Test of Lemmings by ChinnyVision
-Last test of an Amstrad CPC game by ChinnyVision on Youtube is about Lemmings by Psygnosis.
He also tests Lemmings on Amiga, ST, PC (running on an Amstrad PC2086), SMS, Master System, Speccy and C64.
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Last test of an Amstrad CPC game by ChinnyVision on Youtube is about Lemmings by Psygnosis.
He also tests Lemmings on Amiga, ST, PC (running on an Amstrad PC2086), SMS, Master System, Speccy and C64.
After Adios a la casta, here is a demo version of the platform game Adios a la casta 2 by 4mhz, a spanish team. They also wrote Sardina forever.
Adios a la casta 1 and Sardina forever are available in a physical package on 4mhz's shop.
Humble Bundle offers once again a Capcom bundle with Strider and Bionic Commando.
Pang Adventure by Pastagames is availabel for a low sum on PC, console, IoS and Android.
Solo game and multi in local network only.
Until now for me, The way of the Tiger and Way of the Tiger II: Avenger were just 2 video games by Gremlin Graphics. But in fact, they comes from 6 gamebooks (la voie du tigre ou way of the tiger for more informations) written by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson :
A seventh book was written in 2014 by David Walters and also a prequel, available in paper at Megara Entertainment following a kickstarter project.
The prequel and the 7th book are available in english and french, the 6 original books in english only at the moment.
There may be digital books by Tin Man Games, but still not available (should have been 2014 and 2015).
You can find maps of the Way of the Tiger universe on Gamebooks.
If you liked gamebooks, you can download Lone Wolf one Iphone and Android.
Adios a la casta (beta v0.99.3b) is a new spanish platform Amstrad CPC game by 4MHz. A video by Metr81 is available on Youtube.
Humble Bundle offers a Capcom bundle with Strider and Bionic Commando.
Hewson Consultants, created in 1980 by Andrew Hewson, did publish several good games on Amstrad CPC like Uridium, Paradroid, Nebulus, Firelord, Stormlord and Cybernoid, but not only.
Available on their site web, a book (epub or not) as pre-order, and 11 incredible tracks from 10 classic Hewson games, remade by legendary artists (reduction of 40% with the code retrogamer on Bandcamp).
A remake of Future Knight by Johndimi is available (original game out in 1986).
This PC version has a map design which doesn't follow the original game but rather designed from scratch. Some game mechanics are improved, like the ability to move while jumping, having an inventory, faster gamespeed, etc...
The game features 7 levels. There are enemies to kill, items to find and use, keys to unlock doors, traps to avoid, shortcuts to take, new weapons, and bosses to exterminate.
ESP Soft just released a new spanish adventure game : el misterio de la isla de Tokland. It is written by 6128 and use the game engine el DAAD.
It is based on the book of the same name by Joan Manuel Gisbert. With one year of learning spanish (and a dictionnary), the game is playable even if I didnt go very far at the moment. Thanks for letting me working my spanish this summer :-)
Download and more informations on the syntaxical engine on ESP Soft.
You can program an Amstrad CPC game and want to become riche at the same time ? Then submit your creation to the third edition of the CPCRetroDev Game Creation Contest, as each award will win some real money.
Beware, the target is an Amstrad CPC 464, so all entries will be included in a physical edition with an audio tape, not a 3 inch disk.
The deadline is the 23th october 2015.
Lachlank (author of Retro Game Asset Studio) just showed a preview of Minecraft for Amstrad CPC : Amscraft on Youtube.
It is written mainly in C using SDCC and the framwework CPCTelera, but with assembler to draw blocks. He is looking for help (music for example).
Since at least march 2012, a 128 Ko version of Paperboy with music added by Fano does exist (download on source link, see below).
This Paperboy version has been reviewed by Xyphoe on Youtube.
At the Play Blackppool 2015, Xyphoe interviewed Andrew Oliver (Oliver Twins) during 1 hour and 22 minutes ! Dizzy and Amstrad CPC featured of course.
If 25 CPC+ games in 25 minutes was a bit too short, here are two longplay and review by Xyphoe :
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