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!

Say mama, Akihabara.

2010-06-02 13:37:21

So, after long time I've decided to commit everything to Github - everything is still work in progress but I hope for help. What's new? Audio support in games via HTML5 audio tag and a new resource loader.

Audio support was unexpectly an uneasy task: for many browsers, the audio tag is implemented probably for background music in sites or single music playback. For example, Safari Mobile on iPad and iPhone 4.0 just plays one audio file at time and very common browsers, like Safari and Firefox still have some problems on latency and caching on their stable versions.
By the way, during the development, I've found that browsers are improving very fast: Chrome had some audio pipelining issues, that took me a lot of time for putting together a workaround and then the latest stable version of Chrome, out in these days, fixed that issue (yes, that means wasted time ;) ) and Safari and Firefox nightly builds work really better than their latest stable versions, so I'm hopeful to annunce "full compatibility" for the most used browsers, a day.

But don't be sad: audio is working quite well on latest versions of Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari Mobile on the iPad (just background music). In days will hopefully work on the rest of the bunch (like the missing Safari, that is available enabling experimental features and using a nightly build). I'm not going to give up on this - until I've enough time I'll upgrade the audio engine for best results on as many browsers I can. Meanwhile remember that you can disable audio here (Link)

Then, let's talk about the resource loader. I've read somewhere that "Akihabara is cool also because doesn't have loading time". Rejoice! Added loading screen while downloading resources :)
But fear not! No-loading time are still doable in the same way I've done before but the big improvement on standardized resource loading is that now we can leave all these static arrays, image file names, tileset from the game's code: that means many advantages, like code readability, possibility to split graphics, maps and music work to different people and, the most important, generate the loaded resources from a server - that means easier user-generated content loading.
Another new feature is in-game resource loading, that means that you can download a new map or tileset of your game when is needed and eventually cache everything for the next reload. Think about The Legend Of Sadness: in the first version all the dungeon was in the game code and the tileset was in the same image but now these data are loaded when entering each room and the game handles that room like the only room of the whole game... i.e. longer dungeons and different tileset for each of them, using the same amount of memory. Nice, isn't it?

That's all? No. Audio means music and music means, for a music failure like me, collaboration. All the games - except T-Spin - have full music and this thanks to the collaboration of some great chiptune artists I've reached during the development. Want to know who they are? (Link)
They really helped me on make Akihabara saying "mama". That was a nice thing: the guy that said in a forum that "audio is half of the game" was right. Try the demos another time and, if you're lucky with your current browser's version, you'll feel the game in a very different way. :)
Last but not least, I've decided to thank all the people that helped me and worked/working hard on Akihabara by the day one in a small new demo called The Hall Of Fame. You can find it in the usual place. (Link)

That's all? No. But for the new demo game I've put together I'll leave you the surprise. Just be brave and click the right link. A darker world of Akihabara will appear. And, no. The Konami Code isn't needed. (Link) At least, not for now.

PS: Why I've decided to use the (buggy/low performing) audio tag and not the Flash approach like the great (and working) Soundmanager? (Link) Am I against Flash? No. Was just for trying something new. But, no problem! A bird (that is not Twitter) said to me that someone is going to add Soundmanager-based audio support to Akihabara!

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Learning Akihabara issue 2

2010-05-22 11:20:03

The second issue of the Akihabara tutorial Darius and Darren are writing is online. Have a look! (Link)

This time is the turn of moving sprites. Lotsa of theory and interesting things. Great work!

Side note: I've joined the Twitter thing too. I'm writing things with mixed level of stupidity here: (Link). I'll update contacts shortly. (i.e. never)

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Akiba Hero 100 percent on Hard

2010-05-19 22:43:31

Hi! I'm going to show you my awesome skills with the guitar hero controller. I play guitar hero every day and every night and I've also finished Mega Man 2 using the guitar hero controller only.

Watch me performing! (Link)

(My english is quite poor, BTW is a Guitar Hero clone coming with the next commit of Akihabara played with Wii Guitar Hero controller and Wiitar (Link) for MacOsx. Excuse me but testing audio is taking really ages.)

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