There was one mention of the word 'immortal'. But this is Theme Heavy so that ain't getting you anywhere, bub.

It was a movie, and I hate movies. Having said that, I think that this doesn't get many points because it's the least fun game by far, even if you DID play me. Twice. Do better.

I can honestly say these were ugly because they aren't supposed to be in MZX. You also didn't make them, except for the title screen. You go home bare-handed!

Good job on the converter, boneheads. However, there were a lot of strange artifacts and there wasn't much there for 20 MB and only 3 minutes. I think you can compress it better than that. I'm reducing your score because it was technique used to a bad end.

There was no story, except for a badly-explained crappy crap piece of crap intro! It was crap! You're crap, get out of here (just you asiekierka)

Well it HAD sound, but it wasn't very well synced, it went too fast I guess to compensate for... uh, people pressing ESC accidentally or something? No no, let's not write this off as a “feature”

I laughed and grinned a lot; however, that was mostly at my own content, which made me a little sad. You are still an amusing person. I wonder if you're just using DoZs as an excuse to make someone, anyone, look at and seriously think about your crap, asiekierka? I guess it's not all that bad seeing you get coding practice. You have potential, maybe do something useful like make a mouse engine that breaks in the new version of MZX huh you already did that lol.

To finalize: i got rick rolled in mzx, my life is now complete as of... oh wait, a few months before the doz even started when mr_alert made the video encoder

:D. Very good! This game basically presented the entire spectrum of what getting immortality is (er, would be) like: exhiliration, boredom, TVTropes. I don't know what to give this game, since odds are it used the General theme better than any other game this DoZ. Except maybe Logicow. Well, good show, your game was really about immortality more than any other.

Standard builtin fare with an enjoyable twist. You get a mediocre score because most of the game was an odd cinematic.

MZX defaults that only slightly sear the eyes (entire screen teal raugh). Remember my rule about editing the palette? You should have done that, it would have helped things a lot here. I can't really discount you though because the defaults are used quite well. Yet, they are what they are. Here, take a look.

Aside from the cinematics, everything was builtin. There was little Robotic to be had, but then again I guess it didn't need it. Still, this is 2010, you're sort of expected to have some innovative code in a game, even if that IS the mentality that's rotting the community!

The story was sparse. The bulk of the game played more like a book than a game, which is pretty good for this section. I wouldn't call it a brilliant story because it's sort of cliché. Haha I'm doing that thing Lancer despises, sorry, but I just found that approach to be poetic. Anyway... like I said, this general situation has been played out very often, but you've applied it to MZX in a fresh way, so you get a fairly hefty score.

It's a BBH game, you don't need WAVs. This is likely the least annoying you can get, sound-wise, so have a bunch of points. Also have some more for creative use of it, why the heck not?

Looks like you were the first I judged to cross the threshold of decent playable game. So good on you. A note about this rating is that it sort of makes it obvious that I'm judging everything based on how good the best game in the DoZ is.

Anyway, good job and I hope you DoZ again and keep MZXing.

As far as use of the Heavy topic goes, this isn't going to go very far. You had a plot that was slightly about immortality, and the use of the theme is tenuous at best. You should have gone with theme--light scoresheet, bub.

It's entertaining for a while but ultimately unsatisfying. Some things you could have done a lot better include making enemies spawn at different Y positions (yet be calculated exactly the same), have some boss enemies, just have anything other than the same boring, shuffling drones coming at you. It's mostly a gauge-watching game. Most of the Gameplay points you would have gotten are really Technique points.

Second-rate graphics that were not very good. BBH did better than you, so you should shape up. Hey, it was done in two hours, sure; but I'm still judging you among 24 hour competitors. Here's your 10 "not the worst graphics ever" points.

OK, so you had a really good system here, basically a rudimentary “tower” defense game... looks like you're either using sprites or overlay which is good, and the entire game is Robot driven. You have a system to move things individually. This might have been your strongest category.

This story was really bad and only an explanation. It was silly and loopy, but because you followed through and made proper ending boards and stuff, I'll give you some points. But you're going to have to look at it again.

Oh my god this song is illegally addictive, get it away. Anyway, a couple flavor “Ooooogh!” sounds would have made this perfect.

You would have gotten a little better if Technique had more weight. I sort of feel odd giving you this high a score for a game with so little meat, but you can have it because of the modular nature of the game.

We mostly assumed the theme of Immortality due to zero bullet damage and the fact your health and lives are 9999. Is this Hell or Purgatory?

Nope, can't give you any points here because it's not really a game. There's not really an objective that falls under "playing a game."

omg bullet hell lolz

A decent emulation of the original in CGA colors. But then you could have done everything better like adding more colors and using sprites so here's your score!

Hey, it changes color when you exit on the right so I've got to give you SOMETHING. I don't remember Monsquaz moving like a typewriter's cursor across the screen, though.

Monsquaz Zone, a classic. Also I thorougly enjoyed Quake Guy Spark Man. ... Quark Man?

Major Scale Master

Only the title screen says it. Five Points.

Well, I guess you can talk to something? I can't give you much at all here. A little bit of dungeon crawling spirit, maybe. I kept expecting ZUBAT to jump out at me.

Assuming you made these, not bad. Even though they were not quite put to a good use I will give you a good score for these.

Hey, cool. You proved a concept, and then either ran out of time or gave up because of the lack of vertical resolution. I'll go ahead and give you some points for your cool engine too, but you really didn't get to do much with it.

The story so far:

The boss theme wasn't appropriate for what you had but it was pretty cool, and if I have the author right I assume you made it in the period, so you can have some score.

Well, you had a good thing going and didn't get very far with it. Maybe aim for something simpler next time. Elig's React is basically the game that I recommend to everyone who hasn't managed to create a full DoZ game yet.

A rather drawn-out storyline revolving around the theme, the fact that there were relics in the castle that restored health (making you immortal if you were careful), and the spawning of the enemies just all oozed Immortality. I can't give any less than a perfect score.

Really great.. Imagine MZX combat mixed with Zelda-style weapons and stuff. The weapons are surprisingly fun to use.



The game usually went a bit on the hard side, though, and the bullet hell of the first boss was sort of odd to deal with. All in all the game was fun and the difficulty level scaled with how much you could stand to grind/farm. It was quite long too, so a perfect score, with a bit off the top for the difficulty.

Probably the worst category of the game—even though you were obviously going for a classic ZZT feel, I think you could have pulled this off really well with custom characters or even MZX default. What's there isn't too appealing either. You DID change the most searing default blue, and in general made the game have smart graphic planning, so you still retain a lot of points. A lot of visual effects would have been amplified without using odd graphics for them, but they were supported by a little bit of kitsch. Backgrounds were really bland, even the randomly tiled ones.

Almost perfect. With but a couple bugs discovered a while after the DoZ ended, everything worked and worked as well as it should. I expected some more graphical pizzazz—I love to see funky effects take place in Logicow games—but, whatever, everything did its job and you covered a lot of modern bases, even if it did lack innovation.

This is the precise length that a DoZ story should be. Some introduction. Leave the player be, and toss in some cinematics. Maybe some optional scrolls of text. As for the actual story, I think it was perfect, if a bit derivative, and could bear repeating. As far as this DoZ goes, perfect.

Decent PC speaker effects (but come on, you can make cooler ones than that!) and good madbrain music mean that your sound score is perfect.

I love the turn you took compared to your previous DoZs. I think everyone is satisfied, and whether you did this to prove something or not you should stick with it. Go ahead and add whatever effects you want if you can retain this nuance of classically-infused gameplay.

I handed you a perfect score in many categories, and that's because nobody else did better. The scores may have been lower were this a different DoZ.

Best theme-heavy game this DoZ. Which is not bad at all, given how there are so many of them. I like how you adapted to the theme-heavy sheet, too, which might have been why you deviated from your normal game style, who knows? Whatever, keep it up. And come back this winter.

The theme slowly manifested in the storyline, but it took a while and there wasn't really a strong connection. In a Theme-light game you don't really need to have the theme tied into the gameplay, but I'll still dock a few points.

Great, wonderful, satisfying. The game has a good difficulty curve, but I have to take off some points for some things, which are ultimately Technique problems so they're docked there. Either way, this is great and probably had the best gameplay overall in the DoZ so you get a perfecto.

Ehn... they weren't the best, but they were cool and they did work. You did a lot of char editing and everything was plenty lively.


Your color design theory showed through; backgrounds dark, walls middle-tone, but the enemies were sometimes hard to notice. The player seems to step over his own feet when walking. You put a lot of detail into the world, which is really appreciable.

Well, you guys Did Everything. Sprite platformer! Random levels! Gibs! Fast bullets! Sprite enemies! Stats system! There's no room to dock any points. Except for two things: first of all, it's possible to get stuck. And secondly, you can level up to the point of the game slowing to a crawl due to your huge bullet barrage. 5 points docked for both of those, but your game still showed superior technique.

At first I felt the story was quiet weak, but I warmed up to it. Calling the player “Puffy” was pretty great, too. From what I can tell asgromo must have done the story, I can see his incredibly grayish low-contrast palettes throughout it. Well, good job, it proved to be a very interesting component in the gameplay.

The story music, the level music, the sound effects—all satisfying and very welcome, throwing the player between a mysterious at-ease tempo and a slightly edgy fast paced mood. Perfect.

A good, quick and polished game. You guys really worked hard, especially given how many features this has. The plot and gameplay were obviously worked on by different people, yet still came together for a cohesive experience. I think you deserve a hard-earned Win.