Emmanuel Viau the creator of ERE Informatique became a honorary member of the MO5 association.
You can read a bit of history about him (french only) and look a video interview of Emmanuel Viau on Youtube for about 2 hours (MO5 link here). The video was done in octobre 2017 by retrogamer.ca
Jose Javier Garcia Aranda shows us a preview of 8BP v32 (8bits de poder : 8bits of power), a RSX library to write Amstrad CPC games in basic (26 Kb max) with a video of a 3D car racing game. You can download 8bp on github.
Here is the third video of the solution of Orion Prime by Arkos and les Sucres en Morceaux, made by JB Le Daron on Youtube. Then you will be able to see the parts 4, 5 and 6.
After the first Athanor (graphical adventure game), Eric Safar is working on Athanor 2 since 2015. The box of the game has been done this summer 2017 (illustration by Angel Bautista), now it's the production of the manual and the material clues.
Pssst is a ZX Spectrum game by Ultimate Play the Game in June 1983. You play Robbie the robot which must protect plants from insects, each one needing a specific weapon. It was written by Chris Stamper (programmation) and Tim Stamper (graphics).
Announced a few months ago, the Amstrad CPC version by Salvador Cantero is now available on his web site.
Reidrac is already working since a moment on Kitsune's curse, but now he has another project, a shooter this time inspired by games like Cybernoid, Starquake, Jet Paco, and few other ideas.
Keith56, the author of Chibi Akumas (episode 1 and 2) has released a video on youtube to show the setup he has created for developing the multi-platform version of the 8 bit shooter Chibi Akumas with free and open source tools.
Basket Cases by CNGSoft is an Amstrad CPC basket game released for theCPCRetroDev 2017, where it got the 3rd place.
I havent got the time today to play it, it has nice graphics. On my TODO list.
Duck Out by CNGSoft is an Amstrad CPC conversion of a ZX Spectrum game created by Dro Soft.
You play a duck who starts in the kitchen of a restaurant, armed with a frying pan, and you must bash various opponents as you make your way out of the kitchen, into the city, and then to the park where you can be reunited with your girlfriend.
CNGSoft has made several improvements, including faster scrolling, modifications to the controls to make the game easier to play, and addition of sound effects and music (provided by Daniel Canales).
The information was in the issue 176 of Retro Gamer magazine, a new cartridge game for Amstrad GX4000, 464+ and 6128+ is available by SOHDE : BEARS!.
It's a maze/adventure/RPG game where you are a plucky young bear living in the forest surrounding Grizzly Manor. Something is afoot, Lady Grumpleton, resident of Grizzly Manor, hasn't been seen for days. It's up to you to set out from your cave and investigate !
The Amstrad CPC reflexion game by Rafael Castillo and McKlain : Baba's Palace is available for download. It won the first place at the CPCRetroDev 2017.
I started to play it, really a nice game, but I really had to gather my neurons to pass some stages, my poor brain is overheating.
Already presented, OursoN Retrogame this time did a medley of Amstrad CPC games from films featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger :
His latest video (5 days ago) is about Saboteur 2, Defender of the crown, 3D grand prix, Macadam bumper, Shackled and Venom stikes back.
Exiting a long hibernation, I discover that Novabug and Zeusdaz, two Youtubbers who are speaking about Amstrad CPC games (but not only), are fighting on 8bit games for the one with the best score since a moment : it's their 38th fight, on Impossaball this time.
And I was thinking one day to propose to an Amstrad Youtubber a fight on on 2 players game, well the idea isnt very new, nice try Genesis8bit !
Another new table for Pinball Dreams by Batman Group : Ignition, created by Toni Gálvez/MAC.
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