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In the first half of 2023, I was challenged to design a unique ZX Spectrum game based upon the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back. The idea was to create something that showed more of the movie, more faithfully than either the old Atari arcade game or the more recent - but still retro - games for the 8-bit and 16-bit consoles from Sega and Nintendo.

With the screen geometry adjusted, the play area becomes just 224x128 pixels, with 16 pixel wide scroll buffers on either side. Foreground elements would have to scroll in attribute blocks, but the the background is split into two distinct layers which could be scrolled at different rates, giving the illusion of parallax.

Description
In the first half of 2023, I was challenged to design a unique ZX Spectrum game based upon the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back. The idea was to create something that showed more of the movie, more faithfully than either the old Atari arcade game or the more recent - but still retro - games for the 8-bit and 16-bit consoles from Sega and Nintendo.

With the screen geometry adjusted, the play area becomes just 224x128 pixels, with 16 pixel wide scroll buffers on either side. Foreground elements would have to scroll in attribute blocks, but the the background is split into two distinct layers which could be scrolled at different rates, giving the illusion of parallax.