#CPCRetroDev 2023

[Jean-Marie]

[Jean-Marie]

[XeNoMoRPH]

[HAL6128]

Alloy Box seems to be very solid one. Nice graphics, motion and sound. Haven't looked on the website... those entries are not only from students?

[Jean-Marie]

There is a "professional" category where anyone can submit a game. Cesar is a regular contributor.

[awergh]

Phew all submitted with half an hour to spare. 
Looks like I pulled an all-nighter this year, maybe next year I can try a more reasonable time like 4am. 

Looking forward to examining the other entries but I might try to get some sleep first or perhaps breakfast that seems like a good idea too.

[CPCRetroDev]

And now, we officially close the submissions for this year's #CPCRetroDev.
Many thanks to all the developers for being part of this contest.
Everything now rests in the hands of our judges, and we'll see you at the awards ceremony, just like every year.

[Jean-Marie]

[HAL6128]

Impressive to see how many entries there have been developed. Even it doesn't look sometimes like a "high quality" game my deepest sympathy and respect working with a CPC.

[XeNoMoRPH]

[arnolde]

Very nice game. With some more detailed GFX this will be a best seller!  :laugh

Thank you! At the end, it turned out that I could habe been more generous with the tiles (there are only 64 different ones), because after all my maniac over-optimizing I ended up with more than 4K memory free    Maybe in the sequel - if there is one...

[CPCRetroDev]

Dear Community members ,
We are excited to inform you that, for the second consecutive year, the Asociación de Usuarios de Amstrad (AUA) is sponsoring the Public Vote Award. The voting process for this prestigious award, along with its accompanying prize, will commence today. Here's how it will work:

• Cast your votes on the #CPCRetroDev 2023's itchio's page under the 'Submissions' section.
• You will be randomly presented with 3 game entries to evaluate.
• Please play each game and rate them based on Playability and Engagement, using a 1 to 5-star scale.
• After rating the first set of 3 entries, you'll be given another set of 3 different games to rate.
• An itch.io account is required to participate in the voting process.
• The voting window is 72 hours, from 13/Nov/08:00 AM to 16/Nov/08:00 AM (UTC+1).

Of course, you are free to promote games and gather votes, but please do so ethically. Itch.io has robust measures in place to detect fraudulent voting activities. We strongly advise against any actions that could be construed as manipulative or unfair and we remember you that they are against the terms of itchio's service, and that could result in problems to your personal or group accounts. We hope you to help us ensure that the award is given to the most deserving team, and we hope you find the voting process enjoyable and fair .
We wish you a fun voting experience and the best of luck!
Warm regards,

[Brundij]

Very nice game. With some more detailed GFX this will be a best seller!  :laugh

Thank you! At the end, it turned out that I could habe been more generous with the tiles (there are only 64 different ones), because after all my maniac over-optimizing I ended up with more than 4K memory free    Maybe in the sequel - if there is one...

For me I think the graphics style suits the spirit of the game perfectly. I like these kind of children book's like style graphics. Same for your previous entry Druid and Droid. It deserved a better result in the contest imho. Specially when everything's done by one person. And both games musical themes are awesome.

I was thinking about doing an original picture for an alternative loading screen for this new game of yours, but I guess I'll pass for now since I don't really understand how it works the way it does. Not the colour flipping thing that also I should see how the colour mix exactly works, but the weird way the loading screen is stored in video memory. I'm not a programmer at all. Also I don't either know if you're ok with the idea
Anyways, excellent work. Best of luck in the contest.

[GUNHED]

Very nice game. With some more detailed GFX this will be a best seller!  :laugh

Thank you! At the end, it turned out that I could habe been more generous with the tiles (there are only 64 different ones), because after all my maniac over-optimizing I ended up with more than 4K memory free    Maybe in the sequel - if there is one...

If there is one - I'll buy it with pleasure! 

[arnolde]

For me I think the graphics style suits the spirit of the game perfectly.

Thank you, that's very kind. As for the music, I'm kind of a pro, but the gfx are always a lot of fun to do.

I was thinking about doing an original picture for an alternative loading screen for this new game of yours, but I guess I'll pass for now since I don't really understand how it works the way it does.

That would be awesome! You don't have to take care of the technical side of it, I just send you the palette of the mixed colors with modern color notation and if you hand me a PNG I'll do the conversion! 

[XeNoMoRPH]

[CPCRetroDev]

Good morning everyone, CPC comrades!

We would like to invite all of you to join us in following the awards ceremony of #CPCRetroDev 2023.
It's a pleasure to see how for 11 years you have followed and supported us with so much joy and enthusiasm, helping us to maintain and renew our beloved Amstrad community.

This afternoon at 19:00 UTC+1, don't let us down!

XeNoMoRPH beat us to it by sharing the link to watch on YouTube, thanks so much hahaha.

[Gryzor]

I think @XeNoMoRPH has a script running to auto-post everything

[GUNHED]

I think @XeNoMoRPH has a script running to auto-post everything

Probably based on a biological neuronal network 

[XeNoMoRPH]

[Brundij]

For me I think the graphics style suits the spirit of the game perfectly.

Thank you, that's very kind. As for the music, I'm kind of a pro, but the gfx are always a lot of fun to do.

I was thinking about doing an original picture for an alternative loading screen for this new game of yours, but I guess I'll pass for now since I don't really understand how it works the way it does.

That would be awesome! You don't have to take care of the technical side of it, I just send you the palette of the mixed colors with modern color notation and if you hand me a PNG I'll do the conversion! 

Good then,

For me I think the graphics style suits the spirit of the game perfectly.

Thank you, that's very kind. As for the music, I'm kind of a pro, but the gfx are always a lot of fun to do.

I was thinking about doing an original picture for an alternative loading screen for this new game of yours, but I guess I'll pass for now since I don't really understand how it works the way it does.

That would be awesome! You don't have to take care of the technical side of it, I just send you the palette of the mixed colors with modern color notation and if you hand me a PNG I'll do the conversion! 

Ah nice then. I usually "fix" or retouch already existent loading screens but I've made a couple of loading screens from scratch for homebrew games. Let me know how to stay in touch to keep this thread on topic. Grats on your 3rd position BTW.

[skylas]

Congratulations to all!!

[dodogildo]

It was a great evening. Thank you and congrats to all. 

[awergh]

Well done to all the entries.
I'll have to look at the awards ceremony later.

@Targhan 
Any chance of a return of Targhan's CPCRetroDev reviews?

[skylas]

Well done to all the entries.
I'll have to look at the awards ceremony later.

@Targhan
Any chance of a return of Targhan's CPCRetroDev reviews?

Your game was really nice! Congrats!!!