Dead Planets v1.1

This is Dead Planets, a minimalist 288 screen arcade adventure that fits in 4k. It's my second bAtari Basic project.

 Dead Planets is my sort of homage to the multi-screen/flip-screen ZX Spectrum arcade adventures of my youth, games like Jet Set Willy, Sabre Wulf, Wizard's Lair, Starquake, Robin of the Wood, Firelord, Atic Atac, Auf Wiedershen Monty etc. mixed with the time attack 2600 games like Barnstorming and the empty, quiet feel of Metroid. It's also a homage to the lost art of mapping out these sort of games on graph paper as we used to have to do in the 1980s and you'll probably have to revisit that skill to get anywhere. Rest assured, this is a deliberate feature not a bug.

 You play DEWI (DEad Worlds Investigation Probe) searching for the lost Tiptonite crystals of wisdom hidden in the caverns of six dead worlds of the collapsed ZX82 civilization. Press up/down to pick one of the six worlds to explore and fire button to start.

Find the three crystals in each world, return to the start room and hit the exit warp to finish game. Do it as fast as you can, the only score is your time, try and set personal best i.e. time attack game like Barnstorming.

 Old School game mapping on graph paper will help you.

 Walls kill you.

 Worlds are 8x6 screens with wraparound on all four edges - so 288 screens in 4k with space left over.

 Control has some cheap momentum (looks choppy on the video, makes more sense when/if you play it) and this gets more pronounced on later worlds.

 There are six colour coded worlds, selectable by moving joystick U/D on the start screen

 Press Fire to start, and to restart after a Game Over.

 World 1 - ABYSSIUM
World 2 - BRIMSTONE
World 3 - LILACIUM    
World 4 - DUNEBALL
World 5 - RAINGOD
World 6 - CHROMIUM

BONUS CONTENT

Also here is Oh No! More Dead Planets. This is the same game as Dead Planets with different maps and some some fuggly NTSC colour combinations as opposed to the original's black backgrounds.