Nothing 128k (2021) Walkthrough, ZX Spectrum

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 128K