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While the settlers work in the underground excavations of Mars, they are attacked by an unknown Martian race. Your mission is to climb to the surface of the planet and find the rescue vehicle to escape from Mars.

You will have to go through four levels before reaching the rescue vehicle. You will have infinite lives and an energy indicator with a limit of 30 impacts. Recharge lost energy in the recharge booths.

This game is participant in the BASIC 2020 competition, it is written in Boriel, and being a platform game it is very hard to avoid it shows that it is a Basic game. You will also soon figure out it is a Basic game, because of the jerky movement of the settler you control, and the time it takes for drawing the next screen when you enter a new one. When this is said, this is not a bad game, actually it is really impressive for a Basic game. The enemies moves smooth and fast and there can be many of them at once, the graphics is fine and the variety in the four levels is great.

In the first level you have to travel both vertical and horizontally to find 10 keys and the door they can open. In the next level you go from left to right and have to activate a switch in each room for opening the door to the next room. Third level is vertical, you have to climb up and you need to flick a lot of levers to open a passage on top of the level. Fourth level is horizontal and tons of enemies has to be avoided to get to your rescue vehicle.

You have to get used to the movement of the settler, later on you have to do some very accurate jumping, which is quite tough to do, but many wrong jumps can be saved by turning in the air and returning to the place you jumped from. And especially level 3 suffers a bit from the slow screen drawing when entering a new screen, because in many jumps you are jumping up into the next screen, for falling down into the previous one again, when making a jump to another platform in the screen you are in.

Impressive to make such a rather big platform game that plays so well in Basic.

The game was made by Jose Manuel Gris Umpierrez in 2020.

Rating = 85%

You can read more about the game and get the download link here: https://manuel-gris-umpierrez.itch.io/colonos-zx