Shuttlepod Alpha Devlog

Shuttlepod Alpha was written in October 2024 as a challenge, to write a small but nice adventure game on the Amstrad CPC. For this adventure, I used my utility of choice - Graphic Adventure Creator by Incentive Software, which I'd used since Amstrad Action released it on their covertape in the January 1992 issue. 

At the time, it featured in an episode of Monday Night Game Request, played by Zoe Kirk-Robinson of Gamehammer Classic Gaming and it went down well with the viewers. Due to health reasons, it never got 'released'. 

Thanks to infomation I was given, I found out that the JavaCPC emulator allowed you to import graphic files into it's inbuilt graphics tool. So I took a screengrab from Star Trek - Enterprise, I think it might have been from the episode Shuttlepod One from Season 2, which strongly inspired the game. 

29th January 2026 - with me preparing my itch.io account to recieve other advneture projects, I decided to revitalise this and make it avaliable. Sadly, I couldn't find a copy of the game on my main PC! Even using an undelete tool couldn't help. Thankfully, I still had another PC at hand so I checked that and horray(!), there is a copy of Shuttlepod Alpha on it! And the disc image also has the GAC source code file so I can put it across to the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64!