Surprise! By The Meridiem Gleam has been updated, with a ton of small fixes and minor improvements (including an option to swap the minigame controls to...
Continue reading...1348 Ex Voto First Impressions
Adapted from an in-progress Steam review My first impression, after not quite two hours of gameplay, is that 1348 Ex Voto is nowhere near as bad...
Continue reading...Trying Some Smaller Games
Four short mini-articles for four short experiences. After bouncing hard off The Outer Worlds 2, I decided to poke at my backlog a bit instead of...
Continue reading...I Gave Up On The Outer Worlds 2
I really, really, really wanted to like The Outer Worlds 2. From the pitch, it sounded like it would be right up my alley. I went...
Continue reading...Act 3 Nearly Broke Me
I am very late to the Baldur’s Gate 3 party, and honestly, this is the one hype train I wish I’d been aboard from the beginning....
Continue reading...March 2026 Video Removals
The following videos will be removed from my YouTube channel soon: The following videos will remain up for the time being, but will be made unlisted:...
Continue reading...I finally finished Baldur’s Gate 3, and wow
Adapted from a reddit post I knew very little about Baldur’s Gate 3 going in, but I liked some of the characters I saw fanart of...
Continue reading...The yearly status update for 2025, now available at a store near you! End Of Year 2025 Status Update – XCVG Systems
Continue reading...Almost a year after CommonCore R6.2, here is R6.3 with not much added https://github.com/XCVG/commoncore/releases/tag/6.3.0Next will probably be R7.0.0 targeting Unity 6.3 LTS (skipping Unity 6.0 entirely)
Continue reading...I did actually start a Christmas project this year, but I kept procrastinating on it and even now that I’ve started it’s just not coming together...
Continue reading...I have complicated feelings about AI
So. AI. I could just join the chorus of voices opposing it in every way, shape, and form. Or I could throw morals to the wayside...
Continue reading...CommonCore Codenames
I spent more time than I probably should have coming up with codenames for each version of CommonCore. Since the list is pretty long and I’ll...
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Gina as Dame Aylin and Sakura as Isobel. They’ve upped their costume game this year!
Continue reading...CVE-2025-59489 has been addressed
Summary post on the main site: Update on CVE-2025-59489 – XCVG Systems
Continue reading...Addressing CVE-2025-59489
Find the details on my main site: Addressing CVE-2025-59489 – XCVG Systems tl;dr: most games from 2020 onward will be patched, hoping to finish this by...
Continue reading...This merge game can fit so many harmful stereotypes in it
Adapted from a thread on Bluesky An aside: I’m calling this a merge game because I’ve heard others call it that. I’ve played a bunch of...
Continue reading...Finished my postmortem for Boulder’s Gate/So Bad It’s Good Jam 2025: https://xcvg.itch.io/roxton/devlog/1018020/sbig-jam-2025-postmortem
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Some photos from a photowalk in Fort Langley (with @biggayzuck.bsky.social and jnn_bt) shot on a Sony Mavica FD-88 from 1999. I’ve had this camera for a...
Continue reading...Boulder’s Gate 4 released
Boulder’s Gate 4 by XCVG My entry for So Bad It’s Good Jam 2025, ostensibly a parody of Baldur’s Gate 3. There’s a few layers to...
Continue reading...My love-hate relationship with A Song of Ice and Fire
Adapted from a thread on Bluesky I have this complex love-hate relationship with GoT/ASoIaF; I love the characters and some of the worldbuilding, but the brutality...
Continue reading...An update to SE7ENGOKU after a year and a half in limbo, spurred on by the third Magical Girl Continue-It Jam. It’s a space shooter that...
Continue reading...Shattered 3 Prototype Release
Shattered 3 may never be a thing, but here’s a demo of what was done so far. A devlog covering where this project was meant to...
Continue reading...Another political post
I don’t like doing political posts. I’m no longer a Strictly Apolitical Creator, but I’d still much rather be writing about TV shows or old electronics....
Continue reading...Shattered 2 Source and Art Pack Release
After half of year of delays, the Shattered 2 source code and art pack are finally here! Art pack: download from OpenGameArt Source code: clone from...
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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...
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