Finished my Heretic level. It’s not on idgames yet but you can grab it from https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/rx1l8whpuovz4o9/xs_htest.zip/file . Requires a Heretic IWAD and a reasonably recent version...
Continue reading...This post is about Plague Inc and nothing else
If you’ve played Plague Inc*, you might be familiar with the stealth strategy. Keep lethality and severity low, ramp infectivity, bank DNA and let the plague...
Continue reading...Starlight Nights released
A surprise game, created for Trans Joy Jam 2025. By day, you’re a Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton. By night, you fight mysterious nightmares with magical...
Continue reading...I realize it’s already mid-February and I haven’t posted anything here yet. I do have things in the pipeline, though, including a semi-surprise game. I’m typically...
Continue reading...Sneaking in one last release this year, CommonCore R6.2 https://github.com/XCVG/commoncore/releases/tag/6.2.0
Continue reading...As is customary, the yearly status update: https://www.xcvgsystems.com/2024/12/end-of-year-2024-status-update/ tl;dr By The Meridiem Gleam, a couple joke projects, doing less game dev and more other things
Continue reading...Reflecting on RWBY Part 3: My Story
This RWBY Retrospective series ended up a lot more drawn-out than I intended, but we’re finally at the end. This one is more personal and perhaps...
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Capturing VHS tapes is kind of hard
I’ve recently* come across some VHS tapes I wanted to digitize. I’ve captured video before, both analog and digital, but I quickly found out that tapes...
Continue reading...I’m now on BlueSky as xcvg.bsky.social! Not sure what my approach to that is going to be yet, whether it’s going to be similar to how...
Continue reading...By The Meridiem Gleam Released
By The Meridiem Gleam, formerly Project Daybreak, is here! This is the third game (fourth if you count The Crystal Tower) of the series, and can...
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I can’t be “apolitical” any longer
I’ve always been apolitical as a creator. In my decade plus run as XCVG Systems, I’ve never done a political post or even mentioned anything political...
Continue reading...Reflecting on RWBY Part 2: Contradictions
How do you even start to talk about RWBY? There’s so much to unpack here. It’s not for no reason that the online discourse on this...
Continue reading...Stepping back, shrinking down
After spending the better part of a decade of game dev being the central anchor in my life, I’m rapidly stepping back from it. This is...
Continue reading...Reflecting on RWBY Part 1: The Rewatch
As usual, I am fashionably late. I started my (re)watch of RWBY shortly after Rooster Teeth announced they were shutting down, but it took me until...
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So, the Halo show was cancelled. I’m not sure if I’m surprised by that. On one hand, while I don’t think it was a very good...
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Some progress on Project Daybreak/Big Team Heavies/Outliers 3 (I really need to come up with the final title)
Continue reading...A jam postmortem (of sorts)
So Bad It’s Good Jam 2024 just concluded, and I have a few thoughts on my entry, The Excessive Sound Guys, and on jamming in general....
Continue reading...Gap Year Part 3: New Normal
The third part of Gap Year, a three-part illustrated novella that ties into the Outliers and Outsiders series of games, is out now, finishing up the series! This...
Continue reading...The Canoscan FS4000 Film Scanner
This is my Canoscan FS4000. It’s a dedicated film scanner with a 4000dpi resolution, infrared cleaning, a USB interface, and batch scanning capability. I got it...
Continue reading...I’ve also quietly updated The Crystal Tower with a bugfix for an infinite ammo glitch that’s been around since 2022. I think it’s the only game...
Continue reading...Project Daybreak Released
Project Daybreak, an early build of what will be the third mainline Outliers and Outsiders (Magical Girl Gina) game, is now available on itch. This prototype...
Continue reading...I know it’s been quiet here, because I’m in an awkward spot with a lot of stuff almost, but not ready to go. I’ve got a...
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