I am a independent game designer and I have created a new game called " Connect & Capture ". Connect & Capture - A game of mixing dots and boxes with chess. Completing a box activates the enclosed chess piece, capturing other chess pieces ! Connect & Capture can be seen at: http://www.geocities.com/alpine_rick_2000 Your comments regarding this game would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Rick Nordal ( Canada ) My email: alpine_rick_2000@yahoo.com P.S. I have also created another game called the " Origami snowflake game ". This game can be seen at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/origami_game

Connect and Capture is very interesting... when you going to code it

Dave "Dak Lozar" Loeser

I am not going to code my Connect & Capture game because I can''t do the coding.

It''s just a pencil and paper game for now.

If this game is " coded ", the chess pieces will " move " to the square of the chess piece that it captures, just like in regular chess.

How long do you think it would take to code this game ?

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Rick Nordal ( Canada )

depends on the graphical nature of the game, and the expirtese of programmers and artists. Probably a month for a decent game, 2 or 3 for some nice graphics, and maybe half a year for a commercial quality piece. (considering your an average programmer and artist) 2-4 years working in both

EDIT > bother=both

[edited by - paulcesar on June 10, 2003 2:47:54 PM]

It is also very dependant on what kind of AI you want to stick in there...Just writing the game for two people would take hardly any time at all, but writing it to play against you would require a bit more effort.