It's been slightly over a week since we entered Early Access. So much more remains to be done and we are super excited to add new features to the game. From among the feedback, we selected a few major things that would complement the game rather well at this stage. Here's what were working on right now.
Hotseat
The genre and chess mechanics call for a hotseat mode, wherein players will be able to assume the roles of there opponents from the same computer. Practice on your own, or invite friends and swap seats, hotseat multiplayer can be a lot more fun than artificial computer-controlled opponents.
At the moment we are testing a hotseat implementation. If everything goes well, it will be ready very soon.
Achievements
Games on Steam should have achievements (and with cool icons at that). We have many ideas for very intriguing and creative achievements, but we're going to start by implementing some of the simpler ones first.
The system for triggering the achievements is already in place and is being tested.
Localizations
Initially, we did not prepare the game for being localized into various languages, and so English was the only option. Right now we are working on decoupling the text from the game, so that localized versions can be created and added with ease.
As of right now we are not sure which additional languages will be supported first, but with a possibility to add new language support without changes to the code base, perhaps we will be able to leave that question open.