This jam is now over. It ran from 2022-10-13 22:00:00 to 2022-11-02 23:00:00. View results

10th International retro game creation contest of the University of Alicante

Best of Amstrad CPC games

With 2730€ 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 Gameplay (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 game
- 100€ - Trusiga's most innovative final product award
- 100€ - Genesis8bit award to best game with multiplayer options
- 80€ - Ready&Play's award to best novice game
- 50€ - Blast Annual's best Opera Prima
Sponsored BASIC Category: AMSTRADSAKIS and SdA!'s awards for the best games made in BASIC
- 60€ - Best game
- 40€ - 2nd best game
PRO Category: Best games ranked by experts' votes
- 400€ - Best game
- 300€ - 2nd best game
- 200€ - 3rd best game - Sponsored by Amtix
- 100€ - 4th best game - Sponsored by Cepeceros - Respergu
- 50€ - 5th best game
UA Category: Best UA games ranked by experts' votes
- 200€ - Best UA game
- 100€ - 2nd best UA game
- 50€ - 3rd best UA game
Sponsor contributions: Cointribute to general contest prizes (already included in previously listed prizes)
- 300€ - Anonimous contributor
- 200€ - CPCtelera
- 200€ - Amtix
- 100€ - Cepeceros - Respergu

Special Experts:
Professional Experts:

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR GAME

Join #CPCRetroDev 2022 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 GESTURE by X.

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 but you can check CPCRetroDev2021's submissions for inspiration too!
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.