The days of playing chess with static plastic pieces is over! HLC is a fully featured "Battle Chess"-like chess game on the Half-Life engine. You are in command of the chessboard as you order your troops on a 3D chessboard. Fully animated pieces walk around the board and attack each other as they vye for your superiority.

Some features include:

- A fully extensible set scripting system using the powerful and fast Lua scripting language allows set makers to script how they want their pieces to act, talk, walk, attack, and die.
- For those who are bored of simple chess, many other game modes are available including Crazyhouse, Bughouse and Checkers.
- A chess clock, rating system, PGN game importer/exporter, and a powerful Chess-playing AI are included standard.

Unfortunately, we have not completed the game yet, so we have decided to release a Set Development Kit so that mappers can make chess sets while we are still developing the game. The HLC SDK is a miniature version of HLC, with multiplayer and many of the game options removed. Included in the SDK is an fgd and utilities needed to create and script chess sets. We have also assembled a short HLC mapping tutorial and the documentation of how the Lua Scripting System works.

We are very interested to see any set-making efforts that go into HLC, so please drop by the Half-Life Chess Forums or our IRC channel, #hlc on irc.gamesurge.net and share your thoughts with us.

Half-Life Chess Set Development Kit 1.0 - 7.8M

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