Galactus (ZX Spectrum Next)

Defeat the Galactus empire, battling wave after wave of relentless attack craft and alien creatures!

Galactus is a fast paced, classic arcade-style shooter, with a broad variety of backgrounds and aliens,  written entirely in NextBASIC (2.07k)for the ZX Spectrum Next.  

GAME FEATURES

• 8 attack levels, 2 bonus scoring levels (with rapid fire) and a boss level.
• Animated sprite graphics
• Static and scrolling backgrounds
• Supports both Keyboard and Joystick.
• Top 5 high score table (scores are saved to disk).
• Game options for adding a shields feature and adjusting the amount of bullets and bombs allowed during game play.

FOR THE DEVELOPER NERDS

• 75 page PDF code break down guide for the entire game, data and more.
• Attack pattern creator, along with PDF User guide that also contains instructions how to use the program for your own projects.
• Level designer tool used to create the game levels in Galactus.
• Original source code for all 3 programs in text file format.

Play it as-is, look at the coding and play with it for some learning fun, even edit the code and graphics to make it your own!   Enjoy.

IMPORTANT NOTE : There is a bug in  NextZXOS 2.07g  that will corrupt this game if it is run after the AYFX driver has already been installed (including from previous games).  This bug has been corrected in later versions of the OS.  It has not been tested with older versions, though should work as it doesn't use any features that were not in previous versions of NextBASIC after 2.06.