Ooh, me too!

@DarkSheepArts @martincrownover gorgeous, esp that pawn leaping off-board.

the wanna-play-this aspect raised Sunday morning coffeetime thoughts on game design:
Is each ‘step’ (maybe ‘click’?) in the game board rotation happening after a single move? or two?

Can a rook or queen exit the edge furthest from crank and come into same row on the opposite face? Can long movers like these cross edges of the cube? That leads to wild dynamic-board possibilities. Likewise, do bishops cross that edge?

If moves are limited to within 4x4, can one elude check just due to a ‘click’ rearranging edges? Can one go more than 8 squares left or right?

Do players see all 64 squares, or are they handicapped to seeing just 2 or 3 sides adjacent to their king… which might be fun or might ruin play. Heh, a game where one’s view follows queen unless gone could add twists.

Years ago, a local BBS friend was hired to do the Compute! Magazine c64 reimplementation of a new game another programmer invented called Laser Chess. It’s STILL out there. I mean, it’ll never be big-c chess, but it has versions and a following 40yrs later. Laser chess versions on lesser platforms learned to not worry about living up to a (gorgeous) realistic display- just code a virtual game & let folks explore and add/drop rules to get the game playable.

@shom @martincrownover
What an awesome animation!

This immediately reminded me of something from a childhood favorite: Jacques Carelman's Catalogue D'objets Introuvables, whose Finnish translation (Kataloogillinen joita ei ole) I'd marvel for hours and hours as a kid. I could've sworn there was a 3D box version of chess too, but that seems to be a garbled memory. There's a sphere chess, and then this typewriter-style chess where the pieces are supposed to jump to their destinations on key presses.

The text on the sphere says (rough translation):
Sphere chess - This is a 3D augmentation of traditional chess. Imagine the surprise when an out-of-sight queen emerges to eat a knight of yours.

#chess