Projects

Mysterious Creature

The life of a cute and mysterious living creature, also known as Mysterious Creature, is a journey in my professional life and includes every facet of it. The wide variety of topics are among the ones I need to be successful in business, business relationships and software design. Topics include:

• Software Design and Business
• Psychology and Philosophy
• Non-verbal Communication
• Detecting Deception
• Statement Analysis

Read my announcement “Peeling A New Skin” for more information.

Products for RPG Maker

     • L10nTool (show/hide)

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L10nTool is a powerful professional localization software compatible with RPG Maker XP and VX. This software export and import in-game texts and dialogues in a comprehensive format compatible (Portable Object File Format) with both open source and commercial Computer-Aided Translation softwares. L10nTool comes with a powerful Smart Extraction and Representation (SEAR) algorithm in order to obtain meaningful information along exported files to the benefit of the translators.

Read the brochure and articles for more information.

     • Deployment User-Modifiable Script (show/hide)

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Deployment User-Modifiable Script aims to gather miscellaneous resources related to a game, perform its assembly and deliver one or more final end-user installers. The process is fully automated through predefined tasks and the outcome of its automation is one or more Stand-Alone Installers for Windows.

The process is straightforward and can be accomplished in barely six (6) easy-to-follow steps. These steps are performed in the famous video L10nTool + DeploymentScript, where L10nTool is used through Deployment User-Modifiable Script rather than manually.

1. Create a basic deployment structure using Create Task.
2. Configure game related information in deployment.yml.
3. Copy game files in its corresponding Master Copy directory.
4. Export translation templates using Export Task.
5. Copy translated files in their respective directories.
6. Deploy a game using Deploy Task.

Read Deployment Utility in Numbers for information on its quality.

     • RGSS Player for MacOS X (show/hide)

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RGSS Player for MacOS X is fully compatible with RPG Maker XP and VX runtime packages and provides integral support for Ruby Game Scripting System (RGSS) 1 and 2. Interface with Cocoa and benefit from native MacOS X features. Also includes Deployment User-Modifiable Script, a preparation system that aims to gather miscellaneous resources related to a game, perform its assembly and deliver a final end-user installer.

Read the brochure for more information.

     • Software Development Kit (show/hide)

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Software Development Kit for RPG Maker is a software developer's dream to develop, test, debug, package and deploy games within an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). RPG Maker XP and VX are great game editors but they have important missing features when it comes to develop code.

SDK for RPG Maker allows a developer to integrate RPG Maker scripting into its favourite IDE, such as NetBeans or Eclipse, in order to benefit from the IDE's features: project management, syntax highlight and completion, refactoring engine, debugging, profiling, regression and unit testing, RubyGems, revision control, build automation and much more.

Read this article for more information.

     • Script Manager (show/hide)

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ScriptManager is a tool part of an SDK for RPG Maker, which empowers indie developers with the ability to manipulate RPG Maker scripts databases using command line interface. The culminating point of ScriptManager is the ability to integrate RubyGems into RPG Maker scripts. ScriptManager can also be used by Deployment User-Modifiable Script.

Read this article for more information.

An XML Editor in Squeak Smalltalk

This project is a series of articles aimed to teach programmers how to build an XML editor in Squeak Smalltalk.

Squeak Installer

This project aims to deliver Squeak that works right-out-of-the-box on Windows machines by generating an installer with every mandatory piece to make Squeak work (virtual machine, source file, image file, etc). Squeak installer is developed using Unicode NSIS.


Read the announcement for more information.

Squeak Community Contribution Survey

This survey aims to understand what are the individual and/or perceived hurdles to contribution to Squeak Smalltalk within Squeak Community. The survey has been sent through the Squeak-Dev mailing list since it is the main communication medium in the community. A complete report is currently being written and will be announced on my blog whenever it is ready.

Read the survey for more information.

Ruby Onion

Onion, or Array Onion, allows peeling an array like an onion. It shreds one layer after another, from the outer inwards the inner nested array, according to the given depth. Infinite depth (or greater than current nested array depth) is equivalent to Array#flatten.

The Onion project is hosted on Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/onion/. Read Onion for more information.