NOBACKD

No Back Down (MSXdev'21)

Description

Story

What is your favorite hobby? It’s climbing buildings. This practice is prohibited and dangerous. To escape the police, you are helped by your friend, in a chopper, to take off through the roofs.

But the locals won't let you climb so easily. They'll close windows on your hands and throw items at you.

However, falling is not an option. Your mantra is "No back down !"

Scoring

Each climb inscrease your score by the step point.

Bonus decrease by 100 per second when you are static.

When you catch the chopper, you finish the level and you are rewarded with the bonus points. If you miss it, no bonus will be awarded.

Some hearts appear during your climb. They will earn you 5,000 points.

You can’t exceed a score of 999,999 points.

Every 200,000 points, a life is awarded.

Collisions

You fall and loose a life when : - You are hit by an item (falling item or clothes) and you don’t have both hands on the same window. - You touch an electric spark. - The window closes on both your hands.

Credits

  • Programing, SoundFX
    • Metalion
  • Graphics, Level Design, Documentation
    • RibbSayan
  • Music
    • Granced

Thanks

  • Metalion
    • Catherine, for her support. Gfx, for the SoCal Logo.
  • RibbSayan
    • Dedicated to my daughter.

Third-party tools

  • Sjasm: Z80 cross assembler
  • AY Sound FX Editor: FX editor
  • TuxGuitar: Music Editor
  • Msx Visual Studio (C#): Patterns & Maps Editor from RibbSayan Paint : Sprite Editor
  • BlueMSX
  • OpenMSX
Files
Package
Individual files
Default install directory
A:\NOBACKD
Build files
Build script
mkdir -p package/
unzip nobackd.zip
mv "MSXdev21_NoBackDown_v1.0.rom" package/NOBACKD.ROM
cat > package/NOBACKD.BAT << EOF
REM Look for SROM.COM in default dir
IFF EXIST %_DISK%:\SOFAROM\SROM.COM
  %_DISK%:\SOFAROM\SROM.COM NOBACKD.ROM
ELSE
  REM Try to run it from path
  IFF EXIST SROM.COM
    SROM.COM NOBACKD.ROM
  ELSE
    echo "SROM.COM not found. Install it with: 'HUB install SOFAROM'"
    exit 1
  ENDIFF
ENDIFF
EOF
unix2dos package/NOBACKD.BAT
  • 1.0-1 2021-09-03
  • First release
Details
Category
Games
Author
SoCal
Packager
Carles Amigó (fr3nd)
License
 Unknown
Url
 https://www.msxdev.org/2021/09/02/msxdev21-32-no-back-down/
Install instructions
hub install NOBACKD