One Wonder by Kaiwa Games, an arcade Amstrad CPC game for the CPCRetroDev 2023
-One Wonder by Kaiwa Games is an arcade Amstrad CPC game released for the CPCRetroDev 2023 contest. You can download it on the web page of One Wonder.
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One Wonder by Kaiwa Games is an arcade Amstrad CPC game released for the CPCRetroDev 2023 contest. You can download it on the web page of One Wonder.
Border 0 organizes his ninth score contest on the game Relentless (shoot them up by Axelay, Rexbeng and Tom&Jerry) till the 31st Novembre 2023. See the site for the rules, you will have to use the WinAPE Amstrad CPC emulator to record a SNR file.
As usual I am late as Mighty Castle Adventure by Yogtze has been announced in January 2023 on CPCWiki and certainly also on Facebook. Yogtze is on CPCWiki and Twitter.
You should really read the thread on CPCWiki which is interesting and has several nice videos. The game has been showed at the Benediction Coding Party and it's really superb. To follow closely till the release.
After Tenebra which I highly recommend, Haplo offer us his latest game Tenebra 2 of course still a reflexion/puzzle game. You move in a roguelike environment with an important detail : you can only move in a zone where there is light. The big twist in this second game is that you arent anymore alone during 35 levels. Use run"t2 to launch the game.
Keymaster's Journey by 21st Century Amstrad is a WIP Amstrad CPC gamme for the CPCRetroDev 2023 contest. For the moment you can see the sprites which will be used in the game on their Twitter account.
Jewel Master by Raul Garcia (Retromaniacos) is one of the first released games for the CPCRetroDev 2023 contest.
It's a simple arcade game, use QAOP to move and get the 4 treasures. I am blocked at one level (see screenshot below) as there were only 3 treasures.
The video below is showing the game.
Nita by haThus is one of the first released games for the CPCRetroDev 2023 contest.
It's a platform games whose grapgics are really nice. I hope you will be better than me against the ennemies to pick up back all the stolen eggs by the villain.
The video below is showing the game, but on the youtube channel of the creator, there is a video showing how the game was made.
Ghost Trick Delirium (halloween edition 2023) by GGP for Amstrad CPC+ and GX4000 is a modification of the recent Ghost Trick for ... Halloween. Available on the Amstradiens Facebook group and Gamejolt.
Shawn Sijnstra (and Stefan Vogt) continue to update VEZZA his Infocom/Inform/Z-machine interpreter for Amstrad CPC and PCW (and other computers) to play adventure games without needing a memory expansion (Inform format v1 to v8), under CP/M and not Amsdos.
The program you need to dowload is different if you are using an Amstrad CPC (vezza-nb.com) or a PCW (vezza-90.com).
PunyInform v5.1 by Fredrik Ramsberg and Johan Berntsson is a library written in Inform 6 to create adventure game (pure text, no graphic support contrary to DAAD) using the Z-machine virtual machine which will run on 8bit computers (or more recent computers too). PunyInform has a parser, knowing of common verbs and a framework to write adventure games.
PunyInform is based on the Inform 6 library written by Graham Nelson. Its goal is to make easily adventure games in Inform 6, with a manual describing the differences between the official library and PunyInform..
Games using PunyInform can be compiled in z3, z5 and z8 format (z3 being the best format for 8bit computers, other formats have more features). Compared to the Inform 6 library, it means that there is no support for the Glulx virtual machine but z3 format is important as Inform 6 doesnt support it.
To compile games written with PunyInform, you should use the Inform 6 compiler maintained by David Kinder. Binaries are available on if-archive. PunyInform needs Inform v6.35 (or more).
They are tutorials to write adventure game with PunyInform (end of the page) and all the documentation including a 8 page cheat sheet (quick reference)..
To try your game after compilation, you can use WinFrotz by David Kinder, to create map easily you can use Trizbort.
And finally, to create an Amstrad CPC and PCW disk image, you will have to use the Puddle BuildTools.
Locus Eremus is a new action game for Amstrad CPC by Antero Martinez.
The game is made in basic 1.0 with assembler parts, with 5 levels and an end. It is available as WAV, CDT and DSK.
Mimo's Quest by Christ PERVER is an adventure game released in 2020 and last updated in August 2023.
Génération Micros made three videos about the history of the Amstrad CPC (french) :
Other videos are about individuals games, I invite you to check them too.
Looking at videos on Youtube, I stumbled on the New Retro Show and two of his series of videos :
One nice game in the video is Cara Grabs Antimatter which is playable on the page (finished it in 11:22 with some time off keyboard). The game is using CGALIB by Cyningstan, a library for Open Watcom C.
A good part of the DOs games showed will work on CGA and 8086 processor.
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