The CPCRetroDev 2023 competition is announced. You can check the details on CPCRetroDev.

You can submit your game from the 13th October to the 2th November 2023. The award cermony will be the 17th November 2023 at 7:00pm.

The games will be submitted on Itch.io.

Anthony Flack is working on a remake of Bomb Jack for Amstrad CPC with the aim of bring faithful with the arcade version. Don't hesitate to check his videos on his Youtube channel.

Rodolfo Skylarriente, the Archeologist is a graphic adventure game on Amstrad CPC by Sakis Kaffesakis, Manossg (music), Brundij (digitized screens) and MiguelSky (traduction), available in english, french, greek and spanish.

A video of the solution in english is available.

Blocktris by Under4Mhz is a new reflexion/puzzle game for Amstrad CPC, based on a ms-dos game.

It's a Tetris clone with some nice background images.

Gates to Heaven by ESP Soft is available. It's a platform game, graphics by Juan Esteban Olmo Mari (sad1942), music by Corncob, programmation by Raúl Simarro (Artaburu) and story by Litos.

Vexed by Under4Mhz (I like the name) is a new puzzle game for Amstrad CPC. Match blocks and dont leave one or you must start anew the level.

I found a new way to play it, see below (well when I will find how to use the buttons as the joystick button, I am new to EmulationStation).

Classic Adventurer is a newspaper about adventure games by Mark Hardisty. Last issue number 11 was released in March 2023 as usual as a free download or in printed format.

Knight Force is a combat game on Amstrad CPC by Titus in 1989.

On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is showing a speedrun in 10 on Knight Force.

Los Elfos de Maroland is the latest adventure game written by Dwalin, only in spanish at the moment. It's a conversion with DAAD of its game previously written with PAWS in 1993.

The gameplay video is done by Xenomorph

You should go to the Youtube channel of Tollis to discover his many musical remix of Amstrad CPC games that he did wrote.

DUNGEON of the SILVER STAR by Retro VynZ is an amstrad CPC game written in pure basic (about 30 Kb) and which is a mix of reflexion and adventure in a non linear dungeon of 12 levels. Check also his other Amstrad CPC game Stone Slyng (addapted from Stone Sling on Videopac Odissey).

There are already two videos of the game, one by Xenomorph and the other by Saberman.

Dragon Ninja is a beat them all game on Amstrad CPC by Imagine Software in 1988.

On OursoN Retrogames's youtube channel, Kukulcan is showing a speedrun in 21 minutes and 5 seconds on Dragon Ninja.

Bubble Quest is a work in progress game for Amstrad CPC+ and GX4000. Barjack, Roudoudou, e-dredon and Toto are working on it. Last informations on CPCWiki are quite nice, see for your self the screenshots. The game will feature a multi-minute, fully animated intro. Beware the video is one year old.

Sente Mini-Gold is a work in progress game by Copper France for Amstrad CPC and CPC+. It's a conversion of a 1985 arcade game, with up to 4 players (1 at a time). The Plus version uses hardware sprites and the extended palette.

PunyInform v4.3 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.