This Is Not Chess
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A turn-based tactics game about goofy characters with wide and varied techniques duking it out across a bright and colourful battlefield.
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This Is Not Chess is a turn-based tactics game where squads of goofy characters duke it out across colourful battlefields. Rather than every unit on the team getting a chance to move and attack, you have a number of actions you can use across the whole team. Moving, transforming or deploying all cost actions, but techniques are different. Techniques don't activate immediately and cost nothing to prepare. Leave a unit alone and they'll focus on their technique, executing it on a later turn! Or if you can't wait, you can spend actions to make it happen sooner... While the wizard is flinging spells and the swordsman slashes, the jester throws his custard pies and the robotic stalker waits for its chance to pounce! Let loose in this melting pot of madness! Limited number of actions shared across the whole team. How will you spend your turn? Wide variety of goofy and unusual characters sporting some potentially strange attack ranges. Elements attached to techniques and characters that bring Rock-Paper-Scissors strategy into play. Silly story about an unlikely party forming together to save the day. Challenge mode where you create your squad and take on predefined battlefields. Local skirmish mode with multiple teams, customisable winning conditions atop randomly generated or preset maps. Inbuilt editors that let you create your own units, maps and campaigns!
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MINORNovember Update (231120)
G'day folks, I've been stuck in a kind of limbo with TINC: It's time to update, but there's not much to show! But spending any more time on anything big will take too long to update! And so I'd dig ar
MINORJune Update (230604)
Hi folks, Thing I discovered about infrequent chances to work is that it's easy to lose focus, and thus several things got worked on but few which are in a good enough state to show off. Rather than r
MINORFeburary Update (230210)
G'day, g'day, Before I knew it we're two months into the new year. I hope it's been a good start to you all out there. The situation hasn't really changed here and I'm still in a sort of limbo state,
MINOROctober/November Update (221101)
G'day folks, With my situation being the way it is (that is to say, a bit misshapen), I've lost the routine that allowed me to get stuff done on This Is Not Chess. It seems there's some stability in t
MINORSeptember Update (220902)
G'day, g'day! Added the ability to skip preparation and going straight to executing techniques. Currently I've added two buttons for attacking (one for the normal means, the other for the auto-execute
MINORJuly Update (220722)
G'day folks, New level in chapter 4, with two new characters available (They will not unlock until this level is beaten). The music is still a placeholder as I struggle with this chapter's theme, but
MINORJune Update (220620)
G'day folks, Some new units weren't ready in time for the update, so the next level of the fourth chapter misses out this time around. Instead I made do with some side goodies: More skirmish maps, ano
MINORMay Update (220517)
G'day folks, Got started with the fourth chapter, giving us a cutscene or two with a new level. Admittedly using placeholder music...for now. I've fully implemented campaign levels having multiple des
MINORApril Update (220412)
G'day mates, Once again we've got a few more units. Are they for the next chapter, or the challenge mode? Like before, they're immediately available for now, but as the levels they get introduced in a
MINORMarch Update (220307)
G'day mates, Light update again! Chapter 4 is underway, with dialogue planned out and some of the maps prepared, but no units completed yet. Changes Unit editor shows point values of styles and techni
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