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

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  • New(ish) blog and stuff

    So, I’ve decided to rename this from pixals.co into slashland, having in mind that this blog contains news back into 2004 covering several topics of several different kind of projects I’ve gone into. I also decided to integrate two other blogs into this one: the LRUMP project and the Kyouryuu Teikoku…

  • LRUMP Maps Sources Released

    You can find them at: https://bitbucket.org/slash_slashware/lrump/

  • Ages of Slashware, and the birth of Pixals.co

    The First Age of Slashware – In this age, the founder created Slashware as a side project for game development; lots of small projects were developed in this age but none of those managed to see the light. Most of the original “Pixals” project were born in this age, with…

  • LRUMP U8 Pagan Viewer, from Time Machine Dragon

    Time Machine Dragon has started working on a pretty nice viewer for the LRUMP Maps, what will evolve from this we don’t know but it certainly looks nice! The current version works for the Morgaelin map, and uses the C64 tileset instead of the EGA PC one, you can take…

  • Guess the map #4

    Can you guess what game this map belongs to? what place is it inside the game? participate in our facebook page!

  • Guess the Map 2

    Can you guess the map? participate in our facebook page! If you win we’ll ultimize any map you want!

  • Game 1 – What place is this?

    We’ll be launching weekly games, you must guess what place this is! Note that those locations may not belong to Ultima worlds, so use your imagination! Click to see the image

  • We are on facebook now

    https://www.facebook.com/lrumproject

  • Expedition v0.3, Call for Playtesters

    Hello everybody! A new version of “Expedition: The New World” is getting closer to release; this is a call for playtesters, if you are interested on trying out this version in order to assure its quality and request enhancements, just contact me! What is Expedition? Check here for further info.…