Chess Survivors is my first commercial game, which I self-published. I developed this game during my first stint as a full-time game dev back in 2022. With the help of my Twitch community, I was able to craft a game I am truly proud of. 

I released Chess Survivors into Early Access on Steam in November of 2022. I then got a full-time job and continued to refine the game over the next 10 months, adding in more content, quality of life improvements, and of course, fixing bugs and game balance. Chess Survivors was fully released on August 31st, 2023.

The idea for Chess Survivors came to me while scrolling on my phone... on the toilet. Seriously. It was a result of seeing the success of Vampire Survivors and having the thought (for the first time), 'Shit, I could make that game.' I had also just participated in Ludum Dare 46, and the winner of that jam was a game called Shotgun King, which used the pieces/rules of chess in a unique way. So I thought, what if I combined Chess and Vampire Survivors? And the rest is history.