The first units are expected to start shipping in April 2017. Having already hit 200 percent of its original Kickstarter target, you can currently pre-order Square Off at a special early bird price of 179 euros, plus shipping. That’s our long-term vision - to revolutionize the whole board gaming world.” “That could be achieved simply by updating the app. “We want to make it possible to replace the top surface of the board so users can play additional board games, other than chess,” he said. He even has plans for expanding the concept in the future. When the project was in prototyping, Gohil said that the response was so great from people who saw it that the team decided Square Off could be a product that would appeal to a far broader audience than they had originally intended. “When you move a piece, the board needs to know what that is, so it can feed it back to the smartphone - where the processing takes place - via Bluetooth.” “On the top surface there is also a membrane-sensing technology, which can read what move the human player is making,” he continued. This is where Gohil and his fellow researchers came up with the series of stepper motors and electromagnets which allow the pieces to move on their own. Gohil said that the project started with the goal of building a chess set that would let visually impaired people play against a computer, since they often struggle to see the details on monitors or tablet displays. Gridopolis is for ages 8 and up, and even younger kids who can play chess or. At the same time, it lets you play even if there isn’t another opponent in the room with you at that moment.” First-of-its-kind, STEM-centric 3D Strategy Game Comes to Kickstarter on. That was our reason for launching this Kickstarter, to help regain the physical feel of board games, which you simply don’t get using a computer. “Ask any serious chess player if they prefer playing on a physical board or a computer screen, and they’ll choose the board every time. “We’ve tried to bring the best parts of a virtual board into reality, so you don’t need to sit in front of your screen to play,” creator Bhavya Gohil told Digital Trends. More AI engines are set to be added in future. The AI opponents include Cuckoo Chess, which is suitable for beginners, as well as Stockfish 7, which ranks among the best open source chess engines out there. Your opponent can be either an AI, letting you hone your skills against a chess-playing computer intelligence, or fellow chess enthusiasts from around the world, courtesy of the wonders of the internet. Well, sort of.Ĭlaiming to be the “smartest and the most-evolved chess board ever,” Square Off gives players a physical chess board, but one where your opponent’s moves happen automatically - with the pieces sliding around the board, seemingly of their own accord. Thanks to a new Kickstarter campaign, it is. Kickstarter Video: Square Off - A Chess Board with a Tech TwistAny Harry Potter fan has surely spent at least a few moments of their life wishing that Wizard’s Chess - the enchanted version of the classic game in which pieces move without being touched - was a real thing. So consider the delivery date an ideal scenario, and be prepared for probable delays should you choose to back this Kickstarter. They’re also completely up front about the fact we’re still in the middle of a pandemic, with supply chain and shipping headaches getting worse. The usual risks and caveats with crowdfunded products applies here, even for a game made from nothing but printed paper, but this is actually Halifax’s fourth Kickstarter product, and their second one based on playing cards, so they already have good relationships with printers and understand the risks and challenges that go along with it. But the more decks you preorder, the cheaper the per deck cost gets, and it also expands the number of games you can potentially play. Preordering one of the decks requires a contribution of about $US16 (A$21) to the campaign with delivery expected sometime in April of next year. The campaign has already well surpassed that. Halifax has opted for a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to help bring his unique One Deck design to gamers, with a modest funding goal of less than $US3,000 (A$3,990).
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