Dreamchess.

[Imerion]

Whoa! Looks very good and all in 3d! This I have to download now. Perhaps now is the time to finally get good at chess.

[I.M. Weasel]

That looks AWESOME!! great work!!

Its about time someone made chess for DC, chess seems like the game ported to every possible platform.

I didnt really read about it,but does it have person vs CPU with a good AI? If not,there is probably a good open source AI you can find and use/or model it after.

well, the graphics are just outstanding. ANy plans to do any other classic board games? you could make them all in a nice little 1 sbi package program. (only checkers comes to mind,but im sure there are many others.)

[Jaded JAaron77]

hmmm... I've never tried making models for a game. What format do they need to be in? ...I'm quite familiar with Lightwave but not so much anything else. perhaps I'd be able to export them...

We use our own model format that we call DCM. The files are created with a blender export script. As long as the model can be imported in blender, it should be possible to export it to the DCM format. Blender has many import scripts (including 3DS and LWO).

guess it's time for me to learn a bit more about blender then s'been a while since I last tried it... no doubt it's much better now than it was years ago

[Phantom]

I didnt really read about it,but does it have person vs CPU with a good AI?

It does have AI. Whether it's good depends on what you compare it to. It's nothing compared to the likes of ChessMaster or Crafty. But it's much stronger than the chess game that's included in Hoyle Board Games 2003 (for example).

If not,there is probably a good open source AI you can find and use/or model it after.

DreamChess is an xboard interface so it can use any xboard engine (in theory). Such an engine would need to be ported to Dreamcast first though.

ANy plans to do any other classic board games?

No.

[Phantom]

guess it's time for me to learn a bit more about blender then s'been a while since I last tried it... no doubt it's much better now than it was years ago

Blender is good but you can use any program you like (e.g. 3D Studio) as long as it has an export format that blender can import.

[Nico0020]

A bit dorky idea. but if anyone is good enough with making modles, a sonic themed board with sonic character modles. lol. Put those annoying lil chaos as pawns.

[Jaded JAaron77]

A bit dorky idea. but if anyone is good enough with making modles, a sonic themed board with sonic character modles. lol. Put those annoying lil chaos as pawns.

dorky? maybe, but I think it'd be only fitting since it is a Sega system... I don't think I'm yet skilled enough to do something like that though.. especially 'round only 150 polygons..

[Orange_Ribbon]

Okay I must be really stupid, but I can't figure out how to download the windows version. Can someone hit me up with a direct link?

There's no windows demo at this time. Maybe I'll build one later today.

Cool. I thought Mr Siggler said there was one. I can't wait. Dunca

[DCmad]

Whats the future plans for DreamChess? Will it go comercialy published and sold?
It looks way too cool and for themeing capabilities, i can think of many possibilities.
Remember Bomberman Wars for 32bit systems? Mind a Sega vs Nintendo theme? Sonic, Knuckles, Nights, Ulala against Mario, DK, Link, Samus, Kirby and so on.
And that cell shaded demo we saw other day? Could this thech be usable in this engine?

I dunno how to model in 3d, but it gives me many ideas of what could be done, just being limited by the modeler ability

Realy, thank you for this great game.

[MrSiggler]

Here's the Windows build.

http://mrsiggler.boob.co.uk/dreamchess/ ... -win32.zip

[Sweater Fish]

internet ranking.

We're planning an online mode, but we probably won't start on that till next year. (Assuming that the interest in this project is large enough to warrant further development in the first place.)

I'm a bit out of the loop, but can KOS talk to the dial-up modem yet? If so, online play for DreamChess would be awesome. It could be done through e-mail like Sega Swirl. Then there'd be no need for servers or anything.

Also, it would be cool if you could set the board up any way and begin playing from postitions other than the standard start. Maybe that's already implemented, I haven't had a chance to burn the release yet.


...word is bondage...

[Phantom]

Whats the future plans for DreamChess? Will it go comercialy published and sold?

That's highly unlikely.

Remember Bomberman Wars for 32bit systems? Mind a Sega vs Nintendo theme? Sonic, Knuckles, Nights, Ulala against Mario, DK, Link, Samus, Kirby and so on.

If people want to create themes like that for personal use that's fine with me, but we cannot include those themes in the DreamChess package for legal reasons.

And that cell shaded demo we saw other day? Could this thech be usable in this engine?

I don't think we'll ever include cell shading.

[Phantom]

I'm a bit out of the loop, but can KOS talk to the dial-up modem yet?

I have no idea.

If so, online play for DreamChess would be awesome. It could be done through e-mail like Sega Swirl. Then there'd be no need for servers or anything.

If online play is ever implemented it'll probably use FICS.

Also, it would be cool if you could set the board up any way and begin playing from postitions other than the standard start.

That's one of the many features that's missing. In the future this will probably be implemented.

[DCmad]

Nah, i suck in 3D modelling, but i got my first theme for DreamChess, i called it Sonic vs Mario: Battle Chess!


As you can see, i wrote everything in portuguese, my language, and i must say it's very easy to work with.
I have some things to point:

-I can't change the "white" and "black" names. Would be cool to make it customizable too.

-There's no way i set everything to only 1 theme option? Or one option to change all the game parts apart from the individual ones? For my skin, i must select Theme = Sonic vs Mario, Chess set = Sonic vs Mario and (when i do it) Board = Sonic whatever...
And if i had only one option to set Theme (chess set, board, theme) to Sonic vs Mario and others to set everything individualy?

-In Dreamcast, there's no 2nd controller. Using Human vs Human, contoller 1 moves everything.

-Ogg music would be cool eh?

-VMU saves for records and options?

-DCM 3D modells allow animations? Would be great to have animations when a piece takes another

Wish you the best luck in making it another homebrew masterpiece.

[Phantom]

Nah, i suck in 3D modelling, but i got my first theme for DreamChess, i called it Sonic vs Mario: Battle Chess!

Looks nice.

-I can't change the "white" and "black" names. Would be cool to make it customizable too.

Yeah. But in the end this will probably not be something that is part of the theme. We want to allow people to use their own name and avatar in the future (e.g. for online play).

-There's no way i set everything to only 1 theme option?

Not right now. We split everything up to allow parts of a theme to be reused without having to copy the files. In the end we want a theme to be an XML file which sets all the theme options, pieces, boards, etc.

-In Dreamcast, there's no 2nd controller. Using Human vs Human, contoller 1 moves everything.

Yeah, that will probably be fixed in the future.

-Ogg music would be cool eh?

Probably won't be possible for performance reasons.

-VMU saves for records and options?

Will be done in the future. As well as regular game saves ofcourse.

-DCM 3D modells allow animations? Would be great to have animations when a piece takes another

It doesn't allow that right now, but it would be cool indeed. But some of the other issues you mentioned have a higher priority.

Thanks for your feedback.

[Phantom]

There's a few more things I'd like to point out.

There's now a (very basic) website at http://dreamchess.berlios.de
Bug reports and feature requests can be submitted on our BerliOS project site at http://developer.berlios.de/projects/dreamchess/. If they're submitted there they won't be forgotten.

We also forgot to mention that the board can be rotated. You can do this by holding the left ctrl key while pushing the cursor keys. On Dreamcast you can rotate the board with the analog stick.

[MetaFox]

Several websites have reported the release of DreamChess 0.6. This is a misunderstanding. On 2005-06-16 we released a demo version of DreamChess on a Dreamcast forum. The purpose of this release was to get some initial feedback on the game and possibly get more people to join the project. This demo is not DreamChess 0.6. It was compiled from revision 223 in our SVN repository and is not an official release. The first official release will be called DreamChess 0.1.0 and will most likely be released later this year.

I hate it when I'm the one who is the catalyst towards spreading bad information.

[Phantom]

I hate it when I'm the one who is the catalyst towards spreading bad information.

No worries. I should have chosen a clearer filename.

[Smurph]

I'll have to burn this when I get some more CD-R's. Great Job!

[Hawke]

Working on a theme as I type!