After seven years after my last Global Game Jam I went back to it again, this time in completely different country, a different stage of life and completely new strangers, this was an adventure that was worth taking and a good reminder on how much I love working within a team and getting the ball rolling.

This time we went for a more cozy game with treasure hunt mechanics and exploration as focus. Most of my input as a programmer was on environment mechanics and rendering.

After working in Globant for a couple of small projects I finally got to lead a new game from beginning to launch. Power Rangers: Morphin Legends is an action role-playing game, with a complex turn based battle system, beautiful comic-like graphics, and many features that involve user progression. The game was published by NWay Inc.

Tile’s Waltz is a game I started developing alone during quarantine for the COVID-19 crisis. It’s a match-3 puzzle game with focus on memorization, you remove pieces from the level, when that piece is removed other pieces move to take their place, you need to combine pieces of the same color to get combos or power ups. This project was also done with intention of learning more on frameworks such as Zenject, UniRX and UniTask.

Banana Kong is another game developed by Gamaga, with more than 100M+ of installs, the game is published by FDG Entertainment. Banana Kong is an endless runner platform game, you play as Kong you have to jump, avoid and smash different obstacles in the environment, there are many mechanics that change the way the character moves, it’s a really fun game to play.

I moved to Chile to work with Gamaga, I started with Operate Now: Hospital, a game published by Spil Games with more than 45M+ of installs. Operate Now is a hospital simulator, in the game you perform really realistic surgeries and follow a compelling storyline, while you also are in charge of running multiple hospitals, upgrading their departments, hiring and managing their staff and many other interesting mechanics.

For this instance I was asked to create a game, alone, in a single week as part of a test. I ended up making an isometric platform game, you have to complete levels and collect coins along the way.

While I was still in college this was my first working experience as a game developer. Living in Caracas at the time I got contacted by LearnSafari, thanks game jams! Spanish Safari is a game or a tool for parents, with the purpose of teaching Spanish to kids in an interactive adventure game.

This was my first Global Game Jam, though I had been to game jams before in college. This was a really great experience that ended up with me going for four years consecutively. The idea of making a complete game in just 48 hours was first daunting, but later awesome and completely achievable with good team work and focus.