Checkerslike
This is my first upload and a Submission for the Beginners ' Jam Aug2025.
How to play:
You start with just one piece and your goal is to defeat your opponent, who starts with 12 pieces. Evertime you lose, you are rewarded with a new piece.
There are currently two special pieces available.
One explodes if the opponent jumps over it, all nearby pieces of your opponent are removed.
The other leaves behind a duplicate of your own pieces with each move.
Drag pieces from the left side on your board. You can only place pieces in the first three rows, counting from the bottom.
Press 'start' to begin.
I made everything on my own, including the Opponent-Ai. I could not finish and polish the project in the given timeframe so there are some known issues:
- the player cannot jump twice in a row
- the player cannot promote any of their pieces
- fast clicking may cause a wasted move, or invalid moves
- issues with jumping multiple times in general
- dragging pieces on occupied places deleted them from the game
- no sound
- unpolished
Comments
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It works and is infact more than 2% of checkers, so well done.
Interesting twist on checkers too I think, once its fully implemented
Some CC:
Controls were confusing - you can click start before dragging the piece onto the board which should be prevented.
Also then double clicking the piece to be able to move it was not clear, I almost gave up because attempting dragging and dropping on the board to move was not working.
Thank you for your critique!
If I learned anything from this Jam, it's that I have to plan in some time for playtesting by any other than me.
Isn't it strange that not everyboday thinks exactly like me :D