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: DND1 Port

  • SPID3 – Halls of the Clear Creek (DND1 Remake)

    I will be posting SPIDs (Slashie’s Project Idea Drafts) in the blog, they will be short ideas for games or other projects I may or may not develop into full projects. May be someone will be inspired by them and save me the trouble of developing them. Remake Richard Garriott’s…

  • Runner up for DND1 contest, and the public release of JSTTY

    DND1 Contest winners were just announced by Lord British, and my entry happily ended up as a runner-up ^_^ Aside from the cool runner up perks (I particulary love the Collector Box including Trinket, Cloth Map and old school manual, and physical media for the game and the OST  :’)) , the best…

  • DND1/DNDX – Finished at last

    Oh my, it’s been quite a LOT of work! I was frankly running out of motivation to finish this; had it not been for the other challengers and their messages in the forums, I would probably have given up :/ But it is not this day, this day WE FIGHT!…

  • DND1 – Continued renaming/testing/debugging, started working on DND1X

    Link to current version Finished renaming all obscure variable and line number pseudo functions into their real meanings in order to be able to debug properly. Played through and all seems to be “working” ok; I think I’m leaving this version as the “replica” one, the one that seeks to…

  • DND1 – Debugging and first stab at mobile

    Spent some time renaming all variables to their real meaning in order to be able to debug it… found some bugs while at it! (from the original :P) thanks again to dejayc and others in the SoTA forums for their work on helping devise together the usages for all variables and…

  • DND1 Further fun

    Just for fun, I added a Reference Card and some adornments to the game today. I also took some time to observe Richard’s picture of the original DND1, which includes three paper tape rolls with the program (probably different versions?) as well as a beautiful, ages old sheet of paper…

  • Yet Another Project: DnD1 port to JavaScript

    Richard Garriott, creator of the Ultima Series, posted a call for warriors all around the globe to recreate one of his first games, and possibly one of the very first computer RPGs, into a modern accessible format. How could I let this opportunity pass? as scarce the time as it…