I have reviewed A1RL0CK. This is a science fiction text adventure that was developed for the PunyJam #3 contest, in which entrants had to write and submit a text adventure that began in an airlock using PunyInform, which creates code that will run via Infocom’s Z-machine interpreter. The contest wasn’t specifically aimed at 8-bit machines, but Marco Innocenti, the author of A1RL0CK, used Stefan Vogt’s Puddle BuildTools for PunyInform to convert it to a wide variety of 8-bit systems, including the Amstrad CPC. Indeed, it was thanks to Stefan Vogt that I learnt about A1RL0CK, and I’m very glad I did!

Robert Small has reviewed two games:

Frutti


Screenshot of Frutti
Screenshot of Frutti
Crazy Piri have released a preview of their latest game, called Frutti, as an early gift for Easter. It’s a tile-matching puzzle game in which you have to clear piles of fruit from the screen. There is a basket along the bottom and you have to push items of fruit from the basket to the bottom of a pile so they form groups of at least three of the same item. Every so often, an owl will jump on to a branch and move it downwards, and if it goes below the height of the tallest pile, you lose a life. You can download the preview of Frutti from itch.io.

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Piero Serra has reviewed two games:

Piero Serra has reviewed two games:


I have reviewed three games:


I have also rewritten my review of Amaurote and given it a higher rating.

Revenge of Trasmoz


Box artwork of Revenge of Trasmoz
Box artwork of Revenge of Trasmoz
Volcano Bytes have been working for some time on a platform game for the Amstrad CPC called Revenge of Trasmoz. The game can now be pre-ordered from poly.play and costs €27.00 for cassette and 3½″ disc formats and €31.00 if you want to obtain it on a 3″ disc (these prices exclude shipping costs). It has been programmed by Carlos Pérez Perezgrín, who has previously participated in the #CPCRetroDev Game Creation Contest with entries such as Ánima, Survive the Week, and most recently, Deep, Deeper, Deepest.

More information about the game is available at Volcano Bytes’ itch.io page, and XeNoMoRPH has published footage of the game being played on YouTube, which you can also watch below.

Xyphoe will also be playing Revenge of Trasmoz on his YouTube livestream this Friday 17th March, starting at 21:00 GMT (22:00 CET).

Gameplay footage of Revenge of Trasmoz on YouTube

Robert Small has reviewed two more games:

Robert Small has reviewed two games:

I have reviewed three games, all of which were released recently:

Bubble Quest


You may remember back in October 2021 that a video of a game called Bubble Quest was posted to YouTube. Barjack has just announced on the CPCWiki forum that the graphics and music are nearly complete, and the development team hopes that it will be released later in 2023.

Bubble Quest will only be available for the GX4000 and Plus machines, and the plan is to release it as a physical cartridge first. Normally, GX4000 cartridges have a maximum size of 512KB, but Bubble Quest will require 2MB! The game will also feature an animated introduction lasting several minutes.

I’ve included three screenshots below, but if you go to the CPCWiki forum, you’ll see them in animated form, along with some animated sections of the introduction – and I strongly recommend you watch them, as while the screenshots below look spectacular, they really don’t do this game justice!

Screenshot of Bubble Quest
Screenshot of Bubble Quest
Screenshot of Bubble Quest
Screenshots of Bubble Quest

Robert Small has reviewed two games: