Syntax Bomb competition 10 – Reboot

Posted on 23/06/2022 by Xerra

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 game using the old Bah,Humbug! framework with a theme of murder in an office. It was quite an ambitious game idea, and i’m still not done with it yet, but i’ll talk more about that another day.

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We wuz broken. TLDR – ok now.

Posted on 22/06/2022 by Xerra

Normal service resumed. I fixed stuff and bonked the hosting provider on the head.

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Validius wins Syntax Bomb competition 10

Posted on 14/11/2020 by Xerra

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.

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99 Crazy ways to order a pizza

Posted on 25/09/2020 by Xerra

Pretty sure I’ve had the text of this post from some time in the early to mid nineties when I first started surfing the good old interweb on my trusty Amiga 1200 via Demon Internet. I’m keeping it here as it was one of the first amusing things I read online back then, and also served to confirm my suspicions that one day the Internet is going to be 99% stuff like this and adverts and maybe the rest will actually hold useful information. Still, who cares. As long as it’s funny then who gives a shit now?

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How my games have done in Syntax Bomb competitions – Part One

Posted on 28/07/2020 by Xerra

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.

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Boulderdash finally finished

Posted on 28/07/2020 by Xerra

I started working on a Boulderdash remake back in 2017 and it was pretty much one of my first games that I worked on solo after I switched to working with Gamemaker Studio 2.

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Validius released

Posted on 10/05/2020 by Xerra

My latest game, Validius, was release today on Itch.io

This game was written for the Syntax Bomb Reboot competition and took 8 weeks to create. You can download it for either PC or Mac here: Validius

https://xerra.itch.io/validius

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Time to start work on a new game

Posted on 02/01/2020 by Xerra

I’ve been thinking about starting a new game outside of the competition ones that I’ve been doing for the last couple of years finally.

The deadlines that have been imposed from writing competition games has increased my productivity massively during this time and, for the Six competitions I worked on a game, I delivered for Five of them. I even got placed Third and First in two of them which was a massive boost aside from just getting the games themselves completed.

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Creepy Crawlies released

Posted on 20/10/2019 by Xerra

Today I finished and released Creepy Crawlies for the Syntax Bomb game coding competition number Nine. This is my second game of the year and the fifth competition I’ve entered as I don’t count my incomplete entry for competition number Five. I really should blog about the development of these games more but, as always, there’s a tight deadline to getting them completed. This one was Six weeks.

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Damnation Alley released

Posted on 30/03/2019 by Xerra

I’ve finally finished my Retro Wars competition entry for the latest Syntax bomb game coding competition. More info can be found in these two forum threads and you can use the Itch.IO link to see the game page and give it a go.

Edit: I’ve had to remove the two forum thread links about my development and the competition announcement thread as Syntax Bomb sadly no longer exists. The link to the games page on Itch.io is below and does still work fine.

Damnation Alley

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