[ximeng]

https://graebor.itch.io/field-of-fate This chess game prototype has some interesting variant pieces and a couple of other creative features: traits and relationships. It’s not particularly well balanced, but interesting to play with.

For example it has acrobats which jump to a square in a 3x3 square a certain distance away. It has a variant of a Bishop that rather than moving in a diagonal moves in an extended knights move style bumpy diagonal.

One of the things that comes out of this is that part of the power of these pieces is how many squares they can reach (as a proportion of those available on the board), and a generalisation of pieces’ moves to being slightly closer to arbitrary functions mapping squares to each other on the board.