Chess:Arcade

CHESS: ARCADE uses generative AI for its 2D artwork and for its music.

The illustrated assets — move callouts, effect overlays, chess piece sets, UI plates, the title graphic and the game icon — were generated with GPT Image 2 from prompts we wrote and iterated on ourselves. Every generated image then goes through our own import pipeline (trim, alpha normalisation, correction onto the game's fixed palette, downscale), is reviewed in the running game by hand, and is reworked or discarded when it misses. All of it ships as fixed image files inside the build.

The soundtrack was composed with generative AI: the melodies, harmony and arrangements were written with AI assistance, then reviewed, edited and mixed by hand. The game ships no audio files and uses no AI audio model — the score exists as note data that the game's own synthesiser renders procedurally at first launch. Twelve of the tracks are arrangements of public-domain classical themes; the rest are original.

Nothing is generated while you play, and the game never connects to an AI service. The opponent is a classical alpha-beta chess engine with a hand-written evaluation and opening book, and the puzzles come from the public Lichess puzzle database, verified against that engine. No player input, game data or personal data is ever sent to an AI model.