The Opportunist

Tuesday

We started one of our small projects today. We were put into groups of 3 or 4 and asked to create a chess piece today, but we gave it more depth then a name and a move. We found it better to understand our piece by creating a basic description and then form its movement and look from there.

We decided on making a piece called 'The Opportunist'. It could be both taken in modern and older times. It was found to be resourceful and is very independent, but could be seen as useless against a row of opponents. It can move in or up to a 'C' movement to move or take out an opponent player but cannot jump over players.

I also had the chance to look around at other peoples pieces and found this one quite interesting.

It was able to completely change the game of chess by giving the piece 'The Thief' a few simple set of rules. I found this different to what most teams had thought of and was intrigued by having a piece that was not controlled by any players. 

We then were told to make our pieces not digitally or out of marble, but rather lego. We had to make a lego constructed robot to be programmed to take on the role of our chess piece. At the time I was more focused on how we were to make this work but thinking back on it I have found a different way of bringing out a character without needing a image or description to show that.

Marty