Normal service resumed. I fixed stuff and bonked the hosting provider on the head.
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.
Continue readingPretty 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?
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.
Continue readingI 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.
Continue readingMy 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
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.
Continue readingToday 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.
Continue readingI’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.
I finally completed and released Bah, Humbug! on Itch.io around 11pm on 23rd of December. I should have put a post up a bit earlier but, like Rockman, I only just made the deadline for Syntax Bomb’s 7 week competition so I had a few other things to do. Oh, yeah. And this Xmas thing also affected that.
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