A NEW 128K platform-game: "Mysterious Dimensions"

Yerzmyey

We have made with Hellboj a new arcade-platform game for ZX Spectrum 128K: "Mysterious Dimensions".



DOWNLOAD: http://hooyprogram.republika.pl/MysteriousDimensions.zip










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HOOY-PROGRAM presents:

an arcade-platform game "Magical Dimensions" for ZX Spectrum 128 computers' series.


YERZMYEY:
- idea,
- script,
- graphic,
- levels,
- fonts,
- chiptune music
- digital music
- AGD parts of code

HELLBOJ:
- Assembler coding
- hacking
- linking

MisterIOUS BEEP:
- 1-bit / BEEPER music

- Jonathan Cauldwell was traditionally a great moral and intellectual support. :)


The game has 4 pretty vast levels (11 chambers each, which gives in total 44 screens to overcome).


It has been originally based on AGD.

(C) 09.2016 by H-PRG
http://hooyprogram.republika.pl/


SoundTrack can be found here:

http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/Yerzmyey-Taiyou.mp3



https://soundcloud.com/mister_beep/mister-beep-battlefield-insanity-zx48
https://soundcloud.com/yerzmyey/yerzmyey-evelynn
https://soundcloud.com/yerzmyey/yerzmyey-orch-or

ranma_simon

OHHH GREAT Yerzy!!!!

MatGubbins

Very very good. Some screens require a lot of perfect timing - ideal for all those Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy freaks. Excellent music too.

Ooohh nice ending music and screeen.

daveysludge

Interesting game.

Bit awkward for me as I'm used to 6,7,8,9 and 0 to play games.

Nice music and colourful graphics.

ub880d

nice relaxing game, not too hard and 99 lives on start should be enough for everyone ((c) microsoft ;])...

but anyway, if you are in a mood that even 99 lives is for your playing too few, here is a poke ;] POKE 31188,0

Yerzmyey

Hi guys,
thx a lot, we spent, like, almost a year over it, however - I do realize it IS still too hard in some places.
After the "Crapbert" ZX platform game I promised myself I will make an easy game this time.
Well, seems like I failed again.
If it's too hard, than it's only me who should be accused of it.

PS: Actually I already hate my own game and I cannot even walk it through, as I think it's too hard in some particular moments. :) Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg.

chriswyatt

Yerzmyey wrote: »

Hi guys,
thx a lot, we spent, like, almost a year over it, however - I do realize it IS still too hard in some places.
After the "Crapbert" ZX platform game I promised myself I will make an easy game this time.
Well, seems like I failed again.
If it's too hard, than it's only me who should be accused of it.

PS: Actually I already hate my own game and I cannot even walk it through, as I think it's too hard in some particular moments. :) Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg.

Talk like a pirate day was more than a week ago--silly.

Anyway, nice looking game! Looks splendid. Maybe I will have a go at it this weekend.

f-a

excellent: great graphics, music, baddies behaviour and level design.

Just the right difficulty and a gentle slope (most ZX games start too hard). Keep them coming!

cgonzalez

Excellent game, very googd graphics and the most important a good idea. Congratulations.

solaris104

I try it in Spectaculator and kempston joystick not working :-(.

textvoyage

Yerzmyey wrote: »

PS: Actually I already hate my own game and I cannot even walk it through, as I think it's too hard in some particular moments. :) Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg.

I've written a few games and every one has made me feel a bit like this at times, it's part of the learning process I think!

Ralf

Sorry for late answer Yerz, but I must say it - this is definitely a cool stuff :)>-

Yerzmyey

:) :) :) Many thanks dudes!!!!!! :)

PS: ub880d was kind enough to correct the Kempston for emulators.
http://sindik.at/~ub880d/tmp/MysteriousDimensions128_Kempston_fix.TAP
It's kinda strange though. We were testing it on ZX Spectrum Vega and Kempston worked just fine.
I already sent this info to Hellboj.

Yerzmyey

PS. 2: Meanwhile Lord Vader has made the TR-DOS version:
http://hooyprogram.republika.pl/MysteriousDimensions128.trd

Turrican

Great game!

Sokurah

Yerzmyey wrote: »

YERZMYEY:
- AGD parts of code

HELLBOJ:
- Assembler coding

What things fall under those two categories?

Yerzmyey

Well, what could I say to You, my friends.
I'm not a coder - and never will be.

Jonathan made a unique possibility for people like me to program games in the one special language: AGD. And I'm grateful for this sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much.

Now. Regarding Your question. I have no idea of course. I wouldn't know. I asked, however, our coder - Hellboj.

I'm only a humble musician who sometimes puts here and there some pixel.
When I "code" (bothering Jonathan every single line, and he's actually a SAINT to give me answers :) ) it looks like that:


Hellboj said that what AGD gives us is the "script language" or "high level language".

However, when it comes to program a menu for the game, music in interruptions IM2, to force to display the 'colourful border' being originally and SCR, to remember lives and score despite of re-loading and changing the entire game actually, the second part's proper initialisation, to hack AGD to make the Kempston's Up to be the FIRE, removing the ULA+ procedures and many many more -
it was the Hellboj and it was the Assembler and it was the situation I thought there's some MAGIC around me and I cannot overcome it. ;)

So Hellboj's coding of the game looked like THIS:



So that You know, I can invent some crap ideas sometimes, or glue 3 notes into a song, but it's guys like Jonathan or Hellboj - or any other coders for that matter - the real heroes of the retro-scene. :)

Without them we're useless. ;)

OK dudez, I go back to listen to the Adamski house techno stuff and You have a nice evening! :)

Byezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Y

endi

finished. cool game. many lives, good difficultiness
thanks

Ersh

Great music, happy mood, fun arcade gameplay and cute graphics! Love the main character. :)

Yerzmyey

Thx guys.

OK, now it's also in a version for ZX Spectrum 48K.
http://hooyprogram.republika.pl/MysteriousDimensions.zip

Hellboj had to make some more of multiloading, we also had to remove one tune (so there's only 3 of them now, what gives only one in-game song sadly, but it was all we were able to do for our beloved 48K).

Anyway the game should work; tested on ZX Spectrum Vega. :)