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The dawn of the home computer
Draft of a couple of chapters I sporadically work on based on my experiences of being a teenager at the start of the home computer revolution.
Childhoods End
Category Archives: Competition
World cup 2006
20 years ago I’d been stirred up with the prospect of an exciting 2006 World Cup and did a bit of blogging about it while we were still in the tournament. I found this on an old hard drive a … Continue reading
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Gridrunner Devlopment
I’m well overdue now to talk about Gridrunner which was the only game I developed in 2023. Continue reading
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How my games have done in Syntax Bomb competitions – Part Four.
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
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!”
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Syntax Bomb competition 11 – Go Nuts
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!”
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How my games have done in Syntax Bomb competitions – Part Two
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 today … Continue reading
Syntax Bomb competition 10 – Reboot
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
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
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
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 … Continue reading
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