CPCRetroDev 2016, the 4th edition of the retro game creation contest of the University of Alicante. This contest awards the best and most creative developers of the retro scene, able to develop the best games for Amstrad CPC 464. The main characteristics of this year’s contest are:

• AWARDS ( 1.050 € )
  
  • Special awards
    
    • 125 € : Gominolas to the best music
    • 125 € : Jon Ritman to technical development
    • 125 € : Dinamic to innovative playability
  • PRO Category
    
    • 300 € : Best game
    • 150 € : Second best game
    • 75 € : Third best game
  • BASIC Category
    
    • 100 € – Best BASIC game
    • 50 € – Second best BASIC game

• PRO jury will be directed by The Oliver Twins, and will be composed by Escuela Politécnica Superior, RetroManiac, Devilish Games, Lucera Project, Fase Bonus, Amstrad Eterno and El Mundo del Spectrum.
• Special awards will be assessed by César Astudillo (Gominolas), Jon Ritman and Víctor Ruíz exclusively.
• Games awarded with a special mention will be given the special quality seal with the name of the award.
• A physical cassette edition with all presented games will be created and distributed.
• Any game themes are valid, as long as they are valid for all publics,
  • An additional 5 points will be given to games including any kind of gesture to the game Camelot Warriors (Dinamic, 1986) for his 30th aniversary.
• Submission deadline: October, the 26th, 2016, 23:59h (CEST Timezone)
  

Before submiting, please do thoroughly read the contest rules. Then, develop your game and fill in the form below for submiting your entry. Please, ensure that you correctly provide your email address, so as we can contact you.

Here you may find some links to developer tools for Amstrad CPC:

• CPCtelera game engine
• Librería CPCRSLib
• cpcitor’s cpc-dev-toolchain

Slap Fight (A.L.C.O.N.) is a shoot them up already existing on Amstrad CPC since 1987. But like the R-Type remake, Abalore thinks he can do better. A first video of the scrolling is available on Youtube.

Abalore accepts every help possible to make this new remake.

After Space Pest Control (arcade), the Return of Traxtor (excellent réflexion game !), Golden Tail (arcacde), the next arcade game by Juan Martinez (Reidrac) is called Magica.

Like his others games, it uses CPCRSLIB (for SDCC) and the PSG Player by WIZ.

First this game coming from Amiga will need 128 Kb memory, also on a 464 and 664 with an expansion memory. The game should be 50 images per second, with 3 special graphic modes.

The game will be showed at the RetroSevilla 20126 from the 21th to 23th october 2016.

Vector Vaults by Alberto Rodriguez Martinez is an arcade Amstrad CPC game, inspired by a Vectrex console game.

You can order a personalized version physical or not on the page up there.

Picrocs by BDC Iron is an Amstrad CPC reflexion game, with a music by Tom et Jerry, it's a clone of Picross. It's a beta, so with a few bugs.

A preview version of SymbOS by Prodatron is available with wifi support (needs the M4Board extension card by Dukes.

Beware, this version isnt 100% stable.

CargoSoft is very proud to present you its new game: Imperial Mahjong.

Imperial Mahjong is a reflexion game based on the Chinese game called Mahjong Solitaire, in which the player must make all the tiles disappear by selecting pairs that match.

The game features several technical achievements, including the use of two outstanding new graphic modes:

• the EGX (Extended GraphX) that displays 16 colors in 320*200 instead of 4
• the EGX2 that displays 4 colors in 640*200 instead of 2

A full list of these achievements will be published, but once again we don't want to spoil the surprise! For the same reason, we will not show any screen shot for now, for you to discover the game by yourself.

Please run the game on a real CPC! The graphics were designed to run on the real hardware. It is much, much, much more beautiful on a real CPC old.

Kyuran wrote on Twitter to announce an incoming version of the Amstrad CPC emulator CrocoDS on OSX. And also a development environment for Pico-8 on Amstrad CPC.

Dorgams is an assembler in ROM for Amstrad CPC, created by Madram, Drill and Hicks. A new version is available.

The documentation in french and english is available on Dorgams' wiki.