9th International retro game creation contest of the University of Alicante
Best of Amstrad CPC games, now on itchio!
With 2400€ in prizes!
Further information on CPCRetroDev's official webpage
- Special Mentions: Given by honorific jury members
- 200€ - Gominola's to Best Music (by César Astudillo)
- 200€ - Relevo's to Best Overall Product (by Jon Cortázar/Relevo)
- 200€ - Ariza's to Best AI and Tech Development (by Pablo Ariza)
- Sponsored Mentions: Given by contest sponsors
- 200€ - AUA's Award to most popular game (picked by popular vote)
- 100€ + 5 museum tickets - Arcade Vintage's Award for best Arcade-themed game
- 100€ - Gee-k.net ‘s award for the best game with multiplayer options.
- 100€ - Trusiga's most innovative final product award
- 70€ - Ready&Play's award to best novice game
- 50€ - Blast Annual ‘s best Opera Prima
- AMSTRADSAKIS's and SdA!'s awards:
- 60€ - Best game made in BASIC
- 40€ - 2nd Best game made in BASIC
- PRO Category: Best games ranked by experts' votes
- 330€ - Best Game
- 225€ - 2nd Best
- 150€ - 3rd Best
- 100€ - 4th Best
- 50€ - 5th Best
- UA Category: Best UA games ranked by experts' votes
- 150€ - Best UA Game
- 75€ - 2nd Best UA
- Sponsor contributions: Contrinbute to general contest prizes (already included in previously listed prizes)
- 300€ - Anonimous contributor
- 150€ - CPCtelera
- Special Experts:
- Professional Experts:
Please, do carefully read detailed contest rules before submitting your games:
Then, follow next steps and participate! :)
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR GAME
- Join #CPCRetroDev 2021 itchio's jam (JOIN button at the top)
- Create your game's webpage on itchio (next section)
- Be sure it includes everything required
- Submit your project (SUBMIT button at the top)
HOW TO CREATE YOUR GAME WEBPAGE
To participate, create a game webpage containing at least:
- Game title.
- 4 screenshots.
- An up-to-40 seconds game trailer video.
- An attached CDT file with your game.
- These sections on the webpage:
- Description: a short description of your game.
- How to play: instructions, controls and anything required to play
- Authors and licenses: authors' names, contact information, third party contents and license, links and references to originals.
- Gesture: screenshot and description of the gesture to Rainbow Islands by Ocean.
Additionally, we recommend you to include:
- Attached DSK/SNA/CPR files with the same game as in CDT format.
- Attached ZIP file with source code (including a MIT/GPL or similar free software license)
- Attached PDF user manual.
- Attached PDF making-of: description on how the game was created, technologies used, problems and solutions found, learned lessons, pictures and screenshots of the development, etc.
- Explanations on how to run on real hardware.
- More videos (gameplays, promotional, etc).
- Any other goodies, images, videos, sections or contents the developers want to add.
TAKE INTO ACCOUNT
Other important rules to take into account:
- All your content should respect itchio's community and cpcretrodev's rules.
- Your game should be freely available during contest. Itchio's options:
- Pricing: No payments
- Visibility & access: Public
- Kind of project: Downloadable
- Decorate your page as much as you want. (Here is a sample game page as reference).
- Don't ever modify/delete your page after submission deadline.
- Any changes to your submission (game page/attachments) during evaluation period may result in disqualification.
- These includes distributing new versions outside itchio or modifying external linked stuff.
On submission you will be asked to specify game page, game name, group name and a contact email.
Further information on CPCRetroDev's official webpage