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

Status	In development
Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux
Authors	Liquid Mirror, Sam Hall, Elijah Voigt
Genre	Strategy
Made with	Rust, Blender
Tags	Atmospheric, Board Game, Chess, chesslike, Local multiplayer, martian-chess, Space, Turn-based, Two Player
Average session	About a half-hour
Languages	English
Inputs	Mouse
Accessibility	One button
Multiplayer	Local multiplayer
Player count	1 - 2

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:

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

Windows

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

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

Linux

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

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

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

Comments

ItsNotMyRealName10 days ago

Hi I'm running Linux Mint. I tried to install the appimage and I get this error: ./MartianChess-v1.0-linux.AppImage: No such file or directory. This also happens if I try to install with Software manager as well. I followed the directions and made it an executable. Trying to run the windows version in wine also crashes.