SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

Don't think This one will be ready in time 
So here is the final image. This is S.T.A.C.I. Your holographic assistant who will help you along the way.

She is just about to explain the secret room you have just found and maybe a link to the past...

OK, here's my entry! 

It's been fun to create, graphics were a struggle: I had to learn how to use blender to create a decent player ship. How Andrew did that on the C64 I have no idea!!!

Game Title: Uridium X
Game from the 80's it's based on: Uridium (Commodore 64 version).
Download link and OS requirements: Uridiuim X: Mac and Windows versions available.
Required dependancies: None. Mac drag game to Applications folder, Windows version has its own installer.
Brief info about your game: My take on Andrew Braybrook's iconic shooter.
Any screen shots or video's: All on the Uridium X page.
Media information ( If using free / purchased media, please state where you obtained said media.)
All Code, Graphics,Sounds and Code by myself.
Music by Chris Huelsbeck.
Written with Game Maker Studio 2.
Artwork created with Affinity Designer, Asperite and Blender
Sounds created with Garage Band and Ocenaudio.

Hope you enjoy it!

Morph

I'm out of time, so it's a one level entry for me

Game Title:
1986

Game from the 80's it's based on:
1942 (Arcade Version)

Download link and OS requirements:
https://therevillsgames.itch.io/1986
Windows 64bit

Required dependencies:
None, I think...

Brief info about your game:
Controls: WASD/Cursor keys to move, SPACE/Z to shoot
Coded in LibGdx, first "full" game using the engine.

Media information:
Music by Juhani Junkala [Retro Game Music Pack]
Sound Effects by The Motion Monkey Free Retro Arcade Sounds Pack

It's show time.

Game Title:  Base_VR37
Game from the 80's it's based on  "LodeRunner"
Download link and OS requirements
https://metamorpho-sg.itch.io/base-vr37
or
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sS2OGlnA-CBbowH4JsM15bQeKnBH4T0r/view?usp=sharing

Windows 10 (other ??)
Memory (RAM): 4 Gb
Screen Resolution: 1280x720
Free disk space: 36 Mb

Required dependancies ----
Brief info about your game:
As a child, I loved playing LodeRunner, so I decided to choose this game and make it my version.
For some reason, our hero decided to fly away from the space base. But the guards are chasing him.
He needs to get to the spaceship. To open the exit to another level of the base, you need to collect all the pieces of precious metal.
I wanted to make 20 levels, but I realized that I didn't have time and reduced it to 10.
However, if you can reach level 10 and pass it, then you will see a small cartoon - a spaceship takes off enchantingly and flies into space

Any screen shots or video's
Media information:
Graphics are partly mine.
The main character and the guards were made in the "Spriter Pro" program
Other robots and different tiles were drawn by myself and a friend of mine.
Some graphics are taken from free resources:
  https://www.gamedevmarket.net/ from the FREE section,
  https://itch.io/game-assets from the FREE section,
https://pixabay.com from the FREE section
https://opengameart.org/ from the FREE section
https://craftpix.net/ from the FREE section

Music:
The main melody for the game was written by me.
The melody in the intro and at the end of the game is taken from free resources:
  https://www.gamedevmarket.net/ from the FREE section,
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Great stuff. Was hoping we'd get an entry or two under the radar.

Come on Adam. You've still go time to get yours done as well. And that slacker, Qube !!!!!

This is my competition entry.

Game name: Alien Invaders
Based on: Space Invaders
Link to download: http://www.retrocomputerstuff.com/Alien%20Invaders.zip
Requires any Windows OS with 4G RAM or more
Short YouTube video: https://youtu.be/RmIEUveRA9A
This game is fairly easy at first but has several levels that get harder each increase. There is a lot going on as bullets are being shot at you, aliens are chasing you from the sides, and aliens keep going faster each time they reverse directions. Digital sound can be turned on or off from the main menu as well as the sound profiles can be changed from male to female. It was written entirely in GFA Basic 32 with no additional add-ons such as sprites or any special graphics or audio enhancers.

Enjoy!

Some really REALLY good looking entries

Mine is almost done and definitely on the way but grr argh some I've work coding shite to finish off for tomorrow morning first (pesky work priority and not an excuse).. So it will be in the early hours that my game arrives. I don't affect the winners or the prize money so 

International Kung-Fu in glorious 3D done with AGK Studio will be here soon soon 

You got this Qube, you got this. 

Ack! I'm out   Just finished the coding I had to do for this morning. It's gone 4am and my brain is fed up with key tapping so I don't even want to look at something else. Not sure if I'll get much spare time during the week but if I can secretly squeeze the game in before voting I'll definitely do so unless a baying crowd says no no no. As said I can't affect the winners or the prize fund. My entries are just to make up the numbers

Here's a screen shot so you can get an idea of what the game looks like ( excuse the debug number on the middle left ) :






OK folks, comp is now closed! Bug fix week begins so get reporting and squishing them pesky things.

Game comp voting will take place from Monday 11th December until Sunday 17th December 2023 @ 23:59:59 GMT. A dedicated thread will be in place ready for voting time.

Put the game out there as soon as possible, Qube. Like you said, it doesn't affect any of the judging, so no harm in it. And we seem to lose out on too many competition games that are made for these competitions because they run out of time and just get abandoned, if there's no reason to encourage people to finish them. I've got at least five that I never returned to because I ran out of time...

That's a shame Qube, it looks great. Definitely spend some time on this after the comp, I'm sure we'll all love to see it.

@Qube   Looks AMAZING!  Really nice graphics!

Quote from: Xerra on December 04, 2023, 10:47:35Put the game out there as soon as possible, Qube. Like you said, it doesn't affect any of the judging, so no harm in it. And we seem to lose out on too many competition games that are made for these competitions because they run out of time and just get abandoned, if there's no reason to encourage people to finish them. I've got at least five that I never returned to because I ran out of time...

Ramen to that ... Could always drop it in as a belated syntaxbomb forum Christmas present.

Anyone given Gridrunner a blast yet? Any bugs spotted, or anything not working right? Only a few days until bug fixes are over and I can't believe that I've released the game without any issues at all. I'd be impressed if I had


In the meantime, here's a video of me playing up to level 9 on the final version. This is the last level before the snitch enters the game and changes how you will need to play rather quickly.