Family chess with a roll of the dice
Three dice choose which pieces may move each turn. Luck gives a newcomer a real chance against a stronger player, so a family can play one game together.
Dice Chess for Fire TV
Chess with a roll of the dice, built for the living room: luck gives newcomers a real chance, so the whole family can play. Share one remote, or take on one of three computer opponents.
Made for the remote
The arrows jump between the pieces that can move, then between the chosen piece’s destinations. Over 200 simulated games, a turn takes about 9 presses instead of 23 square by square.
Three opponents on the TV
Rolly plays any legal turn at random, Grabby takes the most valuable piece it can, and Rampage goes for your king. Each card shows your record against it, and you can play either colour.
Music that follows the game
Four themes by pepka-prygni: one for the menus, and three that grow tenser as your king comes into danger. Settings turns the music and the sound effects on or off.
Offline and private
The rules, the computer opponents and the saved games all stay on the TV. There is no account, and the app’s source contains no network calls.
Rules anyone can read
The app’s code is licensed under AGPL-3.0-only, and it plays by Fortemate’s open-source rules engine, so anyone can read how a move is judged.
The demo, 2:49 on YouTube, narrated by Thinkle the wizard and recorded on the Vega Virtual Device: the tutorial he offers on a first launch, hotseat with Prowla as the host, the music following the danger to a king, the computer opponents, a game resumed after a relaunch, and a cool start.
Screenshots from the Vega Virtual Device, where each feature was played. Testing on a physical Fire TV Stick is still to come.
Why Dice Chess on TV tells the story, What it does tours every feature, How to play explains the rules, and Controls walks through the remote navigation. Try it with Play the beta. Explore our Architecture, Platform findings on Vega, Performance, and Quality & review. Developers can follow the Build & run guide and check the Roadmap.
The TV app was built during Build, Ship, Shape: Amazon Developer Hackathon 2026, in a repository started on 21 September 2026. It plays by the rules of Fortemate’s open-source engine, @fortemate/dicechess-engine, which existed before. The friction log records the obstacles we met in Amazon’s Vega SDK along the way.
The code is licensed under AGPL-3.0-only. The app icon, the opponents’ portraits and the Fortemate name and logo are not; see Credits & licences.