Horizontal Cylinder Chess

A chess variant where the top and bottom ranks are adjacent. An additional row of pawns protects your King in the other side of the play area.

This game is built using Compose Multiplatform and it runs on Android, iOS, Web, Desktop (JVM).

Play

The WASM build of the game can be played at https://deanalvero.github.io/horizontal-cylinder-chess/.

Build

Android Application

To build and run the development version of the Android app, use the run configuration from the run widget in your IDE’s toolbar or build it directly from the terminal:

• on macOS/Linux

  ./gradlew :composeApp:assembleDebug

• on Windows

  .\gradlew.bat :composeApp:assembleDebug

Desktop (JVM) Application

To build and run the development version of the desktop app, use the run configuration from the run widget in your IDE’s toolbar or run it directly from the terminal:

• on macOS/Linux

  ./gradlew :composeApp:run

• on Windows

  .\gradlew.bat :composeApp:run

Web Application

To build and run the development version of the web app, use the run configuration from the run widget in your IDE's toolbar or run it directly from the terminal:

• for the Wasm target (faster, modern browsers):
  • on macOS/Linux

    ./gradlew :composeApp:wasmJsBrowserDevelopmentRun

  • on Windows

    .\gradlew.bat :composeApp:wasmJsBrowserDevelopmentRun

• for the JS target (slower, supports older browsers):
  • on macOS/Linux

    ./gradlew :composeApp:jsBrowserDevelopmentRun

  • on Windows

    .\gradlew.bat :composeApp:jsBrowserDevelopmentRun

iOS Application

To build and run the development version of the iOS app, use the run configuration from the run widget in your IDE’s toolbar or open the /iosApp directory in Xcode and run it from there.