A whimsical battle royale game. Playing is half the fun; the other half is learning to code by adding to our wide array of achievements and submitting a pull request!

To play: https://acenturyandabit.github.io/fortknight

Try and beat my high score of 50! Then, pick an achievement to TODO below!

• achievements
  • progress achievements
    • journey of 1000 steps [DONE]
    • x-slayer [DONE]
  • board achievements
    • coronation: 5 kings on the board at a time.
    • parapets: 5 rooks on the board at a time.
    • cathedral: 5 bishops on the board at a time.
    • bar fight: 5 pawns on the board at the same time.
    • barracks: 3 pawns on board at the same time, in non-drunk mode
    • stables: 5 knights on the board at the same time.
    • queens
      • endgame: 3 queens on the board at a time
      • no place to hide: 4 queens on the board at a time
      • helltaker: 5 queens on the board at a time
  • boxed-in achievements
    • cornered: adjacent to 3 pieces
    • straightjacket: adjacent to 4 pieces
    • no safe spaces to move to for 3 consecutive turns, outside of drunk mode
  • "they're watching": knight is endangered n consecutive times
  • "sniped": get killed by a piece from 7 squares away
  • "cradle to grave": kill n pieces immediately after they become big
  • "can't take it": all pieces are protected by another piece
  • immovable object: stand in front of a pawn
  • close shave: in strategist mode, stand in the path of a piece but be saved by the movement of another
• arcade mode
  • pieces move on a timer instead of in turns
  • sideways pawns?
• UX shenanigans
  • add new highscore message when highscore is reached
• requires external server (I'm happy to provide a nodejs server - just give me code)
  • global highscore
  • global 'achievement get' counts
• promotion and advertisment
  • talk to rebus squad about becoming step 2

./images/compile_imgs.js: run in this directory to preload svgs into the html file.

credits to wikimedia commons for chess pieces