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Pawnslaught is like a live chess match at a Renaissance Fair... if the users were armed with true weapons and had a knack for slapstick violence. The video test itself feels as if you're in a turret, peering down at your live chess troops through binoculars, and directing their actions with a laser pointer. Aim & focus on the piece you wish to move, press & release the trigger or button, aim & focus on the place where you wish to move it, press & release the trigger once more, and watch the fun. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Pawnslaught requires a "Cardboard" kind viewer, and supports a few forms of input including capacitive triggers (second-generation viewers), magnetic triggers (first-generation viewers, see note below), most standard Bluetooth gamepads, and any normal USB gamepad that can be connected through an OTG adapter (inspected with a Logitech F310). Mouse buttons could be usable for triggering as well. Other notes: * When you choose a piece to move, squares that are legal moves for a piece of the chosen kind turn green. HOWEVER, when your Lord is in check, the chess engine will refuse to let any move that doesn't receive your Lord OUT of check. If you test, your piece will drop back to its original square, and the refused target square will no longer be selectable (or turn green) for the remainder of your turn. Special notes about magnetic triggers: * Magnetic trigger control is disabled by default. * To ENABLE magnetic trigger control, look ahead & up (to see the preferences panel), aim at the "Enable magnetic trigger" checkbox, and trigger it with the magnetic trigger (yes, it's ALWAYS enabled for that checkbox, regardless of whether it's enabled for anything else, so there's no "catch-22"). * If you're unable to choose the box using the magnetic trigger, test the steps below... but remember, magnetic triggering is ALWAYS slightly flaky at best. * Google officially deprecated magnetic triggers a while ago, and officially eliminated help for them by the GoogleVR library latest year. We wrote our own library to re-implement help for them because we're stubborn, but compatibility with specific phones & viewers is VERY hit or miss. * Your smartphone MUST have a true gyroscope sensor. An emulated ("integrated") gyro sensor won't work. * If you're having issues with magnetic triggering, test rotating the smartphone 180 degrees inside the viewer. Depending upon where the magnet is on your viewer and where the sensor is located in your smartphone, this might create a BIG difference. * If the trigger works, but only intermittently, test facing in a various compass direction (ie, if you were facing north or south, test facing east or west). This is unlikely to create a difference if it's not working at all, but might create a difference if it's working POORLY. * Test to hold the smartphone motionless while pressing and releasing the trigger, test to press the trigger fully, and complete the entire press-and-release sequence within one second. The best gesture we've found is to quickly and lightly depress the trigger, then let it to snap back on its own. * The mini game does NOT help "look at something until the timer runs out" gaze triggering. Timed gaze triggers might be OK for a "pass the headset around" casual demo you might look at once or twice, but in our experience, having to constantly be mindful about what you're looking at is simply INTOLERABLE in a mini game that requires distraction-free concentration.