Games · Research-Creation · Community Play
Thirteen years of making games with Niebla Games, with communities, and with the people I teach. Some are played on Steam, some in a museum gallery, some in a classroom in the Sacred Valley.
Most traveled · 2024
A minimalist game in English, Spanish and Quechua about Guaman Poma de Ayala and his Nueva corónica y buen gobierno, made with members of the ÑawpaÑan community in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. The Royal Danish Library, which holds the manuscript, added the game to the bibliography of its digital edition.
Research-creation · Pisac, Peru · 2024–
With the Andean Association Kusi Kawsay, more than fifty young people in the Sacred Valley of the Incas have made their own games in Bitsy and Twine, free and open-source tools that run on any computer. Some went on to teach younger peers. At the request of students and the school's director, the next edition will make games with the community's weavers.
From Steam to Google Play
Causa, Voices of the Dusk is a collectible card game for PC about power, where workers, intellectuals and artists drive the story. Its port, Causa: Into the Dusk, brought the game to Google Play with the support of the Google Play Indie Games Fund Latin America.
In development
A roguelite of strategy and spatial puzzle in which a young Curandera heals her community through dreams, arranging spells on a grid while the adults defend their ancestral lands. The story of a community, told through its mechanics.
Open repository · 2025–
A crowdsourced hub of games oriented toward ludic activism, with free and open-source tools and bibliography. It began with a catalog of the Southern Cone and is a living repository, still expanding. I lead it as principal investigator through a research grant from Chile's Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage.
Everything in one view, separated by kind of work. Hover a title to preview it.
Directed and designed, most of them with Niebla Games.
Original tabletop designs.
Projects made with communities and students.
Consulting, testing and collaborations I love.
Video game
2024A MAZE. & BIG Festival nominee
Bitsy · Browser · English / Spanish / Quechua
A minimalist game about Guaman Poma, the Indigenous chronicler of the Andes, made with members of the ÑawpaÑan community.
Role Direction, visual art, code, narrative, game design & music
Play on itch.io
Video game
In developmentDraknek New Voices Grant 2025
PC · Roguelite of strategy & spatial puzzle
A young Curandera heals her community through dreams, while the adults defend their ancestral lands.
Role Direction, narrative & game design
Watch the playthrough
Video game
2019Tokyo Game Show · PAX · Gamescom
PC · Steam · Collectible card game
A card game about power in which workers, intellectuals and artists hold the story, with a resource system built on sacrifice.
Role Direction, narrative & game design
See on Steam
Video game
Google Play portGoogle Play Indie Games Fund 2025
Mobile · Google Play
The mobile version of Causa, rebuilt for Google Play with the support of the Google Play Indie Games Fund.
Role Direction & game design
Read the announcement
Video game
2024Ludic activism
Browser · Direct action game
A call for help after the 2024 Valparaíso fires. The game drove a campaign that raised about USD 4,500 for families who lost everything.
Role Direction, visual art, code, narrative & music
Play on itch.io
Video game
2025Made for my students
Bitsy · Pedagogical game
A museum simulator about a fictional artist, made so students could hold a position on authorship and AI before reading the theory.
Role Design & development
Play on itch.io
Video game
2026CGIMC 2026
Browser · Conference playable program
The playable program of the California Games and Interactive Media Conference: explore Riverside and play under the Joshua Tree sky.
Role Creative direction
Visit the conference
Video game
2026The Cheech · UCR Gluck Program
Browser · QR · Museum galleries · English / Spanish
A bilingual treasure hunt for Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026. Visitors scanned a QR code and searched the galleries for 24 hidden details. More than 300 people played it.
Role Game design & development, with Río Junto
Video game
Soft launch 2024Soft launch 2024
Mobile & web · Merge & creature collection
A merge game with magical creatures, the Cuddlings, and a sleepy forest island to wake up. After its mobile soft launch in 2024, it now circulates on alternative platforms, with a web edition that plays in the browser.
Role Direction, narrative & game design
Play in your browser
Video game
2022Mobile
Mobile · Brick-breaker
Break floating blocks to reveal constellations and rescue drifting astronauts.
Role Direction, narrative & game design
Board game
2019PAX East · Spiel Essen
3–6 players · 30–60 min
Bluffing, negotiation and shifting alliances to become the new regent of the Empire.
Role Direction, narrative & game design
BoardGameGeek
Board game
2017Card game
2–6 players · Cards
A game of math and tricks: add, subtract, bluff, and doubt your opponents' cards.
Role Direction, narrative & game design
BoardGameGeek
Board game
2018Educational
Educational · JUNAEB, Chile
A board game for healthy coexistence in schools, used by monitors and students of the Skills for Life program.
Role Direction, narrative & game design
Board game
2017Educational
Educational · Children · Cooperative
Players rescue native species from hunters and return them to their habitats. Designed for the Explora science festival.
Role Direction, narrative & game design
Community
2024–Research-creation · Kusi Kawsay
Bitsy · Twine · Pisac, Peru
More than fifty young people in the Sacred Valley make their own games with open-source tools; some now teach younger peers. Next: games with the community's weavers.
Role Co-founder & workshop lead
Community
2025–Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile
Open repository · Crowdsourced · 9 languages
A crowdsourced hub of games oriented toward ludic activism, with free and open-source tools and bibliography. A living repository, still expanding: 230 games from 67 countries so far.
Role Principal investigator
Visit ludicactivism.comOngoingIn progress
Rescued assets · AI tools · Colombia
One of the first video games made by Indigenous communities in Latin America lost its source code. We are bringing it back for the community and its youth.
Role Restoration, with the Cabildo Indígena de Jambaló
Community
2017–Gluck Fellows Program
Social play · Schools · Universities
A social play methodology based on traditional games, brought from Chile to schools in Southern California.
Role Methodology & facilitation
Community
2024Río Junto
Workshop · Mancala, Go & more
Playing traditional games from around the world to learn how rules, and game designers, are made.
Role Director
Watch
Collaboration
2019–20Open source
Fractal Juegos, Chile · Open source
A free, collective timeline game about Chile's 2019 social uprising, made as an act of memory.
Role Researcher & artist
Collaboration
In developmentConsulting
Dreams Uncorporated, Colombia
A Japanese-inspired RPG where a camera, its lenses and filters, become the battle system.
Role Game design consultant
Collaboration
2020Steam
Playmestudio, Chile
A tech-noir mystery that moves between the real world and the unconscious of a victim.
Role Testing & design feedback
Collaboration
2021Board game
Fractal Juegos & Ludoismo, Chile
Industry and population growth threaten the Tori-tori and other native species of a remote island.
Role Blind testing coordination & design feedback
Collaboration
2017Board game
Ludoismo, Chile
With the Pirate King gone, the most seasoned crews sail in search of his buried booty.
Role Game design consultant
Collaboration
ResearchScientific Reports
Research Center in Social Complexity
Game design for a research study by the Research Center in Social Complexity, published in Scientific Reports.
Role Game design consultant
Collaboration
2019Consulting
Center for Research in Inclusive Education
An educational app that studies collaboration among high school students in Chile.
Role Gamification consultant
Collaboration
ConsultingConsulting
Paréntesis Foundation
Game design consulting for the Paréntesis Foundation.
Role Game design consultant
Collaboration
ConsultingConsulting
Caja Los Andes
Game design consulting for Caja Los Andes.
Role Game design consultant
Most of my browser games live on itch.io. The full record of awards, exhibitions and publications is in my CV.