Weaponized Chess now available on Mac. No other changes.
[ 2020-06-01 17:30:54 CET ] [ Original post ]
More professionally translated text has been added. This has been done for Russian, Polish, and Japanese. The text updated is the same as in the previous updates for professional translation. The web pages in the store, the commands in the game itself, and the quick start guide portion of the documentaiton for these 3 languages has been professionally translated. Note that it is rather difficult for a perfect translation to be created given everything that can go wrong in the translation process.
[ 2018-07-20 07:06:14 CET ] [ Original post ]
Today an update has been pushed out which adds professional translations for 5 more languages. Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Arabic, and Simplified Chinese. The store pages for these languages are professionally translated. The commands in the game when you switch to these languages in the game are professionally translated. The quick start guide in the documentation for these languages has been professionally translated. A few errors were fixed in the update too.
[ 2018-04-19 00:59:47 CET ] [ Original post ]
There was an update pushed out today which mainly fixes some problems with foreign language translation. Several failures to translate were corrected. Also professionally translated program commands for German replaced the machine translated commands that were previously used. The web page for the German store was updated to a professionally translated version. The quick start guide in the game documenation for German was updated to a professionally translated version. Some other minor errors were corrected too. The professional translation was provided by the good people at Verbatim Solutions.
[ 2018-03-26 20:59:23 CET ] [ Original post ]
There was an update pushed out today which mainly fixes some problems with foreign language translation. Several failures to translate were corrected. Also professionally translated program commands for German replaced the machine translated commands that were previously used. The web page for the German store was updated to a professionally translated version. The quick start guide in the game documenation for German was updated to a professionally translated version. Some other minor errors were corrected too. The professional translation was provided by the good people at Verbatim Solutions.
[ 2018-03-26 20:59:23 CET ] [ Original post ]
Greetings! The new version of WeaponizedChess is now available. This version runs on Windows, is fully animated, and allows you to play online with your Steam friends. If you already own WeaponizedChess then you now have this version too in addition to the Linux/SteamOS version. This new version does NOT include an artificial intelligence. You cannot play a game against the computer. The Linux/SteamOS version DOES have an AI but it is not as good as a human player. The new version provides the Steam overlay although the old version still does not. The new version is available in all the foreign languages that the original version supported (i.e. all the languages supported by Steam except Brazilian Portuguese). The price for WeaponizedChess has been lowered to $7.50 from the old price (or it will be as soon as Steam approves the price change). Restating and rephrasing: If you buy WeaponizedChess now you get both the Windows, the Linux, and the SteamOS versions. If you have a Steam console running SteamOS (a non-Windows version) then you can play the older version on that. If you have a Steam console running Windows then you can play the new version on that console. This new version has been tested to run on Windows 10 and Windows 7. This new version is strictly a 64 bit application. It will run on i3, i5, i7 chips and equivalent chips. The new version allows you to play an online game with your Steam friends but only with your Steam friends. To play an online game with a Steam friend following this procedure: One person starts the game then clicks File then clicks Play Online. Then click to start a server (private or public) then click Invite a Friend. Ideally your friend already has started their copy of the game. Then the 1st person clicks the name of their friend. The computer of the friend bleeps at them and then they press SHIFT TAB. The overlay windows opens up and the friend clicks Join. After the original person gives the friend enough time to click Join the person clicks File and Play Online again. If the friend has joined then the text window will say that a game can now be started. The 1st person clicks Start Game. On both computers a window will open asking which color the player wants to be. Both players can pick any color they want. A conflict will be randomly resolved. Next, either player can go the the Play Online window and click End Negotiations. The other player will be notified that Negotiations are over. Then (usually, unless this is a loaded game where the white player has the 1st move) the black player can make the 1st move (then click End Turn to send their move to their opponent). Another variation of this process occurs when the two players do not immediately End Negotiations. If negotiations are ended immediately after Start Game then the two players will play a standard WeaponizedChess game. Alternatively, each player can click Play Change then modify a game option. On the change of a game option the other player is queried as to whether they will allow this change. The other player can allow or deny any change. Multiple changes can be made. Both players can request (and deny) changes. When either player decides they will allow no further changes then they go to the Play Online window and click End Negotiations. This technique allows the online multiplayer game to be changed to be acceptable to both friends. You can always use the overlay chat window to verbally come to an agreement. Either player during the game can save the game. In a multiplayer game this save causes a local copy of the game to be created on each machine. Note that this creation of a save does NOT involve transmission of a file from one computer player to another. The save file thus generated is created purely by using the local definition of the game. After such a save file is created at a later time the two players can start an online multiplayer game and DURING THE NEGOTIATION PHASE can load that file that was created at an earlier time. The other player is queried as to whether to allow the load of this file. If the other player agrees then that saved game is loaded on both computers. Then the rules can be changed (negotiations are still active) or ...not.. if either player clicks End Negotiations immediately after the load of the saved online multiplayer file. The pre-built scenario boards in your save game directory can be loaded this same way into an online multiplayer game. For a online multiplayer saved game to be successfully loaded you must be the same SteamID and color your were when you saved the game. Suggestion: whenever during the online game setup process the computer asks you a question answer immediately and whenever you are waiting for your friend to answer give them plenty of time. If you have clicked End Negotiations then the other player must click to acknowledge that before you can make the 1st move (assuming you have the 1st move). The idea is not to rush through the process (unless you are being asked to respond!). Hurry up when asked for a response and wait when expecting a response. It is possible to untimely mis-click and foul up the online game setup process. If you have requested a change then don't try to request another before the response to the 1st request comes back! You'll confuse the poor computer. Use chat to facilitate matters.
[ 2018-02-13 01:07:24 CET ] [ Original post ]
Greetings! The new version of WeaponizedChess is now available. This version runs on Windows, is fully animated, and allows you to play online with your Steam friends. If you already own WeaponizedChess then you now have this version too in addition to the Linux/SteamOS version. This new version does NOT include an artificial intelligence. You cannot play a game against the computer. The Linux/SteamOS version DOES have an AI but it is not as good as a human player. The new version provides the Steam overlay although the old version still does not. The new version is available in all the foreign languages that the original version supported (i.e. all the languages supported by Steam except Brazilian Portuguese). The price for WeaponizedChess has been lowered to $7.50 from the old price (or it will be as soon as Steam approves the price change). Restating and rephrasing: If you buy WeaponizedChess now you get both the Windows, the Linux, and the SteamOS versions. If you have a Steam console running SteamOS (a non-Windows version) then you can play the older version on that. If you have a Steam console running Windows then you can play the new version on that console. This new version has been tested to run on Windows 10 and Windows 7. This new version is strictly a 64 bit application. It will run on i3, i5, i7 chips and equivalent chips. The new version allows you to play an online game with your Steam friends but only with your Steam friends. To play an online game with a Steam friend following this procedure: One person starts the game then clicks File then clicks Play Online. Then click to start a server (private or public) then click Invite a Friend. Ideally your friend already has started their copy of the game. Then the 1st person clicks the name of their friend. The computer of the friend bleeps at them and then they press SHIFT TAB. The overlay windows opens up and the friend clicks Join. After the original person gives the friend enough time to click Join the person clicks File and Play Online again. If the friend has joined then the text window will say that a game can now be started. The 1st person clicks Start Game. On both computers a window will open asking which color the player wants to be. Both players can pick any color they want. A conflict will be randomly resolved. Next, either player can go the the Play Online window and click End Negotiations. The other player will be notified that Negotiations are over. Then (usually, unless this is a loaded game where the white player has the 1st move) the black player can make the 1st move (then click End Turn to send their move to their opponent). Another variation of this process occurs when the two players do not immediately End Negotiations. If negotiations are ended immediately after Start Game then the two players will play a standard WeaponizedChess game. Alternatively, each player can click Play Change then modify a game option. On the change of a game option the other player is queried as to whether they will allow this change. The other player can allow or deny any change. Multiple changes can be made. Both players can request (and deny) changes. When either player decides they will allow no further changes then they go to the Play Online window and click End Negotiations. This technique allows the online multiplayer game to be changed to be acceptable to both friends. You can always use the overlay chat window to verbally come to an agreement. Either player during the game can save the game. In a multiplayer game this save causes a local copy of the game to be created on each machine. Note that this creation of a save does NOT involve transmission of a file from one computer player to another. The save file thus generated is created purely by using the local definition of the game. After such a save file is created at a later time the two players can start an online multiplayer game and DURING THE NEGOTIATION PHASE can load that file that was created at an earlier time. The other player is queried as to whether to allow the load of this file. If the other player agrees then that saved game is loaded on both computers. Then the rules can be changed (negotiations are still active) or ...not.. if either player clicks End Negotiations immediately after the load of the saved online multiplayer file. The pre-built scenario boards in your save game directory can be loaded this same way into an online multiplayer game. For a online multiplayer saved game to be successfully loaded you must be the same SteamID and color your were when you saved the game. Suggestion: whenever during the online game setup process the computer asks you a question answer immediately and whenever you are waiting for your friend to answer give them plenty of time. If you have clicked End Negotiations then the other player must click to acknowledge that before you can make the 1st move (assuming you have the 1st move). The idea is not to rush through the process (unless you are being asked to respond!). Hurry up when asked for a response and wait when expecting a response. It is possible to untimely mis-click and foul up the online game setup process. If you have requested a change then don't try to request another before the response to the 1st request comes back! You'll confuse the poor computer. Use chat to facilitate matters.
[ 2018-02-13 01:07:24 CET ] [ Original post ]
- WeaponizedChess:AI & No MatchMaking [376.22 M]
- WeaponizedChess Depot:Free To Play [353.11 M]
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.
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Processor: 64 bitMemory: 1 GB RAM
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Steam hardware acceleration strongly recommended but non-accelerated software rendering allows this game to run on any graphics board
- Storage: 410 MB available space
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