The bad way to play chess: 3D physics fun using Castle Game Engine

Article and related demo project showcasing Castle Game Engine. For publication in Blaise Pascal Magazine in 2023.

The article directory contains the article sources, written using AsciiDoctor markup.

The article is split into 2 parts,

1. article/castle_game_engine_bad_chess_1.adoc - introduction and designing game in editor.

   Output: https://castle-engine.io/bad-chess/castle_game_engine_bad_chess_1.html

   Output (PDF): https://castle-engine.io/bad-chess/castle_game_engine_bad_chess_1.pdf

2. article/castle_game_engine_bad_chess_2.adoc - coding the game logic.

   Output: https://castle-engine.io/bad-chess/castle_game_engine_bad_chess_2.html

   Output (PDF): https://castle-engine.io/bad-chess/castle_game_engine_bad_chess_2.pdf

The project directory contains working demo projects, described in the article. Just like there are 2 article parts, there are 2 demo projects, showing the game state after each article part:

• project/version_1_designed_in_editor - game designed in editor, following 1st article part.

  There's also additional (unused in compiled game) design called gameviewmain_more_random_arrangement.castle-user-interface which you can open and run "Physics Simulation" in CGE editor. The chess pieces are deliberately more randomly distributed in that design, to show that we can test crazy things in editor.

• project/version_2_with_code - game logic coded. This started from the state of version_1_designed_in_editor and then I added the code described in the 2nd article part.

Open, compile and run projects using Castle Game Engine editor. Do "Open Project" from CGE editor and point to the CastleEngineManifest.xml in each project's subdirectory.

License and copyright (for both the article and the demo project)

Permissive "modified BSD (3-clause)" license.

Author: Michalis Kamburelis.

Exceptions: the chess 3D data has been created by other people and graciously shared on various versions of the Creative Commons licenses. They have been listed in the project/data/AUTHORS.md file.