Ciro Durán A Live Archive

About me

Ciro Durán

Curriculum Vitae

I’m a game developer living in the United Kingdom. I tinker with electronics and physical computing. I play music and have fun with it. I was born in Venezuela, where I also grew up. This website is a collection of things I’d like to preserve.

I’m working as Senior Software Engineer for Sony Interactive Entertainment since 2025. I’ve worked in the British computer games industry since 2014. In Venezuela, I taught and promoted computer game development, I co-founded Caracas Game Jam and was part of the Open English co-founders team. I collaborated for the Global Game Jam, serving as Regional Coordinator, Executive Committee and Executive Producer (in 2015).

El Chigüire Literario, or The Literary Capybara, is a blog in Spanish in which I write since 2006 about game development and computer games around the world.

My personal games are inspired in the reality of the place I grew up, the city of Caracas, Venezuela, to the north of South America; with her hopes and her frustrations, her beauties and her horrors. You can play Voting Day, Tele, Nación Motorizada y Mi Amigo el Puma as examples.

I have some presence in social networks, you can follow me through these places:

In case you’re wondering, capybaras in Venezuela are known as chiguires (pronounce it as chee-wee-res).

How this website is made

This website is written in Markdown and processed with Jekyll to generate a static website. The theme is based on Lanyon with modifications, including “jekyll-polyglot” for getting a full bilingual website. There are no ads and no tracking or analytics (except the ones that a Youtube video might put for themselves).