Chess Kingdom

Two things today. A new game, and a pile of Chess Kingdom improvements that came almost entirely from you.Casino Legends is out nowMy new game just launched!Casino Legends is a premium, offline casino game where you build one bankroll across poker, blackjack, roulette, baccarat and slots. You read your rivals, work your way through connected venues, and climb from nobody to Casino Legend.No real money gambling. No microtransactions. No online requirement. Just a full single player game for $4.99.And here's the good part: \if you own Chess Kingdom, you get a discount on it through the bundles.\ Steam knocks off what you already own, so you only pay for the rest. And no, Chess Kingdom support isn't stoppingI know how this normally goes. Dev a new game, first game quietly gets abandoned. Not happening here.Here's the proof: everything that's landed since the last patch notes on August 3.Four new country setsDenmark, Norway, Finland and Switzerland join the National Pride line. Built the same way as Sweden: actual landmarks carved into the pieces, not a flag slapped onto a generic pawn.Denmark: Rundetaarn, Roskilde, Kronborg, a Viking helm, a dragon prow, a shieldNo

As always I'm a bit late, but here is everything that got changed since the last patch and my new game announcement! PerformanceThe stutter while you move pieces is gone. Two heavy jobs were running on the same thread that draws the board: the opening book was being rebuilt and copied twice per move pair, and every animation and move list update forced a full page layout. Across a typical match that added up to more than a second of freezing. On the same test match afterwards: long tasks went from 5 (1154ms total, worst 335ms) to zero, the worst frame from 341.8ms to 41.6ms, hitches over 100ms from 5 to zero, and average FPS from 90.4 to 115.0.The main menu no longer crawls after you finish a game. Background position analysis kept grinding away after the game had ended, so the post game screen and the main menu could fall to roughly 10 FPS, and sometimes 3 or 4, until you restarted.Faster launch on Steam Deck and SteamOS. Optional data loading was competing with startup on the Deck's slower CPU, and launch showed a white page for several seconds before the loading screen appeared.The download is smaller. A native library was shipping binaries for twelve platform and arch

This update improves UI scaling and windowed mode support, especially on smaller resolutions. Menus and game screens have been adjusted so important buttons and information stay reachable instead of being cut off.This patch was made because of player feedback and refund reasons mentioning that the interface could not scale properly or was not fully visible. Even though I would prefer everyone to give the feedback before refund :D It's was still genuinely valuable and helped make Chess Kingdom better.Thanks to everyone who takes the time to report what is not working.

Hey everyone 👋It's still just me back here, so updates tend to come in waves. I go quiet, head down for a while, then surface with a pile of things I built straight from your feedback. This is one of those, and it turned into a big one. Thank you for every bug report and every "wouldn't it be cool if" in the meantime. It genuinely all lands on my desk.Here's what's new, and why I built it.💬 You can actually talk to your opponents now I'd given the bots real personality in how they play, but you still couldn't actually talk to any of them. So now you can. In offline matches you can chat with your opponent and they answer in character: they know they're a Chess Kingdom regular, they've got their own backstory and taste, they react to how the game is going, and they remember what you said earlier. Over 50 of them, each their own person. The part I care about most: it runs entirely on your own machine. Nothing you type ever leaves your PC, there's no account and no server. It's a bit heavy on VRAM but It's completely optional and off by default. Flip it on in Settings and it grabs a one-time download the first time. It&#x