Beyond the Board: Introducing Projects on Chessperiment

Welcome to Chessperiment! We're incredibly excited to announce a major evolution of our platform. Chessperiment isn't just about playing variants; it's a sandbox for inventing entirely new turn-based games.

To give you more power and organization, we are moving away from individual tools and introducing Projects. A Project is your dedicated workspace—a container for a single game vision where your pieces, rules, and boards live together in harmony.

What's inside a Chessperiment Project?

Integrated Project Workspace: No more jumping between random editors. Start a project, name your game, and keep all your custom assets in one place.

Custom Piece & Logic Editor: Use our pixel-art editor to draw your pieces and our Scratch-like visual logic builder to define how they move and interact. From "Teleporting Wizards" to "Chain-Reaction Tanks," if you can imagine the logic, you can build it.

Dynamic Board Editor: Design the battlefield. Activate or deactivate squares to create unique topologies (like holes in the board or split-level play) and set your custom starting positions.

Instant Playtesting: Launch a Live Lobby directly from your project. Challenge friends with a private link or test your mechanics against a generalized Stockfish engine that adapts to your custom rules on the fly.

Analysis & Versioning: Every game is recorded. Replay moves, branch off into new variations, and refine your game's balance based on real data.

The Future of Creation

By focusing on Projects, we're laying the groundwork for a "Marketplace" where you can eventually publish your finished games for the community to discover. Currently, users can create a limited number of projects, allowing you to focus on your best ideas and see them through from concept to checkmate.

This is just the beginning of our journey to create the ultimate sandbox for abstract strategy. We can't wait to see what you build!

Enjoy inventing,

Lasse T.
Project Lead, Chessperiment.app