I’m Santiago Zapata, better known online as slashie, a Software Engineer and Independent Game Developer and from Medellín, Colombia.

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Category: CastlevaniaRL 2

  • CvRL2 – Chatterbox [0.0.7]

    CvRL2 is a traditional, top-down, turn-based roguelike, with fixed overworld and procedurally generated dungeons. It’s a retelling of the classic Castlevania 2 for the NES, in a format heavily inspired by ADoM. You can play online at https://slash.itch.io/cvrl2 Roam the countryside traveling between the towns, finding clues to destroy Dracula, and…

  • CvRL2: Ghostly Canvas [0.0.6]

    CvRL2 is a traditional, top-down, turn-based roguelike, with fixed overworld and procedurally generated dungeons. It’s a retelling of the classic Castlevania 2 for the NES, in a format heavily inspired by ADoM. You can play online at https://slash.itch.io/cvrl2 Roam the countryside traveling between the towns, finding clues to destroy Dracula,…

  • Rainy Day JSRL dev branch migrated to webpack+JSRL

    I just updated the roguelikes in the Rainy Day development branch (that is Rainy Day, SpelunkyRL and CvRL2) to use webpack + electron instead of the old web-only browserify build stack. This means downloadable versions for all of them will be available soon, just need to add support to check…

  • CvRL2 – The Enchantress [0.0.4]

    CastlevaniaRL 2: Part 1: The Lady of Berkeley, is a traditional, top-down, turn-based roguelike, with fixed overworld and procedurally generated dungeons. It’s a retelling of the classic Castlevania 2 for the NES, in a format heavily inspired by ADoM. You can play online at https://slash.itch.io/cvrl2-the-lady-of-berkeley Roam the countryside traveling between the…

  • CvRL2 – Challenge [0.0.3]

    CastlevaniaRL 2: Part 1: The Lady of Berkeley, is a traditional, top-down, turn-based roguelike, with fixed overworld and procedurally generated dungeons. It’s a retelling of the classic Castlevania 2 for the NES, in a format heavily inspired by ADoM. You can play online at https://slash.itch.io/cvrl2-the-lady-of-berkeley Roam the countryside traveling between the…

  • CvRL2 – Sacred Whips [0.0.2]

    CastlevaniaRL 2: Part 1: The Lady of Berkeley, is a traditional, top-down, turn-based roguelike, with fixed overworld and procedurally generated dungeons. It’s a retelling of the classic Castlevania 2 for the NES, in a format heavily inspired by ADoM. You can play online at https://slash.itch.io/cvrl2-the-lady-of-berkeley Roam the countryside traveling between…

  • CvRL2: The Lady of Berkeley – 7DRL 2024

    A traditional roguelike based on Simon’s Quest, made for 7DRL 2024. Play online at https://slash.itch.io/cvrl2-the-lady-of-berkeley It’s been 20 years of participating in the 7DRL challenge. Incredible. The two weeks prior to the challenge I decided to create a short video to serve as “theme reveal”. Together with Stoltverd we recorded gameplay…