Interview in french of Eric Safar, author of Athanor 1 and 2
-There is a french interview of Eric Safar on Youtube who is the author of two adventure games : Athanor 1 and 2.
There is a french interview of Eric Safar on Youtube who is the author of two adventure games : Athanor 1 and 2.
Tommorow friday the 22th 2022 at 10pm (frog hour, so 11pm for the beef eaters), Roudoudou will stream about Amstrad CPC programming : ASIC (on CPC+), hard sprites and integrating music.
Battle of Leningrad is a graphic adventure game by Sakis Kaffesakis and Manossg which is released to day in english and fren,ch, soon in spanish. A video of the solution in english is available.
PunyInform v3.6 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.
Génération Micros has made a video for his 30th cult game : le passager du temps on Amstrad CPC by Alain Bregeon and Patrick Beaujouan. He is talking about its history and the life of its authors.
Battle of Leningrad (2022) et Art War (2021) are two graphical adventure games by Sakis Kaffesakis and Manossg. Art War was released in December 2021, Battle of Leningrad will be released soon in english, french and spanish.
Block-Out is a Tetris 3D game released in 1989 on PC. Thirty three years later Krappygamez has released a version for Amstrad CPC : Retrobloc after a version on ZX Spectrum.
Tonigh Friday the 8th 2022 at 9:30pm (frog hour, so 10:30pm for the beef eaters), Roudoudou will stream about Amstrad CPC programming : ASIC (on CPC+), hard sprites and integrating music.
Chris Wild has released a version 2.0.2 of Doomdark's Revenge for OSX and Windows.
Airwolf is well known to be an unplayable game as it is so difficult and also bugged !
Cyril GOURET, TITAN and Alain le Guirec are working on Airwolf Reloaded which is for the moment a hacked version of the original game : no more time limite, no more collision test, no more gravity. There is also a new supberb loading screeen by TITTAN et a new music..
And they are working on an upgrade of the graphics by TITAN, I saw some beautiful screens on facebook (link lost though) and to make a game being finally playable.
Carlc27843 has written for PICO-8 an Amstrad CPC AY-3-8910 sound chip emulator using undocumented 5512Hz 8-bit mono PCM channel, to compose or convert Amstrad CPC music by Dave Rogers.
And I just tumbled on his two other creations : a remake de Nebulus and a demo about the game Cauldron on Pico-8 of course. Hit the links so you will able to see a video of the game and the demo.
Seen on CPCWiki, you can see Barjack's web site with the graphics he did, including work in progress games :
This site is a good news, the bad one is that he should stop Amstrad CPC activities when Bubble Quest is done...
GGP has released the final trailer for Toki on Amstrad CPC, which will be released this automn 2022.
Reidrac (Juan Martinez) is actually working on two projects : a RPG (Ultima like) and Hyperdrive which is a shoot them up.
Titan has done a loading screen for Hypdrive.
You can check Reidrac's Twitter for more informations.
I invite you to read the blog of Reidrac.
Announced on Twitter by Juan Esteban, a new Amstrad CPC game should be released soon : CPC Jewels.
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