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I started a Spanish-written gamedev blog in 2006: https://www.elchiguireliterario.com https://www.elchiguireliterario.com First on blogspot, then moved onto my
by ciroduran 4y ago
I started a Spanish-written gamedev blog in 2006: https://www.elchiguireliterario.com https://www.elchiguireliterario.com First on blogspot, then moved onto my own domain running self-hosted Wordpress, which is still the current setup. I've written about small engines, Flash-based games, Adventure Game Studio, game design, among other related subjects.
Thanks to it I managed to teach a gamedev course in a college. The students there wanted a gamedev course and they could propose it to their faculty. I wrote a syllabus, and as simple as that I could start teaching them. I did it for about 3 years before I moved countries. I also taught a computer graphics course.
Also thanks to it I had enough clout to organise a game jam, Caracas Game Jam. 15 years later it's still being done by a group of volunteers, and has helped many enthusiasts to find their place in gamedev (or simply find out it wasn't really their thing).
Yes, I am really grateful for my blog :)
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My personal website is a different story (https://www.ciroduran.com https://www.ciroduran.com) I've had it for slightly longer, it's become more of an archive and a personal blog, and it's fully bilingual, which makes a bit harder to write content for. The stack has changed a lot: from Joomla, to Drupal, to Wordpress, to the current Jekyll-generated static website.
I'm still happy about it. I find it ironic that I can still download and play an adventure game I made for Windows in 2003, and that my much-more prolific Flash games are dead in a browser.