Screenshot of FruttiCrazy 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.
I have also rewritten my review of Amaurote and given it a higher rating.
Revenge of Trasmoz
Box artwork of Revenge of TrasmozVolcano 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.
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 Jet-Paco: Hyper Special Space Agent
The Mojon Twins have released yet another game for the Amstrad CPC! This time, it’s Jet-Paco: Hyper Special Space Agent, which they have previously released for the NES and Sega SG-1000 consoles. This is a cute platform game consisting of three stages in which you play either Jet Paco (a boy) or Jet Puri (a girl). You have to fly around an abandoned spaceship collecting energy crystals. Jet-Paco: Hyper Special Space Agent can be downloaded from itch.io.
