@Omer_Guleryuz
Y’know, I’ve been thinking about this “RNG chess” concept for quite a bit. Because, on the surface, it seems like a fun idea. Chess without the rigid structure, making things less predictable.
But having a chance for the piece I played to just not work just… doesn’t sound very fun and very arbitrary. I might as well play UNO.
However, as a game designer myself, I feel like pure numeric RNG isn’t the right call. I think the luck factor should be determined by circumstances of player choice, that they then play around.
This is because I believe the strongest “luck” factor are people themselves. Everyone’s got their own life, their own preferences, and their mood changes moment-to-moment.
Also, it isn’t truly random, as one thing always leads to another. But it IS unpredictable, which is what you want.
For an example on how to apply this, what if players could build a unique starting layout for each of their pieces on the board?
That’s makes the player think “Hm, my opponent is running [this layout], I’ll have to change my strategy of my own custom layout”. Kinda like deck building for chess.
Since the circumstances of each player’s board is different by default, there’s always naturally something new to think about without numeric chances to do random stuff. It feels like your using your wits to strategize on the fly instead of praying to god your piece captures.
You can expand this idea even more by adding custom pieces, new boards, and any new creative mechanic you can think of. But make sure the unpredictability is from the players themselves, not the game screwing them over when it feels like it.
You gotta exploit human nature in your game’s design, because humans are the only ones playing the game (hopefully).
On another note, multiplayer implementation should be relatively painless for any 2D strategy game. I’m saying this as a multiplayer game developer myself.
This is because:
- Your game only needs Peer-2-Peer to work properly, because there’s only 2 players.
- You don’t need any fancy netcode for spawning and replication since it’s just basic state changes + RNG syncing.
- Ping is irrelevant, as there’s minimal real-time action. You can play a strategy game at 1,000 ping (1 seconds of latency) across the world, and be totally fine. (You can even play with someone on the moon with 2,500 ping/2.5 second of latency and the players won’t notice)
- Anti-cheat is a breeze in online chess… if the chess pieces have a set function and a set way they can interact/move, then it’s really easy to check if an action is invalid. And if somebody does cheat, it’s stupidly easy for the enemy to spot and just leave. (Physical chess is a little more challenging. I.e. that one grandmaster with the supposed vibrator. If you know, you know.)
- You don’t need complex 3D graphics nor need to replicate them.
- You can have this game on mobile and web browser extremely easily.
Hope that was concise enough for ya! 
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Current status/roadmap
Playable PvP (local)
Working on AI (PvAI) — still in progress
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