Shovel Adventure (Amstrad CPC)

SHOVEL ADVENTURE (AMSTRAD CPC)

Description

This game was made to participate in the prestigious contest CPC Retrodev 2021 and it is our first game for the Amstrad CPC computer.

The game won many prizes in the contest:

• Best Game
• Best Music 
• Best Arcade Game
• Best Product
• Most popular game

You are Johnny Pallas, the legendary archeologist of Utrera. After your hardest researching job, you finally have found the mystery of the mysteries of ancient Egypt: the secret entrance to the Pharaom Lholha Flowers' chamber.

To get to the entrance, you have to enter in the big pyramid and found all the gems before the time is over. Only when you unearth all the gems, you can take the Ankh and the next chamber will be open.

40 chambers are waiting for you and your shovel before getting to the secret entrance... Are you ready to accept this challenge?

How to play

This is an Amstrad CPC 464 videogame. You can play it in a real CPC computer or using an emulator. We recommend Retro Virtual Machine (RVM) and Winape. Download the CDT file and run it.

Controls:

You can use keyboard or joystick to play the game. Control Johnny with the joystick and use the shovel with the fire button. The keys are:

• O: Left 
• P: Right 
• Q: Up 
• A: Down 
• Space: Use shovel

Please, download the instructions manual for more details about the gameplay.

Authors and licenses

This game was made by the Pat Morita Team.

• Original concept & Graphics: Igor Errazking
• Music & SFX: McKlain
• Code: A. Pérez
• Testing: Perretes Group, Carlos Perezgrin, Anjuel
• Special thanks to Nathan for helping always.
• Video Trailers: Javier Fopiani

License: the included source code and all the libraries used for the game has a Creative Commons license.

Gesture

According to the CPC Retrodev rules, we included a gesture to Rainbow Island game. In this case, the immunity Power-up is a rainbow item.