Category Archives: Competition

How my games have done in Syntax Bomb competitions – Part Four.

Posted on 19/01/2025 by Xerra

I’ve got so slow in adding to this blog now that I have to do a load of reading old posts and digging through archived threads on Syntax Bomb to remind myself of what I planned to write about. In … Continue reading →

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How my games have done in Syntax Bomb competitions – Part Three — 02 January 2024

Posted on 02/01/2024 by Xerra

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 … Continue reading →

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Syntax Bomb competition 11 – Go Nuts

Posted on 02/01/2024 by Xerra

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 28/06/2022 by Xerra

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 … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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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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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 incompleted entry for competition number … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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Bah, Humbug! is released.

Posted on 26/12/2018 by Xerra

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 … Continue reading →

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