TAKE MY HAND
TAKE MY HAND
Sequentia Soft
ZX Spectrum 128K
ENGLISH and SPANISH game
Cover, 8bit graphics and script by Fran Kapilla
Tested and dialogues by Aryekaix
v 1.2 (12 nov 2024)
v 1.0 (8 nov 2024)
You are the artist of a comic that is about to come to life. A dimensional leap, a new love, a fascinating adventure. A first-person adventure with many options, inventory for items and paths.
Controls Keyboard:
Q - Up
A - Down
Enter – Selection
Kempston and Sinclair Joystick also.
History of the creation of this game.
The 80s are my childhood era. When I think back to that decade, I remember many beautiful things. I remember that when I was a child, there were teenagers and adults who listened to music from the 80s, who had a different and healthier way of life than today. That's why I make games for the ZX Spectrum, the games I would have liked to see published. One day, listening to music from the 80s... I thought: I could make a video game, an adventure with this music. So it serves as a tribute, simply.
This game is a tribute to that time of the 80s. To the music of the 80s, to an entire culture and a generation. The basis of inspiration may seem to be just a certain famous video, but in reality, it is an original plot with created puzzles and game rules that make up this adventure.
Thanks to Jari Komppa and Furillo's MUCHO creation engines. Thanks to them, I can freely run my imagination on the ZX Spectrum.
The game can be used on a real ZXSpectrum 128K computer or on an emulator (there are many) on many modern devices.
DONATIONS! are appreciated: I am of Valencian origin and right now, almost all the relatives and people I know from Valencia are living a nightmare. Solidarity with those affected by Dana in Spain! 50% donations received for this game will go to the medical (Cruz Roja) to assist those affected by the climate catastrophe that occurred in the area of Valencia, Spain.
Purchase
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Development log
- Take my Hand 1.229 days ago
Comments
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Hello, I'm having random crashes in a grey +2, I hope this could be fixed since it's a really nice game. Using version 1.2. Thanks!
Thank you very much for playing and for your words. I'm going to review everything. I will try to discover the error and why it only fails on the gray Spectrum (although I only have the black one at home). I'll try to fix it and post a working version for the grays.
Hello Leandro, write me in telegram or twitter or say me your email, I want to send you the modified game so you can try it on your gray spectrum. If you have time. This way we can know if it is now compatible with all models.
Hello this looks like a wonderful piece of work, well done! Only thing is version 1.2, doesn't seem to want to load on either my Grey +2 using divmmc future or an emulator called 'Speccy'. No rush, but if you could double check it on real hardware I would be very grateful - thank you :)
Thank you very much for playing and for your words. I don't know where the fault is for the gray spectrum. But I'm not worried because with a little patience I'm sure I can fix it.. I will try to discover the error and why it only fails on the gray Spectrum (although I only have the black one at home). I'll try to fix it and post a working version for the grays.
Perfect, thank you very much, and when you get time, I appreciate you've probably got plenty on. And incidentally the 'toast rack' spectrum and grey +2 are very closely related hardware wise, so if you fix the +2 it will almost certainly work on a 'toast rack' machine as well :) The emulator I use called Speccy works fine with your game when the hardware emulation is set to ZX Spectrum +2A so at least you know where to start :) You'll find the excellent Speccy emulator here in case it helps trouble shooting - https://fms.komkon.org/
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Bugs in English version: At the beginnibg "Teclado" should be "Keyboard". Inventory freezes the game. Using pencil 2H takes you to the start menu of the game.
Thank you very much for your help. Download the file again. Those bugs were fixed on the first day.
Seems to be untested..?? It crashes when going Forward or Backward when at the spiral of the sketchbook. Could you try to do a complete walkthrough of the English versin...
I'll check it this afternoon. Yes, it is tested, but as I said before, I suspect that in the English version it reaches the memory limit and fails. I will have to delete something from the English version or remove a paragraph to adjust my memory. Thank you very much for playing and letting me know, I will respond to you in a few hours ☺
Everything is already corrected. v 1.2.
I've put you and Richard Hallas in the in-game acknowledgments.
I hope everything is correct now, but if there are any spelling errors, I ask you to please tell me. Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy.
Download this new version 1.2 again
Good luck with this game. It looks as promising as usual. I've just had a brief play at the first part of the English version, and here's a little bit of feedback based on that initial try. Mostly I've just found some trivial typos, but the last point is about an important apparent bug:
1. "Physical" should be spelt with a "y" in it, not an "i" (title screen).
2. "Teclado" should be "Keyboard" in the initial control choice. (And since you say "Sinclair Joystick" in this choice, I think you should also say "Kempston Joystick", not just "Kempston".)
3. If I examine the workbook and the comic, and work my way through the motorcycle race, then whenever I make a bad choice, there's a faulty character in the failure message. Where it says "I don't remember having drawn it like that", there's an unwanted character after "that", before the full-stop. It looks like it's probably an "í" (acute-accented i).
4. *** BUG1 *** After working through the motorcycle race in the comic, if I then choose the "I order a cup of coffee" option, and follow it with the "Inventory" option, I just end up with a completely blank black screen, and nothing else happens.
I'm sure there will be other little problems to find, but that's as far as I've got. Overall, the quality of the English translation seems very good so far.
Hello Richard, thank you very much for playing and for your comments. They help me a lot. Thanks to you, I have already corrected the two typos. It is important to take care of the language and although my language is Spanish, I really like English, and I also love English history.
And about the inventory error it is also fixed. There was a memory limit problem, the English version takes up a little more and the game is at its limit. Although I think it's all good, I don't know if it could fail anywhere else. Please let me know, I have uploaded the corrected file.
Thank you so much!
Thanks very much indeed for correcting these problems so quickly!
Everything is already corrected. v 1.2.
I've put you and Spirit003 in the in-game acknowledgments.
I hope everything is correct now, but if there are any spelling errors, I ask you to please tell me. Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy.
Download this new version 1.2 again
How very kind — thank you!