A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Each win is also a loss.

Can you adapt to the Martian way of warfare?



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Pit against your friends or the bot in a strategic bout of mutually assured destruction. The objective is simple: get more points than your opponent to win. The game ends when one player has no more pieces on their side. 

But there's a twist: a player controls any and only the pieces on their side of the board. In other words, ownership of a piece changes when it is moved over the central canal. 

Make calculating moves to out-trade your opponent and emerge victorious, no matter the cost.





                        


                             

                   




                                                                  


Team:

  • Eli Voigt - Programming
  • Sam Hall - Art, Sound, Music, Words



This is a digital reproduction of the Martian Chess board game, which was originally developed by Looney Labs, and published in 1999.

Buy the original physical game by Looney Labs here!











More information

Download

Download
MartianChess-v1.0-windows.zip 38 MB
Download
MartianChess-v1.0-macos.dmg 44 MB
Download
MartianChess-v1.0-linux.AppImage 39 MB

Install instructions

Martian Chess is available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux.

MacOS

The MacOS build is a standard .dmg file:

  1. Download MartianChess-macos-beta.dmg
  2. Double click the .dmg file.
  3. Drag Martian Chess to your Applications
  4. Run Martian Chess, and hit 'Cancel' on the MacOS warning
  5. Go to System Settings > Privacy and Security, and scroll down until you see "Martian Chess was blocked..." and click 'Open Anyway'
  6. Enter credentials if prompted, and click Open

Windows

The Windows build is a simple ".zip with an .exe file".

  1. Download MartianChess-windows-beta.zip
  2. Unzip the contents
  3. Double click martian-chess.exe
  4. Accept the Windows warning and run the game

Linux

The Linux build uses an AppImage package so the steps are:

  1. Download MartianChess-linux-beta.AppImage
  2. Set it to executable
    1. On Gnome desktop: Right click > Properties > Executable as Program
    2. Command-Line: Run chmod +x MartianChess-linux-beta.AppImage
  3. Double click and you're good to go

If you have any issues running the game please let us know in the comments!

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