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[bitácora #3] media digest

ship's log. entry #3. version 1.0.

[cuaderno de] bitácora (ship’s log) 1. (nautical) book in which ship’s crew members record course, speed, maneuvers, and other navigation phenomena. Notes, opinions, and various thoughts about media I consume. tuesday, 11.02.2025 FAVOURITE ALBUM OF 2024 - CANDIDATES (in order-ish): Shi...

Posted by Paco Juan Quirós on February 12, 2025

MOTY Awards 2024

Presenting my list of best Media Of The Year

Coming a fashionably late —with roughly 12% of the year past, already—, but happy New Year, y’all! courtesy of year-progress-bar page. In my continuous (barely successful) effort of posting stuff online, I’m coming back with a second issue of the Media Of Th...

Posted by Paco Juan Quirós on February 12, 2025

[bitácora #2] cultural translation

ship's log. entry #2. version 1.0.

[cuaderno de] bitácora (ship’s log) 1. (nautical) book in which ship’s crew members record course, speed, maneuvers, and other navigation phenomena. Thoughts about translation and reinterpretation of culture, in whatever form, shape, color or smell, if necessary. tuesday, 04.02.2025 I don...

Posted by Paco Juan Quirós on February 4, 2025

[bitácora #1] the ship's log

ship's log. entry #1. version 1.1.

[cuaderno de] bitácora (ship’s log) 1. (nautical) book in which ship’s crew members record course, speed, maneuvers, and other navigation phenomena. thursday, 06.03.2025 I recently read an article by Sophie Koonin, talking about the importance of personal websites. ‘cause personal website...

Posted by Paco Juan Quirós on January 27, 2025

Artificial Stupidity in World Soccer Strikers '91

designing a soccer AI that simply does the trick

World Soccer Strikers ‘91 is an arcade soccer game, with a high focus on local multiplayer gameplay. I started developing it in 2020, right after COVID-19 hit, and we all were forced to stay at home for a good bunch of weeks. Some of the key elements of this game are its palpable arcade spirit, ...

Posted by Paco Juan Quirós on September 4, 2024

Stop "creating" games

the words we use. issue 01: "create"

I continuously find myself reading interviews with “the creator of X game”, or articles about studios “creating their newest game”. And that kind of pisses me off. about authorship All genres have authors. When we refer to somebody that made a song, we call them its “author”. For a painting, a ...

Posted by Paco Juan Quirós on March 24, 2024

MOTY Awards 2023

Presenting my list of best Media Of The Year

Another year has come to an end. As we all celebrate that the Earth has spun around the Sun once more and, somehow, we’re still alive, it’s time to come with our lists of favourite stuff from 2023. And, as I personally haven’t been playing tons of games lately, I’ve decided to go outside my fiel...

Posted by Paco Juan Quirós on January 12, 2024

Introducing Xaloc Engine

Introducing Xaloc Engine: yet another 2D game engine developed in C++.

Introducing Xaloc Engine: yet another 2D game engine developed in C++. So, for the last two months I’ve been working on a small project in my spare ime, which is starting to look like an actual thing: the Xaloc game engine. I’ve been toying around with the idea of developing my own engine...

Posted by Paco Juan Quirós on July 3, 2020

Hello World

this is a test post!

Hello world!

Posted by Paco Juan Quirós on February 5, 2020

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