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Welcome to #CPCRetroDev 2017, the 5th edition of the retro game creation contest of the University of Alicante. This contest awards the best and most creative developers of the retro scene, able to develop the best games for Amstrad CPC 464. The main characteristics of this year’s contest are:

• OFFICIAL AWARDS ( 1.100 € )
  • Special Mentions
    • 100 € – Gominolas to the best music
    • 100 € – Carlos Abril to the funniest game
    • 100 € – Pablo Ariza to the best Artificial Intelligence
  • PRO Category
    • 300 € – Best game
    • 175 € – Second best game
    • 100 € – Third best game
    • 50 € – Fourth best game
    • 25 € – Fifth best game
  • UA Category
    • 100 € – Best game made by UA students
    • 50 € – Second best game made by UA students
• ADDITIONAL AWARDS
  • RetroSpiel Award
    • German enterprise

    RetroSpiel

    • will award with a physical publication, distribution and selling of an extended version of games presented by

    TWO

    selected teams.

• PRO Jury

  Every member of the PRO Jury will evaluate presented games taking into account only one of this characteristics: Fun, Technical Quality, Artificial Intelligence, Music and SFX, Grafical Quality. 

  • Escuela Politécnica Superior
  • RetroManiac
  • Devilish Games
  • Lucera Project
  • Fase Bonus
  • Amstrad Eterno
  • El Mundo del Spectrum
  • Juanje Juega
  • José Manuel Fernández “Spidey”
  • Jesús Relinque Pérez “Pedja”
  • Xyphoe Gaming Videos
• Historic Jury

  Historic Jury members will evaluate special mentions. Winners of each special mention will get a special seal with the name of the mention. 

  • César Astudillo (Gominolas)
  • Carlos Abril
  • Pablo Ariza
• A physical cassette edition with all presented games will be created and distributed
• Any game themes are valid, as long as they are valid for all publics,
  • An additional points will be given to games including gestures to the game Phantis (Game Over 2) / Dinamic (1987) fot its 30th aniversary.
• Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 31th of October 2017, 23:59h (CEST Timezone)
  
• Awards giving ceremony: Friday, 10th of November 2017, 18:00h (CEST Timezone)
  

Before submiting, please do thoroughly read contest rules. Then, develop your game and fill in the form below for submiting your entry. Please, ensure that you correctly provide your email address, so as we can contact you.

Here you may find some links to developer tools for Amstrad CPC:

• CPCtelera game engine
• 8 Bits de Poder (8BP)
• CPCRSLib library
• cpcitor’s cpc-dev-toolchain

SUBMISSION SYSTEM
Contest Rules	Group empty E-Mail empty JSON parse warning! ZIP File, Up to 20 MB.

We want to express our deepest gratitude to jury members and collaborators for their commitment with the contest. Moreover, this year, we are specially proud of and grateful to César Astudillo (Gominolas), Carlos Abril and Pablo Ariza for supporting #CPCRetroDev. A million thanks to all of you!