Reviews for Shape Chess

[nuntius]

Needs a better end game

Both sides have one "max" piece, and one side has an extra, safe minor piece. Modulo dumb error, this can stay forever. Need an "offer draw" button. Many of my games become draws.

I like the creative idea; but games like chess take (hundreds of) years to get right.

Minor note: mousing over an opponent's piece should show his available moves.
Suggestions:
- a set of "checkmate in N moves" games would be good for training
- the tutorial show have an early slide show one piece pushing another

[Snowingheart]

In need of a tutorial.

A real one at that. In-depth explanation of the mechanics, the winning conditions etc. Is is a good idea and I think you can further develop it.

[dogmanice]

Okay Game

The concept behind the game is very interesting. I was able to pick up the system rather quickly, as well. The problem is that it is nearly impossible to win against the computer. I feel like it would be better if you could change the difficulty level.

[mjfgates]

I like the idea, please give it more tinsel!

Everybody's saying it, and now I am too: put an easier tutorial in the game. Waiting for the user to his space or something before running the "this absorbs that" video examples would help; I kept going to a tutorial page and immediately some purple thing eats some orange thing before I could even look at what shapes there were.

Naming the criterion for winning explicitly would help too; it's "side A gets a piece that's so big side B has no way of building anything to eat it," isn't it?...

Also, a little sound would be nice. Nothing flashy, but, I dunno, some soft beeps or slidey noises or something when a move is made.

[Roxul]

Too complicated

It would be cooler if you hade tutorial levels instead of a slideshow. Hard to understand how it all works.