Chain Chess

 We first came up with this game when playing atomic chess, where every time a piece is taken, all the surrounding pieces are immediately captured. Instead, we made it so that after every move, all adjacent pieces also move. These are the rules:

• After every normal move, the surrounding pieces, including opponent pieces, at the location of the end position of the normal moves all get to move.
• After making the normal move for the turn, you may not take it back and must proceed with your turn, so make sure you want to make that move.
• Although you can move opponent pieces, each piece still may only capture pieces of the opposite color.
• All activated pieces MUST make a "chain move" if they can. If they cannot by the end of the turn, your turn is over.
• You may play your chain moves in any order, and you may intentionally block other chain moves to prevent that piece from moving.
• Each turn ends when the current player no longer has any available chain moves left.
• Since checkmates are more complicated and harder to predict, the rule is capturing the king instead of normal checkmates. This means that many moves that would normally be illegal are now legal, including moving into checks.
• If you choose to castle as your normal move, only the pieces surrounding the king will activate, excluding the rook that already moved that turn (all pieces may only move once per turn)
• If you activate your king or rook as a chain move, and can still castle, you may. To castle with a rook, shift click the position where it will end, otherwise it will just be a normal rook move.

Thanks to these people:

• LeMaster Tech on YouTube-www.youtube.com/@lemastertech for creating the original chess in python. This makes up about 50% of the code and all of the assets used in the game. Without his help, this project would never have become a reality.
  • Making chess using pygame video - 
    Chess GitHub-https://github.com/plemaster01/pygame...
• My brother for helping conceptualize the game, playtesting, and making assets (title screen) as well as the itch.io cover image.
• My mom for working as help for consulting and ideas.

Future updates and new features

• Support for in browser version (may be done by the time I release this)
• Online play
• Menu with custom color themes
• Bots (no idea how to make one but I will try)
• Custom chess pieces with chain theme
• Maybe even an ELO system

Keep in mind that this is my first ever official game, and I'm just doing this for fun. Please tell me if there's any bugs and I will try my best to fix them. If this game makes enough money, I will also put it on steam.