Hacker Chess

Walkthrough (YouTube): Hacker Chess

Notes: I did not create any art assets. All the kits including art/music/animation were bought in Unreal Asset Store.

Toolkit: Advanced Turn Based Tile Toolkit

Core Gameplay

 
 

Level Design

The enemies are all in the castle. The mission is to occupy the castle. In order to do it, the player can:

  • hack consoles to create robot soldiers

  • control the robot army to kill enemy robots

  • hack enemy robots to let them betray

  • hack items in the environment

    • hack powder keg to explode

    • hack laser door to create laser

    • hack crystal to activate giant robot

 
 

Robot types

  • Artillerist:

    Heavy weapon, low speed, high damage

  • Infantry:

    Light weapon, fast speed, medium damage

  • Kurosagi:

    Light weapon, fast speed, enemy hacker with multiple skills

Hackable items

  • Powder keg:

    Explode and hurt surrounding units

    Hacking energy cost: medium

  • Console:

    Generate robot soldiers

    Hacking energy cost: low

  • Crystal:

    Hacking energy cost: high

  • Laser door:

    Generate laser that hurts units passing through it

    Hacking energy cost: medium

  • Dead eye:

    Recover hacking energy