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: medellindies

  • medellindies – day 6

    medellindies – day 6

    Added two games by Mr. Doth, an indie dev from Medellín of which I had heard a bit about. They’ve got two games which look pretty cool! These are the kind of indie developer we need to have more of in the city. I also added Emerald Woods; since I…

  • medellindies – day 5

    medellindies – day 5

    Lots of busywork refining the copy of the site since I wanted to address two different audiences: people from all around the world finding out about the games we are making here (English language) and local people who doesn’t know we are making games here (Spanish language); so I tweaked…

  • medellíndies – inception

    medellíndies – inception

    Few people is aware games are being made in this country, let alone in town – not even the locals. September 18 Over a local developers’ WhatsApp group, a friend (Pipe Nieto) asked for our thoughts about local comic-con-like “geek culture” events; another friend (Sandra Castro) replied that even if…