Matriarchy chess is a variant chess game of the original. Set in a medieval high fantasy world of witches, elves, knights, dragons, and warlords - two matriarchal kingdoms has reigned supreme by overthrowing their useless kings; The Kingdom of Darkness and the Kingdom of Light. Choose a side where you will to inherit the throne, and bring down the opposing Kingdom in a battle of wits. Bask in glory of being the mighty Queen of the Realm!
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Filled with unique voice lines for every chess piece, animated UI, immersive music, and more! Bring your friends and show them your foresight!

*Prior fundamental knowledge of Chess is recommended to play*

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˚₊‧⁺⋆♱Black Wins♱⋆⁺‧₊˚

⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆White Wins⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺

                     Gameplay                      

Rules 📜

Instead of killing the King, your objective is to kill the Queen (because who cares about the useless king in a ditch anyway). This is a Local PvP game, so grab a friend, if you don't, just be more extroverted - no excuses :)

  • Use 🖱️ mouse [click] with cursor to play.
  • [Tap] 👆 to play on the Phone browser (dimensions may be wonky depending on the device).

A few changes:

  • There will be no King (of course).
  • The Queen can only move 2 squares in all directions around her (or else it would be too hard to 'slay' the Queen legend ).
  • Pawns can only advance 1 square, No 2 squares advance at the start.
  • No en passant, casting & promotions.
  • You have 3 Knights, Rooks & Bishops.
  • 2 of the Bishops are at the front, replacing the 2 pawns in the original.

New Board and Starting Placements:

The Board

The New Moves♟️

Pawns:  only 1 square advance               


Queen: only 2 square moves in all directions

                 Special Thanks                  

Special thanks to Ariana Houman (a.k.a Anacitone) all the way from Canada for testing the initial version of the game. It is an honour for my game to be tested by the top 5% with an Elo rating of +1400 from  Chess.com  in 2024. I hope your dream of being a chess Queen Gambit succeeds! And thanks for all your compliments on the game!

Changes Made:

  • Limit Queen movement to 2 squares in all directions.
  • Adding pieces on files A & H on row 2 to fill the front. Open up strategies to develop pieces the quickest.
  • Option to mute voices if too distracting.

Also thank you to my room-mate, friends & classmates who played before too. Your thoughts are invaluable! 💕

                        Credits                       

Fonts:

Images:

  • Open-AI's DALL-E: Cover
Prompt: "Create an image of one white queen and black queen looking angry at each other as if they are about to fight. The white queen looks stoic yet calm but annoyed by the black queen. The black queen looks more angsty and furious of the white queen. The image should be an 8-bit texture and depict gothic themes like Alice in Wonderland feel. There should be a banner on the top that says "Matriarchy Chess". The image should be 630x500 size, perfect for a cover image for an Itch.io game page."
  • Open-AI's DALL-E: Background of a Forest in Sunset
Prompt: "Can you create me an image of a gothic background of a forest with setting sun in the twilight sky and a castle in the back. The style should be in a bit-game texture. A good fit for a 11:16 ratio background."
  • Open-AI's DALL-E: Title Banner Image
Prompt: "Can you create me a png image of an animated title that writes "Matriarchy Chess" with a medieval style look? It should fit right in for a title for a menu screen of my game menu. The colours should mostly be crimson red, black, white or grey. The animated effect should feel like unravelling a flying banner with the title in it."
2nd Prompt:  "It looks great. But matriarchy is spelt wrong, it should be "Matriarchy". Also the png should be have a transparent background to blend into menu screen. Also the menu words at the bottom of the banner should not be there (i.e. Animated, Game Menu Screen), it should be only the title."

UI:

Unity C# Code:


  • YouTube Tutorial Video on Transitions by Brackeys:


Music:

SFX/ Voices:

♱🆃🅷🅰🅽🅺🆂 🅵🅾🆁 🅿🅻🅰🆈🅸🅽🅶♱

More information
Updated 3 days ago
Published 4 days ago
StatusPrototype
PlatformsHTML5
AuthorKobesti
GenreStrategy
Made withUnity
TagsChess, Fantasy, Female Protagonist, Gothic, Local multiplayer, Medieval, Strategy RPG, Turn-based Strategy, variant

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