AETHERDRAUGHTS

How to Play

Getting Started

• Pass & Play — duel a friend on this device; turns alternate between Ember and Frost.
• Play vs Storm — solo duel against the machine at four tiers: Squire (forgiving), Knight, Warlock, and Storm Monarch (brutal). You always lead as Ember.
• Online Duel — tap Create Invite, send the code to your friend (any chat app works). They paste it, send their answer back, you paste that and tap Connect. No accounts, no servers — the two browsers talk directly.
• Same-Browser Tabs — create a room code, open this page in a second tab and join with the same code.

Controls

• Click one of your pieces — glowing tiles show its legal moves (green = move, red = capture). Click a tile to go.
• Drag to orbit the island · scroll to zoom · click empty ground to deselect.
• Shortcuts — M Marketplace, W Worlds, C inspect the timepiece, T light/dark, 1–5 emotes.
• Ember moves first. The avatars' hands fly in whenever a piece is played — yours and theirs.

Rules — English Draughts

• Men move one step diagonally forward onto an empty dark square.
• Capture by leaping over an adjacent enemy into the empty square beyond; the enemy is removed.
• Jumps are forced. If a capture exists you must take one — and multi-jump chains must be completed in one move.
• Reach the far rank to crown a piece. Kings move and capture in all four diagonals; a piece crowned mid-chain ends its turn at once.
• Win by capturing every enemy piece, or by leaving your opponent with no legal move.
• Online duels run a 45s turn timer — on timeout a legal move plays itself.