Hessian

Multidirectionally scrolling sideview action / adventure game for the Commodore 64. Strongly similar to the Metal Warrior series. Check the code only at your own risk, as it will contain gameplay and story spoilers!

Technical details:

• 50Hz screen update with NTSC compatibility
• 8-directional scrolling with color per each char
• 24 sprite multiplexer
• Realtime sprite depacking for all sprites, using a sprite cache
• Dynamic memory allocation for sprites & level data
• NinjaTracker V2.03 music & sound playback
• Loader based on the CovertBitops Loader V2.24 (1541/1581/FD/HD/IDE64)
• Exomizer2 compression

"Kim, a night security guard working at Throne Group Science Complex wakes up in an improvised emergency operating room. She remembers multiple hostiles opening fire on the staff, everything fading to black as rounds hammer into her chest.. and finally voices: 'Massive trauma.. need artificial circulation.. prepare the nanobot injection now!'"

See also CovertBitops homepage.

Code license

Program code (.s files excluding story/dialogue text), tool code & build scripts are licensed under the MIT license:

Copyright (c) 2006-2016 Lasse ??rni

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Content license

Graphics, levels, music, sound effects, story/dialogue text is copyright (c) 2012-2016 Lasse ??rni except the song "nether.sng" (c) 2013 P?ter Nagy-Mikl?s. All rights reserved.