Author Topic: SyntaxBomb - Code a game competition  (Read 2210 times)

Richly

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SyntaxBomb - Code a game competition
« on: November 03, 2017, 08:33:19 PM »
Here is another forum for indie and retro game coders - its called 'SyntaxBomb'

They are running a 'Code a game competition'.

Too late for entries now but I thought the site and the games might be of interest to people here...and there is always next year  :)

Looks like most entries are coded in different flavours of Blitz BASIC but one of the entries is coded in BBC BASIC for Windows 'Forces of Darkness' by David Williams a.k.a BasicBoy

http://www.syntaxbomb.com/index.php/topic,3325.45.html

Here is a YouTube video of the game in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOg8RMPxxWk

David Williams is also the author of the games found on the site mentioned in this older thread:

http://retrogamecoding.org/board/index.php?topic=524.0

B+

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Re: SyntaxBomb - Code a game competition
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2017, 11:19:13 PM »
Oh, it's over.
« Last Edit: November 04, 2017, 02:13:21 PM by B+ »

Richly

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Re: SyntaxBomb - Code a game competition
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2017, 09:03:45 PM »
Interesting post here from Richard Russell.

He has converted David Williams' game to run in BBCSDL (Richard's cross-platform version of BBC BASIC)

http://bbcbasic.conforums.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=support&num=1509820264&start=0#1509820264

The latest (free) version of BBCSDL can be downloaded from here:

http://bbcbasic.conforums.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=announcements&num=1509554123&start=0#1509554123