Chess Hack is now in itch.io

Chess Hack is now in itch.io, go and get it:

https://kakku.itch.io/chess-hack

There is also a new version in Google Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kakku.chesshack_v2

 

 

 

Chess Hack gameplay video

There seems to at least one Chess Hack gameplay video in Youtube. Check it out and then try to do it yourself.

 

Game Development Diary – The first 30 days of Chess Hack

Day -1 (Saturday June 13, 2015)
It is getting exciting! We have been creating our first game almost a half a year now and the release day is coming closer. Well, it is tomorrow. Judgement day is coming.

Day 0
No memories. Apparently we made it.

Day 1
At Monday June 15, 2015 we released our first game Chess Hack. Our first published game package was about 4.5 MB in size, it contained lots of Unity provided data and functionalities. Chess Hack has about 40 classes and 50 graphics and audio assets so it is a quite small game.

Now we just wait to be rated and get some feedback from players.

Day 3
Not rated yet. And we got very little useful feedback. Be patient they said, be patient…

Day 4
Chess Hack got rated after 285 game plays in Kongregate. Chess Hack got an initial rating of 2.8. Not as good as we expected but maybe it gets some boost later. We have updated a few threads in different forums but there are no plans for major advertisement campaigns.

Day 7
Hurray, 372 play in the first week. And we have collected some ideas for our next game, too. Not a bad start for our first game.

Day 8
We released version 1.1, which included new game mode Blitz and some UI improvements. To our own eyes Chess Hack looks much better now.

Day 9
We got our first Android version compiled and transferred to an Android phone. Nice feeling to play Chess Hack in a cell phone! But it is still long way to Android release. We have to take care of touch screen controls, dynamic resolution issues, statistics, etc.

Day 10
We found out that y8.com gaming site has copied the Chess Hack without our permission. We send them message that we would like update the game and take over the control of it in their site. No response. There have been 105 Chess Hack plays in six days at y8.com.

Day 11
We released version 1.2 with a new difficulty level: Very Easy. This was due to feedback we got from our players.

Day 19
Well, it seems that Chess Hack is not going to be the next Quake. But it is ok. Chess Hack was our real life practice how to make simple indie game from a scratch. And personally I’m very happy, because I didn’t have programming experience with Unity framework when we started this project and imo we made quite unique, entertaining and playable game. And just wait for our next game…

Day 30
One month has passed since the release. Chess Hack got about 900 game plays and above average ratings. And we have a good feeling about our future Android and iOS releases. Stay tuned!

-Timo
Programmer

Following graph shows Chess Hack game plays during first 30 days.

Following table shows Chess Hack game plays and ratings.

Welcome Kakku

To celebrate our first game!