Travel Through Time vol. 1 - Zosya

[redballoon]

Oh sweet Moses!

https://youtu.be/tRVx5An5ZUQ

[Ralf]

I'm speechless too. It looks like we have the best racing game on Spectrum ever, better than Chase H.Q and everything else *

* if it only plays as good as it looks

[Sokurah]

Holy crap, that's amazing.
I can't imagine how anyone can throw that amount of graphics around - at that speed - on a Spectrum

[MonkZy]

This looks good. I had some hours of play of Zosya's previous driving game 'Drift', the presentation and game engine were beyond belief. Unfortunately I did not have the skills to do the game justice. I should give it some more time because when you got it right the game was really satisfying. Looking forward to this release.

[Ralf]

I had some hours of play of Zosya's previous driving game 'Drift', the presentation and game engine were beyond belief. Unfortunately I did not have the skills to do the game justice.

Yes, Drift looked great and moved smoothly but suffered in gameplay. You didn't see the track you were supposed to drive on so you constantly got off the track and got disqualified.

I really hope that here won't be such problems here and this will be just great in every aspect.

[Sparky]

Unbelievable graphics!! This looks amazing!

[stupidget]

Is this going to be a TR-DOS game as it look's like there's a hell of a lot to cram into 128k?

[Audionautas]

Hi

I've just asked Natasha Zotova from Zosya on YouTube if Travel Through Time would be 128K multi-load or 128K single load. She just confirmed that will be 128k single load. Awesome! She also commented on Facebook that this game runs at about 25 fps. Wow!

[Ralf]

this game runs at about 25 fps. Wow!

Very impressive. For comparison Chase H.Q runs at 12 fps or 10 fps and still has a great sense of speed. Better not to talk about Outrun here

[Nitrowing]

Better not to talk about Outrun here

which was I wasn't about to do. Honest

[Audionautas]

this game runs at about 25 fps. Wow!

Very impressive. For comparison Chase H.Q runs at 12 fps or 10 fps and still has a great sense of speed. Better not to talk about Outrun here

Can you imagine doing a remake of Out Run using the same engine of Travel Through Time? Pretty sure it would be a way better game.

[Morkin]

Looks really nice.

I was racking my brains trying to think of racing games that had such a variety of vehicles to pick from, couldn't really think of any.

[vanpeebles]

This looks amazing!

[Ralf]

By the way it looks like Oleg Origin is completing his old projects

Check the first game here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180128083 ... _soon.html

[Audionautas]

By the way it looks like Oleg Origin is completing his old projects

Check the first game here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180128083 ... _soon.html

Yes, I remember visiting that website long ago but I didn't remember Travel Through Time. I think this is a very important game for Zosya, with a really long development period. Natasha Zotova commented in an interview that the engine developed for TTT would be the basis (with variations) for all their racing games in the future. Anyway, there are really interesting projects in there, hope some of them will be finished sooner or later.

[Sol_HSA]

By the way it looks like Oleg Origin is completing his old projects

Check the first game here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180128083 ... _soon.html

I'm impressed by the amount of art assets created for games that never came to be.

[Mort]

Great looking Game, it might even topple my favourite , Nightmare Rally

[Audionautas]

By the way it looks like Oleg Origin is completing his old projects

Check the first game here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180128083 ... _soon.html

I'm impressed by the amount of art assets created for games that never came to be.

I'm affraid that's not entirely true. I asked Natasha Zotova about these games on Facebook this morning:

ME. Hi Natasha Zotova. Is there any chance that some of these projects will see the light of day? https://web.archive.org/.../www.../coming_soon.html
We know at least one of them will be released soon, what about the others? Some of them look very promising.

NATASHA. Of course. The same story as for Travel through time - probably, with some changes, but most of these are still in work (and dozens of others).

So, I assume that Oleg Origin cancelled those projects when he, Natasha and other people decided to create ZOSYA. By the way, in my opinion ZOSYA is just an acronym of the team members surnames'. Zotova, Origin, The "A" might be "Stella Aragonskaya" that worked with Oleg Origin doing the loading screen on Metal Man Reloaded. Now we just have to guess the "S" and "Y" What do you think? ZX Art is a good starting point to investigate.

[Ralf]

Now we just have to guess the "S" and "Y" What do you think?

The so called "Oleg Origin" (probably not a real name) has always been quite mysterious. You can't even be sure
if it was a single man or a team.

And I'll tell you something, I respect it If he/they don't want to be known by real names, then I won't investigate.

[Audionautas]

Now we just have to guess the "S" and "Y" What do you think?

The so called "Oleg Origin" (probably not a real name) has always been quite mysterious. You can't even be sure
if it was a single man or a team.

And I'll tell you something, I respect it If he/they don't want to be known by real names, then I won't investigate.

Yes, absolutely. I was just speculating. I know that Oleg Origin is an enigma for the Russian themselves. Even sin LAIR made a video for his YouTube channel with his hypothesis and theories about it. I absolutely respect their decision to remain anonymous. That mystery around them makes them even more interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj4XJ8I4a2U

[Neil Parsons]

Amazing! I can't wait to play it!

[5MinuteRetro]

Oh sweet Moses!

https://youtu.be/tRVx5An5ZUQ

I just want to flag how my jaw dropped a little at 1:17, when the car went under the bridge and the vehicle went into shadow. It makes me wonder what other Spectrum games had similar subtle contextual effects. I’m pretty sure, for example, that the car-engine sound on Chase HQ became a bit deeper in tunnels.