ChessCraft

Frame of Mind

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About this game

Never play the same game of chess again! ChessCraft is a chess sandbox with an AI computer opponent. Customise chess boards, rules, and pieces. Share your creations online. Play your friends online, or play the computer, or choose from one of 75 built-in chess boards in adventure mode.

https://www.chesscraft.ca

Many chess AI mobile games already exist, but only ChessCraft allows the player to create such wacky boards and pieces and immediately play a decent computer opponent.

Create new pieces with any combination of the 8 bishop or rook slides, plus a 7x7 grid of knight-like hops. Pieces can also enhance or restrict nearby pieces. Create new boards with any enabled or disabled tile up to 16x16. Place promotion rules for any piece, anywhere. Place tile rules like witch windows (teleporters), sanctuaries, and more. The computer AI opponent then uses concepts from computer science and graph theory to understand your creations and play against you.

When you share a board, your friends can play the AI too. Sharing creates a new web page just for you, like this:

https://www.chesscraft.ca/design?id=shape-variant1

ChessCraft is full and free with no ads, except for the occasional popup which asks you to buy ChessCraft Patron. If you become a patron, you won't see those interruptions anymore. If you're a teacher, student, or you cannot afford ChessCraft Patron, send me an email and I'll send you a special code.

Visit the website and send me an email if you have any feedback or questions. If you like the game, please rate it!

Ratings and reviews

This game is probably the best custom chess system available for now, but there's one problem I'm starting to see, sometimes when I finish making a new board and save it then get an ad for this game, I just ignore it and close the game because I did what I wanted to but when I relaunch it later, the next thing I know: the board I made is gone. So you should probably look into this because needing to replicate and make the board all over again isn't nice, I had to do it like 4 times because of it

What a fun and splendid app! I've always thought of my own chess pieces for a long time. I do have a few questions though. An idea for a piece I wanted to make was a vampire where it moved like a king and if any piece would capture it they too would be captured like a trade. How would I implement this feature? Any way all the best for you!

Great game. So far I've only played adventure, but it's pretty fun already. There are a few typos in some of the descriptions, but the reason I didn't give 5 stars was because of 2 things. First, I believe there is a wrong piece in front of the black tree in neebling (doe not lion). Second, I was trying to get the 2 seconds per turn badge and realized that it's basically impossible for levels 3 and 4 because they take a while to make a move and the timer seems to count their time.

What's new

Several bug fixes with UI, logic, and saving.
A new button to retry device permissions for custom images.
Better internal debug information to fix future problems.
New admin dashboard (internal).
Updated font rendering.