A downloadable game for Windows

A literal recreation of the 1983 title, "Archon : The Light and the Dark" just for the practice for coding games of this sort.

Finally got a bare-bones game assembled that needs a lot more added to it but we can begin testing the base ideas.  Currently only has a 5x5 chess map and the "pawn" units in game (Footmen for the light and Skeletons for the dark).  Next step will be to start adding more units until the full roster is in game then I'll go back to adding the menus and the rest of the game elements.

Controls: Player 1 uses WASD to move and L.SHIFT to attack/select. 

Player 2 uses the ARROW KEYS and R.CONTROL to attack/select.

ESC to exit the game.

ver.20260321 - No AI opponent available; 2 player local only.  Please note that there is currently no way to win other than annihilation.  (Known issue) game will not exit gracefully on victory and will crash.

Download

Download
Pawn_20260321.zip 3.1 MB

Install instructions

unzip to desired folder and run the enclosed EXE

Development log

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