Hello folks! I'm writing a post about Ragnarok for 1up. You have a great and promising project here.
I have some questions and probably will come back with more while I write XD the ones I remember right now:
how long will a full match take?
how big is the board
you said the pieces moves like their chess counterparts, here we only have half of them. Bishops can only walk diagonally so with 2 you can cover both tile colors in the board. Will the bishop have a way to move horizontally/vertically so it can attack enemies outside his diagonal movement pattern?
Thanks in advance! For the next questions should I write a new comment or reply here?
Thanks again, edicted! The board will be played corner to corner, unlike on the sides with normal chess. Each side will have 2 walls to defend from pawn encroachments. We have actually been playing around with this idea for the Bishop, the pawn will have a novel move also. Something as edicted suggested could make the game flow better. We need to test more to come to a conclusive decision for v1.
Thanks for the answers folks!
The first 2 questions have already been answered.
Didn't think about the bishop thing.
Good question.
Perhaps a bishop should be able to attack any piece that is adjacent to it.
Although I have another interesting idea in this regard.
Blog post inc.