Tag: CPCTelera
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…
Yesterday CPC RetroDev 2019 came to an end in a high note. The award ceremony was streamed live directly from the Universidad the Alicante, where Francisco Galego presented the many games and the well-deserved winners. You can still watch the event at http://vertice.cpd.ua.es/206906. Chupigames snatched the first place of the best game with its Miss Input scoring 373 points. Miss Input is…
The University of Alicante has launched the 4th edition of CPCRetroDev, the game development competition for the Amstrad CPC 464. Offering 1050 Euros in prizes, divided in 3 categories, the game competition calls for participants. Anyone interested to participate can send his/her entry until October 26th, 2016 (23h59m CEST timezone). The categories and prizes are as follows: Special awards 125 €…
CPCTelera is a modern, cross-platform game engine for the Amstrad CPC using the C language. Francisco Gallego, the main developer responsible for the library has announced that, after a long development cycle, the version 1.4 has been released. This is a major release with several new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Also, the license was changed from GPL to LGPL,…
Are you tired of seeing the heroes getting everything always right and at the end saving the world? What if they are the lady in distress this time? Heroes Rescue gives you the opportunity to do just that! In the new game in development for the Amstrad CPC, you are the one who has to save the Ninja Turtles and…
After my failed attempt to finish my Atari game for Retrochallenge Summer 2014, I took a sabbatical and skip the next challenges altogether ashamed of my failure. One and a half year has passed and I am healed from the bad experience. That means that I decided to try again and enrolled myself and Vintage Is The New Old on the…
Juan J. Martínez has released a port of his ZX Spectrum game ‘The Return of Traxtor’ for the Amstrad CPC. There are 25 levels on the game. You have to use the tractor beam to move blocks into the bay, and fire to throw back the top-most block to the board. Match 3 or more blocks to destroy them before…
