Category: Writings
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Tales of the Avatar: The Law of Virtue
It has been over four years since our Lord British’s expedition set forth into the underworld, never to be seen again. With our sovereign gone and The Avatar having returned triumphant to his home world, you, the people of Britannia, seems to have lost your way. We were once proud of…
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Interaction++ 2018.4 and some indie dev marketing tips
“Interaction” is a video game development meetup. They organize conferences in Medellín (my hometown) where they invite local developers to share their experience with both fellow and wannabe developers. They are now an official Unity User Group, and they are planning to create bigger and better events. Interaction++ 2018.4 was the…
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Comic Con Colombia 2017
For the fifth time, the Comic Con Colombia took place in Medellín, my hometown. Here are my impressions. Click here to check out the full event coverage!
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Ananias introspection: Content Creation and Balance
This new series of blog posts will be based on /r/roguelikedev FAQ Fridays, a long standing series of discussions where roguelike developers share their techniques and experiences around a single topic. FAQ Fridays Revisited # 6 Content Creation and Balance (original) How do you decide what mobs/items/abilities/terrain/etc to add to your…
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End of the century
End of the century… misery! can it be? Chaos… who’s the boss? Suffering, great loss.. Man, woman, child, no longer exist… Only the good ones will be missed. Life, love, cherish it all. Who will be left to conquer all? The end is coming, don’t start running, there’s nowhere…
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Leonardo: The Inventor
Back on 1996, “multimedia” computers appeared in my city. It was the SoundBlaster craze, and it was not easy to have one at home (specially if your family was not particularly rich). An aunt of mine used to take me to the local library, were they had set up a room with…
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Age of Storms – Finished!
After doing lots of tweaks and reviewing, I managed to finish my short story: Age of Storms, which is based on the events of the Hearth of Britannia: Lifeblood of the Hearth event. I also removed the images since I didn’t feel they didn’t fit well (I think the only thing…
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The Age of Storms – A short story
Last week I was at the Hearth of Britannia: Lifeblood of the Hearth ]|[ event which was awesome. I got to make countless new friends, as well as meet very interesting people including Lord British, Denis Loubet, Manda, Iolo, Warren Spector and many others. And, since I couldn’t get this out…
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Articles from the past
I was digging thru my old server content today and found the following Three articles I wrote back on 2004-2006, the first one is pretty cool Generación Aleatoria de Ambientes Virtuales de Simulación Data Entry in Roguelikes Motores en el Desarrollo de Videojuegos A tribute I made for a friend…
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Cartagena, the fantastic
Manuel Zapata once taught me Domingo Benkos Biohó, broke his chains in Cartagena, and in “La Matuna” founded “Palenque” – hoping to live a new morrow and get his people together, to let them to sing out their sorrow, he told me so… Lemaitre also did teach me, the spaniards never…