SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

Time to vote in the Game Comp : "There Can Be Only ONE - Aug 14th to Oct 24th 2021" - Voting takes place from now and will close on Sunday 7th November 2021 @ 23:59:59 GMT.

12 great games created by our members for you to download, play for free and keep forever.

If you are voting then please do take the time to play each game in order to keep the voting fair and in the good spirit of the gaming comps.

Voting rules :
For the voting PM Qube your top three games that you enjoyed playing the most.

1.. State the best three games in 1st, 2nd and 3rd place ( see vote example below ).
2.. You are not allowed to submit any updates to your game until after voting has closed. Only the version uploaded before voting started can be used. *
3.. Voting must only be via PM ( see above ).
4.. You can not vote for your own game.
5.. Members with less than 10 posts can not vote unless they themselves have submitted a game for the comp.

* Members who have uploaded bug fixed versions of their games please make sure the latest download version is linked in the post of your game from the list below ( just in case some members have not downloaded / played your entry yet ).

Vote Example :
1st Title of game A
2nd Title of game B
3rd Title of game C

Feel free to describe why you like the games if you want. Votes will not be shown until the voting is closed.

Vote Scoring:
1st = 100 points
2nd = 50 points
3rd = 25 points

In the event totals between two or more voted entries are the same then priority is given based on placement, for example 1 vote in 1st = 100 points and 4 votes in 3rd = 100 points but the 1st placement vote would win based on placement priority.

If any site staff have entered then votes for their entries become a proxy vote and will not affect any other entrants placement. For example 1st, 2nd and joint 3rd winners are...

Prize Fund :

Prize fund of £1000 will be split equally between the top three winners.

Payments will be made via PayPal only.

Voting time :
Voting takes place from now and will close on Sunday 7th November 2021 @ 23:59:59 GMT.

The games ( in order of submission ) :

	Title : Extreme pro tray surfer Author : MrmediamanX Link : Take me there
	Title : ROKART Author : Rosy Link : Take me there
	Title : Neon Overdrive Author : iWasAdam Link : Take me there
	Title : RhythZard Author : hosch Link : Take me there
	Title : One-Button TETRIS Author : ricardo_sdl Link : Take me there
	Title : Robotekus Author : metamorpho Link : Take me there
	Title : Next Train to Mernda Author : statto Link : Take me there
	Title : CapeMan in Nightmare Realm Author : therevills Link : Take me there
	Title : Dexter Author : Morpheus Link : Take me there
	Title : Super Grouper Author : STEVIE G Link : Take me there
	Title : Darts Night Author : Qube Link : Take me there
	Title : ONE slap Author : DottyGame Link : Take me there

Once more : For the voting PM Qube your top three games that you enjoyed playing the most.


Members who have voted so far :
MrmediamanX
hosch
Xerra
Morpheus
therevills
metamorpho
iWasAdam
ricardo_sdl
STEVIE G
Qube
Scaremonger
3DzForMe
Derron

Any objection to me uploading the version with new menu title? Shouldn't impact voting, unless anyone bases they're vote entirely on the interface 

Quote from: STEVIE G on November 02, 2021, 16:12:50

Any objection to me uploading the version with new menu title? Shouldn't impact voting, unless anyone bases they're vote entirely on the interface 

Sure, go ahead

Done. Same link.

Would recommend spacebar for anyone who tries it out.

Great lot of games! I've sent my votes in!

Has Qube been slack updating the voters list or is the votes rather low at the moment. I know some people leave it until last minute but I'm sure there's usually a lot more than this by now. It's all over tomorrow, after all.

Quote from: Xerra on November 06, 2021, 10:33:22
Has Qube been slack updating the voters list or is the votes rather low at the moment. I know some people leave it until last minute but I'm sure there's usually a lot more than this by now. It's all over tomorrow, after all.

Just updated the list. Nine votes so far which is pretty crappy so I hope there are more votes to come in. Remember folks, you don't have to be part of the competition to vote for your favourite games. Download, play and vote

Voted yesterday so definitely more have voted than listed. Surely we can get at least 12. The devs themselves should be manditory voters as should critique/feedback!

agree totally with Stevie. critique and votes should be as standard.

Yeah, absolutely. People who have submitted a game should be voting on the others as a requirement. They're expecting people to vote for them after all. Not to mention that it could look like they're not voting for other peoples games to give themselves a better chance. Call me cynical....

Must just be a 'fashionable late kind of thing'. any-who there were some solid titles in there, unfortunate some never made to the finishing line, but no worries. 'Ya live ya learn' 

Awesome work and a good turn out for this competition: I have worked through each of them this morning...

GENERAL ISSUES:
* The link for "ONE slap" doesn't work so I was unable to download it.

RUNNING IN WINE:
Most of you will not have tried running the Windows versions in Linux Wine, it often picks up issues. There were 4 games that had problems in this environment:

Extreme pro tray surfer
* WINE: Did not run. No error messages or blank screen. Just nothing.

Robotekus
* WINE: None of the keys work, which means the game is unplayable.

CapeMan in Nightmare Realm
* WINE: It runs and I get a blue screen with the following error on it:
    Error
    diddylove/diddy.lua:223: bad argument #1 to 'pause' (Source expected, got nil)
    Traceback
    [C]: in function 'pause'
    diddylove/diddy.lua:223: in function <diddylove/diddy.lua:209>
    [C]: in function 'xpcall'

Super Grouper
* WINE: Did not run. No error messages or blank screen. Just nothing.

Cheers,
S

Hey Scaremonger, just uploaded a super quick fix v1.01:

https://therevillsgames.itch.io/capeman-in-nightmare-realm

Please let me know if it works for you or not 

Quote from: Scaremonger on November 07, 2021, 08:35:17
Extreme pro tray surfer
* WINE: Did not run. No error messages or blank screen. Just nothing.

Robotekus
* WINE: None of the keys work, which means the game is unplayable.

CapeMan in Nightmare Realm
* WINE: It runs and I get a blue screen with the following error on it:
    Error
    diddylove/diddy.lua:223: bad argument #1 to 'pause' (Source expected, got nil)
    Traceback
    [C]: in function 'pause'
    diddylove/diddy.lua:223: in function <diddylove/diddy.lua:209>
    [C]: in function 'xpcall'

Super Grouper
* WINE: Did not run. No error messages or blank screen. Just nothing.

Robotekus works for me
CapeMan runs too
EPTS and SuperGrouper refuse here too - need to run Windows for them.
OneButtonTetris does not run with (my) wine too.
These 3 are the ones I did not test for now - hope I find the time this evening (nasty dry cough ... for me and the kids so I hope they fall asleep earlier than yesterday).


bye
Ron

Quote from: Derron on November 07, 2021, 16:22:05

Quote from: Scaremonger on November 07, 2021, 08:35:17
Extreme pro tray surfer
* WINE: Did not run. No error messages or blank screen. Just nothing.

Robotekus
* WINE: None of the keys work, which means the game is unplayable.

CapeMan in Nightmare Realm
* WINE: It runs and I get a blue screen with the following error on it:
    Error
    diddylove/diddy.lua:223: bad argument #1 to 'pause' (Source expected, got nil)
    Traceback
    [C]: in function 'pause'
    diddylove/diddy.lua:223: in function <diddylove/diddy.lua:209>
    [C]: in function 'xpcall'

Super Grouper
* WINE: Did not run. No error messages or blank screen. Just nothing.

Robotekus works for me
CapeMan runs too
EPTS and SuperGrouper refuse here too - need to run Windows for them.
OneButtonTetris does not run with (my) wine too.
These 3 are the ones I did not test for now - hope I find the time this evening (nasty dry cough ... for me and the kids so I hope they fall asleep earlier than yesterday).


bye
Ron

Hi Ron! I created One-Button Tetris. Which wine version and distribution? So I can investigate later. Thank you.