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

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  • Backpack Monsters – js13k 2019

    Js13kGames is a JavaScript coding competition for HTML5 Game Developers. The fun part of the compo is the file size limit set to 13 kilobytes. The competition started on 13th August and ended on 13th September 2019. The theme for 2019 was back. I managed to participate in the competition for the third time in a row, this year…

  • How to make money as an indie gamedev

    Quoting a piece of advice from Paul Eres on a post on Facebook’s Indie Game Developers group There are only a few things you need to make money as an indie: Choose a genre that is selling, and that you enjoy playing and are good at. Be competent enough at…

  • Epic Battle

     

  • Curse of Wallachia – First Days of Dev

    Day 0 Hesitated to work on this, tried to team up with someone Considered different alternatives for engines. Day 1 Decided to go ahead with Phaser by adapting the OAX6 engine Created test maps Can move sprite around with walking animation pic.twitter.com/6CJPAvFMVE — Slashie (@slashie_) July 11, 2017 Day 2…

  • Ananias 2.4.1, hotfix

    Had to release a hotfix because of a fairly naive bug introduced with the Rew Ram spell. It also includes internal enhancements to handle cases when resources are not loaded.

  • Design and technical details about OpenArthurianX6

    Adding a bit more detail of the features of OpenArthurianX6. You can still contribute to the campaign (23 days left). What kind of game will you be able to create? The engine will allow you to create 2D top down RPGs using orthogonal grid maps with an hybrid real time…

  • Enhanced process for hybrid apps

    Some months ago I wrote about the pain that it was to create a new build, I’d like to update that with my current setup which is much better tho not still super optimal. I have reduced the manual steps prone to failure as well as the bandwidth cost. The…

  • My Pokemon Go Quest, Update 12

    It’s been over a month since the last update; for the most part it had been a booooring month with little to talk about… I was about to give up in my quest, however by the end of October and start of November things started getting interesting again…. The halloween event…

  • SPID 8 – Captain Tsubasa online

    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. Based on Captain…

  • Lorenzo

    One week ago, Victor Barrios died in the Bullring of Teruel, Spain. He was killed by Lorenzo, a bull from Ganadería Los Maños. Lorenzo was sacrificed shortly afterwards, and his mother Lorenza may have been slaughtered too as part of a tradition to end the lineage of the “Killer Bull”,…