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1. Not currently, 128k support including AY sound is planned.
2. It is possible to create games with a significant number of rooms, but due to the memory limitations at the moment, it requires some extra work. You cannot just draw the tile map for each room, there wouldn’t be sufficient space for that. But you can use the logic to dynamically draw tile maps, allowing rooms to be procedurally constructed as is often typical of Spectrum games with lots of rooms. Happy to elaborate, or there’s a slightly out of date set of video tutorials on YouTube that demonstrates how to create an Atic Atac like game.
3. Not really, although the logic is very flexible, it’s not really setup for that sort of game, not without jumping through hoops.
4. Yes, any combination of width and height in increments of 8 up to 32x32.

Happy to answer any other questions, perhaps pop into the Discord and ask.

Thank you for your support. Of course, other platforms are in the plans for Kwyll, it has been designed and engineered to support other platforms to a degree, so the order of which platforms get supported is down to interest and my ability to support that platform. I'll add Game Gear to the list.

Thanks, it was really just a quickly put together example, with more time Kwyll can do more.

The project file is available for Patreon and Ko-Fi subscribers right now and will be widely available for everyone soon. There’s also a “making of” video on my YouTube channel.

kwyll 37 - The Making of "Santa's Lost & Found"

Yeah, the z-fighting is because it uses the actual Driller datafile to create the areas, and Freescape used a different method for sorting than Z-Buffer because there isn't enough memory or CPU power to do a proper Z-Buffer on a Spectrum, so a Z-Buffer implementation is going to struggle, I could look into ways to fix that, possibly.

I've just updated mine to 1.03 and it still works fine, so I'm not sure what is going on with yours. I've tried with and without the 48.rom, with and without extended colours, can't think of any other setting to try to see what might be causing it. Have you tried a factory reset?

EDIT: PS. make sure to try the latest version from here, so we're testing exactly the same version.

I've just tried it on mine using the Retro Games Ltd. ROM and it works fine. I'll try with the original ROM, can't see why it would be an issue.

Edit: Seems to work fine with the Sinclair 48.rom too. Although I'm running with v1.0.0-electron firmware, so probably should update at some point.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

Sorry about that, fixed. For reference, the link is...

https://discord.gg/Yn3vSbTn7P

Excellent, very tough, but definitely one to keep you coming back for "just one more try". 

Yes, I believe I describe the process I went through, which was "fun" and "challenging" in equal measure, in the video post on my YouTube channel for this remake. In the description, because I wasn't doing camera/voice stuff much at this point in the process.

thanks, glad you enjoyed it, it was fun going back in time to revisit this from my childhood.

Very atmospheric, the audio really adds something extra, not just an afterthought, nicely done.  Didn't realise at first that the mouse rotated, my first thought was that it would be nice to have a rotate option :-) 

Nicely done!

Agreed, I had planned to have a tutorial or some instructions, but time ran out. I do plan to return to this after the jam though, as I have a lot of ideas for new directions to take it, just the beginning.

Fun challenge, kept me entertained for a while working out what I was supposed to do, enjoyed it.

Nicely done, controls are simple, concept good, fun and very playable.

Great fun, really enjoyed the unusual mechanic, using the flamethrower to propel yourself up, took a moment to work out, but really nicely done.

Very nicely done game, looks fab, sounds nice and the mechanic is innovative and fun.

I don't want to be the grumpy old so-and-so (although I am :-) ), but does anyone else feel that a lot of the submissions are basically "I've got a game, if I say it's hard and therefore "overloads" your senses, then it fits the theme" as opposed to "ok, the theme is overload, what can I come up with that revolves specifically around that theme?" ?

Maybe it's just me, I personally love the part of taking a theme word or phrase and spending a few hours brainstorming how to make a game around that theme, I use it as a way to come up with new ideas, that's the fun part for me.

Nice, very innovative take on the theme, if stressful  :-) I'm clearly not very good at reading manuals.

I’m on chrome macOS and they seem to kill the entire browser, not even a single tab, I have to force close chrome.

It's a real shame, I can't review many of the games submitted because they were built using 4.x and deployed on web (the only platform I can really test on) and the 4.x web deploy is fatally broken (still) and crashes the browser, hard, after a short period of time. 

I really think it's time for the organisers to make it clear that 4.x for web deploys is unsupported.

Nicely done, plays well. Took a moment to get used to the controls, I'd definitely play it again, great fun.

Looks like fun, but unfortunately, couldn't run it for long, it killed my browser like so many others after a few minutes of play.

Interesting concept, adds a neat puzzle element to the classic platformer. Unfortunately, after a while of play it killed my browser dead.

Fun twist on an old idea, the extra difficulty of the balancing play area really changes the way you play. Nicely done.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it, I really need to add some instructions, especially controls. I had hoped to add controller support, but time ran out

Agreed, I will probably return to the mini-game idea and rethink it a bit

The levels were a bit rushed, this was created for the Godot Wild Jam #59 in 9 days, and the mechanic and gameplay took longer than expected, so putting the levels together was left to the last couple of hours before the deadline, so they aren't great. Changing the track while the train is running shouldn't be allowed, and I've disabled that now, along with a few other changes, just need to sort out some problems and I'll do a new release.

Just did, this time as soon as I press Play, it kills Firefox completely.

Thanks, all good points, and all things I'd have like to solve given time. I want to go back to this and add some progression tracking, working out the best solution and giving stars, and lots more.

Thanks, glad you liked it. I do plan to have a more traditional progression, with completion of one level allowing you to go directly to the next one. I also plan to put in more useful tutorials, and introduce concepts a little more gently

I'm on an M1 mac, so AMD isn't an issue, it's metal on Apple silicon.

Just crashes on play here on Chrome macOS.

It's a known problem with the HTML5 export of Godot4.x, that's why I stick with Godot 3.5 at the moment.

Unfortunately also on macOS, looks interesting from the screenshots.

Unfortunately it doesn't work on Chrome macOS, loads, after 2-3 minutes and locking up the entire browser, but then dies as soon as I pres play, gives a message "WebGL context lost" and crashes out.

Fun, could definitely see this going somewhere, lots of potential, I like that it's a platformer but has a race element, cool play on the mechanic.

Fun little puzzler, nicely done, would definitely play more.

Doesn't work on Chrome macOS, says it lost the WebGL context and just plays the music in the background. Shame, looks like fun from the screenshots.

Sort of runs on Chrome macOS, but only for a short while, and then crashes out.