
Factsheet
Developer:
Rain Games
Based in Bergen, Norway
Release date:
5 March, 2020
Platforms:
Steam
Website:
vikingchessgame.com
Regular Price:
USD | $4.99 |
EUR | €3.99 |
GBP | £3.99 |
Description
Viking Chess: Hnefatafl is a strategic boardgame with assumed origins all the way back to the Viking era. Viking Chess: Hnefatafl uses the popular ruleset for Hnefatafl; the "Copenhagen Ruleset". Play as the Attacker faction counting 24 pieces or the Defender faction counting 13 pieces including 1 King. The game is assymetric, and each Faction has different win conditions. As the Attackers, capture the King or enclose the Defenders to prevent their escape. As the Defenders, move the King to one of the four corners to escape, or protect the King with an Edge Fort. Capture opposing pieces with capture mechanics similar to "Othello", where the attacking piece must have an ally in a cardinal direction adjacent to the attacked piece. The experienced player might be able to pull off even more fancy captures with a Shieldwall attack or a Multicapture attack!
History
Hnefatafl is a game in the "tafl" family of boardgames. These games were played throughout Northern Europe in different variants, and have been found on the British Isles and in Scandinavia. Boardgames in different shapes and sizes have been found in Viking graves, both in adult and child graves, and it is assumed that boardgames were an important part of the culture at the time. No game rules have been found, so the modern recreations are based on Carl Linnaeus' documented version of a game called Tablut in 1732. Linnaeus traveled in Lappland in Sweden and came across some people playing this boardgame, and he documented the game in text and in handdrawn pictures. A chess historian by the name of H.J.R Murray, author of the book "Boardgames other than Chess" (1969) believed that Linnaeus' account of the game Tablut was the game described in the Viking sagas. Modern recreations are created from these sources, and there are different versions of Hnefatafl played today. Viking Chess: Hnefatafl uses the ruleset "Copenhagen Ruleset", credited to Aage Nielsen (DK), Adam Bartley (NO) and Tim Millar (UK). Source: http://aagenielsen.dk/copenhagen_rules.php.
Features
- Singleplayer vs AI
- Online Multiplayer
- Local Hotseat Multiplayer
- Interactive Tutorial
- Ingame Unlockables
Videos
Trailer YouTube
Images
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About Rain Games
Rain Games AS is a Norwegian independent video game developer forged from a cooperative community of local artists and programmers. Our team is diverse in both talents and interests, but we share a common goal: To create games that are fun and challenging. Our first game, Teslagrad, is a 2D puzzle platformer that has sold over 1.6 million copies worldwide. On May 2017 we released the 3D top-down action adventure World to the West, a standalone followup of Teslagrad, set in the same universe. Learn more at rain-games.com.
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Viking Chess: Hnefatafl Credits
Kenneth Engelsen
Game Designer, Programmer, Producer, 2D Artist, Diamond Sky Games/Rain
Lars Helgemo
3D Artist, Freelancer
Rhonan Huggard
AI Programmer, Inky Pen
Krister Berntsen
Programmer, Rain
Even Kjelby
Music, Great News
Maciek Ofstad
Music, Kvelertak
Peter Meldahl
Executive Producer, Rain
Thor Andrè Karstensen
Special Thanks
Contact
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