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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: Validius
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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