Chess 2
A prototype of Chess 2 by Oats Jenkins.
(Not my video of course)
If you haven't watched it, then do it. It's a great video. Don't forget to subscribe.
Anyway
There are many additions to this new version of Chess. Although most of the video was very in depth about what happens in certain situations, there were some things that had to be made up. For example, the video details that a monkey isn't limited to how many swings it can perform. This that means it can just go back and forth swinging over 1 piece, and it could get into a situation where it can't end it's turn by taking a piece like it normally would. I decided to add a simple button to end your turn if you're swinging with the monkey. You also can't go back on your moves with the monkey.
The settings menu allows you to save and load board positions through a string of text. It also allows you to switch between color palettes.
A new feature is the board editor, which lets you create custom positions to then load into a game. You can toggle the first player to move by clicking the text "____'s Turn".
More features to come like a timer and online multiplayer.
(If you find any bugs please or you have any ideas for improvements, please let me know )
Development log
- General tweaksAug 23, 2022
- The beginningJul 11, 2022
- Colors!Jul 06, 2022
- Small UpdateJul 05, 2022
- Chess 2 MobileJul 02, 2022
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I LOVE CHESS 2
i am
nota HUGE fan of Oats Jenkins and ive seen this vid and ive always wanted to play it. thx!glitches i noticed: sometimes the monkey can't jump more than 1 time per move, if you used the board editor to make there be multiple bears then somethimes you can't capture them
yes, can you add a AI
This is really cool I love someone actually made this
since when could elephants jump over stuff
well some old versions of chess let you jump over pieces and some didn't, and the video didn't really specify so i chose for them to be able to jump.
Oh ok but elephants can’t jump irl so I was just confused but in the chess I know only the knight(horse) could jump over pieces but that’s the second newest version
You should change the favicon to the king or the monkey. Also, I was very confused by the swinging thing where you have to click "Stop Swinging" at the bottom. Can you make it more clear that you must click that in order to stop? I thought it was telling me to stop.
Really cool seeing a Canvas version of this! Zach Alfano's multiplayer implementation is also pure javascript, so there may be a really good collab opportunity here
Zach is in the server: https://discord.gg/R3jaD22w
I'd love to have Swiftlingly join too! Pls check us out!
I like this one better than Zach's tbh, but his is awesome too! Especially the multi-player
they're working tgt for some potentially big and more fun stuff... don't wanna give them too much pressure tho cuz they wanna do it for fun mainly so won't leak anything out
Can I have the link for the discord server
about the monkey swinging, what do u think about just showing all the squares it can go to by swinging, instead of one swing at a time? I guess the latter is more visual and looks like swinging but it can take longer to play. So, if u can, i'd also suggest animating the shortest path to the destination with "swings" despite the player only clicking on one square to go to.
saving the king does not work
Yes I found this issue as well, should be fixed now. Thanks for letting me know.
Hi,
My name is Super (like irl), but you can call me lloooll as how I mostly go online.
Since I saw the video by Oats Jenkins I already had this “big” idea of making this game real and popularise it cuz not just the game itself, but the idea of “updating chess” felt really interesting. I know many have done variations but I really thought this game in particular is very fun. And on that, thank you for making the game cuz I can’t code for nothing so I wouldn’t have done it myself.
I just came back from a trip so could only do this now, but I just made a discord server… and my idea is this: gather people tgt to make this an actual, “official looking” game. By that I mean, finding designers that can make the game (board, pieces etc) look neat. Multiple programmers and web designers can collaborate to perfect the game mechanics and interface and stuff. We can try incorporate ai like Stockfish to actually analyse it... yeah basically another chess.com or lichess but for chess 2.0. (About costs and stuff we can talk in detail... i'm eager to learn from u too) I’d really love to see a very presentable game/website into reality and, ofc with first review and permission from Oats Jenkins, we can send it to various chess influencers (Gothamchess, Hikaru and everyone else…) and really popularize it!
Yeah kinda sounds like building a cult but i think it’d be a cool community. This is the server: https://discord.gg/vMvvt533. It’s very rough but hopefully you can get the idea. I'm not particularly good in discord, chess (like 1500ish in chess.com), or coding (literally just did a summer course five years ago), but would love to see something like this happen.
Also I tried reply to some comments by inviting them to the server but seems like Youtube thought I was spamming and didn’t register any of my replies (well fair enough tbh).
Please let me know if you’d be interested to join. Ofc rn I’m not really thinking of it as business or anything (so nothing too serious), but more like just a fun thing to do over the summer. And I hope this can gather quite a few talented people like you and a cool community (or cult lol) so I think it’d be fun. I've also emailed Zach Alfano (the other done one i saw in the comments: https://betterchess.netlify.app/index.html) about this and waiting for response. If all and more can join, I'd appreciate it so much cuz even if in the end this comes to nothing it'd still be a fun experience/journey.
Regards,
Lloooll (Super)
uh- cool...im just curious why u name super?
Literatly my parents called me bluecheese as a nickname, and even considered my name to be boo boo
lol cuz my name in my parent's native tongue means literally "super" in english, so they named my english name super. now i'm almost never called by my parents' native tongue name apart from like border control people when i travel
I’m curious if it’s too late to join. The link has expired, but I’d really like to see what this project becomes.
https://discord.gg/R3jaD22w
can I have the invite link? This one is expired.
Hey I'm the first (confederate state of America yt acc)
Nice to have you
Thanks