Shining / TGS just released a new Amstrad Plus demo on the Evoke 2019 demoscene party in Cologne / Germany. Download and vote for the production on Pouet.net.
Aug 182019
Nov 102018
Wow… what a great game development competition – again! And the best of all: I was allowed to be in the jury which was a great honor for me. But let’s talk about the games… I guess that this competition has rised the bar of the quality of the entries again and the students used ASM instead of C. Finally the games Operation Alexandria by 4MHz (1st), Jarlac by Retrobytes Productions (2nd) and Legend of Steel by TOD Studios (3rd) won the competition. And they really, really, really deserve it, but download them (download link below) and you can see it by yourself.
My personal 2nd place (I had to vote for the playability), the game Taulellets by Vicente Jimenez, was finally ranked 17 – anyway, I still like it very much and I will play it from time to time for sure. It made me come back during the test of the other games to play a short round to get past the next level :-).
If you want to participate on the CPCRetroDev next year, be sure to download the games and have a look at the documentations in the games folder. All the developers wrote a small “Making Of” and all games contain the source code. So this is obviously a great learning resource for everyone who wants to code for the Amstrad CPC.
But enough from me… here are the results of the CPCRetroDev 2018 game development competition:
| Position | Image | Game | Group | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Operation Alexandra | 4MHz | (393) Best Game, Carlos Abril Mention, Gominolas Mention, Relevo Mention |
| 2 |  | Jarlac | Retrobytes Productions | (380) 2nd Best Game, Pablo Ariza Mention |
| 3 |  | Legend of Steel | TOD Studios | (283) 3rd Best Game |
| 4 |  | The Adventures of Timothy Gunn | CNGSoft | (278) 4th Best Game |
| 5 |  | OPQA vs. QAOP: The Final Battle | Manuel Sagra | (261) |
| 6 |  | 77 Attempts | Unknown Design | (202) Best Student Game |
| 7 |  | Foosball F3 | Quique Miquel | (180) |
| 8 |  | Deeper Warrens | Arnoud Bouche | (162) |
| 9 |  | The Rookie Thief | CPZenon Games | (145) 2nd Best Student Game |
| 10 |  | Crimson Knight Adventures | Nibble Games | (134) |
| 11 |  | Harvest Day | Pixel Productions | (129) |
| 12 |  | Redsea | Gameroid | (114) |
| 13 |  | Earth Defender | Carlos Perezgrin | (113) Best Opera Prima Additional Mention |
| 14 |  | Snake Bubble | The Bubble Club | (106) |
| 15 |  | The Last Debt | Retrojam Games | (105) |
| 16 |  | KimoHiyoko | SarayCow | (103) |
| 17 |  | Taulellets | Vicente Jimenez | (99) |
| 18 |  | The Spirit Of Halloween | Lab16Devs | (98) |
| 19 |  | The Crypt | RetroGamma | (97) |
| 20 |  | Cannon Duels | David Asta | (96) |
| 21 |  | Space Cowboy | VoxelTower | (94) |
| 22 |  | Indigo | Indigo | (87) |
| 23 |  | BringRGBack | Dead Pixel | (74) |
| 24 |  | Overheap | BastaCPC | (70) |
| 25 |  | Turtle Slam | TurtleSlam | (68) |
| 26 |  | Space Ball | Altered Vision | (67) |
| 27 |  | Elfo Saves Christmas | Ninja Pointer | (66) |
| 28 |  | Two Finger Death Now | Spherp08 | (62) |
| 29 |  | Cat Pang | Lady Cats | (61) |
| 30 |  | Cuchara Voladora | CucharaVoladora | (60) |
| 31 |  | Fitzroy And The Infestation | awergh | (60) |
| 32 |  | Bank | ACReturns | (53) |
| 33 |  | Hacktank | Retroleto Games | (50) |
| 34 |  | Lunatic | Lunatic | (45) |
| 35 |  | Invade Space | Proyecto Red | (41) |
| 36 |  | Tank | ARDAD | (41) |
| 37 |  | Disassembler | Machine Gun | (40) |
| 38 |  | Killing Machine | PizzarT | (40) |
| 39 |  | Penalty Kicks | Sakis Kaffesakis | (40) |
| 40 |  | Crocker | Merienda | (20) |
| 41 |  | 18th Century Invaders | LYSGames | (3) |
You can download the games in one package directly down below or from the download section of this site. More information about the game development competition can be found on the CPCRetroDev homepage.
Dec 312016
As promised, Keith56 released his new bullet hell shooter for the Amstrad CPC 6128 & Plus on the 31st December. In the good old tradition of bullet hell shooters, you are playing a side-scrolling game with enemies, shooting an extreme load of bullets to you, which you have – of course – to avoid. Here is the introduction from the author:
“Chibiko didn’t get any presents from Santa this year… in fact, in the last year she’s been killed by
God, banished from hell, and reincarnated as the enemy of all mankind -so it’s pretty likely she will
never get in his good books again!
Still, she can always do without that ‘gotta-buy-it’ plush doll, and the coal is always useful for
burning ‘leftovers’.
What’s a whole lot less welcome is the strange monsters that have been lurking around the
mountains lately – and now they are infesting HER castle!
Join Chibiko in her unholy battle against the invasion of badly drawn, cliche and generally uninspired
enemies, pummel your way through 4 levels of brainless firepower crazy action – and unleash hell on
the 4 end level boss enemies!”
You can download the game (and its source code) from the website of the game or at the end of this news. Of course, you can also discuss it on the CPCWiki forums.
ChibiAkumas Source With Spritecompiler
ChibiAkumas_Source_With_Spritecompiler.7z
Version: v1.06
Jul 042016
“The caves of camelot are controlled by a devious dragon. No one has beend ablte to stop his reign of horror. His traps seems impossible to pass in order to confront him. Who will be able to stop him?” – This is the intro of a new puzzle game written by Morri, which was inspired by the old “Black Dude” calculator game. You have to move boxes to get around obstacles and collect a key to leave the level.
The whole game is written in BASIC and it was planned to send it to the CPCRetroGameDev for the BASIC competition, but unfortunately there were some trouble to port it back to the Amstrad CPC 464 (so it obviously only runs on the Amstrad CPC 664 and the Amstrad CPC 6128). In my opinion it would have been a game with good chances to win the BASIC competition.
Anyway, Morri released it and you should definitively have a look at and see what’s possible with just plan BASIC on the Amstrad CPC. You can download it at the end of this page or from the CPCWiki forums.
Aug 292015
After his great video for the 30th birthday Amstrad CPC 464, Xyphoe celebrates the 30th birthday of the Amstrad CPC 6128 in his latest video on Youtube. So let’s celebrate with him. Have fun: