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: The Minstrel’s Clock

  • The Minstrel’s Clock: Moon phases, Bard phrases

    The Minstrel’s Clock: Moon phases, Bard phrases

    Added some encouragement texts and also now rendering the current phase of the moon. You can see that here (or within the Android Widget, if you’ve got it installed) While visiting BC in Canada I noticed nobody has Android phones here, I couldn’t get any friend to install the widget…

  • The Minstrel: Android app and proxy woes

    The Minstrel: Android app and proxy woes

    Today I tried to make the Android app mimic the iOS app behavior so that clicking on it would display a full screen page. It was going well until I hit an issue that didn’t seem to have anything to do with the widget code itself, but it rather seemed…

  • The Minstrel, iOS Widget – Day 2

    The Minstrel, iOS Widget – Day 2

    Before jumping into adding any new features, I decided to make the iOS widget counterpart; for the most part claude was able to handle the boilerplate aspects, replicating what was already there for Android. Additionally, iOS seemed to push more to have a parent app for the widget, so I…

  • The Minstrel’s Clock – Android Widget

    The Minstrel’s Clock – Android Widget

    This weekend I decided to experiment a bit with something that had been lingering in my head for years: creating a home screen widget for a stylized pixel art clock I put together years ago. I set out to do it and was able to put something together and learn…

  • PixelWorld watch 0.2 released

    I had been toying around with this idea in my head for a while… Aeons ago, while developing the world browser for Pixal, I thought on adding a graphical indicator of the current time of the day inside the game world. Denzi then sent me something some pretty cool art, but…