The Orbs Of The Overlord - The ZX Spectrum 128k Demake
DemakeNinety-nine floors, fifteen bosses, and a tear in the middle of them. A ZX Spectrum 128K demake of the forthcoming PC roguelite.
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Orbs of The Overlord Demake
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Orbs_of_The_Overlord_Demake.rar
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The game files in .tap and .sna form and two versions of the manual for English and Greek language
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About This Game
Ninety-nine floors down, something is waiting
Orbs of the Overlord is a roguelite for the ZX Spectrum 128K — a real one, in Z80, that loads from tape in about half a minute and runs on the hardware you have in the cupboard.
Ninety-nine floors. Fifteen bosses. Every floor generated fresh, every death final, and a shop that spends what your corpse was carrying so the next hero starts a little less hopeless.
It is a demake, and the original is coming to Steam
The PC version of Orbs of the Overlord is in development at 7 Towers Soft Games. This is the whole of that game taken apart and rebuilt inside 128 kilobytes: the same classes, the same bosses, the same rift, the same fifteen tells you learn to read — with the polygons replaced by attribute cells and the mouse replaced by W A S D.
Nothing was cut to make it fit. Some of it was made better to make it fit.
Three ways down
- WARRIOR — hits hardest, sees furthest, and learns rages: four bought abilities, including Head On, a charge down the line you are facing that puts your skull through the first thing in the way and leaves it reeling for two turns.
- BATTLEMAGE — middling at everything, and the only spells that reach.
- PRIEST — frail and half-blind, but grows fastest and picks locks.
The rift
Somewhere around the middle, the floors stop being a dungeon. The walls change, the monsters change, your own class changes name — the Warrior comes out the other side a Commando — and half the things down there shoot at you instead of swinging.
Walk into one of those and the game becomes something else entirely: a three-lane corridor running away to a vanishing point, a magazine of six, a reload, and a monster at the far end that commits to one lane and lights it red a heartbeat before it fires. Being somewhere else is the whole of the answer.
What is in it
- 99 floors, generated fresh every run, with fog, locked doors, hidden rooms and sealed vaults
- 15 bosses, each with its own silhouette and its own tells — read them and you live
- 5 orbs: Warp, Boost, Ghost, Rage, Death
- 33 achievements, kept between runs
- A shop that opens on your death and spends 40% of what you were carrying
- Save and load — instantly to a spare 128K bank, or slowly to tape
- AY music and effects, on the channels the sound effects do not use
- English and Greek — the whole interface, switched with G on the title screen
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