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Smess: The Ninny's Chess!
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Smess: The Ninny's Chess!

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"Smess: The Ninny's Chess!" a.k.a. "All the King's Men": A simple chess variant by Parker Brothers, sadly now out of print for many years returns from oblivion in Tabletop Simulator! Sorry, the minifigures are represented with standard chess pieces because I don't know how to make models. Maybe someday we'll see those little guys again.

Here are the official rules provided by Hasbro: http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/Smess.pdf

Cool page where I found a low-rez game board image: http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/smess.html

I traced the game board in InkScape[inkscape.org] in order to provide a high resolution game board image for Tabletop Simulator. I can send the SVG to anyone who requests it. Just email me at mclean.ben@gmail.com

I chose to use the game board image that had the starting places marked because that's how I remember the original gameboard.
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Ben McLean  [author] Oct 30, 2023 @ 11:56am 
Somehow I didn't notice that guy back in 2015 saying he could make the 3D models. But if he really wanted to, then surely he could Google what the pieces looked like.
CR4YCR4Y Mar 14, 2015 @ 5:59pm 
I've already sent you something on Reddit but I'm going to tell you the same stuff here. I'm okay at 3d modeling, not "good" by any stretch of the imagination, but I could make simple pieces with reference images. Get in touch if you're interested!
Ben McLean  [author] Jul 12, 2014 @ 10:31pm 
Silent Hunter, yeah, I could, but that's lame. I think the standard chess pieces are actually better than doing it that way.
Kavus Kazian Jul 12, 2014 @ 12:20pm 
You could add 'custom figures' with pictures of the figurines on them.
Ben McLean  [author] Jul 11, 2014 @ 3:19pm 
It is technically possible to add the models but I'd need to find someone with a 3D scanner to scan them or else get much better at 3D modelling than I currently am.
primoaurelius Jul 11, 2014 @ 2:48pm 
fun fun
Kavus Kazian Jun 7, 2014 @ 9:59am 
They added custom model support, so you could add the original models if you can do OBJ.