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Piece Shop

The piece shop is the screen that opens after you click begin on the main menu. This is where you define the settings to play a round of ChessRogue.

Gold: Each piece has an assigned value to purchase. You can raise your gold amount by playing rounds of ChessRogue and increasing your player level.

Player Level: Determines how much gold you can have and what pieces you can buy. As you increase in level, gold and the types of pieces you can buy increases. You can gain XP by capturing pieces in any game mode.

Game modes: ChessRogue currently has three game modes. All of which have descriptions in game as to their differences.

Difficulty Slider: The difficulty slider increases both the amount of pieces the enemy will place, the xp value gained for capturing enemies, as well as its decision making process.The difficulty also increases
WARNING Higher difficulties will result in a longer decision making process.

Theme Selector: Underneath the difficulty slider is the theme selector. This has no effect on gameplay, but allows you to choose a pre-set color palette for the game. You can also create a custom color scheme by choosing custom. However, this does not work properly on the Linux version.

Gameplay

Upon pressing Start Game, you will be shown the game screen. A randomly generated chess looking dungeon will appear. You can select your pieces with hotkeys (which are avaiable for each piece in the piece encylopedia). You can remove and errors in piece placement by right clicking the piece on the board. After completing piece placement, either click start, or press space to begin a round.

In ChessRogue mode, each piece has a defined gold and XP value. This gold is seperate from the gold in the piece shop. Every 3 levels, you enter another piece shop where you can buy and sell pieces to refine your strategy.

As you venture further and further into the dungeons, the dungeons and pieces will become more complex. You can unlock any piece you encounter in the dungeon by gaining XP through capturing enemy pieces, which will increase your player level in the piece shop screen.

Scoreboard

The scoreboard tracks high scores. There are sections for each game mode. Any cheats will invalidate the scoreboard. This can be rectified by clicking the "Reset Shop" button in the piece shop screen. Scores are usually purged for major updates.

Piece Encyclopedia

Piece Type Hotkey Cost (Gold) Capture Value (Gold) Base XP Value Base Score Value Special Rules
Pawn Standard p 5 3 5 10 Pawns can move two tiles on their first move. They can only capture in the direction they last traveled.
Knight Standard n 15 10 15 25 L shaped moves, 2 tiles, 1 tile
Bishop Standard b 25 15 15 30 Diagonal moves
Rook Standard r 50 25 25 50 Straight moves
Queen Standard q 75 50 40 90 Combination of rook and bishop
King Standard k N/A N/A N/A N/A Kings cannot be hired. You always have a king in ChessRogue mode. If the king is captured, the game ends.
Guard Historic g 10 5 10 15 Guards move diagonally one space, similar to bishops but with limited range.
Chancellor Combination c 65 35 40 80 Chancellors combine the movements of a Rook and Knight.
Princess Combination s 50 25 30 60 Princess' combine movements of a Bishop and Knight
Amazon Combination a 125 65 65 115 Amazon's combine the movements of a queen and knight.
Elephant Historic e 25 20 20 35 Like a Knight except travels 2,2, rather than 2,1.
Camel Historic L 20 15 20 35 Like a Knight except travels 3,1, rather than 2,1
Man Historic m 12 8 10 12 Like a pawn except it only can move in cardinal directions, but can capture in any diagonal direction
Night Rider Combination g 85 60 50 70 Night Riders can move continously 2,1, like Knights, unless they reach a wall.
Unicorn Combination u 90 90 100 150 Combination of Bishop and Night Rider.