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Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 25 Dec 2014, 18:21
by Turtle95
Hey guys,

I decided that this year I'd do something for you guys instead of nothing. Without further interruption, let me show you: Chessyourself.

If some of you may recall, Idiot got bored and made some fancy chess pieces that dubbed into the era of 'chessyourself avatars'. What I plan to do is simple: make chess, but use these graphics he made. However, the only thing is that I need 12 more chess pieces, and these are the rules to obtain one:
Rules of Chessyourself Verification wrote: 1) You must be in good standing with the community. If you're seen as a spammer, you're not getting in.
2) First of all, you have to post in this thread to show you're interested.
All of these rules should be a good guideline as to whether you think you are allowed in, and I hope it is seen as fair and balanced.

Another thing: The game will be finished (I hope) by New Year's (Eve?) as a playable game/demo. I say this because it won't take long to make, only that certain features like showing where you can move will take a while. This game/demo will not feature AI and will need a second person with you, although I could try to make some AI once everything important is done.

Here are the current pieces:
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Screenshots:
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Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 25 Dec 2014, 19:38
by HugoBDesigner
I wanna be the king, and if you decline I'll make your game crash like you've never seen before!
I'm just kidding, I'm not gonna do blackmailing, I'm already in, heheh.

Looking good so far. But I have a question: How will you know which peace is what?

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 25 Dec 2014, 21:36
by Turtle95
In terms of what side, I'll make 2 layers per graphic. You'll know what side the piece is on depending on a diamond-shaped hole in the middle of its base. It'll be filled in with a lighter black with a white outline for the black team and also the opposite for white.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 25 Dec 2014, 23:19
by Wary
You should allow custom pieces before everyone starts raging after you for "why I'm not a fucking king".

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 25 Dec 2014, 23:23
by Turtle95
To allow custom pieces would be a little more work involved, Wary. I also could make it so that it's randomly chosen instead as to who is what each game.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 25 Dec 2014, 23:23
by Wary
Turtle95 wrote:To allow custom pieces would be a little more work involved, Wary. I also could make it so that it's randomly chosen instead as to who is what each game.
That is a good idea.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 25 Dec 2014, 23:25
by Turtle95
I updated the OP so that you only need the two requirements and don't need to say what you want to be. I don't know why I thought that was good at the time to say what piece you want to be. It was early in the morning for me and I was in a rush.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 26 Dec 2014, 00:02
by Jorichi
I never thought this game would see the light of day.
At least I know it'll become something now, because it's in good hands.
Turtle95 wrote:To allow custom pieces would be a little more work involved, Wary. I also could make it so that it's randomly chosen instead as to who is what each game.
If you'd do this, how do you plan on indicating which character is what piece each game?

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 26 Dec 2014, 00:11
by Turtle95
When a random ID is chosen, make sure it's not chosen again, while also giving it a random string value ("pawn", "bishop", "rook", etc). This would be the easiest way to do that. Of course, I'd also have to make sure that the value does not exceed the amount of black/white pieces for that rank. This is one reason why I wanted to do fixed player pieces earlier, even though Wary has the point of people arguing about not being a King piece.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 26 Dec 2014, 00:52
by Squidish
I'd like to be one, if you still need more. This looks nice and I'd love to see it and play it when it's done.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 26 Dec 2014, 03:17
by Qwerbey
So I finally made a chess piece of myself:
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I don't think it's that great.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 26 Dec 2014, 04:15
by idiot9.0
Just to get it out here I have been asked to sprite additional trophies/pieces for anyone else wanting to be in the game and have agreed to since I did make them originally.

So just to make it easier, if you don't have a piece and want to be in it please post some sort of reference to what you want to look like.
If you already have a piece and want it remade, do the same thing.

(This message has not been run by Turtle and he may do things differenty but I'll still be spriting it regardless and the reference would still be appreciated)

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 26 Dec 2014, 04:17
by Turtle95
Yeah, I was also gonna mention you're doing the art, but didn't.. my bad (also I agree with what Idiot said). I should have. Don't kill me! Also, I'm currently streaming at www.hitbox.tv/TurtleP right now if you want to watch development.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 26 Dec 2014, 05:11
by Qwerbey
Alright, I made a better version:
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Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 26 Dec 2014, 06:42
by Turtle95
Progress:



I tested each piece's class with the exception of the queen (which is just a rook + bishop together in one) and they all work. Now I have to get the rules done (check, checkmate, castling).

Also hovering over a piece briefly causes it to show the type of piece it is so you know what you're doing.

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Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 27 Dec 2014, 02:53
by MagicPillow
Horribly outdated chess piece is horribly outdated.

Here have a new one:
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Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 27 Dec 2014, 03:59
by B-Man99
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Found this in an old folder
If there's a knight spot open I would love that
Obviously the sprite needs some work but I hope that's a decent reference...

This game looks really cool. Looking forward to seeing how it ends up, and thanks for being awesome!

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 30 Dec 2014, 09:22
by Turtle95
Update OP with new screenshots n stuff.

Also now instead of the hover-text you can hold left control to display what each piece is. Each piece is randomly generated for every game, and also I made everything looks like traditional chess.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 30 Dec 2014, 17:02
by Squidish
Ok! I tried making my own chesspiece. Tell me what you think. Image

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 31 Dec 2014, 20:10
by Turtle95
PrincessKiller, it looks nice, but too small. I haven't gotten an update from idiot with more chess pieces yet so I don't know who he has made. Also due to plans for today and tomorrow I might not be able to release the demo (also because the bishop won't capture pieces for some reason).

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 01 Jan 2015, 02:28
by idiot9.0
This is the current list of who've I made so far. It will be updated as I make people if they post here.

QwertymanO07
MM102
SauloFXx and his fuzzy ball of meows
Willware the Hedgehog
Skye the recolor Pony
Saso
MagicPillow
B-Man
PrincessKiller
Mr.Q.Marx

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 01 Jan 2015, 22:20
by JohnHOne
i tried to make my chess
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(Blame me if the shading is terrible)

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 01 Jan 2015, 22:48
by Wilo
I only now realized the existence of this thread, and needless to say this is one going of the most fantastic things of 2015

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 02 Jan 2015, 03:13
by JohnHOne
Bored,i changed the Stabyourself Logo
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Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 02 Jan 2015, 15:40
by Squidish
Fantastic. I'm being sarcastic. Show it off somewhere else if it has nothing to do with the game.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 03 Jan 2015, 15:32
by Mr.Q.Marx?
PrincessKiller wrote:Show it off somewhere else if it has nothing to do with the game.
Be dumb less.
It's Turtle95 logos. They could be used for the game. Maybe it could have been better to PM them but it's him trying to help out.

I'd like to have my avatar in this if it wouldn't be too much bother. I'm having some issues working out scaling at the moment. It's quite a wide symbol. Also I guess I just want to make sure symbols would be allowed?

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 03 Jan 2015, 22:10
by idiot9.0
Why wouldn't your symbol be allowed? I made TripleXero's symbol as one back when I first made them so I don't see what the problem with yours would be.
Plus it's mainly been your avatar anyway so there's nothing else to go by.

Also here's a picture of all the new ones I've made thus far. Some are in Turtle's OP some are not.
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Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 03 Jan 2015, 22:12
by Squidish
That's so much better than mine. Nice Job!

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 03 Jan 2015, 22:27
by B-Man99
I love it! Those are great :D

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 04 Jan 2015, 00:45
by LightningFire
I'm going to go ahead and make my own chess piece to replace the current one, since my character looks pretty different from how it looks there. I would also make one for my pony OC, but I have already done it before, but I can't find it anywhere.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 04 Jan 2015, 04:44
by Turtle95
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Hugo's work on the Main Menu.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 04 Jan 2015, 19:14
by LightningFire
That ended up pretty nicely.
I finished making mine, by the way.
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Bigger version, because why not?
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If there can only be one per person, then you could replace my current one for the one I made.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 10 Jan 2015, 15:05
by Tecminer
Shwoop?
maybe?
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Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 10 Jan 2015, 17:29
by Squidish
Turtle95 wrote:it looks nice, but too small.
:P

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 10 Jan 2015, 21:01
by Tecminer
meh
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Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 10 Jan 2015, 21:10
by idiot9.0
I'll make one for you later.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 10 Jan 2015, 22:44
by mindnomad
I sorta wish I could make one of Luna but I can't do sprite art for the life of me.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 11 Jan 2015, 01:33
by idiot9.0
idiot9.0 wrote:I'll make one for you later.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 11 Jan 2015, 07:43
by Turtle95
As of Idiot's latest sprites I have 1 spot left (for the traditional max of 32 pieces), so I guess that goes to Teciminer.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 11 Jan 2015, 10:50
by TurretBot
Well, I guess it depends on how much you want Camewel in it. Personally I would rather have Luna, but it's your decision.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 11 Jan 2015, 15:46
by LightningFire
Can't they just replace Luna's current one for the Luna one?

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 11 Jan 2015, 17:48
by Turtle95
Yeah, I'm gonna replace Luna's current one with the new one, and I don't know how Camewel actually feels about being in it, but I won't discard that piece unless he says he would rather not be in.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 11 Jan 2015, 21:36
by TurretBot
or you can layer the new luna one under the old one like in her avatar

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 11 Jan 2015, 22:26
by idiot9.0
Unless Turtle decides to add more this is the final of all I made. Including new style Mindnomad/Luna and Tecminer.
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Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 12 Jan 2015, 02:34
by FuriousTH
I tried to make my own piece,
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well, if I guide the piece of WiilWare
Idiot, I hope if you can improve it
I hope also participate in this game.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 12 Jan 2015, 03:55
by MM102
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monkey tail

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 12 Jan 2015, 04:16
by LightningFire
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There fixed it for you, since it was kinda bothering me.
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Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 12 Jan 2015, 04:49
by MM102
Imo I like mine better. One of the reasons I changed idiot's was it was too thin. yoshi tails generally thick almost like a cone shape.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 12 Jan 2015, 10:09
by idiot9.0
Only reasons I made it the way I did was due to your yoshi having a coat on as well as small pixels. Turtle can pick whichever edit he wants to use but I'll stand strong behind the original.

Re: Turtle's Holiday Gift Game - Chessyourself

Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 22:27
by mindnomad
I really like how the Luna piece came out. Nice job.