The Chess Variant Forum

Here's a sneak preview. The cats come from Chess and Half (by Nicolino Will) and the bulldogs come from Bulldog Chess (by vickalan). The game also has the normal chess pieces, chancellors, and guards.

Still to come: piece definitions, game rules, and of course the name of the game.

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Couldn't help but give a cheeky preview myself.
If I have time, I'm going to texture some models in Blender and make a board in Tabletop Simulator.

Tabletop Simulator looks like it started as a good idea that just turned into a juvenile implementation where you just throw pieces or upend the table at the end. Is there a way to link the GUI to a search engine? If so, that would be the more interesting feature, otherwise it just looks like it only makes 3D views of stuff without much in the way of releasing final products with it. All of the demos I have seen look like they are more interested in the "physics" of tossing stuff around rather than real game play. Or am I missing something?

Maybe I'll check it out then. It says they built it with the Unity engine, so I might as well just learn that.

Over the years, I've had to relearn, from scratch, how to build the graphical user interface 9 times. Each time, all of the previous commands were completely obsoleted and I was out of luck. I went from using Apple B.A.S.I.C. in 1983 to Macintosh Pascal to the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop and RedEdit, to CodeWarrior, then Codewarrior for System 7, then Borland C for Windows 95, to Borland C++ for Windows 2000 and Windows NT, to Visual Studio 2005, after which time I gave up! Now I am using Visual Studio 2015 and only writing console apps with no GUI.

My Blackjack program, shown below, published on the Macintosh platform from 1993-1997.

I cooked up and submitted a variant, which I called Decimaka.

It applies some of the quite original game mechanics of the historic game of Maka Dai Dai Shogi to a Chess-like context.

The easiest way to define a new variant in Fairy-Max is to just clone another engine-defined variant by duplicating its definition in the fmax.ini file, change its name in the 'Game:' line to a new one, and then start modifying the things you want different. If there is any interest in this, we should start a separate thread on this. The fmax.ini file starts with a description on how to do this, btw, but it might be a bit terse.

Quote from: Asher Hurowitz on January 17, 2018, 02:09:49 pm

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Did you receive my PM last Jan 27?

yes

Out of curiosity, who's entered?
I'm hoping we have a diverse range of variants, simple AND complex.