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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 01/10/2026

It's spooky season and that means it's the return of Haunted Seas in Paper Pirates! Check out all the haunted goodies: 🧛 Seasonal Trait+: The Vampire 🐺 Seasonal Trait: The Werewolf 🍬 Seasonal Event: Trick or Treat? .. and more! Haunted Seas runs all through October🦇 #IndieGame #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 02/07/2026

We'll be at @developconference.com in Brighton very soon, and we're super excited to be participating in the Indie Showcase! If you're going to be there, make sure to stop by to play our demo or tell us what your favourite chess piece is and why it's The Ghost 👻

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 24/06/2026

The Pirate Pool Party has begun! Grab your rubber rings and dive into summer fun in Paper Pirates until 22nd July! 🧜 NEW Seasonal Trait: The Mermaid 🦈 Seasonal traits: The Shark & The Bait! 👙 Seasonal outfit pieces! 🏰 Seasonal event: Spooky Sandcastles!

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 21/06/2026

The ocean blesses you, crew! A Paper Pirates update today adds a new optional rule. Enable The Ocean's Blessing in a custom voyage and pirates won't be able to vote for whoever last went overboard. This softens the blow of being thrown overboard and is perfect when your crew isn't so cutthroat.

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 15/03/2026

Take part in a Lucky Egg Hunt, as Spring Sailing returns to Paper Pirates! 🥚 Hunt Lucky Eggs to earn exclusive bounty rewards! 🐰 Buy seasonal customisation items before they hop away! 🐣Hatch into a Trait game as the seasonal trait, The Spring Chicken! #SocialDeduction #IndieGame #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 12/03/2026

Hi @kitfoxgames.com, thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! We're making An Elaborate History of Chess! Underneath our real-time overworld are fiendish #TurnBased dungeons. There's chess combat and puzzles, and all the good chess pieces like the Jester and the Zombie! Demo available on Steam :D

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 07/02/2026

Love is in the water in Paper Pirate with Valentine Voyages, on now! ❤️ Meet The Admirer and The Lovers, two time limited traits for the season! 🏹 Use Cupid's Arrow or share a Love Letter! 🧸Limited time customisation options 💌 Mysterious love letter bounties?

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 14/01/2026

Hi Chris! We're making An Elaborate History of Chess, a zany take on chess with real-time base building and turn-based chess style dungeons with chess puzzles and combat. We even made up some new chess pieces, like Jester, Valkyrie, and Ghost! Steam page and demo are here: s.team/a/1255020

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year from Iteration Games! Celebrate with Soggy Hogmanay in Paper Pirates until 21st Jan! 🤔 Crew Resolutions: Pick a vow each voyage 🎆 Seasonal Trait: The Resolute ✨ Seasonal Event: Fastest First Foot 🕰️ Limited time customisations in the shop ship! #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 22/12/2025

If you’re after a #SocialDeduction game to play over Christmas, check out Paper Pirates! Buy it once and up to ten people can play! Nobody’s ever out of the game, and there’s absolutely stacks of customisation and game modes. Currently 90% off on the #SteamSale - it’s £1.09! #IndieGame #IndieDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 01/12/2025

It's Yule Tides in Paper Pirates! The seas turn chilly, and snow begins to fall! 🎁 Limited-time Trait: The Gift Giver! ❌ Limited-time Trait+ The Miser! 🎅 Limited-time customisation options in the Outfit and Ship Shops! ⛄ THREE seasonal events! #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 27/11/2025

If you like chess, turnips, and/or turn-based combat, you might love An Elaborate History of Chess! It's full of everyone's chess favourites: the pawn, the bishop, the treant creatures, spiders that confuse your pieces. Oh and checkmate puzzles! Demo on Steam: s.team/a/1255020 #TurnBasedThursday

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 26/11/2025

Exclusive #Giveaway! We're giving away an exclusive t-shirt inspired by An Elaborate History of Chess to one lucky winner! To enter just ✅follow and 🔁repost! We'll pick one random winner at 5pm GMT on 12th December 2025. Full T&Cs in reply ⬇️ #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 16/11/2025

The Festive Feast, a season of harvest and feasting, starts today in Paper Pirates! 🏈 Seasonal Trait: The Quarterback 🧑‍🍳 Seasonal Trait+: The Chef 🔮 Seasonal Event: Wish on a Wishbone 🦃 Limited time goodies at the Shop Ship! #indiegame #gamedev #socialdeduction

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 07/11/2025

Hi #PitchYaGame! Let me tell you about An Elaborate History of Chess: 🌽Make and cultivate farms using pawns 🧩Solve chess-style puzzles ⚔️Engage in turn-based chess combat with bosses ⬆️Level up your pawns to gain unique abilities and promote them into wacky nonsense like Druids and Lumberjacks

Your pawns are your farmers, responsible for growing crops like turnips and wheat needed to keep your pieces alive every day.

Entering dungeons means solving puzzles. In this case, a checkmate puzzle! Which white piece needs to move where to put the black king in check?

Fight a wide variety of pieces with different movement patterns and abilities. Combat in dungeons is turn-based, so it feels like playing chess!

Every piece has a set of abilities which it learns as it levels up. If you get special items, you can even promote pieces into new pieces!

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 31/10/2025

The seventh of seven new traits for Paper Pirates is available now: The Cheerleader! The Cheerleader is a passive trait that chooses to support either the human or the ghost team. Depending on how well their chosen team is doing, The Cheerleader can gain extra voting power! #IndieGame #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 24/10/2025

We’re at @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social and EGX in the Rezzed Zone with an updated demo of An Elaborate History of Chess! There’s a whole new dungeon playable for the first time, plus a leaderboard to find out who can complete a dungeon in the fewest moves! #IndieGame #GameDev #EGX #IndieDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 17/10/2025

The sixth of seven new traits for Paper Pirates is available now: The Diplomat! The Diplomat is a new active trait, who can target a pirate and force them to skip their next vote. This gives them a lot of power over a pirate that is maybe too eager to vote! #GameDev #IndieGame #SocialDeduction

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 04/10/2025

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 02/10/2025

The fifth of seven new traits for Paper Pirates is available now: The Wereghost! The Wereghost is a new seasonal trait for Haunted Seas. On days when the moon isn't full, The Wereghost is always human. But beware, on full moon nights, they become a ghost! #GameDev #IndieGame #SocialDeduction

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 19/09/2025

The fourth of seven new traits for Paper Pirates is available now: The Imitator! When The Imitator's team is revealed, like in a Spy event, a different pirate's team is revealed instead. The Imitator knows who they're imitating, but will they share this info? #GameDev #IndieGame #SocialDeduction

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 19/09/2025

Grab a sausage and a stein to celebrate the end of September with Oktoberfest on the Ocean, until 30th September in Paper Pirates! 🍻 Meet The Brewmaster and get the party started! 🌭 Find out who has the biggest bratwurst! 🥨 Grab seasonal treats in the outfit shop! #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 18/09/2025

Hello everyone! We're excited to be part of the @sixoneindie.com Steam Event Selection. You can play the first few hours of An Elaborate History of Chess now on Steam, for free! There are spiders in it though. Sorry. #SixOneIndie #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 05/09/2025

The third of seven new traits coming to Paper Pirates is now available: The Dutiful! The Dutiful is an active trait who can trigger their current rank's crew duty event whenever they don't play in. There's a three-day cooldown, so make sure to use it when it helps you most! #IndieGame #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 28/08/2025

Thank you for hosting, @ninedotsstudio.bsky.social, and hi #TurnBasedThursday! We've been working on power and automation systems, which will appear in one of the themed dungeons of An Elaborate History of Chess. You can use them to automate some farming too! Demo available: s.team/a/1255020

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 23/08/2025

Just what every chess game needs: dungeons with batteries, water wheels, flippers, conveyors, and magic golems who know the difference between serial and parallel circuits #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 22/08/2025

The second of seven new traits coming to Paper Pirates is now available: The Soothsayer! The Soothsayer is a passive trait and, when voted overboard while on the human team, they see who was possessed by their overboarding - but always be wary of trusting a stowaway... #IndieGame #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 11/08/2025

Seven new traits are coming to Paper Pirates, starting with the first one available right now: The Shapesister! The Shapesister is a partner trait to The Shapeshifter. Whenever The Shapeshifter activates their trait to flip their team, The Shapesister's team will also change! #IndieGame #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 25/07/2025

We're delighted to be at @megaconlive.bsky.social this weekend with An Elaborate History of Chess! If you like chess, turnips, zombies, or trees then there's something in the game for you. Stop by the @gamerepublic.bsky.social Indie Game Showcase to play. We also have stickers! #MegaConLive

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 19/07/2025

We've been developing the dungeons and boss fights for the story of our quirky chess game, An Elaborate History of Chess! #ScreenshotSaturday

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 11/07/2025

Sometimes our game is a lot like chess, but if chess had sort of loads of zombies and a really big giant one who gets real angry real fast.

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 07/07/2025

Hi! We're making a very (very) silly chess game and would love to be included as we squeeze in before the deadline. A few screenshots below :)

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 29/06/2025

Took a bit of inspiration from a recent day out and added some lily pads to our water tiles now that they're looking a bit more complete #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev

A photo of a pond fully of green lily pads with pink and yellow flowers on the left hand side of the image, with a hand-drawn set of chess-like tiles on the right hand side with a mix of rocks, soil, grates, grass, and some water tiles, some of which have different lily pads in

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 24/06/2025

The Pirate Pool Party has begun! Grab your rubber rings and dive into summer fun in Paper Pirates until 22nd July! 🦈 Seasonal traits: The Shark & The Bait! 👙 Seasonal outfit pieces! 🏰 Seasonal event: Spooky Sandcastles! Learn more on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1234220/...

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 19/06/2025

Can pawns swim? 🐟 First step to adding water to our silly chess game. Next stop: Two tiles next to each other. #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 08/06/2025

It's the last day of #TurnBasedThursdayFest, but the An Elaborate History of Chess demo will continue to be available on #Steam! If you played the new or old demo, we'd love to hear what you thought, and please consider leaving a review to help others find it! #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 07/06/2025

Check out An Elaborate History of Chess as part of #TurnBasedThursdayFest! If you think chess needs dungeons, more pieces, more turnips, and a ghost, we've got you. The turn-based dungeons feature chess-like combat and puzzles, bosses, and loot! Play the free demo on Steam: s.team/a/3475690

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 03/06/2025

If you haven't already seen, we're taking part in #TurnBasedThursday, with a free demo on Steam! In An Elaborate History of Chess you solve chess puzzles, fight chess monsters, and there's even a giant chess spider. And chess turnips. Play and wishlist now: s.team/a/3475690 #IndieGame #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 03/06/2025

Thrilled that An Elaborate History of Chess is featured in #TurnBasedThursday fest on Steam! We've released a huge update for the demo! Whether you're new to our silly chess game or you've played it before there's plenty to see! Play the demo and wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/1255020/...

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 19/05/2025

We are super thrilled to be able to share that we've joined @gamerepublic.bsky.social, and that we're bringing an updated version of the An Elaborate History of Chess demo to their amazing sold-out @gamayo.bsky.social ‬event in Leeds this week! What new things have we added? 👀👑 #IndieDev #GaMaYo24

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 21/04/2025

New Paper Pirates trait! The Quester appears in Trait and Traits+ games as a new passive trait. Each voyage The Quester is given a secret quest, such as to change their team some number of times. If The Quester can complete their quest, they’ll get a special reward! #IndieDev #IndieGame #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 21/04/2025

Made a start on building a new system for stuff that opens up after the demo... You thought the whole game would be an 8x8 square? 🌲 🪓 #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 17/04/2025

Find moving lots of pieces a drag in An Elaborate History of Chess? Once you have a King, you can unlock additional movement options by levelling them up. Pieces can follow each other, and you can even group select lots of pieces! #IndieDev #IndieGame #GameDev #TurnBasedThursday

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 08/04/2025

New Paper Pirates trait! The Informant will appear in Trait and Traits+ games as a new passive trait. At the start of the voyage, The Informant is notified of up to three traits that aren't currently in the voyage. How will they use this information? Will they share it, or keep it to themselves?

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 05/04/2025

Here’s a few cheeky screenies of An Elaborate History of Chess for #ScreenshotSaturday! It’s got turnips, dungeons, puzzles, and a magic talking book that fills itself in automatically as you play. What more could anyone want? There’s even a demo available now on Steam! #IndieDev #GameDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 03/04/2025

Have you played the An Elaborate History of Chess demo? It lets you establish your kingdom and explore a dungeon! You can farm turnips, fight golems, solve puzzles, promote your pieces, and maybe more! It's available now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3475690/... #IndieDev #GameDev #Chess

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 25/03/2025

We launched a demo of An Elaborate History of Chess for Next Fest! A mix of real-time strategy and turn-based strategy where everything moves like a chess piece. We got loads of great feedback on the demo and are almost ready to launch a revised version - very exciting!

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 24/03/2025

New Paper Pirates trait! The Robot will appear in Traits+ games and is our first dual-trait, in that it occupies both the active and passive slot. The Robot has the power to emulate other traits, and can switch between Psychic, Silent, Assassin, and Disguised modes to utilise their powers.

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 11/03/2025

Have you played the An Elaborate History of Chess demo yet? It's got farming, crafting, puzzles, dungeons, ghosts, turnips, and even more! Reviews describe it as "Fun", "addictive" and "so good" 👀 The demo is available on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3475690/... #TurnipTuesday #IndieDev

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 10/03/2025

New Paper Pirates trait! The Unfortunate will appear in Trait and Traits+ games as a passive trait. As The Unfortunate whenever you participate in a vote to cast a human pirate overboard, you will always be selected to become a ghost regardless of how many votes you cast or which team you are on.

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