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    Uber Chess

    We finished Uber Chess. A project we worked on the past 3-4 weeks. This will show the power of Necro3D Game Engine. I was amazed myself how fast you could build a 3D game with the engine.

    So here's a link to my site: http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Project...e_Uber%20Chess

    And of course a screenshot:


    We also released the source code!!
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    Uber Chess

    The game is beautiful but there are two things:
    - The positions of kings and queens should be switched (The kings should be on "e" column)
    - The white's left corner should be black not white.

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    Uber Chess

    I was actually looking forward to this game, when you mentioned it a few weeks ago. First let me congratulate you on this speedy job. You've already mentioned in the readme yourself, but it's indeed pretty amazing to see how fast you're able to create a new game with your engine.

    Although the game- and chess engine appears to do it's jobs well, I can't help but wonder if your mind(s?) where set to create a more visually appealing game rather than focused on playability.

    You've got all kinds of fancy stuff going on, like gloweffects, explosions, physics, etc. Which are all well executed. However, some aspects make it very difficult to play this game. I've looked for a setting in the readme, and pushed all buttons on my keyboard, but there appears to be no way to place the camera in a different view. In the current setting it is, especially in the midgame, very difficult to get a good overview of the board.

    Also, the selector is not always positioned where you would expect it. If I play with white, I expect it to appear near my own pieces and not near black's pieces.

    Something you really need to change is the board setup.
    The king and queen need to switch places and the most right field (h1) should be white.

    I also noticed an Fatal Exception error when creating a new game and pressing the spacebar.

    All in all, its a good game. But you really should invest more time in how its played.

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    Uber Chess

    Beautiful engine. Great idea (developing the Game Building Environment).

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    Uber Chess

    Thanks for the feedback:

    About the positions, I think they are correct as we don't use our own chess engine. Not sure about this...
    About the board your correct, it's just a .map file and is easy to change.

    We where indeed looking for a more visual approach.

    About the camera, you can stop pushing buttons now , we didn't program a button to change the camera's view point. However every map has it's own camera positions. For some maps you don't have any good view on the board, on some maps it's somewhat better done.

    I know the rules of chess, but I'm not an expert, so I apologizes for the chess mistakes (board and king/queen positions).
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    Uber Chess

    Nice work, well done. I got beaten first time round. It's been a while since I played chess
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    Uber Chess

    Hey, there he is! Thats the guy that ruined chess! Get him!!! :evil: :rambo: :viking: harao: :cylon: :elephant: :hellspawn: :alien: :spidey:

    :lol: [size=9px](j/k)[/size]

    Awesome job man. Probably the nicest chess set I've ever see.
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    Uber Chess

    About the positions, I think they are correct as we don't use our own chess engine. Not sure about this...
    Unfortunatelly they are not. Take a look here:
    http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=EE101
    I do hope you find the way to fix it beacause those misplaced kings make the game allmost unplayable for me :cry:

    I also agree with Traveler's point on camera view. The ability to rotate a view would be a great help.

    Another thing is the tron map. It is too dark and it is allmost impossible for me to see the black pieces.

    Anyway, as I said before the graphics is great, sounds also. Well done.

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    Uber Chess

    The problem isn't that the king and queen are switched but the scene is mirrored. The white queen must be on a white field, the black on a black one, this is correct. But the white queen must be on the left side of the king while the black one must be on the right side. Further, the lower left corner field must be black. So simply draw the whole scene mirrored and everything is fine
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    One more thing. Can you add that player can choose what his pawn will be promoted to? I know that in 99% of situations queen is enough, but sometimes there is a need for something else.

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