Introduction

John Hassink (1979) is a Dutch musician, game designer and scenario writer who has been in and around the MSX scene since 1995. He has also done some minor coding and graphic design work.

He was/is a member of, or worked in association with

• Bitvision
• Byte Reaktor
• Carambalán Studios
• Compjoetania
• Imanok
• Kai Magazine
• Mapax
• Near Dark
• nenefranz
• Paxanga Software
• Sargon
• Softgame
• S.T.U.F.F.
• Trilobyte
• Umax

Credits

as composer

• Data Magazine (Softgame, 1995)
• Defender (Sargon, 1995-1997)
• Guide Through Gameworld 2 (Sargon, 1996)
• Near Dark 2.5 (Near Dark, 1996)
• Dark Voyage (Compjoetania, 1997)
• The Lost World (Umax, 1998)
• Realms of Adventure (Umax, 2000)
• Soulgrinder - Sun of Guile promo (Byte Reaktor, 2005)
• LEDA Micro (Byte Reaktor, 2008)
• Deep Dungeon Adventure (Trilobyte, 2008)
• Pengo (Paxanga Software, 2010)
• Zombie Incident (nenefranz, 2011)
• D.A.R.C. (Trilobyte, 2012)
• SHMUP! (Imanok, 2013)
• Uridium (Trilobyte, 2014)
• Mr. Balloon (Mapax, 2014)
• Muffie's Tutankham (Muffie, 2014)
• Dutch Moonsound Veterans (various, 2015)
• Rune Monster (Kai Magazine, 2016)
• Sector 88 (Kai Magazine, 2016)
• Codename: INTRUDER (Bitvision, 2016)
• Tina's Adventure Island (Imanok, 2017)
• Green Gravity Guy (Bitvision, 2017)
• Myths and Dragons (Kai Magazine, 2017)
• The Sorrow of Gadhlan 'Thur (Kai Magazine, 2018)
• Burn Us EXP (Carambalán Studios, 2018)
• SHMUP! Kai (Imanok, 2020)
• Metal Dragon (Kai Magazine, 2021)
• Angelic Warrior Deva (Team Deva, 2021)

as writer

• D.I.S.K. (Near Dark, 199?)
• FutureDisk (S.T.U.F.F., 199?)
• Soulgrinder - Sun of Guile promo (Byte Reaktor, 2005)
• Deep Dungeon Adventure (Trilobyte, 2008)

as game designer

• Soulgrinder - Sun of Guile promo (Byte Reaktor, 2005)
• LEDA Micro (Byte Reaktor, 2009)
• Deep Dungeon Adventure (Trilobyte)

as coder

• Soulgrinder - Sun of Guile promo (Byte Reaktor, 2005)
• LEDA Micro (Byte Reaktor, 2009)

as designer

• Soulgrinder - Sun of Guile promo (Byte Reaktor, 2005)
• LEDA Micro (Byte Reaktor, 2009)

Challenges

John Hassink joined a small number of challenges. Entries include:

• LEDA Micro (Byte Reaktor, 2008)

MRC Mega Challenge - 3rd prize

• Deep Dungeon Adventure (Trilobyte, 2008)

MSXdev'08 - 1st prize

• Zombie Incident (nenefranz, 2011)

MSXdev'11 - 1st prize

• D.A.R.C. (Trilobyte, 2012)

SMS Power! 15th Anniversary Competition - 1st prize

• SHMUP! (Imanok, 2013)

MSXdev'13 - 3rd prize

• Uridium (Trilobyte, 2014)

MSXdev'14 - 2nd prize

Trivia

• Has, being an avid gamer, published complete walkthroughs, maps and how-to-plays for Fantasm Soldier Valis I & II, Girly Block, Kubikiri Yakata, Sa-Zi-Ri and Undeadline
• Maintains a YouTube channel dedicated to retrogaming and game music in particular, featuring many music arrangements by his hand
• Likes to perform game music on MSX fairs whenever a piano or keyboard is present
• Won the 1st prize in MVM's 2010 Music Quiz, and on later editions as well, which is why he won't participate anymore
• Did a 'game over' tune for an iPhone game by Baudejogos

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