ellugar

Poseo

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A small Broughlike game

Devils on the moon pinball

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Buy it on the Playdate Catalog
Wishlist it on Steam

Devils on the Moon is an occult themed Pinball inspired by classic handhelds like “Devil’s crush” “Revenge of the Gator” and “Pokemon Pinball”.

BBoTToNN

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

bbottonn.com

Mariachi Wizard

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Flores

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can play it for free at:

Itch.io

Small Game made for the Falling Block Jam 2025

Catchadiablos

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Buy it on the Playdate Catalog

CatchaDiablos is a tiny roguelike where you play as a little guy on a quest to capture all the Diablos stranded on a distant moon. Turn the crank and draw circles around them, but beware! These mischievous creatures won’t so easily be caught. Dodge their attacks, avoid hitting them, and harness mysterious power-ups to aid you on your fated quest.

Can you catch all of them?

Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Working on Poseo
Adding achievements to Devils on the moon pinball
Tending my garden
Living in Mexico City

The magus oracle

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Magus is a solo journaling tabletop RPG. This tool goal is to help you use the oracle easier.

Game Dev

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:06:55 -0600

Platforming

Coyote jumping

When the character stops having a ground below it, give a it couple of frames of tolerance to allow it to jump, depending on the implementation or desired behaviour you may need to give an extra boost to compensate the gravity force applied on those frames.

Although I like the name convention for it I find it feels better to allow the character to fall while even though it can still jump as it feels more natural, instead of letting it keep walking as it there was an invisible floor.

Pullfrog Deluxe

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Buy it on the Playdate Catalog

Take control of a slippery lil’ frog and use your tongue to pull around the falling blocks. Clear lines, get power-ups and discover the secrets this devilish puzzle platformer has for you!

Deacuerdo

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Ponerse de acuerdo es siempre un viaje. Entre más variables, más apuros y más diversión (?). Inspirado en un diario ilustrado, decidimos hacer un juego / juguete / oráculo. Para esta primera prueba, basamos el resultado en el proceso de hacer el proyecto mismo: tomar decisiones.

Deacuerdo es un oráculo para obtener la suerte del día con un click.

Es el comienzo de una aventura más grande. Toma nuestra mano y acompáñanos a un mundo lleno de magia.

Don Salmon

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Discover the secrets of the Great Waterfall as you fight your way back home in this A 2D pixel-art combat platforming adventure.

2022 year review

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 22:31:27 +0000

Personal

I go more in to detail at the end

Don Salmon
Amano -> LDtk importer
Federike
Pixelatl Detrás del Pixel
DDP migration to NextJS from Gatsby
Shaders
D&D
GDC Talk
Reboot 2022
Pullfrog 2022
Made it to 6 days of #lovebytetcc
INDI·ES Brand assets
Small tamagochi C game prototype
Trip to England & Portugal

Work

Streaming guide
Built a component library
Built an app with Remix.run

Things I enjoyed this year

Books

Masters of Doom - David Kushner
Fevre Dream - George R.R. Martin
The Rise of Kyoshi - F.C. Yee , Michael Dante DiMartino
The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green

Games

Elechead
Sly The Spire
Elden Ring
Mario Strikers

TV Shows

Better Call Saul S06
Our flag means death S01
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty S01
Andor S01
White Lotus S02
Marvelous Mrs Maisel S04
House of dragon S01
The Expanse S06
Formula 1 S01 - S04
Harley Quinn S01 - S02
The Bear S01
Atlanta S03
The Great S01
Severance S01
Hacks S02
Landscapers S01
Bad Sisters S01
The City Is Ours S01

Movies

The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
There Will Be Blood 2007
Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Magnolia 1999
The Master 2012
Men 2022
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio 2022
Nightmare Alley 2021
Nope 2022
Hustle 2022

Podcasts

The Trojan Horse Affair
Insert Credit
Play Date podcast
Hardcore History

YouTube

ErrantSignal
FDSignifire
NotJustBikes
ClimateTown
Vlogbrothers
Channel5YouTube
How We Made MuseScore 4 - Music App Design is Challenging!
TTRPG
TheAlexandrian
pointyhatstudios
GinnyDi

Games

Federike

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

federike.social

A web app to help you organize your Mastodon lists.

2021 year review

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:27:09 +0000

2021 Year review

Personal

Released the final version of The Lost Night
Amano Games website .
INDI·ES website
Wrote 5 Game dev articles on the Amano devlog .
Made a couple of live shows and learned how to use OBS at the Cafecito Show
Turned one year of doing a weekly newsletter for INDI·ES
Started doing 3D art every 15 days
Got in to the Godot game engine.
Tried to do a LUA aseprite binary file reader and failed
Released the first version of marifer.house
Ported the a PICO-8 mninifier to Node JS
Started learning about shaders and made a couple.
Stopped doing free lance web work
Pullfrog and The lost night got featured on the PICO-8 BBS
DM’d 5 DND sessions
Did 10 days of Adent of Code

Work

Finished two new research and development products
Launched a new product
Used WEBGL for a client project
Made a custom CMS for a client project
Stopped accepting new freelance client gigs.

Things I enjoyed this year

Books

DUNE
Ask Iwata
Berserk

Games

Keroblaster
Inscryption
Slipaways
Factorio
Loop Hero
The Binding of Isaac
Spelunky 1 & 2
Narita Boy
Wingspan
Stellaris

TV Shows

PEN15
How to with John Wilson
What we do in the shadows
Ranking of kings
Keep your hands of Eiozuken
Only murders in the building

Movies

The wolf of snow hollow
Bo Burnham Inside

YouTube

Lazy Devs
Action Button
ThatGuyGlen
All tomorrows: the future of humanity?
Intranetgirl

Shorts

The Clockwork Elves

Music

Live at Vidro ’77 by Ryo Fukui
¿Qué se siente que me gustes tanto? by Daniel
Bichota by Friolento
Panacea by Disasterpeace

Ramblings

Read a lot on how to do games using C I’m feeling more prepeared than last year to try and do one.

Oats

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Avena de arandanos con platano (15-20 mins)

Ingredientes

1/2 taza de avena
1 1/2 taza de agua
1/2 taza de leche vegetal
1/2 cucharada de chia
1 cucharada de arandanos (+- dependiendo de que tan dulce te gusta)
1 cucharada de crema de cacahuate
1 tapa de vainilla
1/2 vara de canela
1 platano en rodajas
1 cucharada de semillas de girasol

Instrucciones

Doras un poco la avena en la cazuela
Agregas el agua y la leche vegetal
Agregas el platano
Agregas los arandanos, chia, canela y vainilla
Agregas la crema de cacahuate
Mezclas todo aplastando ligeramente el platano para que se disuelva
En cuanto empiece a hervir puedes dejarlo un poco más de tiempo dependiendo de tu gusto de que tan liquida prefieres
La sirves inmediatamente en un un recipiente
La dejas enfriar 3 minutos
Agregas las semillas de girasol

Avena de dátil, cardamomo y plátano (8 hrs)

Ingredientes

1/2 taza de avena

Game dev 3D

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Learning how to do 3D games.

Import pipeline

It seems there is no consensus on how to export a 3D file to be used in a game engine, inclined to think that GLTF 2.0 is the best option.

All material/shader languages are slightly different so materials are the hardest part to bring from a 3D software in to a game engine.

One would think that as Blender and Godot are both open source they would use a standard for basic materials but it doesn’t seem to be the case. In general I think it’s easier to learn how to do materials in Blender or Unity and then figuring out how to port them to Godot.

Amano

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

amano.games

Co-founder of the studio

We’re a couple of friends who are making games remotely, for fun, during our free time. We like to play with small but fun ideas, come up with mechanic mash-ups, discover good game feel, and experiment with different art and development styles.

We started by developing for the fantasy console “PICO-8” and are currently making a game for the handheld “Playdate”. In the future we hope to develop games for more platforms such as mobile, PC, and home consoles, to reach a broader audience.

INDI·ES

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

indi-es.com

Comunidad de desarrolladores de videojuegos en español.

I made a small website to point people towards when they have questions about game dev in Spanish, the main feature is the interactive table/map showing the known Mexican Game Studios

The Lost night

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

itch.io
Newgrounds

You wake up in the middle of a spooky town trying to find your way back home. Help the citizens of this weird town and they will open paths for you. BUT BEWARE!

The streets are swarming with spirits and if you let them, they will take you away. Shoot them down with your mysterious powers and win candy in return.

Spend your candy on vending machines across the town, and grow in power. Make sure to find them all as the night progresses, the spirits become spookier.

Dev ops

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Django & Docker & Traefik

Notes on errors

I migrated a django website with i18n enabled from using nginx to traefik and was getting the following error

  "msg": "vulcand/oxy/buffer: failed to read response, err: no data ready",

Reading this issue it turns out that when django redirected to the laguage version of the page the user was triying to access it didn’t setup the Content-Length header in the response, this was because the locale middleware was defined before the common middleware.

Software

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Sway

For a long time screen sharing wasn’t working, I have a simple script that exports the wayland related env variables before starting sway but it seems that you need to manually call systemctl --user import-enviroment XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for them to be available for process started by systemd

Resources

Test page
System user services and env variables
Make screen sharing on wayland (sway) work!
Troubleshooting guide
Arch Linux Wiki
Wayland in 2021

Web browser

Firefox

about:config flags I change on Firefox

2020 year review

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:25:42 +0000

Personal

Released 4 Games

Virush
Pullfrog
Gossip Ghosts
The lost night

Released 3 episodes of my game dev podcast

Released Detrás del Pixel’s first video content

Game Summit MX

Redesigned my website and ported it to Gatsby

ellugar

Brought back to life my bookmarking ecosystem

ligo

Migrated my servers infrastructure to Docker+Ansible and automatic deployments

Discord Server for game dev in spanish that I started with some friends. We’ve achieved 400+ active users and it’s getting better every day.

Pullfrog

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Cactus blocks are falling for some reason. You, a little frog named frog, have to jump and dodge out of their way. Set them up in lines (Tetris style) in order to clear them off of your land.

You can play it for free at:

itch.io
Newgrounds

I was was the programmer for the game and wrote some articles about it.

An Advance Frog Platformer (Lexaloffle)
Pullfrog postmortem

Gossip Ghosts

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Play it at Itch.io

A game for the GMTK 2020

A bunch of gossip ghosts are spreading rumors about the town’s mayor, Help him keep his town under control!

Virush

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Virush is a survival turn based game where you have to build defenses to defeat all the virushes and survive the quarantine.

You can play it for free at itch.io

For iOS/Android

How to play

Virush is a turn based game, so every time you move, the enemies move. keep this in mind in order to think out your strategy.

Gather resources in order to build defenses that will protect you form the nasty Virush.

Farda: Post Mortem [en]

Thu, 21 May 2020 17:09:52 +0000

Si estás buscando la versión en español ve a detrasldelpixel.com

“I have terrible news. We’re going to have to close the studio”, was the message that I received from the main investor on Monday, April 6th, 2020.

It was referring to Farda, a new video game studio based in Mexico City where we had started working officially in January 2020. Our main project was Tactico, and we had to abandon it just four months after starting it.

Aleph