Ziggurat 3D Chess

我是第一个评测的。虽然看不懂这是款什么游戏。 I was the first one to evaluate it. Although I do not understand, this is what kind of game.

I am recommending this game on the concept, but I would wait for a later relsease to play it. Currently the display is quite difficult to follow, new peices (wizard, cardinal, eagle, falcon) are not labeled, and the resolution on my laptop requires constant squinting at the screen. I think a few UI tweaks and this would be a great game!

Ziggurat 3D Chess, "neat but niche".

Не поддерживается русский язык

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW THIS GAME WORKS

-really broken -hitbox really off for widescreen laptop user -can resize screen -some control not working +good idea though

What.

I knew that when I had to sign a EULA just to play a Chess game, I was in for a bad time. Ziggurat 3D chess is yet another case of a developer thinking they have the "solution" to Chess, that somehow Chess was an imperfect game and thus needed to be changed in order to become popular. At least I assume that's the line of thinking here. Ziggurat changes the rules and gameplay of Chess in two main ways. First, in addition to the standard 8x8, 32 piece chess game, additional grids of decreasing size are added "above" the standard game board. To make these extra boards useful, the developer invented their own pieces as well, with different rules and capabilities, that both permit movement between boards, and of course also fundamentally break the game. Of course it turns out this was a "solution" nobody wanted, and while a few (15) people tried out the game at launch (according to SteamDB), that number dropped sharply to the point there's nobody at all bothering with this game, in fact, I was the first person to launch the game in over a month. So why has this been such a failure, outside, of course, that Chess didn't need fixing? The technical implementation here is quite poor, Unity couldn't save it. You do get to choose your game resolution, but that's the only real tweaking you can do. At least it will run at the right resolution on your display. Apart from that, it's a mess. Horribly optimised, choppy frames even on very high end systems. The real killer is the hamfisted control system. You're looking at a 3D board, great, so lets use conventional mouse controls to spin the board and select pieces. Haha, no way, says the developer. You can't manipulate the view with your mouse, that would be user friendly. Instead, you're going to use your arrow keys to pan and tilt the board around a fixed position. Ugh. "So I can use the mouse to select my pieces?". Of course you can! But not the way you would expect. The mouse pointer is a little spinning cube that only moves in two dimensions on a horizontal plane. So to grab pieces on a higher or lower board? You have to use your mouse wheel to slide the cube up and down on the Z axis! This is less fun than a visit to the dentist. I guess one of the new rules we need is that anyone trying to re-invent chess and fix something that isn't broken should probably be aware of how video games work first. At least then the technical implementation and UI might not be so awful. So, it's a bad idea, that looks bad, is optimised badly, and has user-hostile controls, and no controller or video options so you can't fix any of those massive defects. Of course this is free, but given I'm the first person to play this in over a month (and there's around 1 player per month launching then deleting this ands that's it), it's clear it's been a failure and it's impossible to recommend.