Reverse chronological order selection of images and documents that substantiate our most accomplished works: the paired games Crosser and La Migra, the game Migraciones, and two of our most cited papers. Click to load full resolution color images. A list of all of our games is at the bottom of this page for the sake of completeness.
Crosser and La Migra are playable in the browser at https://sudor.org/betatest/
The source code for the rewrite of Crosser and La Migra is available on GitHub at https://github.com/rafaelfajardo/border-games-rewrite
Older portfolio with information about Crosser can be found at https://rafaelfajardo.com/projects/crosser.html
Older portfolio with information about La Migra can be found at https://rafaelfajardo.com/projects/migra.html
An essay I wrote about the paired games can be found at “Pixels Politics and Play”. Intelligent Agent. Patrick Lichty, ed. 2003. http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol3_No2_gaming_fajardo.html
Migraciones requires specialized installation. A prospectus with video documentation is available at https://sudor.org/migraciones/
The source code for Migraciones is in a repository in GitLab and can be made public upon request. We were feeling vulnerable when we made it.
My Google Scholar profile is available at https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=xsa5EssAAAAJ
I was invited to be one of two inaugural Latinx Visiting Artists at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado. I was provided with time, space, lodging and food. Evergreen curriculum was written about my biography and my art practice in games for distribution to elementary, middle, and high schools. I’ve included a little bit about that below, as well.
2023 ReVisión at Minneapolis Institute of Art
2023 Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA)
2022 Tilt\West journal cover
2022 Anderson Ranch Art Center (ARAC) Latinx Artist Curriculum
2021 ReVisión: A New Look At Art In The Americas catalog
2021-2022 ReVisión: Art in the Americas exhibition at Denver Art Museum (DAM)
2020 Foundations of Digital Art & Design by xtine burrough
2020 Ars Electronica In Kepler’s Gardens: Gardens del Rio Grande
2019 Stadstriennale Screen It Hasselt and Genk, Belgium
2019 //50 Years of Screen Media// Screen It catalogue
2019 Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century edited volume
2019 ArteNuevoInteractivo enters Whitney Museum of Art’s ArtPort historical database
2018 Deep Roots exhibition at the University of Texas at San Antonio
2018 NextNewGames at San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art
2017 Crossings at Emmanuel Gallery of the University of Colorado at Denver
2017 “Gaming Empire” in Mestizo Technology a special issue of the NMC Journal
2016 Journalism as Activism by Adrienne Russell
2016 Cultural Code by Phillip Penix-Tadsen
2009 Arte Nuevo InteractivA ’09 exhibition checklist
2009 Tactical Media by Rita Raley
2008 ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox essay “Using Greenfoot and Games to Teach Rising 9th and 10th Grade Novice Programmers” proceedings
2007 “En la brecha” curatorial essay by Laura Baigorri for Arte Nuevo Interactiva ’07 bienale, Merida, Mexico
2006 “Building A Game Development Program” in IEEE Computer
Games
2023 Space Invaders Historical Edition, a space invaders remix with Eric J. Garcia. https://github.com/rafaelfajardo/PySpaceInvaders
2023 Nemo’s Helper: an interactive fiction, a spanglish parable set in the Juan & the Beanstalk universe being made in Twine. https://rafaelfajardo.itch.io/nemos-helper-an-interactive-fiction
2022 Nemo’s Helper: 8000 Feet Above (and two mountain ranges from) The Sea, a Juan & the Beanstalk adventure being made in Bitsy. https://rafaelfajardo.itch.io/nemos-helper
2021 Crosser & La Migra rewritten. http://sudor.org/betatest/ , https://github.com/rafaelfajardo/border-games-rewrite
2020 Soil microRPG https://rafaelfajardo.com/portfolio/micro-nano-rpgs/ , https://github.com/rafaelfajardo/soil_microRPG
2019 Mango microRPG https://rafaelfajardo.com/portfolio/micro-nano-rpgs/ , https://github.com/rafaelfajardo/mango_microRPG
2018 Migraciones https://sudor.org/migraciones/
2017 Futura, interactive fiction created with Twine https://rafaelfajardo.itch.io/futura
2015 What are we going to do now? A set of conceptual games. https://rafaelfajardo.com/portfolio/micro-nano-rpgs/ , https://github.com/rafaelfajardo/WAWGTDN
2014 Sow/Reap https://sudor.org/sowreap-prospectus/
2006 Squeezed (online documentation needs to be reconstructed)
2004 Seeds of Solitude, Fifa! Fo! Fum!, Excite Burro, Juan Runner, a set of games in the Juan & the Beanstalk universe. http://www.sudor.net/games/juan.html
2001 La Migra http://www.sudor.net/games/crosser_lamigra/index.html
2000 Crosser http://www.sudor.net/games/crosser_lamigra/index.html
Acknowledgements: This work could not exist without my collaborators in SWEAT. Francisco Ortega Grimaldo, Miguel Tarango, Marco Ortega, Carmen Escobar (now Martinez), and Tomás Márquez Carmona were the first generation of collaborators who crafted _Crosser_. Larry Nguyen, Glen Carlson, and Chad Schmidt were the second generation who crafted a suite of games in the Juan & the Beanstalk universe. Kara Cochran (now Brittain), Scott Leutenegger, Bill Depper, Mohammed Albow, Geoff Edgington, Dan Pittman, Melanie Fredericks (now Osmus), Porter Schutz, and more, collaborated on _Juiced_, a game funded by MTVu. André Blyth, Esteban Fajardo, Ben Lehr, Tommy Hoffmann, and Teri Galvez, collaborated on _Sow_/_Reap_ which was shown once and then an operating system update broke it. Esteban Fajardo, Chris GauthierDickey collaborated on _Migraciones_. Chris GauthierDickey collaborated on re-writing _Crosser_ and _La_Migra_ so they could continue to be played for the next twenty years. Eric García and Esteban Fajardo collaborated on _Space_Invaders_ for the _Aim_High_ exhibition (which has had the working title of _Invaders_Invasores_Coyotl_ in the studio).