10, 10, 10!

Stuff on GitHub I'm storing there the sources of most of the projects I worked on, small and large. « go there!

Alea Optima A minimalist and portable solo tabletop RPG in which you explore procedurally generated Worlds. « go there!

Heroes of Micro & Moji III A squashed tribute to the HOMM3 fantasy strategy game in 1 kb of printable JS code. « go there!

Notoner A simple tool thought to help you play some print and play games and tabletop RPGs. « go there!

RogueCairn A random generator of small worlds designed to be explored following Yochai Gal's Cairn adventure game rules. « go there!

Massive Randomness 2 A Massive Darkness 2 one-shot quest random generator. « go there!

Generals of Stampadia An open-source print-and-play single-player Expandable Card Game. « go there!

The Scroll of Many Glances An experimental app-supported masterless fantasy RPG thought for mobile devices and inspired by PbtA and OSR tabletop role-play games. « go there!

Dungeons of Crimsonbranch A tiny adventure dice game you can play on a computer, a mobile device, or a sheet of paper, inspired by looter hack'n'slash RPG videogames. « go there!

Kuroshimu A procedural black box investigation game: the game simulates 56 days of 6 persons and generates a PDF newspaper from their testimonies for the player to guess what happened. « go there!

Rogue Rogue A secrets-packed roguelite single-screen platformer arcade game for 1-2 players heavily inspired by the 1986 Taito masterpiece Bubble Bobble and other great games from the past. « go there!

LCD Game - World Changers A simulator of a never existed physical LCD handheld conversion of World Changers, an action game inspired by old classics, like Cabal, Contra, and OutRun, and modern games like Gears Of War and mobile casual gaming. « go there!

Wizard Survivors Wizard Survivors is a 500-characters codegolfed tribute to the infectious game Vampire Survivors. « go there!

Travelers Of Stampadia The Chronicles of Stampadia card game spin-off! A daily print-and-play roguelike adventure card game you can play offline. « go there!

Programmino An implementation of the machine I've seen in my dreams. « go there!

PvP An opensource web browser 1-4 Players arena shooter you can play offline in split-screen and networked (experimental). « go there!

Chronicles Of Stampadia A daily print-and-play roguelike adventure you can play offline. « go there!

Goldscrolls A fast Print-and-Play Roll-and-Write Deckbuilder for two players. « go there!

Cardcade An experimental opensource digital card game system that offers a mechanic inspired by deck-building games to implement multiple types of game. « go there!

Razorthought A single-player Card Battler game I worked on in 2020 during the pandemic lockdown caused by COVID-19 virus. « go there!

Rewtro Papercraft videogame cartridges you can print and pirate with a copy machine. « go there!

World Changers A Contra-GearsOfWar inspired third person shooter you can play with one finger that can change the world. « go there!

Tighty Deadline A puzzle/arcade about level design. Easy is hard to design. « go there!

Wright! Magazine A thoughtful full-stack reimplementation of gaming in 80's and 90's. « go there!

Atwenture An open-sourced surreal social-collaborative Twitter-based text adventure that changes unpredictably. - DEAD « go there!

The Last Of At A Fanfictional Tribute Survival Roguelike in 1K of JS. « go there!

Gamecora TV A HTML5/JS/CSS3 TV about gaming that goes to the sources. Nobody in the middle. « go there!

JSTV Suite Make your own TV Channel with HTML5/JS/CSS3. The Gamecora TV heart. « go there!

HotGun You don't have any index. Pick a weapon and hunt data by yourself. Introducing the First Person Search Engine. « go there!

KWGN KesieWoolf Gaming Network is just a personal catalogue of my and my GF's videogames. Except for his look, behaviour and contents that are like a real gaming site. (Italian only) « go there!

Magaka Magaka is an opensource javascript engine that allows to create modern digital magazines using open web technologies. « go there!

VanillaOS Do you think that scrollviews are the vanilla of mobile apps? Taste this javascript implementation. « go there!

Meltingbot Meltingbot is a magazine about. REST calls, rectangle packing and CSS transformations mixed together. « go there!

Akihabara Pixelated indie-style videogames for your browsers and touch devices using HTML5, Javascript and nothing more! « go there!

StripThis! Web. Comic. For real. Create simple webcomics actually made with web and write them like blogging. « go there!

Kesiev Chiefs A Ruby media player in 300 lines of code « go there!

About me About me and my life. « go there!

WTF? A (unfinished) manga about... well... videogames! « go there!

Ichigo A strawberry flavoured package manager for linux. Your tiny Gentoo. « go there!

Something White Un libro di Bianca Brenna « go there!

Grow You feed. It grows. An unfinished project store/blog. And a full featured JS blog. « go there!

Kitty A podcast (DTV, Yahoo! Podcast and more) client for KDE written in C++! « go there!

Noribasic A basic simulator for Firefox! A real tribute to the old Commodore 64! « go there!

Kemail A GMail clone in PHP/MySQL! - DEAD « go there!

Kiobashin A kioslave that creates virtual filesystems using bashscripts under KDE! « go there!

Norifeeder An RSS Aggregator written in Javascript that simply works. For some technical limit, a PHP proxy with time-limited cache was added. « go there!

Nori Nori Block Nori Nori Block is online multiplayer tetris with statistics, custom game modes and more! « go there!

JJogle A search engine for real good words - by JJ! « go there!

Kaffepot A (old and unfinished) manga by KesieV. (Storyboard by Posixe/Lucio) « go there!

Jubble Bobble A full featured clone of Bubble Bobble for Siemens Java phones. « go there!

Nori Nori Revolution A DDR style game from the old kesiev.com site. « go there!

Kesievaders A Space Invaders clone from the old kesiev.com site. « go there!

Io, Io, Io!

A girl. A car.

2011-08-07 18:39:28

And, in minutes, a girl, a car, hours of roads, a different background each checkpoint.

Like in Out Run, with wrong car.

But remember: after the long trip, the clear sea and the love (and nags) of your sweet girl, if you hate the fat guy with checkered flag you've left at start, the hate is still there after the vacation.
Vacations are relax, not amnesia.

Have a nice summer! Bye!

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Summer graveyard.

2011-08-05 22:10:23

Hi guys. I'm not dead, as usual. And when the most of the posts starts with "I'm not dead" is probably because I'm turning in one of them.
Anyway, in these months I've played with a lot of things - any of them is far for being complete but I had a lot of fun doing them and did their job: make me learn stuff. And their sources are still on my unfinished projects, so who knows? ;)

Spout in HTML
Playing with fonts, divs and CSS transformations, I've tried to replicate the cool Spout (Link) using HTML. Results were quite good on desktops and while most of the text formatting and camera animations were complete, results were less exciting on mobiles. Played a lot of videogames instead - some of the few nice games for PS3 I have.

Testing colors are ever the same. Yellow is missing because that day he was sick.

More games with HTML5/CSS3
I've decided to explore the CSS-sprite way of making games, mixing the essential "new" CSS transformations. This time I've tried to make something more visual, taking a lot of inspiration from Torque (Link) instead of a set of libraries or an SDK.
Results are quite satisfying and working on a GUI is really fun. The GUI is totally completed, the behaviour engine and many sprite properties are ready but I've decided to pause the project in order to do some in-depth test on Akihabara on 3DS and, since something is moving with other Akihabara devs. I gave more attention on the existing project. I'll pick up the code again later, since I had a lot of fun on watching what was coming up.

A rotated red box, a bezier path, a gray palette. Only a lemon kissing Bob Marley can give more sense to this screenshot.

Alchemy-esque game
A friend (Stefano "The Kusagari" Fioretto) suggested me Alchemy for Android (Link) and, while I've found the game quite original, it wasn't the genre I like. But I was wondering which complex procedure is behind the making of coherent pairs in order to keep the game completable and balanced on the number of combinations. Started on an HTML version of the game that included database coherence checks and pairs generators. I also did the whiteboard code but after 80 combinations, I paused the project: It took to me on an interesting research on gaming history and genres influences that stolen the scene, turning me in a Wikipedia crawler.

The elements palette and a pair of lost icons.

Playing with websockets
I usually don't like browser specific features on not-so-spread technolgies but, after "hanging out" on Google+ with PotHix and talked about misc HTML5 technologies, I decided to have a look to websockets, just for knowing in-depth how it works when I talk about with friends. :)
I experimented some kind of netplay with Akihabara games, using the "keyboard sharing" technique, remarked for being as easy to implement as quite unefficient and net-expensive. Probably it could work just on LAN but I had some fun on integrate that - brought me memories of SDL_net libs. It worked but was far from being "production ready". Moreover I think that games have to implement their specific netcode in order to give acceptable performances on each genre.
Websockets are interesting indeed and I surely have a look again to them once will be supported by more browsers.

I lied. Is not the networked version but I was using Capman as test.

Low latency realtime web
About 4 years ago I started a MMO that used PHP, Javascript and HTML (CSS sprites). It worked quite well and I've put together some worlds and a set of interactions between players (from baloon-esque chat to syncronous video playback, multiplayer games and so on).
Anyway I wasn't sure about load and security issues so, while I've leaned a lot of stuff (that is my main purpose when I work on my own projects), I left the project as is.
This project popped up from the mail some days ago so I've decided to work on just the client/server comunication engine in order to make a "cheap" and more stable infrastructure to be used in other projects.

I love unreadable screenshots. Is like stealing bandwidth to myself.

Sun
No. I'm not working for Sun. Is summer. Everything stops, except Nintendo DSs, XBoxes and PS3s. I've to end my pile of games ASAP in order to empty the wallet for the September-December marathon, expecially for the nearly-unused 3DS.

That's all. I hope to abandon this digest-like updates to something more... well... like a blog :)
Hi, then! Have a nice summer!

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Ocsicnarf Nas

2011-07-03 18:59:40

Who follows me on Twitter already knows that I was in San Francisco in the last three days. What is less known is that I was there thanks to Zynga (Link) who kindly offered travel and hotel reservations.
Despite the 14-hours-long travel, some troubles at Amsterdam airport in both directions, I've to say that they were very nice days indeed and, better than all, I met a lot of very interesting people there.

Few minutes before the meeting

I talked about games seriously and is something mind blowing for me for mainly two reasons: the first one is that game development is really underrated here in Italy and, in most of the cases, are considered like low-budget projects that don't need any particular care, so talking about videogames in that terms was very new to me.
The second one is that I spoke in English and, despite most of the words were sadly incorrectly placed or expressed, I felt that the other person was understanding what I was saying for real. Honestly, just this is a real goal for me.
It is not a secret that we mostly talked about the Akihabara engine, from the reasons I've put together that messed-up libraries to something in-depth about how it works. I'm not going to tell you what was said word-by-word, since it is so boring to fill up this post with tech babble, but I'm here to say thank you again to anybody who showed or are still showing, in some way (from promoting to hacking and developing) to this little open-sourced project.
Akihabara wasn't born as a real full-fledged opensource project nor something like a company startup - it was made putting together what I know about making games (and what I know about game engines) while wasting my spare time in lunch breaks or at home.
Having some people promoting that, someone else patching and making the code tidy and, most important, someone making some small or big game using that, is like an unexpected reward for something I hadn't the intention to do.
So, people, I credited all of you (don't need to say who you are - you simply already know) to them, because I'll always owe you something, since I made Akihabara without asking nothing back.
Seriously, I don't mind if Akihabara will be replaced, forgotten or improved for that same reason - until its code is online, will be yours and, if you ask me if some improvement is good or not, I'll simply answer you. It is on GitHub and is there for collaboration, branching, rewriting or being forgotten.
Akihabara is not the only "thing I've made for fun" that is on kesiev.com. Probably there will be more or there will be less or nothing more at all.
And for this no-reward request, I've to thank you for anything will come from my sh*t (from dissing, criticizing and hate mail to opportunities to make photos of the Moscone Center, visiting the Westfield Shopping Mall or being called for my late at the airport on San Francisco). But the most exciting part, talking with real seniors in videogame development, is the most rewarding thing for a coding lover - above all if is something coming by himself.
So, thank you again. I'm going to write more code, in order to make this happen again and again.

I was joking. Prr.
I'm going to keep playing Castlevania Order Of Ecclesia - started during plane trip. And if you own a NDS (or 3DS) make you a favour and hurry purchasing that game because will kick your ass so hard you'll never remember your name again! (Link)

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