I said that I had a funny idea that I wanted to try for the Chess Set final project.
Let me introduce you to…
Chess Bowling?
The board has been modified for this combination game.
Rules (Still being worked out…)
- Each side sets up their pieces like in chess, but in a 10 pin bowling format.
- Only one Rook and three pawns. The rest are put off into one of the side piece holders.
- Each player may choose to move any of their pieces (note that some pieces are in-between squares.), their movements are based off of those in chess.
- Take one of 5 balls and place it on the line (white or black) of your side.
- Then each player may then gently flick one of their 5 balls against the other player.
- The goal is to hit the queen, but you get points for each one that you do hit (points based on 10 pin points).
- Players may then replace any hit rooks or pawns with any of the leftover ones.
- If the player manages to bring their queen to the center line…Checkmate.
- I didn’t put in a middle line… maybe something to think about later.
- If a queen is exposed… Checkmate.
- If all balls are used, game is over, tied.
Rules are not tested, just something I made up on the spot to justify my silliness.
The most involved part of this scene was probably the surrounding gutter of the chessboard. I cut a cylinder in have and made it the right sizes. Then I used that nifty Spin tool round the edge to make it curl 90 degrees around the chessboard edge. Then I Connected the two sides, on the top and on the bottom. Then pulled out a portion of it to make it look like a box.
The Pieces themselves are the amalgamation of the Pin bottom mesh to the chess pieces mesh. The Legs of the Table are from the original board here.
Hopefully @NP5 will approve of the overall shape of leg and board :). The last one was a bit of a brick on sticks.