• Contest is over
  • Results and Games
  • Awards giving ceremony was on Nov 9th, 18:30hCET

Welcome to #CPCRetroDev 2018, the 6th 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 ( 1.500 € )
  • Special Mentions
    • 135 € – Gominolas to the best music
    • 135 € – Carlos Abril to the funniest game
    • 135 € – Pablo Ariza to the best Artificial Intelligence
    • 135 € – Relevo to the best Global Product
  • PRO Category
    • 300 € – Best game
    • 200 € – Second best game
    • 150 € – Third best game
    • 100 € – Fourth best game
  • UA Category
    • 135 € – Best game made by UA students
    • 75 € – Second best game made by UA students
• ADDITIONAL AWARDS
  • Amstrad CPC Classic Gaming and Demos’ Best “Opera Prima” award
    • 50 € – To the best “Opera Prima” game. Amstrad CPC Classig Gaming and Demos will be giving 50€ to the best first game release by new groups. Those groups submitting their first release as development group for Amstrad (Opera prima) to this year’s CPCRetroDev will compete for this special award.

• • PRO Jury

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

    • Amstrad Eterno
    • Arcade Vintage
    • Devilish Games
    • El Mundo del Spectrum
    • Escuela Politécnica Superior
    • Juanje Juega
    • Lucera Project
    • Tim Riemann “Octoate”
    • Jesús Relinque Pérez “Pedja”
    • José Manuel Fernández “Spidey”
    • Xyphoe Gaming Videos

• Special Jury

  Special 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
  • Jon Cortázar (Relevo Videogames)
• 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,
  • Additional points for including gestures to Chicago’s 30 / Topo Soft (1988) for its 30th aniversary. Gesture must be sprites from the original game included in the gameplay.
• Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 31th of October 2018, 23:59h (CEST Timezone)
  
• Awards giving ceremony (Estimated): Friday, 9th of November 2018, 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

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, Pablo Ariza and Jon Cortázar (Relevo Videogames) and, our new sponsor Amstrad CPC Gaming and Demos for supporting #CPCRetroDev. A million thanks to all of you!