Globe Chess (Game Prototype)

 

In the year 2008, a notion came into my mind: In ancient times, people thought that the Earth was a plane, so they created flat-board games such as Chaturanga, the origin of all chess-like board games. But now we all know that the Earth is in fact an orb, so why don’t we make a modern version chess and play it on a globe?

 

In order to transform my imagination into reality, I made a wooden game set “Globe Chess”, and played it with friends. It worked, and it totally blew our mind! Since the board has no boundary and all pieces on it can move without limit of steps, players will find that the experience of playing “Dot” is totally different from any other board game.

 

Although the board of this game is a 3-dimensional sphere, the surface of it is essentially a 2-dimensional membrane which makes the strategy of winning this game not much different from the original chess or other board games. However, it requires players to pay attention on every possible routes on a spherical field, that makes the full-angle observation a critical skill for this game.

 

 

 

Continue to explore more

Games