Nomine
An occultist card game
Thirty-six of the seventy-two, sealed in brass. Keep the vigil alone, or reach into the same jar as somebody else.
Raúl Contreras Herrera · Game maker · Head of AI · Tijuana
I make games.
One long game, a shelf of prototypes, two card games and a Windows 95 desktop full of the classics. They all run in your browser. By day I head the AI department at Dot Com Media Moguls, three engineers and a shipped product, CASA VERIFIED. Start anywhere.
The featured game
One game with a start and an end. It plays whole in a browser tab.
Opus · I
VAE VICTIS
A dark-fantasy action RPG in the vein of Blood Omen
They wore the Church's robes. They bought an orphan, ruined his life on purpose, and killed him on a stone. The one below raised him for revenge.
Three-quarter view, red sigils on the ground that speak, and no dialogue boxes: the story comes in voiced lines while the houses that wronged him fall one by one.
Playable from the prologue to all three endings. Some rooms are still greybox, and it says so.
- 336 voiced lines
- 32 colours
- 3 endings
The collector's boxThe box it would have come in, in 1996: a big box with a flap, a CD case, the disc, the manual, coupons and the epilepsy warning. Open it, take everything out, read the manual. Every picture on it is an in-game screen.Open the box 
Prototypes
Unfinished games, all playable now. Pick one and go.
LCD HandheldA candy game on a toy handheld. Throw, stun and roll the sweets; a boss drops the next cartridge.Play 
Dies IraeA gothic side-scroller. A swordsman in a long coat, and a ruined cathedral that forks four ways.Play 
MoonwrightA moonlit diorama you change with the six forms you learn.Play 
HoukagoA ghost story after school. One girl, one classroom at night, seat 24.Play 
Crypt BreakerBomberman, but gothic, and the tomb is closing in.Play 
Cholos vs EmosTwo subcultures, one fight, built for your thumbs.Play 
Paw WarsCats against dogs on a tabletop battlefield. Pick an army.Play 
Gang of SeasonsFour kids, one yard, and a world that changes with the seasons.Play 
Vampire DateA gothic romance, told through your phone.Play 
Spike 3DOne room, four cameras: side-on, diorama, first person, over the shoulder.Play 
Advanced Tactics FantasyA grid tactics RPG with the systems of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. A Judge on the field enforces the law.Play 
HeartwoodA Tijuana RPG in the spirit of Digimon Tamers. One HTML file, no image files.Play 
AnnataA year set to Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Aim, fire, clear the board.Play 
Río de CanicasMatch three marbles before they reach the hole. A giant frog is watching.Play 
Brick PilotsBuild your pilot, fly the bar, break every brick. The bricks fight back.Play 
RunefallMatch runes to fight down four floors. Nothing comes back up.Play 
KIRAKIRA SquadronA shmup with nine pilots, all of them out here with you.Play 
Paw RoyaleEight paws, three rounds, one crown. Online, or a solo show.Play 
RattlebonesA Glover-like where the ball is a skull. Five minutes to rehearsal, headliner.Play
Card games
Two games built on cards. One is kept for a club; the other you can sit down to.
GOAT Duel
A Yu-Gi-Oh! fan game for a local club, played by the 2005 GOAT rules. Duel rated opponents, travel a map of Duelist Kingdom, win Star Chips, open packs, fill a binder and build your deck in the card editor.
Private. Not for release.
Retro Game Station
Doom, Quake and Commander Keen in a browser tab
Twelve DOS classics, eight NES cartridges and three point-and-click adventures, running for real on a Windows 95 desktop. Each one was released free by its makers.
Jugable
Game development, taught in person
I also teach game development, in person in Tijuana. The classes live on their own site.
Serifeus
A two-person press
Folk horror out of Tijuana, in two languages, and the machine that publishes it.
Websites al Pastor
AI for a business's front desk
It answers the phone, books the job and does the follow-up.
By day
Head of AI at Dot Com Media Moguls
I run the AI department: three engineers, a shipped product called CASA VERIFIED, and CHALAN, a suite of 61 agents that answer the phone and run the workflow.
Tijuana, Baja California