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Demo of the Remake of Ghost'n Goblins for Amstrad CPC 6128+ will be showed at Alchimie 13
-The remake of Ghost'n Goblins for Amstrad CPC 6128+ by Golem13, Winner and Ixien will be showed at the Alchimie 13, the first three levels are playable.
As a reminder :
- 512 KB cartridge for Amstrad 6128 PLUS (or 464+ or GX4000 with additional 64 KB)
- Hard sprites and soft sprites at the same time
- Smooth multidirectional scrolling (pixel precision)
- Stable display at 25 frames per second
- Original level design fully respected, all included
- Different levels of difficulty that increase during the game
- And much more...
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Xalk by Anthony HENRIQUES in 1991, 2017 and 2019
-Xalk is a match 3type game written by Anthony HENRIQUES in 1991 and published in the issue 33 of the Amstrad 100% newspaper in January 1991, following the release of the game Klax.
In 2017 Anthony HENRIQUES rewrote parts of the game : diagonal matches and combos, bug crushing. The speed at the start of the game is more or less random and the game can be paused with the Space key.
In 2019 Tom et Jerry, Kukulcan for the programmation and Ixien for the music also did enhance the game once more.
To see Xalk in the video, go to 7 minutes and 34 seconds.
This information comes from CPC Rulez which points on Homebrew.AT where you will be able to also download a cover for the game. All downloads are coming from CPC-Power.
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Eight feet under by Stefan Vogt available, following Hibernated (adventure game)
-After Hibernated, Stefan Vogt wrote Eight feet under which reveals some unknown events of the first game. It was first available for buyers of Hibernated, and is now available for all on C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS and also a new MSX version.
And of course, Hibernated 2 is WIP.
Pinball Dreams by Batman Group is available
-You can download Pinball Dreams by Batman Group since yesterday. Here they come mad flipper games, dont tilt too much though.
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WIP of a football game by Voxeltower : CPC Soccer
-CPC Soccer is a football game WIP by Voxeltower. Go see his tweet (source link below) to see a small video of wat already is in the game.
Cheman, the next Amstrad CPC game by the Mojon Twins
-Cheman is the next Amstrad CPC game by the Mojon Twins. It's a mix of platform and adventure.
It will be available as a tape physical edition at the RetroZaragoza 2019 which will take place the 28th October at the Delicias Civic Center in the Zaragoza town.
A work in progress of a Legend Of Zelda on Amstrad CPC+
-Zisquier (Amstariga) is working on a clone of Legend of Zelda on Amstrad CPC+ :
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Paket, an engine to create graphical adventure games, demo included
-Seen on Twitter, Santi Ontañón (code) and Jordi Sureda (graphics) have written a new engine to create graphical adventure games as made by Lucas Arts or Sierra : Paket (Point And Klick Engine Tool).
A demo in spanish and english is available on their site.
Interview of Eric Safar, author of Athanor 1 and 2
-There is an english interview of Eric Safar on AtariLegend who is the author of two adventure games : Athanor 1 and 2.
Remake of the game Head over Heels on Steam
-Head over Heels is a classic game released in 1987 by Ocean Software and written by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond. A remake was written in 2003 by Tomaz Kac (without IP rights) and freely available on Retrospec.
This remake is also on Steam by Piko Interactive which bought the IP rights. Below a longplay of this remake on Youtube.
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A preview of an Amstrad GX-4000 game by No Recess at the Alchemie 2019 (november)
-Seen on CPCRulez, No Recess has announced a WIP game for Amstrad CPC+/GX-4000, a preview will be showed at the Alchemie 2019 (1st to 3rd November 2019).
Interview with Mevlut DINC, programmer of Enduro Racer on Amstrad CPC
-An interview with Mevlut DINC on retrogamesmaster who is the programmer of Enduro Racer on Amstrad CPC (made in 2016). See a longplay video on youtube by Xyphoe.
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Demo of Amstrad CPC+ sprites by Arnaud for CPCTelera, and about WinCpctelera
-Arnaud Bouche is the author of Bitume inspired of Asphalt and Deeper Warrens inspired of the classic gauntlet with some RPG elements.
He is also the author of the WinCpctelera utility which lets you program quickly under windows a program using the CPCTelera framework which will compile also on Amstrad CPC with this CPCTelera library.
And it's with CPCTelera that he programmed a demo of Amstrad CPC+ sprites.
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