Nothing 128k (2021) Walkthrough, ZX Spectrum

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This is a demake of Nothing, a 2019 PC game made for the 45th Ludum Dare Game Jam. The theme for the Jam: “You start with nothing”. This game takes the theme quite literally, starting with no controls, no music, no sounds …but slowly progressing with new upgrades to collect.

The ZX Spectrum version is very faithful to the original game, but this was quite short, and where the original game ends you will find a boss fight in the ZX Spectrum version. This is an expanded version with 3 boss fights and 2 extra levels that was not in the original version.

You have infinity lives and you will respawn where you have last collected something.

It is a single load game, the whole game is in the 128k at one time. Author's notes:

Uncompressed game size = 285.2 KB
Compressed game size = 46.6 KB
Compression ratio = 83.6%

Such result is achieved by using at the same time:

- algorithmic compression
- data generation algorithms
- and zx0 packer by Einar Saukas

In runtime: all the data and code is using almost all 128KB of available memory. (67 bytes free in page 2; 17 bytes free in page 3; and 54 bytes free in page 6)

This game was originally made by Joellikespigs in 2019 for the PC, and it has been converted to ZX Spectrum and released as participant in the ZX-DEV Media & Demakes 2021 competition.

ZX Spectrum version was made by Gogin in 2021.

Download here (Remember to donate): https://zxonline.net/game/nothing

Nothing features an impressive scrolling engine, and it is made by the same author, who made two 50 fps Mario games for the ZX Spectrum:

Super Mario Bros 128k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bdJUhXcA4Y
Super Mario Bros Covid-19 Edition 128k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA9nZbz--pU

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