ChessJam Now Has Robots And A 14-Day FREE Trial

– taterboy | October 20th, 2009

Filed under: ActionScript 3, Flash, Flex, Games

No new code or demos this week, I spent most of the week and weekend fixing bugs and adding robots to ChessJam.

UPDATE

As of Dec 16, 2009, ChessJam is completely free, go to ChessJam.com to get started. For the most up to date information checkout the ChessJam blog or our ChessJam facebook page.

All those who tried out ChessJam and only got a 3 day trial, email us at “chessjam [at] gmail [dot] com”, we are now offering a 14-day trial. Also with robots in the castle, you have a reason to stick around. With everyone else hanging out hopefully the more actual people you will get to play. It takes time to build a community, “If You Build It, They Will Come” only works if you have patience and good PR (we are working on the later). Read more about our recent updates at the ChessJam blog, HDI blog and Greg Wilson’s blog, also follow us on twitter @Chessjam. Pay special attention to the challenge, who plays the most games by October 31st, gets a free copy of ChessJam (bottom of the post “ChessJam for All”).

Why ChessJam?, Why us?, Why now?
Good questions, let me explain. When we purchase a chess set at the store, we have the option of a really cheap plastic set or a really fancy set made out of wood, metals, and/or fine stone. But when we play chess online this or something like this is our only option.

This is an early mockup of our 2D board, I was promptly sent back the to my sketchbook.

To see what happened next,

We would like to offer a new vision for playing chess online, one with rich graphics, simple UI, sound effects and music. Just because chess is a thinking game doesn’t mean it can’t look cool. Now online chess can be like all the other cool games we enjoy playing.

Download a 14 day free trial today and see how many games you can play by October 31st.

Here is a breif overview of the graphics and UI, also shows how easy it is to get started playing ChessJam.

Technorati Tags: 3d chess, chess game, live online chess, online chess

4 Comments »

ChessJam :) super games

Comment by News — November 23, 2009 @ 4:01 am
why not do starwars chess, where they walk across the board, actually killing each other. and ten add some blood and gore too. you know, just because chess is a thinking game doesn’t mean there can’t be blood all over the board.

Comment by name — February 3, 2010 @ 2:48 am
Is this still available or no?

Comment by Chess Sets — April 1, 2010 @ 2:04 pm
Membership is currently free, you can download the game at http://chessjam.com

Comment by taterboy — April 1, 2010 @ 2:13 pm