editor, a type of game notation which describes a game, a set of known popular color themes, and a set of pre-defined starting boards.

WeaponizedChess attempts to provide a game for people who used to play chess in the past but got bored with it. Whenever regular chess does things one way, WeaponizedChess tries to do things the other way. Did you ever look at your present position during a regular chess game and wish you could move TWO pieces instead of just one? In WeaponizedChess you can often move more than 1 of your pieces during your turn.

Modern conflict is heavily dependent on military technology. In WeaponizedChess there are choppers, jets, tanks, submarines, destroyers, and combat engineers whose characteristics have been translated to a chess board. Low-observable assets play a deadly game of cat and mouse with an opponent. Infantrymen use jump-packs to fly over the battlefield. Combat scuba invisibly travels under the surface to attack.

There will initially only be one version available on Steam. This version will allow you to play against a computer opponent or play human-versus-human against another human. Human versus human play requires both players be in the same physical room and share the computer to make moves. This initial Steam version of WeaponizedChess does not provide online multi-player matchmaking. Note that a typical AI for a regular chess game is comparatively better because an army of researchers and programmers have been working for decades to achieve this result.

You might wonder "Why should I want to buy this game?" One reason might be because you would be interested in seeing what regular chess would be like if it was changed. If you set general piece movement to standard chess then the board pieces will move very much like regular chess pieces but they will also be able to use weapons. The only way to see how such a modification might work out is to actually modify chess accordingly and see what you can really do in such a game. There are many other ways to modify the game but it would take too much text to describe them all. After you modify how you want the game to play you can save your preferences. You can set the game to automatically load your preferences whenever the game starts. You can also modify and save to your preferences for how you want the game to LOOK as opposed to how it plays. There are many videos showing what this game looks like but in these new Steam versions there are two modifications to how the game looks. Instead of the 2 piece sets shown in the videos and web-viewable game art there are now 13 piece sets available. Also you can choose from a set of known "popular" color themes to change the colors of the game board and game pieces.

To get the best results from the AI you should use a high level i7 although the game has been run in the past on i3's, Celeron's, and Pentiums. This version is strictly 64 bit Linux (You cannot run this 1st Steam version of WeaponizedChess on Windows). Development for this version was strictly limited to Ubuntu 12.04 (the base OS and level for Steam development). It runs just fine on a Steam console, on SteamOS in Steam Ten Foot. You can use either the mouse or controller in that environment.

This version of WeaponizedChess is more interested in the game being clearly displayable than in the game graphics being a spectacular example of computer animation. Those who are only interested in a game where the graphics are pure eye candy should play some other game. This game is about thinking. It is not about looking. It is more important that the pieces be easy to see than it is for them to be visually beautiful. After all, this is a chess-like game and a serious player will quickly begin to ignore the visual aspect of the pieces (because that isn't important to game play). The simple-geometric set of pieces will always be drawn quickly and clearly even if hardware acceleration is not available(if only software rendering is used). Hence, no particular type of graphics card is required. You don't need an expensive card.

This game can be played on SteamOS or a Steam console using a Steam controller(although this game does not support Steam controllers in the usual sense) or mouse. The Steam overlay cannot be used in this version.

This game has been translated to many languages. The user can change the language displayed during game usage and read documentation in many languages. The game can be controlled using: English, German, Spanish, Dutch, French, Greek, Bulgarian, Turkish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Polish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Czech, Romanian, Italian, Thai, Portuguese.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

MINIMAL SETUP
 OS:  Ubuntu 12.04 LTSProcessor: 64 bitMemory: 1 GB RAMGraphics: Steam hardware acceleration strongly recommended but non-accelerated software rendering allows this game to run on any graphics boardStorage: 410 MB available spaceSound Card: not requiredAdditional Notes: No online multi-player matchmaking in this version 
 PROCESSOR:  64 bitMemory: 1 GB RAMGraphics: Steam hardware acceleration strongly recommended but non-accelerated software rendering allows this game to run on any graphics boardStorage: 410 MB available spaceSound Card: not requiredAdditional Notes: No online multi-player matchmaking in this version 
 MEMORY:  1 GB RAMGraphics: Steam hardware acceleration strongly recommended but non-accelerated software rendering allows this game to run on any graphics boardStorage: 410 MB available spaceSound Card: not requiredAdditional Notes: No online multi-player matchmaking in this version 
 GRAPHICS:  Steam hardware acceleration strongly recommended but non-accelerated software rendering allows this game to run on any graphics boardStorage: 410 MB available spaceSound Card: not requiredAdditional Notes: No online multi-player matchmaking in this version 
 NETWORK:  0 
 HARDDRIVE:  410 MB available spaceSound Card: not requiredAdditional Notes: No online multi-player matchmaking in this version 
 SOUND:  not requiredAdditional Notes: No online multi-player matchmaking in this version 
 
RECOMMENDED SETUP
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 MEMORY:  0 
 GRAPHICS:  0 
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 HARDDRIVE:  0 
 SOUND:  0 
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