Chess in gimkit

[Graystripe]

Is there a way to make chess in gimkit with props as the pieces and stuff?
I have been really interested in making a chess minigame in my 3 lives map

[LxmasHaxTakis]

I suppose this might be impossible, but if not, it may take a whole lot of memory.

[WhoAmI]

@ClicClac

OH NO NEVER AGAIN IM NOT GOING BACK

Okay, with all honesty, chess is impossible.

Two reasons:

1. The only think you can move in Gimkit is the PLAYER.
2. In order to cause the illusion of movement, I would have to simulate EVERY POSSIBLE CONFIGURATION ON A CHESSBOARD.

-ClicClac, 2023.

[Here_to_help]

If for some reason you do decide to take on chess, here are some ideas:

@Here_to_help

If I were to make chess, here’s what I would do:
First, make the chess pieces. Put a pawn in each square, and the same thing for all the other pieces. Then, make a coordinate system, like your Tamian system! Then I would make turns, followed by making movement. I would do this by, well, I don’t know. I could let the player loose and let them choose a square, or, I could have game overlays and popups let me pin down the exact square they want to go to. Next, I would have tons of block code check if that is a possible move. If yes, then check if there is a piece there. If yes, then check if it is triggering players piece. If yes, do not allow move. If, those are nos, then the move would be possible. Of course, if the piece there is the opponents, then I would check the coordinates of every piece. If it checks and says there is, say, a knight, then the property BKnightL (yes I have decided to have a property for each piece) would go from 33 (example for C3), to 0. Oh, and before chosing where to go, they must run to a square with one of their pieces in it, which will be accomplished with more block code. Then, after every move, it checks for next moves possible. If a next move possible is taking a king, then there is either check or checkmate. Block code checks which one it is. Back to possible moves, if there are no possible moves and the only property that is not 00 is BKing, then there is stalemate. This just repeats until there is checkmate, stalemate, or time runs out, which would be a simple timer that is team set.

Although, I thought about it and I decided not to. I am doing checkers, and there are other options as well.

[ClicClac]

That was when I was still figuring GKC out.

I officially turn that NO into a maybe.

[Here_to_help]

Chess is still very hard. I would call myself advanced, but I would never do that. Checkers has a pattern, so once Monopoly is done that is my goal. If for some reason I still have room left in my maps I was suggested to do Sorry from my Gimkit Nerd friend. Also, @Graystripe, are you advanced at Gimkit?

[mysz]

I would not want to do chess, but maybe if I was crazy I would be able to have the time and patience to pull it off.

[Here_to_help]

Well, maybe you could. Just a lot of block code and data, as well as knowledge of how chess works. You would be one of the people to pull it off. ()

[Blackhole927]

Ok you know its really not that hard to simulate every position on the chessboard.
You just have to have a prop for each peice and each square, and turn them on and off.

[Here_to_help]

Yeah, much different than checkers where you just need a checker piece in every square.

[ClicClac]

Actually, what if you had:

64 pieces of text

and

64+ properties

to describe the state of the board

[Blackhole927]

This would work. However, the block code would be incrediblly tricky.

[ClicClac]

And 32 more properties to describe the position of the pieces on the board

Maybe.

I’m just spitballing.

[Blackhole927]

propbably the most compressed way to store the board would be with Number Encoded Data strings. This would require 16 properties.

[ClicClac]

How do those work?

[Blackhole927]

Store each peice as a number between 1 and 12 (all possible peices, with white and black) and store each row in two properties with this:

Gimkit Strings