Tag: CPCRetroDev

The 2020 edition of the already traditional Amstrad CPC game development competition, CPCRetroDev, is over, and the Universidad de Alicante has announced the winners! The best game is The abduction of Oscar Z by the group Dreamin’Bits. The game also got the special prizes for Gominolas Mention (Best Music) and Pablo Ariza Mention (best Technical Development and Artificial Intelligence). The…

My only participation in game development contests happened a few years ago in the BASIC 10-liner, where I managed to a very low score – the game wasn’t that good, to be honest. Despite that, this is one of the topics that most interest me. The interest comes from reasons. One is my thinking to try again to participate in…

With the end of the submission phase on October 30th, the CPCRetroDev 2019 organizers and judges will start to work hard to find, among the 35 games submitted, the winners for each of the categories. The announcement of the winners is planned for Friday, November 8th, 2019. For the General category, the jury members will analyze the following criteria: Fun,…

#CPCRETRODEV 2015, the game development competition for the Amstrad CPC, has broken a new record of entries. This year’s edition has 35 games competing to get the 900€ prize. Next week nominated games will be known and the organizers will post a link for the awards ceremony live video streaming. Don’t miss it! There will be news and surprises live! …

[youtube cictUOfIJwA nolink] Great news coming directly from subreddit Retrobattlestations: The CPCRetroDev is a yearly game development competition held in Spain. The competition aims at discovering talented developers by asking them to develop retro games for 80’s machines. As you retrodevelopers know, computational limitations are a key factor for fostering creativity and encouraging new technical achievements and discoveries. Contest platform…