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This is my version of the game King’s Valley for the ZX-Spectrum, which I wrote back in my school years. The game is not a clone of the original MSX title but rather inspired by it. The main character was copied pixel by pixel from King’s Valley 2 with the help of graph paper, a few keen eyes, and a pencil, thanks to my friend Yevgeny Yanushkevich. My brother Ilya and my friend Yevgeny also helped me design the levels. All the development of the game and its resources was done entirely on the ZX-Spectrum.

In the video, there’s quite a serious player – completing the game in just two hours.

In fact, the game turned into quite a long-term project, stretching out, if I remember correctly, for about a year. It was written right after I lost the disks with the source code of my previous game – a port of Knightmare from the MSX.

The game can be found in the World of Spectrum archive and on other sites.

Strangely enough, World of Spectrum claims that the game was released in 1994. That doesn’t quite match reality, since that was already my third year at the Academy, while I had actually written the game back in school.

To this day, I continue working on reviving the game for mobile devices (iOS, Android), TV set-top boxes (Apple TV, Android TV), desktop platforms (Linux, macOS), and the web. But I’m doing this VERY slowly – sometimes putting development aside altogether, and sometimes spending just a few hours a month on it.

King Valley levels map — King’s Valley Level Map

Arkanoid: Space Ball will be a surprise for the amateurs of unusual and picturesque games as Arkanoid and space games. Everybody who wishes to spend time perfectly will take a pleasure in Arkanoid: Space Ball too. A futuristic atmosphere, modern techno-style graphics, a dynamical gameplay and an excellent soundtrack give this game as a present for all Arkanoid’s admirers.

You have to clear a lot of platforms-levels soaring in space, and meteorites, spacecrafts and guns of enemies constantly will be threatened your life. Numerous bonuses dropped out from the broken blocks will help you to pass all obstacles: the laser, the rocket launcher, force fields and many other things. Game is distinguished by the features interesting and unusual for classical Arkanoid: horizontally oriented break block formation, moving and shooting bricks, Gravitational anomalies effects to flights of the balls and missiles, etc. In short, whether you are a teenager, student, parent or grandparent, you will instantly fall in love with this exciting game.

Main features

Level generator – non stop gameplay
Level editor – create your own worlds
2 modes to play – usual arcade mode and krakout mode
Original bonuses and power-ups – use it carrefuly
Unusual space objects – we are in space, who know what come

Downloads

Source code at GitHub – Arkanoid: Space Ball sources.
Playable web-version – Arkanoid: Space Ball for web browser.