Knight Ride: a game about rogue (chess) knight

16 hours ago

The game Knight Ride is a browser-based chess puzzle where a knight must reach a target square, capturing enemy pieces for points within a limited number of moves.
The game was built without game engines or libraries, using only HTML, raw JS, SVGs from Wikipedia, and CSS Grid for layout.
Key game mechanics include capturing pieces for points (pawn: 1, bishop/knight: 3, rook: 5, queen: 9), a multiplier based on remaining moves, streak bonuses, and a -1 point penalty for being under attack.
The developer used a global state object for game logic but manually updated the DOM, leading to messy code with data attributes and query selectors.
Audio implementation faced issues on Safari and iOS, resolved by switching to the soundjs library, though iOS required the ringer switch to be on.
The source code is available on GitHub, with extensive comments in a single HTML file, and the game can be played at knightride.rakhim.org.

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