#two players

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2P Chess – search for turn

To my surprise, I take as idea chess videogame. Simple, because of without artificial intelligence. So this is everything for two players. Players makes turns after each other. But chess rules are taken into account.  With surprise, -  I am not big in chess and similar games, so  if run into that it is hard. Maximum, what I remember, is how figures make steps. So this is it.

So, first, that chess are very complex game. It has lots of rules. And all of these rules are required to be programmed.

At second, because of it has lots of rules, there are lots of game situations at game field. And check them all – just impossible. And this is the way for bugs and inaccuracy.

I was thinking next. I take chess and just program simple thing about how figures moves. Game for two players. Without AI. First player one takes a step, and then second player is making step. And this is it. At first plan is very simple.

But, now, I am just now, in a stage of everything checking. About different game turns. And all the time I am running in inaccuracy in implementation of chess rules. And everything else - is already done in programming. All the time, there are troubles with tricky logic cases.

Also, I want to speak about graphic side. So I don’t want to draw game field and chess figures. And I have taken a complete pack, free. It is called SBS - 2D Chess Pack. From website Itchio. They have drawn it very good. I want to say, that SBS has also in this pack isometric pictures of game field and figures. Different colors. But I choose only top down view.

Screaming Brain Studios – this is what hides under letters SBS. Cool guys! They have lots of assets and graphic packs. With different themes. Also with another themes, than chess. For dungeons, for games like dungeon crawler. So thanks to them for all these graphics themes!

Sounds to game – they are few – I make by myself in LLMS. This is such computer program. For creating music. Multitracks and also different plugins. Everything is possible.

Now, about what is it for a game. It is 2P Chess. 2P – 2 Players. Chess for two players. Artificial intelligence is absence. Game for two players. Also, plus to this some simple settings like select game field and select figures. And settings like – language – Russian or English. Turn on and of sound. Saying short, simple chess game.

Now, I am doing all these checks of different game situations. There are lots of them, as I see, in chess. And everything else – is already completed!

[gogglebob]

FGC #667 Marvel Super Heroes

When my grandfather died, I delivered the eulogy. To preserve the moment, I recorded myself. My grandmother had passed away fifteen days prior, and I regretted missing the opportunity to save anything from her memorial service. So I set my phone to record, stood at the podium, and told myself I would one day transcribe my own loving tribute to my dear grandfather. Yesterday, I successfully…

[earnaysia]

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to spend quality time with your partner or friend? Look no further than card games for two players! These games are not only entertaining but also a great way to bond and challenge each other’s strategic thinking skills.

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[15lehna]

The universal gm facepalm

[tootallferne]

I have a new game coming out tomorrow, called Guards at the Gates!

It’s a two-player diceless game that has you playing as two town guard, dragons, or whatever you like, trying to stall heroes from entering your domain by sending them on meaningless fetch quests! But be careful, because too many requests and they’ll get fed up and chop off your heads!

It’ll be up on my itch.io store!

[akanemnon]

Shouldn't there be a minotaur in the labyrinth? Who put this goat here? This is not accurate to the mythology! /j

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MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[steddielations]

Steve acts on instinct.

There’s this guy in all black walking in front of him, he’s too busy looking down at his phone to notice, but Steve doesn’t trust that lamppost. He’s been going for daily runs, he likes to keep it simple during the off-season, and that post has been getting more rickety every day. Now it’s swaying dangerously in the wind and he knows it’s about to tumble.

There’s no time to call out to the guy, so Steve just plows forward and tackles him out of the way.

They fall in a messy heap and Steve unfortunately lands heavily on top.

“Holy shit! What the— ugh!” The guy heaves in pain and Steve hurries to scramble off of him.

“Sorry, that post was about to fall on you, man. You alright?”

Pieces of grass stick to the guy’s long hair as he takes stock of Steve and what happened. With a labored breath, he surprisingly jokes, “Guess I’m lucky the best football tackler alive happened to be right behind me.”

It’s sarcastic as shit but Steve smiles with a tug of amusement as he offers his hand. “Baseball, actually.”

“You’re in the wrong league, man,” he lets Steve pull him to his feet and groans on the way up. “Well, nice to meet you, Baseball, you pack a hell of a first impression. I’m Eddie.”

Steve would appreciate his ability to joke so soon after taking a hit, but people are starting to gather around. There’s already phones pointed at them that probably caught the whole thing on camera. Steve’s used to public attention by now, knows the press is going to have a field day with this and he hates causing a scene, but he wants to make sure Eddie is okay.

“Just Steve is good. You wanna…? This way,” he gestures toward the sidewalk and thankfully, Eddie seems just as eager to get out of there too, shuffling next to Steve as they round the corner.

He’s wearing so much metal jewelry, it’s like a costume, the jingle jangle of his every step accentuating how shaken up he seems. They get far enough behind a building and Steve stops to have a real look at him and… well he’s interesting to look at.

It’s like he hopped off the album cover of an 80s rock band, or one of Steve’s Bon Jovi posters that he hid under his bed in high school. Way too much leather and way too much hair for the California sun, all disheveled with grass and dirt.

“You sure you’re okay? Here, you got a little…” Steve’s hand hovers until Eddie nods that it’s okay from him to pluck the grass from his hair and lightly brush the dust from his shoulders. Eddie watches him the whole time, his eyes big and dark, an intensity in them that Steve can’t quite read but he can feel. “Didn’t hit your head or anything, did you?”

Steve lowers his hands, stepping back a little when he realizes how close they are. Eddie’s eyes follow him, a slight quirk to his lips that makes Steve feel the heat of the sun a little warmer on his face.

“I’m touched by your concern, sweetheart, but my brain has been through worse damage than a little bump.”

Steve frowns at the ladder, but the first bit definitely makes him feel the heat. He’s admittedly a bit out of practice but he can still recognize a come on. One that he definitely invited with all the touching and indulgent looks.

Then Eddie starts profusely thanking him for the whole ordeal, asking to treat him somewhere nearby for lunch. It’s not that Steve doesn’t want to, he’s very interested actually, and thankful that out of all the jewelry Eddie’s sporting, there’s no wedding ring. That’s why he’s reluctant because he’s all sweaty at the moment. Not to mention, he didn’t finish his run yet.

“Surely saving my life was enough cardio,” Eddie jokes lightly and Steve snorts.

“I saved you from a minor concussion, maybe,” and okay he’s gotta accept now.

The place is small and unassuming, burgers and sodas type joint. Steve’s likely to be recognized there, which he doesn’t mind meeting fans in public just preferably not now, it might be jarring for Eddie.

He heads for the booth tucked in the back corner, the most private looking spot that Steve had his eyes on too. They get a round of sodas from the waitress and right away, Eddie starts thanking him again.

“I noticed that lamppost wobbling days ago,” Steve sparks a conversation instead of accepting any more thanks, “I was planning to let it fall on me so I could sue the shit out of the city.”

He’s pleasantly startled by the big cackle that gets out of Eddie, “Any chance to stick it to the man. I admire that.”

“‘Course I would’ve really stuck it to ‘em and donated it back to the community,” Steve adds.

“Giving the people’s money back to the people, imagine Big Brother’s horror. Noble guy.”

Eddie seems to bubble with contagious delight that doesn’t match his whole leather and chains thing at all, but it fits into the somewhat magic of him. It's a wonder to Steve.

“Do I know you from somewhere?” Eddie ventures, a glint of recognition in his eyes that Steve’s seen a thousand times. He doesn’t ping Eddie as much of a sports guy and he’s not vain enough to assume everyone knows who he is. Eddie’s probably seen him while flipping the channel past ESPN or something. Or maybe an ad for that Netflix thing he did documenting last year’s season.

“I think I’d definitely remember you.”

Steve didn’t mean it as a come-on, just that Eddie’s appearance really isn’t forgettable, but he can tell by the wicked little grin Eddie sports that it was taken as one. Steve likes that even better.

“Have you ever modeled, or anything? You’ve got the looks for it.”

Biting back a smile of his own, Steve shakes his head. “I bet you say that to everyone who saves your life.”

“None of them were half as good looking." That sounds concerning but Steve’s distracted by Eddie swirling his straw in his drink, regarding him with a long look. “Really though, I just feel like I’ve seen you before.”

Steve’s done a few covers of Sports Illustrated, but he doubts Eddie has ever picked up a copy of that, so he shrugs. “Must’ve been in your dreams.”

Eddie laughs softer this time. “You trying to sweep me off my feet or something?”

“Already did.” Steve leans back, enjoying the way Eddie’s eyes follow him.

Conversation sparks and it never really dies out. Eddie just grabs topics out of thin air, talking about the city and what they like to do and movies and his amazement that Steve knows all about D&D because he’s a nerd magnet. Eddie’s personality spills through everything he says like it can’t be contained. He’s talkative in a good way, not to a point where Steve can’t get a word in. He listens intently, has a way of putting all his attention onto Steve like he’s the most interesting person he’s ever spoken to.

It’s surprisingly easy to relax. Not because Eddie has a super calming presence or anything, his energy is just all-encompassing, it’s hard for Steve not to get sucked in and hang on to every word he says. It’s one of the rare times in public that he’s not hyper-aware of everyone around him and too paranoid of having a photo snapped and taken out of context to even enjoy himself.

That happens a lot, being one of the only professional athletes who’s open about his sexuality. The media is extremely invasive with his private life. If he’s seen with any guy friend, there’s a whole press storm about Steve Harrington’s “secret beau” within the hour. It’s ridiculous and he tries so hard to keep his lovelife under wraps that maybe he’s been neglecting it entirely, at least that’s what Robin says.

Of course, that’s when his phone lights up with a message from her. His heart sinks a little when he sees the title of the article she sent to him. He quickly shoots her a text and locks his phone without reading it.

“Everything alright?” Eddie notices the shift in Steve’s mood right away.

“Yeah just,” he sighs, bracing for the inevitable part when Eddie realizes Steve isn’t worth the hassle of all this, “Someone filmed us earlier and now it’s all over the press. I’m really sorry, I totally get it if—”

“Nah, don’t worry about it, it’s fine. I figured that would happen,” Eddie brushes it off, but Steve shakes his head.

“I don’t think you understand, it’s—”

“Wanna bet?” Eddie smirks for some reason, “I’m fine with it, I promise.”

He tosses a chip into his mouth and picks right back up with the story he was telling.

Steve is stunned for a moment, wary that maybe Eddie doesn’t fully grasp how deep this goes. But he stays there with Steve, seemingly thrilled to keep talking with him even when a family comes in and keeps staring their way, obviously building up the courage to come over and ask for a picture. Eddie’s acting like Steve’s the only person in the room and that’s enough to assure Steve that he’s really fine with it.

He’s so locked into Eddie, he barely registers when the older son from the family’s table finally wanders over and asks for a picture.

Steve is in the middle of wiping his face with a napkin, about to greet him when suddenly, Eddie pops up and asks Steve to excuse him for a minute.

“C’mon little man, let’s do it,” he says and much to Steve’s confusion, the teen excitedly goes with Eddie to his family’s table.

Steve watches, utterly baffled, as they start snapping photos and expressing what big fans they are and Eddie takes it with such bravado, laughing and chatting like he’s with a group of friends.

What the— Steve grabs his phone, opening the article Robin sent him at lightning speed.

At first, he wonders how the press was able to find out Eddie’s full name so quickly, then he sees the words "troubled rockstar" and "recovering star" so many times, it becomes abundantly clear.

Oh.

He’s not so worried about the troubled part, everyone has their shit and he doesn’t read into any of it. Those are Eddie’s stories to tell Steve if he chooses, not some tabloid. But the rockstar part connects a lot of dots that have come up in the last couple of hours since meeting Eddie and—

Yeah, just. Oh.

Part 2

[united-under-skyfall]

leverage is so fucking funny. man manages to find the most mentally ill and neurodivergent group of thieves on the market + an even more mentally ill guy whose literal job description was trying to chase all of them, and forces them into a found family speed-run by trying to blow them all up. they lowkey stage a full fucking country wide coup and are like eh 🤷 just another wednesday. this might be a fun place to vacation tho i guess. sophie shows up to her own funeral twice. they're so good at convincing people of their shit that they make a guy's body start reacting to an illness he doesn't have because it isn't real. go completely out on a limb and basically hand this one guy a new password for his computer so they can get into it and he goes with it. parker and hardison have straight up just "fake it 'till you make it"d into the fbi without even attempting to cover their tracks beyond just These Two Guys. half their clients never asked to be their clients and don't know they're their clients, and the other half are random people who find them who fuckin knows how, meanwhile no government agency can track them down without selling their soul to sterling. they make a point to have a dramatic scene w a Big Bad Shadowy Government Guy who doesn't actually get caught or brought to justice or anything telling them he's going to hunt them all down, and in any other show this would probably earn at least a minor arc later on but he literally never shows up again. an entire season finale hinged on a cake and a bunch of clams. they accidentally made eliot a celebrity not once, not twice, but three times. parker blew up her foster parents' house when she was like. nine. and it's hardly a footnote. hardison is just casually an artistic prodigy but it's only ever brought up for the most background of background gags. eliot's biggest beef with parker and hardison for like two and a half seasons is that they won't stop making weird food with lasers and refuse to realize they can't make a decent beer to save their lives. sophie's immediate response to being shot is to call her shooter a wanker. there's a character who has literally killed a man with a mop and they had the audacity to only put her in one episode.

[canonkiller]

world's most normal animals

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[jolikmc-stuff]

Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (Super NES) - Perfect Bonus Stages (2 Players) by Jo Li KMC on YouTube

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2P Chess –  time to play!

2P Chess  - chess game for two players. Now you can play it! Release was yesterday! Of course, chess – is not most impressive title, in case of game action. But it is rather interesting logic game. There are many logic games. And new made titles. And ideas that are taken from games, that already exists.

In this chess game there is no AI, and game for two players. So players takes a turn after each other. Or you can play with yourself. There are some settings. And select of chess board. And also a figures.

Game takes into account different chess situations, just like defense king and castling. Game has score count. Player has some statistics, which you can call with right mouse button.

Player takes its own decision about when to stop a game, and it will be a start of counting the scores. And some small statistics. Such as beginning of play, time and end of play, time. And also, scores that was describes upper. Also, game is automatically stops, when somebody’s king is eaten.

Game is launching in small window and has yellow-green interface. There are minimum of sounds here. There are minimum of settings, like turn on and turn off the sounds, and also choose language – Russian and English.

Little warning. Mainly, all of chess rules are programmed. And you can play normal. But in terms, of that, chess is a very hard logical game with so many steps and game situations. Than it is possible some inaccuracy. But they don’t disturb the game.

Game is made simple, and you can play it for free time and relax with a friend, for example, or  with colleague by work during the pause. Game is running in a small window, that is also very comfortable. And, also you can play alone, just making a steps, some steps, for point of interest or for a free time. Maybe good for learning about what figure can make what step.

There are only few sounds in game. Only sound of making step. And few more sound signals. Just like game is over. And, by the word, you can turn off sound. So it is a minimal chess for two players. Players, that are making step after each other.

 During gameplay, program shows some statistics. For select a statistic during the game – press RMB. Right mouse button.

Scores are counting two ways.

1)      Total amount of captured figures. Each figure is about one score.

2)      By some relative value. About value according to one pawn. So all figures has theirs values according to pawn.

Pawn – 1 score Knight and bishop – 3 scores Rook – 5 scores Queen – 10 scores King – 0 scores

 Control

It is mouse control.

Left mouse button (LMB) – select action

Right mouse button (RMB) – statistics and pause, during the game

 Gratitude goes to  Screaming Brain Studios (SBS) for using graphics pack for chess.

 Screaming Brain Studios – it is in short SBS. They are cool guys! They have lots of assets and graphic packs. About different themes. So, also, far away from chess theme.  About another things also. About dungeons, for game like walking the dungeons. So, I say thanks to them for graphics packs! For example, they have cool space planets. And lots of stuff about different themes.

Oldschool graphics for retro projects, with using retro technology. All packs are goes as CC0 license.

Screaming Brain Studios web site:  https://screamingbrainstudios.com/

Download graphics packs:  https://screamingbrainstudios.itch.io/

 Download game from website: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/

[gogglebob]

FGC #662 Toobin’

Let’s learn some fun facts about Toobin’! It is not very original Toobin’ is a 1988 arcade title by Atari Games and Midway. Midway/Atari had a pretty amazing hit rate during the 80’s, as this would be the same people that brought us Marble Madness, Paperboy, Gauntlet, and Blasteroids. Toobin’ is also a slam dunk of a concept, as who does not enjoy tubing along down some lazy river? Best of all…

[solacebean]

The Goat

[lorebird]

Sacrifices and parallels

[aprosin]

two ways to make the player retry the run

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[yashley]

exu calamity rewatch: nydas v. loquatius (lou v. sam) (bonus travis:)