ZOMBIE HEADThe front line
Steps forward on green, bites diagonally on yellow, and can slip ahead with a purple shadow move. Simple, hungry, everywhere.
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Pajama Kid: Monster Chess Battles
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EPISODE 1COMING SOON TO STEAM
About this game
"You! You're wanted at the court, IMMEDIATELY! There's no time to waste. Now hop on!"
Somewhere in the suburbs of Plotville, a bedroom window glows purple. Paja wakes on a checkered green hill with no way home, swept off to the court of the Creatures of the Light. Meanwhile, in the darkest corner of the checkered wastelands, the Wolfkid is planning his attack on chess land, and the all-seeing eyes have told him about a certain kid.
Chess, with teeth
No kings here, just kids. Capture the enemy kid to win. Golems, trees, eyes, snakes, zombie heads and cats each have their own movement and attack patterns, and keeping your pawns in a row when you castle earns you a bonus golem.
A story told in cutscenes
The campaign plays out between battles: training on the green hill, an audience at court, mini battles against the Wolfkid's scouts, and the main battle at the end of every episode.
Learn every move
The Knight walks you through each piece, lesson by lesson, so you never need to know chess before you start. Jump back into any lesson from the menu.
The Practice Yard
Set up any position you like from the sideline, load a preset or a saved game, and pit the light and dark armies against each other with either side on the computer.
Plain chess, too
Want a normal game? Regular Chess puts the classic pieces on the standard 8x8 board, against a friend or the computer at the level you pick.
Every monster moves its own way
Select any monster, yours or the enemy's, and its movement pattern appears beside the board: a map of every square it can reach from the skull at its centre. Each colour is a different kind of move, with its own rules.
Green: move, no attack
Yellow: attack only
Orange: move or attack
Purple: shadow move
Red: jump, ignores blocking
Cyan: reflection (castling)
White: land on a reflection
GOLEM"Rock solid."
All orange: every square is move-or-attack, empty or not. The best of both worlds, in a ring of heavy steps.
TREE"Splendid growth!"
Its roots reach far. Long green moves need empty, unblocked squares, and orange squares let it strike where it lands.
ALL-SEEING EYE"Eye knew you could do it!"
Red jumps soar right over holes and blockers, and white squares let it partner the kid in a castle.
CAT"Purrfect."
A huge web of purple shadow moves. Powerful, but every leap leaves a shadow behind, and an enemy that lands on it takes the cat.
SNAKEThe kid's castle partner
Guards the corners. Its white squares land on the kid's reflections, which is how the two of them castle.
THE KIDPaja, and the Wolfkid
Lose your kid and you lose the battle. Short steps around him, plus cyan reflection moves that set up a castle.
The rules of Chessland
Blocking casts a shadow
A piece in the way doesn't just block its own square. It throws a wedge of blocked squares away from the mover, widening with distance. Straight ahead it fans both ways, on a diagonal it splits into two wedges, and in between it opens to one side: 16 ways in all. Friend or foe, a body is a body.
Red and purple moves ignore blocking. Everything else respects it.
Shadows are a risk, and a target
A purple move leaves a shadow on the square below where the piece lands, so that square has to be free. While the shadow lingers, land a yellow or purple move on the shadow and you capture the piece that cast it.
"Here's the secret: land on a shadow, and you capture the piece that cast it!"
Castling with reflections
When the kid steps two squares sideways, reflections of him appear on either side. If the snake or the eye lands on one with a white square, you get a second move in the same turn. But a reflection can be captured, and taking it takes the kid.
"We castled! Neat trick, right?"
Inspection Mode
Press SPACE before you commit. The board goes dark blue and arrows show every capture either side could make, each one starting at a white dot on the attacker and pointing at its target. The selected monster's moves it can't play right now are striped.
ARROWS
Red: you lose material
Green: you win material
Blue: an even swap
Yellow: potentially hazardous, not imminent
X MARKS
Red: they can check your kid
Ringed red: checkmate
Orange: your tree is left open
Purple: your cat is attacked
CONTROLS
SPACE inspection on and off
RGBY step through each colour
Click a square to see just its lines
H the full legend
Welcome to Chessland
THE KINGDOM
Chessland
A checkered world ruled by a King and his Bishops, guarded by a Knight who never stops shouting. It is under threat, and the all-seeing eyes have named the one soul who could foil the Wolfkid's plans.
THE OTHER WORLD
Plotville
A quiet suburb where nothing happens, until one bedroom window starts glowing purple.
THE HERO
Paja Makid
Summoned through his closet by the Things of Darkness, then redirected mid-spell by a bishop. He lands on a green hill with no way home.
THE ARMY
Creatures of the Light
Eighteen monsters recruited by the King for Paja to command. "Monsters, though, really," as the court gasps.
THE ENEMY
The Wolfkid
Lord of the Things of Darkness, ruling the checkered wastelands with a cat in his lap and trees for bodyguards. He wanted Paja captured. Now he wants him gone.
THE PROPHECY
A mirror reflection
"You have his personality. A sort-of mirror reflection, if you will." The bishops say Paja is somehow tied to the Wolfkid himself.
THE TURN
The broken summoning
The zombie heads opened the portal on the Wolfkid's orders. A bishop broke the circle and sent the kid to Chessland instead. "FORGET CHESSLAND! TOMORROW WE FIGHT THE LIGHT!"
Episodes
EP 1No Kings, Just KidsAVAILABLE
EP 2Snow Way He's Back!COMING SOON
EP 3The Battles DragonCOMING SOON
EP 4Heart to CaptureCOMING SOON
EP 5Me Lucky Ghoul RushCOMING SOON
EP 6Jest A Ruse of Phony Moves!COMING SOON
Light vs. Darkness
