JSW Central - Resource Centre for ZX Spectrum games based on Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines

Resource centre for ZX Spectrum games
using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines

II. Jet Set Willy (JSW48)

A. New games using Matthew Smith's original Jet Set Willy game engine for the 48K Spectrum and its modifications

53. WiLLY iN ThE MiRRoRVeRSE

Author: Carl Paterson

Publisher: CnP Projectz

Year: 2023 (v. 2)

Reissued: 2023 (v. 3)

Language: English

WiLLY iN ThE MiRRoRVeRSE is the second JSW game by Carl Paterson. He started working on it in 2022, using JSWED 2.3.7. The game was released in February 2023 (v. 2; v. 1 was an unreleased development file) after some "postproduction" by Daniel Gromann. In December 2023, v. 3 was released with some additions and improvements (mainly in the area of the in-game music).

GAME PREMISE: Willy looked in the mirror in his bathroom when a sudden flash from a nearby nuclear power plant combined with aliens fighting the drone wars in his loft created a rip in the space-time continuum. When his eyes refocused after the flash, he was still in the bathroom, but it did not look quite right. It turns out Willy finds himself trapped in a mirrorverse. He must traverse almost 60 rooms of mystery collecting all the items as he goes so he may be reunited with Maria. She is an astrophysicist and can get them home in some kind of "magiver" episode.

WiLLY iN ThE MiRRoRVeRSE features completely new rooms. There are also new and modified guardian sprites. The game features custom-made loading and title screens and custom font. It also offers the player an exceptional amount of music, including a brand-new title-screen tune and (as of v. 3) a total of 19 in-game tunes, most of which (except for one) are 128 bytes long and have never been used in a JSW game before.

While the official release ZIP of version 3 also includes the older release files (of version 2), players are strongly encouraged to play version 3 as the latest and most polished revision of WiLLY iN ThE MiRRoRVeRSE.

Number of edited rooms: 61

Number of items to collect: 256

Bugfix needed after original release? NO

Spare lives at the start: 7

Completable without loss of life? YES

Starting time: 7:00 am

Best documented completion time with no loss of life: 8:53 am

Download links

Original release	The ZIP file of the original release of v. 3, including the game in TAP and TZX format, the Readme, info about the game's credits and also v. 2 game files

Direct game download	Game file in TAP and TZX formats

Spectrum Computing	The game's page on Spectrum Computing

Speccy Screenshot Maps	The game's map on Speccy Screenshot Maps

JSW Central	RZX walkthrough of the game showing the best documented completion time