Reidrac (Juan Martinez) is actually working on two projects : a RPG (Ultima like) and Hyperdrive which is a shoot them up, whose release date will be December 2022, with a loading screen by Titan.
Missile Command is an Atari arcade game released in 1980, and in 1981 for the Atari VCS 2600, ported by Rob Fulop, which sold over 2.5 million copies.
Cyril GOURET (music, code and sprites) et TITAN (loading screen) are working on a WIP remake of this classic for Amstrad CPC. A working demo was available at the RGC 2022 meeting, the final version isn't available for the moment.
CPCRetroDev 2022 competition has been announced. You can check the details on CPCRetroDev.
You can submit your game between the 14th october and the 2th November 2022.
As last year, the game will be submitted on Itch.io.
I am just 3 years late to announce this graphical adventure game by Blerkotron : Unhallowed which has a good note in the issue 56 of CAAD (spanish zine about adventure games).
It’s Halloween and you’re on your way home from work, tired and hungry and wanting nothing more than to put your feet up in front of the TV. But something dark and evil lurks within your home, waiting for you to return...
Unhallowed is a classic text-adventure game with a few twists to make it more palatable for modern players.
Zorro is a platform game written in 1985 by James Software LTD (édited by U.S. Gold) on Amstrad CPC.
On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is showing a speedun in 16 minutes and 26 seconds on Zorro.
After Eric Cubizolle (Titan) who made several superb new loading screens for Amstrad CPC game, it's the turn for Alexandre Nauguet who made this beautiful loading screen for the game Tank by Choice Software in 1987 (edited by Ocean Software), the original screen is the following :
And here is the new one which keeps the original informations :
Two new recent Amstrad CPC games written by Antero Martinez :
Lala Prologue by the Mojons Twins was first released in 2010, you can see a complete gameplay video of Lala Prologue by Amstrad Maniaque.
The Mojons Twins has released a new version of their game which is available on their Itch.io page.
This new version is using their game engine MK1 PSTCRA, Cprslib by Artaburu and WyzPlayer by Wyz.
First announced in 2017 using the CPCTelera framework, Salvador Cantero finally used the MK1 game engine by the Mojons Twins for his platform game Red Planet, the initial version was for ZX Spectrum. You can see the game being finished on Youtube by Amstrad Maniaque.
The game is written by :
Revenge of Trasmoz by Volcano Bytes is a WIP Amstrad CPC conversion of their game Curse of Trasmoz originally for ZX Spectrum. It's a 2 player arcade platform game on one screen.
The game is written by Carlos Pérezgrin and Borja de Tena, music and sound FX by Beyker and A. Pérez, cover art and graphics by Dani Diez, loading screen by BitFans. It is written with the CPCTelera framework by Francisco Gallego.
The War of the Solice is a 3D remake of the Lords of Midnight game (Mike Singleton) made by The Frozen Empire (Andrew Smart and Wayne Britcliffe), for windows and MacOS.
I wrote about it years ago, last version was releasd in 2021, see the interesting trailer on Youtube.
Last game by Ivan AVILA is Goody, el regreso, it has been written with the 8bp library in basic. Goody is a platform game.
Benjamin Yoris was working on a Wonder Boy remake since 2020, but this project is now on hold.
You can download it on CPCWiki to see for yourself. It isn't possible to finish the level as the distance between two clouds are too big.
There is a french interview of Eric Safar on Youtube who is the author of two adventure games : Athanor 1 and 2.
Tommorow friday the 22th 2022 at 10pm (frog hour, so 11pm for the beef eaters), Roudoudou will stream about Amstrad CPC programming : ASIC (on CPC+), hard sprites and integrating music.
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