Battle Chess: Game of Kings™
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It took 2,000 years for someone to make chess better! The most challenging game on earth comes to life in Battle Chess. An entire medieval world at war is reflected on the checkered field. Everyone who's ever had a knight take a pawn has seen that capture as more than one piece replacing another on the board.
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It took 2,000 years for someone to make chess better! The most challenging game on earth comes to life in Battle Chess. An entire medieval world at war is reflected on the checkered field. Everyone who's ever had a knight take a pawn has seen that capture as more than one piece replacing another on the board. In player's minds, the bold knight, resplendent in his armor of silver or ebon, sallies forth and slays the foul footsoldier. Combat, mortal combat, is the heart and soul of chess, but this aspect of it can only live in the mind's eye... until now! Lots of computer chess games capture the basics of chess. Only Battle Chess brings chess to life by combining a magnificent chess logic system with colorful, humorous, and dramatic three-dimensional animations.Battle Chess: Game of KingsA new version of the classic animated chess game for Windows Vista, 7 and 8 is in development! Updated with all new animations and features, this is the ultimate version of Battle Chess.Turn-based Multiplayer: Play against the computer with scalable difficulty or against live opponents via the internet.Skill Challenge: Test your Chess skills by completing game play scenario challenges in a certain number of moves.Battleground Training: Control your environment. Place pieces strategically on the chess board to test strategy.Tutorials: Video tutorials explain the rules and basic strategies of chess with a little bit of humor.Animations: Watch your army execute vivid capture moves as they take an opposing piece. Dozens of unique battles, idle and movement animations bring the battleground to life.Achievements: Earn achievements and trophies.Environments: Choose between 3 unique Battlegrounds.
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MINORThreads manager updated
The code in the game was optimized for Windows XP, it's been updated to check for Windows 10 or higher and uses the new threads/semaphores, etc. Will make the game run a tad bit faster.
MAJORRelease Notes for Recent Updates
Here are the release notes for the recent updates: A major resource management fix that reduces the number of crashes after playing for a while. Many audio related issues have been fixed: Corrupted au
MINORMusic volume slider fixex
The last audio bug is squished. When in the "Options" menu, you can slide both SFX and Music volume controls and they actually work. The settings are saved so when you quit and play again, the setting
MINORMusic crossfading has been fixed
The music streaming system wasn't properly setting the volume from the background thread. Issue has been fixed. All music have been converted to a new format, the "*.stream" file. Generated from using
MINORSilence is not golden
It was found that when a game begins, sometimes there is a silence before the game starts and sometimes a combat sound effect won't play. This is found to be that when setting the volume, the code err
MINORCorrupted audio files repaired
In tracking down an issue with audio, it was found that out of 683 .wav files, 2 had invalid headers. After fixing those headers, a possible buffer overrun has been fixed. This is a data update, so it
MINORResource manager fixed
On occassion, the resource manager used in Battlechess would leak some memory. Leaking memory is bad. This issue is fixed.
MAJORPatch 1.1.1
The BattleChess Game of Kings 1.1.1 patch is out now. Updated the Steam API to 1.54 (The latest) Fixed an issue where the memory format iterator was performing a buffer overrun under certain circumsta
MINORCrash bug fixed
A stack overflow was found in the chess logic that causes peices to change color and then the game will crash. The version was updated to 1.1.
MINORBuild 11204 is up
Work log Updated Steam API to latest SDK Updated Burgerlib to latest version (Massive sub system re-write) Updated to latest Visual Studio Added support for import / export of standard chess "FEN" sav
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