Chinese Chess (中国象棋) - Xiang Qi
A downloadable game for Windows
This is a quick 2-day practice project for playing with friends since I don't find any nice-looking easy to use Chinese Chess games online. Currently Windows only but both source and other platform binaries are available upon request.
You can play with friends across internet by using a software like Hamachi (otherwise it expects to run on LAN). The game's GUI interface should be very straightforward.
Instructions:
- Press 'R' to reset units
- Use mouse scroll wheel to adjust view angle/distance
You can also download from my google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d1Bof51rUvuI6ULFn4zwXVhs3o0MCwt1/view?usp=sharing. You can find a YouTube video on an earlier version of the game here (some bugs in the video are fixed in this upload): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLdRqGz59o0.
This game is free and open source in principle but due to its size I didn't upload it to Github - however source files (UE4) are available upon request. Anyone is free to use this game for any reasonable purpose. All assets are created either by me or used official UE4 free assets/demo projects, with the exception of the default background music, which is from this open source project: https://github.com/yingwang/chinese-chess.
This game is not optimized but it should run without any performance issue (since it's so simple) on a moderate PC. I might add more visual interests and likely support for Go and (western) Chess boards in the future. No plan for AI support - there are many existing good online/mobile games, please try them out. Also no plan for voice chat - please consider Discord. I might add simple text chat interface in the future if it comes handy.
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows |
Release date | Jul 28, 2020 |
Author | Charles Zhang |
Genre | Strategy, Puzzle, Simulation |
Made with | Blender, Unreal Engine |
Tags | Board Game, Chess, chinese, chinese-chess, Cult Classic, Local multiplayer, Multiplayer, Unreal Engine |
Code license | MIT License |
Asset license | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal |
Average session | A few minutes |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
Multiplayer | Local multiplayer |
Player count | 1 - 2 |
Links | YouTube, Blog, Source code |
Download
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Development log
- [V1.0] Brand New High Fidelity 3D Chinese Chess Game♟Jul 29, 2020
- [V1.1] New Game Modes Update! 🎉Jul 29, 2020
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