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This is Paco Juan - Video Game Programmer.

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, ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Hello World

this is a test post!

Hello world!