Arby and Friends (Amstrad CPC)

Arby and Friends

Arby and Friends is a puzzle game, now remade for Amstrad CPC (464/664/6128)

Play on your Amstrad, your preferred emulator or directly from the browser (you will need a keyboard).

Get Arby to the goal across 60 difficulty-increasing levels. He can't do it alone, and he will need a little help from his friends. Each friend has different movement patterns, you will have to discover and combine patterns to finish each level.

This game was designed by LukaszM and appeared first on Fancade.

How to play

You can play using the following methods:

• Keys: Q = up, A = down, O = left, P = right, Space = action
• Cursors to move, Enter = action
• Joystick/Gamepad at joystick port

With movement controls you move the cursor to select a character, and the action key starts moving the character.

Levels, skip, continue

There are 60 levels, and some of them can be quite demanding. If you get stuck, you can skip a level (up to a maximum of three).

In the bottom of the game screen there is a code for continuing in another session. You can enter the code from the in-game menu.

Development tools used

• CPCtelera for game development and building.
• Aseprite for pixel art in tiles and sprites.
• Godot Engine for level design.
• Arkos Tracker 2 for sound effects.
• ZX0 compressor by Einar Saukas.
• RVMplayer for rapid testing.

Thanks & Mentions

• Marta, for her support, level transcription and extensive testing.
• LukaszM for creating the original version of the game.
• Martin Magni for creating Fancade, a wonderful gaming ecosystem.
• Fran Gallego (and other authors) for CPCtelera.
• Juan Carlos González Amestoy for RetroVirtualMachine and RVMPlayer.