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Overview
nDimensional Time Travel chess is exactly what it sounds like. You play chess in higher dimensions, and on strange surfaces. You can save and load games, as well as load the last played game, which is saved under the name "recovery." You can play locally or connect to a friend online.

How To Play
A brief rundown has been prepared in form of .pdf, make sure to download it in the files section. Future releases will include this in the project until the in-game tutorial is ready. Key takeaways are make sure to join and start the game before attempting to move pieces, and that rules are similar to existing time travel and 4D variants.

nDimensional
The chess boards in nDimensional chess are like no other (well, maybe like a few). They come in several strange varieties like 4D Chess, 5D Chess, and even Chess on a Donut. Yes you heard me right, you can play Donut Chess!

Time Travel
Additionally, any board can also be loaded into a Time Travel variant (not that some of them *should* be) to make some mind bogglingly weird and exotic chess variants. Send pieces back in time splitting off parallel universes and try to outsmart your opponent before they can check mate you two turns into the past from an alternate universe.

Chess
I probably don't have to explain this one much, but you might be wondering what it means for a piece to be "4 Dimensional." Well its actually quite simple. In normal chess there are 2 directions, forward and horizontal. A rook can choose one of these, and a bishop or knight can choose two to mix and match.

Well in 4D Chess you have 4 directions to choose from, and in 5D you have 5 directions to choose from, and so on.

Controls
Controls may change based on user feedback, but here's a rundown so far
WASD - Move Camera along plane
Left Click - Click on and confirm piece movement
Right Click - Orbit camera
Shift + Right Click - Drag Camera
F - Focus on sub-board

Board Editor
Left Click - Add white piece
Shift + Left Click - Add black piece
Right Click - Highlight piece moves
note: the board editor can save board variants, but there is currently no way to load them into games and for now is just a development tool

Join the discord
We have a discord server! Follow updates, ask questions, find people to play with!
https://discord.gg/aSSqT6ZH9k

Closing Notes
This game is still somewhat in its development and has a few rough edges remaining to sand out. Namely AI does not work, and is mathematically very, very difficult for time travel chess. Until then, only multiplayer and local games are functioning

Known Issues
Torroidal promotion not enabled
Photon complains when going to menu
Android build flickers when loading multiplayer, bad. EPILEPSY WARNING
Android build not currently compatible with other builds due to extra variant

Planned features

"Ping" system to allow players to point out things on board
Extra settings like visualizers being friendly only or completely disabled
Completing tutorial and control help

StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows, Linux, Android
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorBlake447
GenreStrategy
TagsBoard Game, Chess, Multiplayer, Time Travel
Average sessionA few seconds
MultiplayerServer-based networked multiplayer

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How To Play 4.3 MB
nDimensional-Time-Travel-Chess-v0.660.zip 40 MB
nDimensional-Time-Travel-Chess-v0.660-linux.zip 39 MB
nDimensional-Time-Travel-Chess-v0.660-android.zip 43 MB
nDimensional-Time-Travel-Chess-v0.650.zip 40 MB
nDimensional-Time-Travel-Chess-v0.650-linux.zip 38 MB
nDimensionalTimeTravelChess-v0.650-android.apk 58 MB

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I am just downloading it now, but the concept alone is absolutely insane