Chess, but pieces fight for their lives.

ShatteredCrown is a browser-based battle chess game where every piece carries HP, wields unique abilities, and must survive combat to claim a square. Pieces don't vanish on contact — they bleed, endure, and sometimes make a last desperate stand.

Every piece has health and attack stats. Moving onto an enemy square triggers a fight — the defender loses HP equal to the attacker's attack. If the defender survives, the attacker is repelled and the turn ends. Only a killing blow earns the square.

When a piece is about to deliver a killing blow, a Last Stand challenge triggers — a full-screen duel screen where both pieces rush toward each other. The attacker must correctly type 5 random letters within 7 seconds to execute the capture. Fail, and the turn ends with nothing gained.

Before each match, both kings independently choose one once-per-game ability:

• Higher Morale — Spawn a friendly Rook on any empty square; King recovers 25% HP
• Za Wardou (Toki wa Tomare) — Time stops: the opponent loses their next turn
• Dirty Deeds — Swap the King's position with any other friendly piece
• Epitath — Reverse the opponent's last move entirely

Four distinct battlefields, switchable at any time from the sidebar (switching resets the match):

Each map tile has a live CSS animation — lava flows, waves shimmer, fog drifts.

• Animated intro screen with game overview before every session
• Floating lava embers, water ripples, and fog wisps surround the board based on active map
• Per-piece HP bars, floating damage numbers, stun indicators
• Attack animations with ghost pieces flying across the board
• Clash, death-spin, pierce, heal, and ability-specific visual effects
• Ambient board glow that changes color with the active map

No installation needed — open index.html in any modern browser.

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/AndrewLu-1/ShatteredCrown.git
cd ShatteredCrown

# Open in browser
open index.html

For the Python CLI version:

python main.py          # Play in terminal
python -m pytest tests/ # Run tests

ShatteredCrown/
├── index.html              # Game entry point
├── web/
│   ├── js/
│   │   └── app.js          # All game logic, UI, animations (single-file web build)
│   └── css/
│       └── style.css       # All styles and animations
├── src/                    # Python backend (CLI version)
│   ├── core/               # Chess engine — board, pieces, movement, game state
│   ├── pieces/             # Piece stats and ability definitions
│   └── battle/             # Combat resolution
├── tests/                  # Python test suite
└── main.py                 # CLI entry point