Un podcast sobre el placer de seguir jugando y sobre la creatividad. <br/><br/><a href="https://luiswong.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">luiswong.substack.com</a>
Save Point Podcast
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Un podcast sobre el placer de seguir jugando y sobre la creatividad. <br/><br/><a href="https://luiswong.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">luiswong.substack.com</a>
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January 7, 2026
💡Postula a Telar
<p>Gracias a todos los nuevos suscriptores de este newsletter desde la entrada pasada. Recuerden que si les gusta el contenido pueden suscribirse y les llegará a su bandeja de entrada cada vez que salga un nuevo artículo o episodio del podcast.</p><p>Desde hace varios meses vengo conversando con Mateo y Gabriel Alayza (los <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/hermanosmagia/?hl=en">Hermanos Magia</a>) sobre qué podemos hacer para ayudar a aquellos jóvenes talentosos que quieren entrar a la industria de videojuegos pero no saben cómo hacerlo o no encuentran las oportunidades. Tras esas charlas, lo que decidimos hacer, ya con el apoyo de Alessandra Camacho como program manager, fue organizar <a target="_blank" href="https://www.telarworkshop.com/">Telar</a>, un taller para descubrir, formar y conectar a la nueva generación de líderes de una industria que aún sigue en formación pero que sigue teniendo el mismo potencial que me sedujo a entrar a ella inicialmente.</p><p>🧶¿Qué es Telar?</p><p>La idea detrás de Telar es simple: los más talentosos en sus respectivas áreas y que les gustaría hacer videojuegos no los están haciendo (o si lo hacen lo hacen por privilegio o por sacrificio). Y no lo hacen por varias razones. No existen oportunidades o vacantes abiertas en estudios locales. No conocen o no tienen los contactos para intentar hacer algo con estudios del extranjero. Les falta adquirir experiencia o conocimientos específicos. No tienen una guía clara de qué camino seguir en sus respectivas especialidades. Tienen opciones más seguras profesionalmente en otras industrias. En gran parte esto sucede porque en Perú la industria no está tan consolidada y no tenemos a muchas personas con muchos años de experiencia que puedan formar a las nuevas generaciones en los estudios locales, a diferencia de lo que sí sucede en Estados Unidos o en los países de Europa Occidental. </p><p>En ese contexto, <strong>la apuesta con Telar es crear un espacio presencial que albergue a los mejores estudiantes y recién graduados de distintas disciplinas y darles las conexiones locales e internacionales que les ayuden a acelerar su crecimiento</strong>, a la par de ofrecerles capacitaciones específicas y de acuerdo a sus especialidades para que destaquen a la hora de postular a un empleo o para que lo utilicen en los juegos que podrían desarrollar de forma independiente. Pero, probablemente, lo más útil será conectarlos entre ellos mismos para que ahora o en el futuro creen juegos o estudios juntos.</p><p>🚩Juegos alrededor de un tema social</p><p>La otra cara de Telar es la discusión sobre un tema social. <strong>Para esta primera edición el tema elegido es Democracia en tensión. Elegimos el tema por vivir un año electoral en Perú en 2026 y por ser un tema vigente y relevante en todo el mundo. </strong>Nos hemos aliado con <a target="_blank" href="https://www.transparencia.org.pe/">Transparencia</a>, una asociación civil sin fines de lucro que supervisa el proceso electoral en Perú y que nos garantiza diversidad y pluralidad en las voces que estarán presentes como charlistas o expositores.</p><p>Con el conocimiento y experiencia que se obtendrá en la primera parte del taller enfocada a democracia, los participantes realizarán juegos en grupos bajo la supervisión de un productor con experiencia en la industria, mientras reciben clases y talleres específicos a su especialidad. El objetivo para estos proyectos es que se use el medio interactivo para decir algo sobre el tema en cuestión.</p><p>🗣️Buscamos nuevas voces en todo el Perú</p><p><strong>La convocatoria para Telar es en todo el Perú y no hay coste para los participantes. </strong>Si existen participantes que necesiten de apoyo económico para estar en Lima esas semanas estamos hablando con donantes que ayuden con becas para esos casos. <strong>No queremos que el dinero sea un limitante para participar de esta experiencia. </strong>Creemos que el centralismo que existe en la industria local es también parte del problema de su sostenibilidad.</p><p>Estos son algunos apuntes sobre por qué creamos Telar, y por qué creo que deberías postular si estás escuchando o leyendo esto y eres parte del grupo de la convocatoria (estudiantes de últimos ciclos y recién graduados). Este viernes 9 de enero <a target="_blank" href="https://luma.com/idp60vr6">tendremos un webinar </a>donde contestaremos preguntas al respecto y las inscripciones están abiertas hasta el 18 de enero en <a target="_blank" href="http://telarworkshop.com">telarworkshop.com</a>.</p><p><p>Gracias por leer, no olvides suscribirte o compartirlo con tus amigos.</p></p><p><strong>💭Recomendaciones</strong></p><p>* Terminé el año leyendo el libro Viendo tu vida derrumbarse desde un lugar seguro, del escritor peruano <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/giannibiffi_/?hl=en">Gianni Biffi</a>. Lo mejor que he leído de literatura peruana en mucho tiempo. Es una colección de cuentos graciosa e ingeniosa. </p><p>* Descubrí la música de <strong>Olivia Dean</strong> y llevo escuchando sus canciones en loop desde hace unos días en Spotify.</p><p>* El <a target="_blank" href="https://www.netflix.com/pe/title/81770824">documental sobre los 100 años de The New Yorker</a> es imperdible. Está en Netflix y es una ventana hacia lo que puede ser la obsesión por la perfección y cómo esta revista puede mantenerla sin caer en la quiebra ni en el desquicio.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://luiswong.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">luiswong.substack.com</a>
November 14, 2025
🛄Una visita inesperada a la EVA 2025
<p><strong>💭Recomendaciones</strong></p><p>* Durante el viaje aproveché para visitar algunas librerías en Buenos Aires y ya empecé a leer algunos libros. Recomiendo sobre todo <strong>Archipiélago</strong>, de Mariana Enríquez, una selección de apuntes sobre la lectura y sobre su relación con ella.</p><p>* He empezado a jugar el juego de rol <strong>Daggerheart</strong>, creado por el equipo detrás de Critical Role. Ya creamos los personajes y esta semana empezaremos con la aventura.</p><p>* El documental sobre la vida de<strong> Juan Gabriel</strong> me ha enganchado. Es a partir del archivo de cientos de videos y fotografías que el cantante grabó mientras estaba con vida. Está en Netflix.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://luiswong.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">luiswong.substack.com</a>
August 15, 2025
✏️Drawing and Creating your Own Myths
<p>I’d been toying with the idea of making a game about the Nazca lines ever since I read the news that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/nazca-lines-peru-new-geoglyphs">hundreds of new figures had been discovered with the help of AI</a>. The sheer mystery of these ancient geoglyphs — massive shapes carved into the desert, visible only from above — felt like the perfect seed for <a target="_blank" href="https://savepointpress.itch.io/nazca">a small, creative TTRPG</a>.</p><p>I’ve never actually seen the lines in person. To do that, I’d need to hop into one of those tiny planes that buzz over the Ica desert, south of Lima, which is… let’s just say, not my usual weekend plan. So, in a way, <strong>designing this game was my way of getting closer to them — to imagine not just what they look like, but what it might have meant to make them, and the myths they could hold.</strong></p><p>This became my entry for the <a target="_blank" href="https://itch.io/jam/one-page-rpg-jam-2025"><strong>One Page RPG Jam</strong></a>, a fun excuse to distill all those ideas into a single sheet of paper where rules, theme, and imagination live side by side.</p><p>🖋️Making a drawing game</p><p><strong>Ever since I played </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year"><strong>The Quiet Year</strong></a><a target="_blank" href="https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year"><strong> by Avery Alder</strong></a><strong>, I’ve been fascinated by games that ask players to draw. </strong>There’s something magical about watching a world take shape under your pen — it pulls you into the fiction in a way that words alone can’t. <strong>And it doesn’t matter if you’re a great artist or can barely doodle a stick figure; the act itself is the point.</strong></p><p>So when I started thinking about the main mechanic for a game inspired by the Nazca lines, drawing was the obvious choice. The challenge was figuring out how to give that drawing a structure without crushing the creativity.</p><p>I landed on two guiding ideas: first, <strong>the drawings had to echo the style of the Nazca lines</strong>; second, <strong>they had to reflect the wonder, beliefs, and concerns of the small community the players embodied.</strong> Whether you play alone or with a group, each card you draw gives you a spark — a prompt about your community — and your task is to turn that spark into a single, unbroken line on the page. A symbol. A metaphor. A mark that says, we were here.</p><p>In a group, these moments become conversation starters. Players might debate the meaning of a symbol, or argue about how it should be shaped — just as I imagine the Nazca people might have done two millennia ago, standing in the desert and sketching lines that would outlast them. <strong>By the end, you’re left with four distinct drawings that, taken together, tell the story of one people from four different perspectives.</strong></p><p>🐛Say no to scope creep</p><p>An issue I ran into with<a target="_blank" href="https://savepointpress.itch.io/so-you-are-going-to-be-a-girl-dad"> the first TTRPG I made last year</a> — also for the One Page RPG Jam — was that I tried to fit too much information into the design. Packing it all into a two-sided page was a real struggle. <strong>For this game, I wanted to keep things more focused, which also meant leaving more space for the beautiful cover </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/karoline-jimenez/"><strong>Karoline </strong></a><strong>was going to create.</strong></p><p>I concentrated on building an intuitive, compelling game loop, with the dynamics centered on the discussions players would have around the table. The prompts were also more open-ended and straightforward compared to my previous game. I liked the result, and I might keep this design choice for future projects.</p><p>Another insight came after I finished the game, when I read an article on Exeunt Press about <a target="_blank" href="https://www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/ghost-beacon-design">the lessons learned from </a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/ghost-beacon-design">Ghost Beacon</a>, another One Page RPG Jam entry. The author mentioned that <strong>sometimes certain ideas just don’t fit in the game you’re making — and that’s okay. </strong>You can save them for an expanded version later, or park them somewhere and reuse them in a completely different project. I’ve applied this approach to fiction writing before, but now I’m planning to use it more deliberately in my game design as well.</p><p>👀Looking Back, Looking Ahead</p><p>Designing this Nazca-inspired game wasn’t just about creating something for the One Page RPG Jam — it was about finding a way to get closer to a piece of history I’ve never seen in person, and turning that curiosity into something players could share. Along the way, I came away with three main lessons:</p><p>* <strong>Make something you can relate to — or want to relate to.</strong> The more personal the connection, the more the game has a heartbeat.</p><p>* <strong>Keep the scope small.</strong> A tighter focus gives you room to breathe — and in my case, room for Karoline’s gorgeous layout and art.</p><p>* <strong>Leave space to grow.</strong> Sometimes, ideas don’t fit the current project. That’s fine — they can seed something bigger later.</p><p>With this game, I feel like <strong>I’ve proven to myself that a small, contained design can still carry a lot of heart.</strong> For my next project, I want to take that energy and scale it up into a larger TTRPG — something with more space to explore mechanics, story arcs, and the worlds players can build together.</p><p>If you’d like to see what came out of all this — and maybe create your own set of mysterious desert lines — you can check out the game <a target="_blank" href="https://savepointpress.itch.io/nazca">here</a>.</p><p><p>Thanks for reading Save Point! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://luiswong.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">luiswong.substack.com</a>
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