Drunken coder ramblings
In my previous post about Syntax Bomb game coding competitions (Part Two) I left off just after mid 2020, where I had finished Validius. The next competition came around October of that year, and had the theme “Go Nuts!” I submitted Tommy Gunn for that competition, and, as I already wrote a development post about […]
One of my more recent games – and I say that casually, as it was actually released in 2020 – was for the 11th Syntax Bomb competition, and had a theme which was simply “Go Nuts!” With a lack of ideas for a theme at the time, it was thrown in the air that we […]
[EDIT] Gridrunner won 2nd place in the Syntax Bomb “Best of the 80’s” game coding competition. I’ve just released my latest game on Itch, which has been written for the Syntax Bomb game competition, Retro 80’s. https://xerra.itch.io/gridrunner I chose to do a remake of Gridrunner & Matrix, of which I have fond memories from my […]
Finally did some tidying up on the old site since it was resurrected from the hosting providers screw up. Link straight to my games is safe now. I noticed that the old link was pointing to a non-secure version previously. Got rid of some redundant widgets and tidied/moved others up. My most recent game is […]
Edit: I had to change the date of this post so it appeared at the top. Another post that’s a bit overdue now. I started drafting this back in March, 2021 and it got left half finished in the life-swirl of moving house, changing jobs, moving house again, and general slackness on my part. So […]
I’m going back a couple of years here, right back to pretty much where we were in the height of the Covid lockdown, as I recall. At the time I started work on Validius, it was around 4 weeks into the Reboot competition and I’d been toying with an idea about creating a simulated cluedo-style […]
Normal service resumed.
You’d think I’d want to crow about this at the time but, for some reason, I seem to have forgotten to actually post this here. Anyway, for the 10th Syntax Bomb competition, Validius came top of the pack, which was a great achievement considering how good some of the other games were. When designing and […]
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I can’t believe I’ve not actually published about this before but I’ve properly released seven games on Itch in just over two years and six of them were for Syntax Bomb competitions. Nowhere have I actually mentioned much about how they have done in these competitions so I really should rectify that now. Firstly, in […]