#chogue

[vaninakan]

Oops more ship related stuff-

I swear I'm not a heavy ship artist, I just really love these two ;v;

Also something seems different about Choco here.

Hmm... I wonder why :0

Auge (guy on the right) belongs to @conflictedbeing

[tropylium]

I’ve thought about the idea myself before, and it turns out that yes, there indeed is already a Chess Roguelike. This nerdsniped me pretty hard this weekend, but It Is Done…

strategy tips:

There are at least a few openings that allow taking all 16 pieces into the main game. The one I ended up using looks like an AI glitch though.

Black has 2–15 units per level, while the White party is max 16 units & receives refills fairly slowly. This means that all exhanges are beneficial to Black, regardless of pieces, and the AI always captures if it can. Therefore they key strategy is to avoid or cleanly checkmate enemy pieces, not to fight them. — Enemy knights and bishops require 1–2 queens to checkmate depending on crampedness, rooks require 2–4 ♕, queens require 3–5 ♕ plus a knight (and they make for enough hassle to be usually better avoided). — Bishops can usually run away from an enemy rook and sometimes from a queen; knights usually cannot. — Regular chess tactics like forks and skewers continue to work.

Pawns will be easy to promote and hence are essentially reserve; promote them as soon as convenient. AFAICT there is no way to promote them to anything other than queens, though. (They also autopromote on level-up if your starting room places pawns on a top row. Occasionally a 4×4 room might be generated with a row of queens trapped behind a row of immobile pawns…)

Fog of war means that all scouting is dangerous, though a bit less so if you pay attention to Black’s moves (announced algebraically in the top left). All scouts risk dying to lurking enemies, and should ~always be protected by a piece from the rear. Piece disposability ranks roughly as 1. spare bishops, 2. spare knights, 3. last bishops of a given color, 4. rooks, 5. last knight, 6. unpromoted pawns, 7. queens.

Legal move highlighting is also usable intel.

I have no idea if gold does anything after being collected, but before being collected it acts a wall for Black.

[vaninakan]

I've shared this video around with friends and maybe a few smaller but public servers but never on my socials so here

Small meme-y kinda video featuring Choco being 🏳️‍🌈

Some of the animation here (mainly on Choco's end) is actually part of a rough draft for an animation meme I wanna finish (eventually....)

There is a few ship names between these two but @conflictedbeing and I mainly call it Chogue (ChocoXAuge)

Auge belongs to @conflictedbeing btw :#]

[freeindiegame]

Chogue by Pippin Barr & Jonathan Lessard

The counterpart to Rogess.