Hey everyone!

We're happy to say that Chessarama is part of Made in Brazil Sale for the 3rd time! ✨

Our game will be 25% off during the festival period, so save the date and take this opportunity to get your own copy or gift someone 💙

Made in Brazil Sale will be running from Feb. 28 to Mar. 4, so take the time to check all the incredible games made by Brazilians!

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Hi folks! It's Holiday season, so it's time for our team to rest and renovate our energy for the next year! 😎

We'll be off from our activities from Dec 21st until Jan 6th. During this period, we will not check reports or suggestions. Your comments will be read and answered when we're back.

Thanks for being part of our community! 💙

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Do you remember what you were doing a year ago? We do: we were releasing Chessarama!

Today marks Chessarama’s anniversary, and we’re happy to have spent this year with you. Thank you for being part of our community 💙


Even after the release, we didn’t stop working on our game! Just last week, we updated Chess Match, one of the three game modes in Chessarama.

We introduced a “same set” button, that makes your opponent uses the same chess set as yours, and added more time control options to play your matches.

But the real highlight of these features is the addition of new themed chessboards:

• Farmer Board
  
• Soccer Board
  
• Samurai Board
  
• Dragon Board

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Our art team designed these chessboards inspired by the Campaign games, so you can pair your chess set with matching boards! ♟️

Check out all the new features here!


Since we’re in an anniversary mood, why not surprise your friends? 🎁

Gift the Chessarama Grandmaster Edition to your friends who loves chess, puzzles, and strategy! We would love this a gift for us, too 💙

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/36608/Chessarama_Grandmaster_Edition_BUY_AS_A_GIFT/

Thank you for an amazing year as part of our community. 2025 will bring even more exciting updates to Chessarama, so stay tuned!

We're happy to share that this year, you can nominee Chessarama on Steam Awards! 🏆

We're aiming for the "Best Game on Steam Deck" category, but you can nominee Chessarama in diverse categories:

• Game of the Year Award
  
• Best Game on Steam Deck Award
  
• Outstanding Visual Style Award
  
• Most Innovative Gameplay Award
  
• Best Game You Suck At Award
  
• Sit Back and Relax Award

It was an incredible year for Chessarama and for us. We're happy to share these moments with your community 💙

Don't forget to nominate Chessarama in your favorite categories — the more, the better!
Our Pawn is ready to bring home this award 🏆

Howdy, everyone!

If you read our last Patch Notes, you're aware that we made some updates on the Chess Match mode! ♟️


We heard you, and we're happy to present the new features available on Chess Match:


The opponent set could be any set available on Chessarama, which means that could be different from the one you select.
Now, if you want both chess sets to be the same, you can toggle the option "same set as opponent"!


The time for each match had a default of 5 minutes only. Now, you have more options based on what's better and more comfortable for you to play:

• 2 min + 1s (2 minutes to finish the match + 1 second increment per move)
  
• 5 min + 5s (5 minutes to finish the match + 5 seconds increment per move)
  
• 10 min + 0s (10 minutes to finish the match + no increment per move)
  
• 15 min + 15s (15 minutes to finish the match + 15 seconds increment per move)

Whenever you open Chess Match, the default time will be 5 min + 5s.


We also made new themed boards that you can use on your matches!
Now you have five board options:

• Default Board
  
• Farmer Board (unlocked after 5800 XP)
  
• Soccer Board (unlocked after 8400 XP)
  
• Samurai Board (unlocked after 10400 XP)
  
• Dragon Board (unlocked after 16000 XP)

That's all the incredible updates on the Chess Match mode! Which one did you like the most? ♟️

Howdy, everyone!

It's been a long time since our last Patch Notes. In the last months, we've been working on diverse updates, features, and some very cool things 👀

We're happy to finally share some of the updates we worked on!

• Time options and board selection for Chess Matches;
  
• Badge rewards for Leaderboards.

• When playing with controller, in rare occasions entering the Live Challenges screen will lock interaction;
  
• When playing with controller, in rare occasions entering a Chess Match will make pieces disappear;
  
• The daily challenge that requires wins without moving the King needs one more win than displayed.
  
• It's possible to get locked in Chess Match after finishing and trying to play again. We'll fix ASAP, in the meantime, go back to the Main Menu and start a new Chess Match game and it will work without problems.

Stay tuned to check the updates we're working on. We can't wait to share everything with you 💙

Keep reporting bugs and giving us feedback on the Steam Community Hub or in our Discord server[discord.com]! 💪

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We're happy to be part of the Turn-Based Carnival this year! 🎲

📅 November 13th - 20th
⏰ 18:00 UTC


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We're happy to announce that we're taking part in Game Devs of Color Expo for another year! 💙

Chessarama will be 25% off during the event period: September 18th - September 24th.

Be sure to save the date and don't miss the discount on Chessarama 💪

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We are excited to announce that we're supporting WDC: Whale and Dolphin Conservation for World Ocean Day! 🐬

The WDC World Ocean Day Sale starts today and runs until 15th June, 10am PDT 2024, and you can save a fin-tastic:

• 25% off in Chessarama
  
• 50% off in Daylife in Japan, Chess Knights: Shinobi, Colorgrid, & Knight Swap

We will also donate 5% and 50% of our net profits to WDC to support their conservation work.*

Photo: Mignon


WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation is the leading global charity dedicated to the protection and conservation of whales and dolphins.

Their expert-led teams in the UK, Europe, the Americas, and Australasia work across the whole spectrum of threats, from climate breakdown to accidental entanglements in fishing gear. They bring together, and work hand-in-hand with, businesses, philanthropists, scientists, NGOs, governments and grassroots communities to find solutions to the problems faced by whales and dolphins.

Their aim is to reverse the global decline in whale and dolphin populations by creating safe seas for these majestic creatures.

Entanglement in fishing gear, or ‘bycatch’ as it’s known, is the biggest threat whales and dolphins face. Many hundreds of thousands die in nets or get tangled up in fishing gear every year. As air-breathing mammals like us, when they get trapped in a net, panic can take over and they can sustain terrible injuries before either escaping, or suffocating. It is a massive problem and so WDC are working on some innovative solutions.


WDC have been working across the globe to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises from dying in fishing gear:

• They’re collaborating with creel fishers in Scotland to trial new types of fishing gear to reduce entanglements of humpback and minke whales.
  
• They’re working with colleagues and partner organisations in the Central Baltic Sea to develop a recovery plan for a critically endangered group of Baltic harbour porpoises.
  
• On the west coast of the United States, critically endangered North Atlantic right whales are facing extinction. Entanglement is a massive threat to their survival, and WDC have been working with fishers to trial alternative gear types.
  
• In Hong Kong WDC have been supporting local community efforts and working with fishers to save the remaining 200 Indo-Pacific finless porpoises from extinction due to bycatch.

These projects are saving lives, and they are powered by inspiring people working together for the ocean.

Photo: Shutterstock


By purchasing games from this year’s World Ocean Day sale, you will help WDC continue these vital conservation projects across the globe, as well as enable WDC’s team to embark on new efforts to bring further protections for whales and dolphins, like the Sri Lankan gillnet fisheries project:

• Sri Lanka is home to many species of whales, dolphins and porpoises as well as a myriad of other sensitive marine species like sea turtles that are vulnerable to entanglement in gillnets – these are nets that hang in the water like a wall. With funding, WDC hopes to collaborate with Sri Lankan artisanal tuna fisheries that use gillnets to trial new gear types and reduce the impact their fishing has on marine life, while still enabling them to earn their living.

Whales and dolphins are awe-inspiring. They are intelligent beings, vital for the health of the ocean and planet. Together we can still help them recover and flourish and they can help us reconnect with the wild, and repair the damage we have caused.

If you want to read more about WDC, you can do so here:
https://whales.org/
Keep up to date with all the awesome gaming activities WDC does here:
https://games.whales.org/
And you can find many other amazing games in the sale here:
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Thank you for joining us and for supporting WDC! 💙

*5% and 50% of our net revenue from this sale will support WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Whale and Dolphin Conservation is a UK registered charity (no. 1014705).

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