Pawn of the Dead
Music slider
Campaign mode can be played
As the title explains, you can test the current version of Pawn of the Dead's campaign mode right now. We have a story with 64 levels, supported by cinematics.
Also, 4 new achievements are added. They are achieved at the ends of each chapters.
Story
Your mission as Leonard, the White King, is to protect the White Kingdom against the marching army of undead. Elona, the White Queen, is the best warrior in the kingdom, you won’t be able to succeed without her help. During your quest, you will face a sinister reflection that you forgot a long time ago.
What's left for the full release?
We will revise the model of Black Queen.
New AI and musics
We updated Pawn of the Dead today.
New features
- The AI of the game is rewritten. Now the AI is able to predict your future moves, which means that the AI became harder. At this point, we are waiting for your feedback.
- We have 2 new musics for Graveyard and Town scenes. This means that each environment has its own theme.
- You can change the graphic quality, resolution and V-Sync from the game. Unity's own resolution screen is removed.
- When Black side loses, you can see Black King and Black Queen flee by teleporting, while the rest of the undead pieces die.
Our plans
- We will create the campaign mode's 64 levels after we are sure that the AI satisfies you
- Black Queen model will be revised
December 2020 News
1. Cinematics are almost completed. Turkish voice acting of Kings and revisions on some animations are all that are left. We published a video of Chapter 2's English cinematic to show you how our cinematics will be like.
[previewyoutube="3CuFp8VA0Gg;full"]
2. AI will be improved. Some players enjoyed the current version of AI. But some others (especially chess players) found it too weak. So I have decided to improve it, so that we can target chess players. Casual and Normal difficulty modes will remain the same, Hardcore difficulty mode will have Minimax and alpha-prunning algorithms.
This means that the 64 levels of the campaign mode will need to be remade, because they must be beatable by the players when they play against the new AI.
I am sorry that the game will be delayed because of the new AI, but I want to release the best that Pawn of the Dead can be on full release.
Gothic Ruins: New environment and music
[previewyoutube="23pGAw4CuJY;full"]
Pawn of the Dead is getting closer to full release.
We have a new environment, Gothic Ruins, and a new music for that environment. It's the second music composed by Uğurcan Orçun (who is also working for TaleWorlds) for Pawn of the Dead.
New Queen animations
We worked on new Queen animations for Pawn of the Dead. White Queen runs on board, while Black Queen teleports herself to distant squares.
Also, I changed the color space to Linear from Gamma in Unity. I hope you like it better now.
July 31, 2020 Update
* We worked on the Castle environment to make it look better
* There are short sounds at the ends of matches that show which side has won the match
* We fixed a few bugs. For example, we weren't getting correct solutions for Casual difficulty, sometimes the game was creating levels that the enemy would win. That bug is fixed.
Vulkan support for Linux
You can play Pawn of the Dead on your Linux computer with Vulkan, too, now! OpenGL Core support still exists, in case you can't run Vulkan on your computer.
We have also made some minor changes on the visuals.
64 bit support for Mac
Embrassing side-note: The game had 64 bit support for Mac since October, 2019. Today I noticed that I didn't mark the game this way in Steam, which resulted in the game seeming as if it doesn't work in Catalina. I fixed it today.
Classical chess mode is live
Pawn of the Dead's classical chess mode is live now, you can start playing it! FIDE rules are applied in this mode.
It is also possible to play the game with classical chess rules in random level generation mode. This means that, you can play infinite amounts of chess puzzles in Pawn of the Dead.