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Mix-It-Up with the latest SyntaxBomb
competition that ran from August
25th to October 20th 2019.
Entrants had to choose from one of the following five options and make a game
that has a mix of those genres.
Option 1 : Tactical / Role-Playing (RPG)
Option 2 : Retro / Shooter
Option 3 : Puzzle / First Person Shooters (FPS)
Option 4 : Escape the room / Beat-em-up
Option 5 : Retro / Endless
In then end there were 6 entries, with everyone having the usual ups and downs of
developing anything in such a small timescale. But with another competiton ended
all the entrants had learnt something new, had a great amount of feedback and all
sorts of fun on their journey.
Stevie G was the well deserved
winner with Gunstar.
Taking his previous work with 3d
in Polymaniacs and Vanarchy, he
takes the concept of TimePilot and
Defender and gives us a retro
isometric shooter with endless
variety. Couple this with a great
soundtrack and sound effects and
you have all the best ingredients
for a top-class winner. With praise
from everyone this is the fingertwitching
action we all wanted and
got.. With abundance!
Stevie first created the
models in his own format
using a custom primtive
editor. The results were then
exported as a rotational 2d
sprite map. So what looks like
3d is really 2d sprites. Very
clever and very ingenius.
https://stevieg.itch.io/gunstar?secret=qpSAuh6TnXfdOw94mJ0e6czB9k