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shoggy is a 6x6 board, fairy chess variant with spell cards, written in Emacs Lisp.

shoggy was developed during theSpring Lisp Game Jam 2024.

• https://bcardoso.itch.io/shoggy

• GNU Emacs 29.3 with SVG support (probably runs on older versions too)
• There are no third-party packages required.

;; Manual install;; clone this repo:;; git clone https://github.com/bcardoso/shoggy(add-to-list'load-path"/path/to/shoggy")(require'shoggy);; With use-package + straight.el(use-package shoggy:straight (shoggy:host github:repo"bcardoso/shoggy":files (:defaults"images""sounds"):build (:not compile)));; compiler won't be happy

M-x shoggy RET

You can adjust and toggle some game options in the main screen.

• No checks, no castling: when theSage is captured, the game ends!
• Noen passant: pawns can move one or two squares in their first move (you can toggle this behavior), and that’s it.
• When a player is out of moves, it’s game over.
• In each turn, you can either move a piece or cast a spell: you are given a spell card after every capture.
• You can’t hold more than 3 cards at a time: cards are randomly discarded if your hand is full.
• All else is pretty much chess.

shoggy has standard andnon-standard pieces:

After each capture of an enemy’s piece, you earn a spell card. In your turn, you can either move a piece or cast a spell.

There are three types of spells (for now):

shoggy has two engines to play against:dumbfish andsanefish.

dumbfish

tries to capture pieces or makes random moves

sanefish

tries to be a more reasonable fish (the default)

shoggy was loosely inspired byShogi, a Japanese chess variant (which you can play online athttps://lishogi.org/).

At first I was planning to make aMinichess/Los Alamos chess variant, but I soon started to deviate into other directions.

I also had this idea a long time ago about adding playing cards into the game of chess. Perhaps in the future I’ll add some more spell cards toshoggy. Also, check outKnightmare Chess, which I discovered during my research of the Game Jam.

So there are hundreds of chess variants and fairy chess pieces out there. This is my own :)

• List of chess variants
• Shogi variants
• Fairy chess piece
• List of fairy chess pieces
• Chess Programming Wiki

I’m thankful to the creators mentioned below for sharing their work under free and open-source licences.

• Piece art:Pixel Chess Pieces by Lucas312 (CC3.0)

• Splash screen:button select.wav by MakoFox (CC3.0)
• Board start:Board Start.mp3 by el_boss (CC0)
• Piece move:chess_move_on_alabaster.wav by mh2o (CC0)
• Piece capture:Piece Placement.mp3 by el_boss (CC0)
• Boost spell:Dialogue box.wav by MakoFox (CC3.0)
• Promote/Demote:Puzzle piece placed on board by el_boss (CC0)
• Card vanish:Shuffle cards by Breviceps (CC0)
• Game end:chess-piece-bounce.ogg by pbimal (CC0)