ZxNextMaker

Make ZX Spectrum and ZX Spectrum Next games without writing code.by Foko Games

Make ZX Spectrum and ZX Spectrum Next games without writing code.

ZxNextMaker is a game maker for the ZX Spectrum. You draw the graphics, build the rooms, put the characters and objects in place, and give them behaviours with blocks. The app writes the machine code. You get a real game: a .tap for the Spectrum 48K/128K and a .nex for the ZX Spectrum Next.

Four kinds of game

- Platformer: flip-screen rooms, variable jump, double jump, dash, melee or ranged attacks, ladders, moving platforms, conveyors, crumbling floors and a two-character mode.

- Top-down / RPG: rooms, doors, keys, NPCs, talking signs, a sword and animated tiles.

- Isometric (FOKOMATION): Knight Lore-style 3D rooms, jumping and climbing, pushable crates, Sokoban puzzles, guardians and a custom HUD.

- Text adventure: a PAW-style parser, locations, objects, illustrated rooms and a game in English or Spanish.

On the ZX Spectrum Next

Every game also exports as a .nex, and the Next version can go much further:

- 256-colour graphics (Layer 2), colour hardware sprites and the game's own palette.

- Smooth hardware scrolling, sideways and in vertical towers, with a parallax background behind it.

- Title and game-over pictures in 256 colours.

- PT3 music: load .pt3 files from Vortex Tracker II or Pro Tracker 3 for the title, the game and the game-over screen. They play on the Next's second AY chip without slowing the game.

- Nine-voice music across the Next's three AY chips.

- 28 MHz room drawing, and much more memory (up to 128 isometric rooms).

The .nex runs on its own: no ROM inside and none needed.

Everything in one app

- Pixel editors for tiles, sprites and isometric blocks, with PNG import.

- A beeper sound-effect editor, a beeper melody editor and an AY music tracker (128K).

- Title screens, loading screens, custom fonts with accents, and HUDs.

- Play your game inside the app: a built-in ZX Spectrum emulator and a full ZX Spectrum Next emulator.

- Undo/redo, a project library, and an interface in English and Spanish.

- Sample games to open, play and study, including *El Faro de Sant Bru* (in three versions: top-down, isometric and text adventure), *La Tumba*, *SokoSoko* and *Microban*.

Download, here

Source: https://foko-games.itch.io/zxnex