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King-Out by KillerB

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made by KillerB for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

King-Out is based on the real-life sport of Chessboxing. As the name and theme imply, every ten seconds the game swaps from a chess match to a boxing match. The match ends when either player is in checkmated in chess or knocked out in boxing.

Chess Controls: Left-Click - Select/Move Piece Right-Click - Unselect Piece (A work around for selecting the wrong piece)

NOTE: CHESS BOT BUGS OUT, SO BOTH CHESS PLAYERS ARE HUMAN CONTROLLED AS A WORKAROUND

Boxing Controls: Z - Punch Left X - Punch Right Left Arrow - Dodge Left Right Arrow - Dodge Right

Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/king-out

Ratings

Overall 1168th 2.74⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1063th 2.78⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 383th 3.56⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 489th 3.76⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 901th 3.08⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 516th 3.26⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Humor 401th 3.167⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 948th 3⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 15🗳️ 27🗨️

Feedback

PenguinMunch
04. Oct 2022 · 00:14 UTC
Super fun game! This was a great idea! Something I thought might be helpful to mention; if there's supposed to be a win condition, I'm not sure if it's triggering (it's obviously fine if not, we didn't get around to having a win condition in ours yet).
LDJam user 306251
04. Oct 2022 · 00:27 UTC
@penguinmunch Thanks for the kind words. There is a win condition, but a bug kept it from triggering. I just fixed that, but you'll have to refresh the page to restart the game. Sigh.
Hydezeke
04. Oct 2022 · 04:03 UTC
Really neat concept- I only recently became aware of chess boxing so it was fun seeing LD game simulating it hahaha
I love the extra effort to animate the punch-out sequence. The music is a banger too 👍
lunkums
04. Oct 2022 · 13:34 UTC
Great idea! I was a bit confused when the opponent wasn't moving in chess, especially since there's an AI for the boxer. Otherwise solid.
LDJam user 306251
05. Oct 2022 · 01:02 UTC
@lunkums Yeah, I wasn't able to get the chess bot working before submission time, so I left the chess segment as two player. I'm going to send an email to (or tweet at) Mike to see if I can fix it or if that would count as adding a new feature. The code is there, it's just commented out.
Thanks for the feedback.
bobo_oh
05. Oct 2022 · 08:46 UTC
Nice game! I had some bugs with the chess part, but overall, nice idea! keep it up!
stewthepoo
05. Oct 2022 · 08:51 UTC
Fun idea, I dig the presentation and sound. Jank aside, I'd love to play a polished version of this.
saikai
05. Oct 2022 · 09:12 UTC
Really great idea to use chess boxing. Sad that the chess ai bugs out, but was fun anyways.
Johnsensei
05. Oct 2022 · 22:47 UTC
Good job guys. Making either a chess or boxing game in a jam would be a challenge. You accomplished both. Playing chess against myself was kind of weird...
MarcoDeevil
07. Oct 2022 · 16:44 UTC
Nice use of theme, really smooth boxing mechanics.
David Stevenson
09. Oct 2022 · 00:05 UTC
Switching back in forth between the two messed with my brain in the best way possible :)
LDJam user 250905
10. Oct 2022 · 04:10 UTC
Really innovative game! I wish some of the mechanics worked more smoothly (chess bot, anticipation frames for boxing...), but I had a fun time playing through it! The music does it's job fantastically, and I'm having trouble turning it off, so here's a little applause to whoever composed it (:clap:)! I've been playing the original *Punch-out* on the Nintendo Switch recently, so this was really fun to try! :smile:
Hexela
11. Oct 2022 · 16:18 UTC
A really fun concept of reacreating a totaly real sport as a videogame. I wish chess bot worked, but i totally understand that making a good chess bot in 2-3 days is insanely hard, heck, i cant do that)), the visuals look very good, the music is sick + i really liked that the change in games is perfectly in rythm, overall great job!!
AdrianGray
16. Oct 2022 · 18:27 UTC
Nice idea and pretty good implementation. Would be great to have the CPU working as playing with outselves sounds weird )))