u/I-C3

Chess Fantasy is my first game: fully classic chess, but every board lives inside a 3D fantasy world you customize and make your own. 0.2 just landed, shaped by player feedback: a rebuilt interface, menu tutorials, settings that finally save, and AI difficulties that put up a fair fight instead of crushing you.

Play it free here: https://chess-fantasy.itch.io/chess-fantasy

A match takes just a few minutes. What helps me most:

• Was the UI clear from the moment you launched, or did anything trip you up?
• Does each AI level feel like a fair fight?

I try to reply to everyone. Every comment is someone giving my little game a piece of their day, and that means a lot to me.

Chess Fantasy is the first game I've ever made: fully classic chess, but every board lives inside a 3D fantasy world you customize. The 0.2 update just landed, built from player feedback: rebuilt interface, menu tutorials, settings that save, and AI difficulties that put up a fair fight instead of crushing you.

Play it free here: https://chess-fantasy.itch.io/chess-fantasy

A match takes just a few minutes, so it fits any format. If you cover it, send me the link, I'll watch every minute. Watching someone play my first game is the best feedback there is, and every video is someone giving my little game a piece of their day. That means a lot to me.

Chess Fantasy is classic chess inside a 3D fantasy world you customize. Alpha 0.2 just landed: full UI overhaul, menu tutorials, settings that save, retuned AI difficulties. Before/after shots attached, free alpha here: https://chess-fantasy.itch.io/chess-fantasy

What I need from fresh eyes:

• Is the UI actually clearer, or did I just move the confusion around? Your first two minutes tell me everything.
• Do the AI difficulties feel fair, easiest to hardest?

Drop your project below and I'll return the favor with a proper look. I try to reply to everyone. Every comment is someone giving my little game a piece of their day, and that means a lot to me.

Hi r/chessvariants! Solo dev here working on Chess Fantasy, my first game: classic chess played inside a 3D fantasy world you customize. It's in free alpha on itch, and the big 0.2 update just landed (full UI overhaul, saved settings, tuned AI difficulties): https://chess-fantasy.itch.io/chess-fantasy

The next major feature is a custom board creator: set up any starting position you want and challenge the AI on it. But before I lock in the design, I want to hear it from the people who actually play and invent variants. So:

• If you could tweak rules and not just positions, what would you change first? Custom piece movement, win conditions, board size, something else?
• What's the one thing every position/rules editor you've used got wrong or was missing?
• Is playing your creations against an AI interesting to you, or does a variant only come alive against humans?

No promises I can build everything (first game, one dev), but the answers here will directly shape what the editor becomes. And if you try the alpha in the meantime, I'd love to hear how it feels to play. I read and reply to everything.

Hi everyone! This week I released the first alpha of Chess Fantasy, the first game I've ever made.

Fair warning for this sub: the rules are classic chess, at least for now. The twist is around the board, where you create and customise your own fantasy world and play your matches inside it.

That said, you're the people who think hardest about what chess can become, so I'd love your take: how does it feel to play, and if a game like this were to grow beyond standard rules one day, what would you want from it?

It's free on itch: https://chess-fantasy.itch.io/chess-fantasy

All honest opinions welcome, including "this isn't a variant, come back when it is". Thanks for reading!

Hi everyone! After months of building in my spare time, my first game, Chess Fantasy, just reached its first playable alpha.

The concept: classic chess, but you build and customise your own fantasy chess world around the board. The long-term plan is a free-to-play Steam release, and this alpha is the very first step on that road.

I've reached the point where I've played my own game so much that I can't judge it fresh anymore. That's where you come in.

If you're curious enough to try it, I need exactly one thing from you: tell me honestly what works and what doesn't. Bugs, feel, missing features, anything.

Thanks a lot, every comment genuinely steers what I build next.

Hi everyone! After months of work, the first alpha of my first game is playable, and this is the stage where feedback decides what it becomes.

Chess Fantasy is classic chess wrapped in a world you shape yourself: you customise your own fantasy setting and play your matches inside it. The long-term plan is free to play on Steam, but right now it's a free alpha on itch.

It's early and I know it's rough in places. That's exactly why I'm here: what feels good, what doesn't, and what would you want a game like this to become?

Thanks for playing, and for anything you tell me.

Hi everyone! This week I hit a personal milestone: my first game, Chess Fantasy, went live on itch.

It's chess, but you create and customise your own fantasy chess world around it. This alpha is the first playable version, with a free-to-play Steam release as the long-term dream.

Since this is my first itch page ever, I'd love feedback on both fronts: the game itself (bugs, feel, ideas) and honestly the page too, if anything about it would stop you from hitting download.

Here it is, free to play: https://chess-fantasy.itch.io/chess-fantasy

Thanks for reading, and for any thoughts you leave behind. It all shapes what I build next.

Hey everyone!

After months of building in my spare time, I finally released the first alpha of my first game, Chess Fantasy.

The idea: it's chess, but you create and customise your own fantasy chess world around it. It's an early version, and honestly, this is the point where I can't see my own game clearly anymore. I've played it so much that fresh eyes are worth more than anything I could add right now.

So if you have a few minutes, I'd truly love your feedback: what grabbed you, what confused you, what you'd want to see next. It's free to play here: https://chess-fantasy.itch.io/chess-fantasy

Whatever you share, thank you. Every comment helps me figure out where to take this.