shadowmaster- Wesnoth Developer
- Aliases: shadowmaster, shadowm, ShikadiLord
- Location: Santiago, Chile
About me
Hi there!
I am Ignacio R. Morelle, although I often go by the nicknames of shadowmaster, shadowm or ShikadiLord in websites. My native language is Spanish since I was born and currently live in Chile, but I also speak English.
Many of my common activities involve computer software in some way.
Status
Abducted by the Battle for Wesnoth project, helping around in the maintenance of one of the largest open-source turn-based strategy games, currently at its stable version 1.8. I also administrate the official forum board.
During 2010 I also contributed a considerable amount of levels to Frogatto & Friends, a sidescrolling platformer made by some people from the Wesnoth crew. You can read more details about my work for it in the relevant blog post. If you are into old-school platformers from the 8-bit and 16-bit era, you’ll surely enjoy playing the actual game now that it’s finished and well past version 1.0.
Programming!
I love programming! I prefer using Perl whenever it’s possible, since I fell in love with its simplicity, flexibility and sheer power — but otherwise, I like C++, which I originally learned for crafting a few patches for Wesnoth.
Translations…
Being fairly fluent in English and Spanish, I have done some translation work for the Battle for Wesnoth, and Atheme IRC Services. My work in both so far has consisted on doing grunt translation work along with maintaining the actual translation.
I’m not active as a translator in either project anymore, since it tends to be (for me) an unrewarding, tedious, time-consuming task, especially since I never make use of the translations myself.
Web development?
This website in all of its incarnations was designed from scratch by me, as part of an ongoing exercise to master the power of CSS and HTML without any formal training. No silly WYSIWYG editors involved.
I learned PHP both for the purpose of easing the maintenance of my website’s layout, and administrating phpBB 3 based boards at the core, like I currently do at the Wesnoth forums.
Although I don’t consider myself ready for more ‘professional’ tasks, the Wesnoth-UMC-Dev Project’s website was also entirely built from scratch by me.
