DeVuego

Curiosities of the game

• The total size of the game is 4Mb, which is more than 6 hours of cassette loading time.
• It is based on multiple loading from SD card, where the resources (graphics, music, effects, trextos, etc...) and also the code are loaded.
• There are 22 different code modules, each of them with a maximum of 16Kb.
• Allows to select between three languages in the same load:
  • Spanish.
  • English.
  • German.
• It has a Jukebox with Spectrum Analizer to listen to songs and sound effects.
• Colour filter allows you to simulate black and white, phosphor green and phosphor orange screens,
• Allows up to 8 games to be saved and loaded onto the SD card itself
• Can be played with joystick or keyboard
• At the end of the game, a score is calculated based on game time, experience, world explored and missions completed.
• This score can be sent via a dynamic QR code to the DuefectuCorp website to be included in the score ranking.
• There are three types of battles
  • Insults
  • Rock, Paper, Lizard
  • Rock, paper, lizard, Spock
• The battles include some funny backgrounds, or so it is intended, with references to Street Fighter, Next, Windows...
• It has taken a whole year of intense programming
• In the game, they have collaborated in an unintended way:
• Up to 17 beta testers
• 4 English translators
• 1 professional musician: Rich, A man in his TechnoShed
• Main graphics source are from Vryell, but we used sources from more than 10 different artists.
• It has been tested on 9 hardware devices:
  • ZX Spectrum Next
  • ZXDOS
  • ZXDOS+
  • GomaDOS+
  • UnAmiga
  • UnAmiga Reloaded
  • NeptUNO
  • N-Go
  • Mister with Dual memory SDRAM/SRAM

Technical details of the game

•  Programmed in ZX Boriel Basic and parts in Assembler
• Total game size of almost 4Mb in more than 500 files
• 273Kb of compiled code in 22 files
• More than 419Kb of source code in 39 files
• More than 69,000 characters of text in three languages (Spanish, English and German)
• 9 AY songs by different authors:
  • Adaptations by Duefectu from the score
    • Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
    • Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio in G minor
    • Pachelbel - Canon in D
    • Chopin - Funeral March
  • Game Over by Konamiman and smashed by Duefectu
  • Originals songs from Rich - A man in his TechnoShed -> https://amaninhistechnoshed.com/
    • Square peg in round hole
    • Square dancing
    • The inner circle
    • Circle pusher
• 48 sampled sound effects (DMA)
• 211 screens on the map
• 21 zones on the map
• 70 objects waiting to be used
• 25 types of NPCs to interact with
• More than 30 different quests
• 28 background bitmaps that are used in battles and cutscenes