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: Other Games

  • Pixal – Day 246, it’s been over ten years

    This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time; over the past years, I’ve complained repeatedly about how I worked so much on Pixal, and then I lost the direction of the project and it all went to hell. Well, it’s about time to fix that. Let me…

  • ArcherFire: Duet of Aces – js13k 2018 – Part 2

    JS13k 2018 has gone by! this is the second of a series of posts detailing my journey, as well as the structure of the game I built. You can play it online here! Links to the full series: part1, part3, postmortem Day 4 First thing I did was fixing the build scripts since I…

  • ArcherFire: Duet of Aces – js13k 2018 – Part 1

    JS13k 2018 has gone by! this is the first of a series of posts detailing my journey, as well as the structure of the game I built. You can play it online here! Links to the full series: part2, part3, postmortem Before Coding I wasn’t really sure what to do, I actually…

  • WorldCupAlbums.com, and Russia 2018

    I decided to revive the “My Brazil World Cup” project from 2014, thinking it would be quick and easy to set it up for 2018. It wasn’t quick… collecting all the info and the pictures, setting everything back up… in any case. Here it is: worldcupalbums.com In this web app, optimized…

  • Pixal: The world that never was

    About 5 years ago, I set myself to finish Pixal. One of the big things I had to do was creating a huge world which players could explore with their expeditions. I begun by pasting together the output of several runs of a fractal/voronoi terrain generator, doing small modifications for them…

  • NeoArcherFire QuickBasic source code

    Today I decided to try to include some of my oldest game projects into my page at http://slashie.net. A couple of them were ArcherFire and NeoArcherFire, the first games I created which included graphics. Bundled with the original ArcherFire, I found a file which was supposed to be its source…

  • The tale of Pixal

    Eight years ago, back on November 2007, I started a project. I wanted to do something different than I used to do back then. I worked on the project for about 3 years investing about 700 development hours and learning a lot in the process, but the project never went public.…

  • MiSilleta.com – Flower Arrangements Generator

      Fourth year in a row, I’m activating misilleta.com; it’s a facebook app where people creates flowers arrangements and shares them with friends, did it on my own for a local tradicional event in my city (Medellin Flowers Fair) This year someone told me to make it so that the app…

  • Archerfire 0.41

    Play online! Changes Increase rate for Powerups UFO type ships should lean forward to advance Lean forward or backward automatically when climbing or diving into planets Fix initial values for war status screen Pending Add intro sequence using big ships, a la Megaman Less Big Ships, and change sprite for…

  • BrazilAlbum.com, finished

    Well, now that the world cup has started, I gotta mark this project as finished. I also did a drawing for a tshirt among the people who completed the virtual album. What were the results? I learned a bit about JQueryMobile, managed to create an application targeted to the local…