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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...

2024-11-05 by XCVG Game Dev

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...

2024-09-04 by XCVG Game Dev Long Form

Some progress on Project Daybreak/Big Team Heavies/Outliers 3 (I really need to come up with the final title)

2024-08-01 by XCVG Game Dev

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....

2024-07-18 by XCVG Game Dev

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...

2024-06-19 by XCVG Game Dev

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...

2024-06-19 by XCVG Game Dev

CommonCore R6 Released

CommonCore R6, formerly known as CommonCore Firene, is now released! This release marks a change in nomenclature and a change in how it will be released...

2024-04-05 by XCVG Game Dev

I’ve unpublished the last of my Android games from Google Play. Most have probably been hidden for a while since they all target outdated API versions....

2023-11-12 by XCVG Game Dev

CommonCore 6.0.0 Preview 1, the first preview release of the Firene (6.x) series, has been released https://github.com/XCVG/commoncore/releases/tag/6.0.0-pre1

2023-11-09 by XCVG Game Dev

Minor updates to Safety and Security at the Liberty Macvonden Building, The Crystal Tower, and Shattered 2 have been released. For the most part, these are...

2023-11-06 by XCVG Game Dev

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after months of work I have a slap fight

2023-10-23 by XCVG Game Dev

SE7ENGOKU Economy Update Demo Released

A new SE7ENGOKU update is out, bringing in an inter-level screen and upgrade system! https://xcvg.itch.io/sevengoku/devlog/618610/se7engoku-economy-update-devlog

2023-10-09 by XCVG Game Dev

So, Unity has backtracked. What does that mean for me? Not much, really, so I’m not going to do a big long post on it. I’m...

2023-09-27 by XCVG Game Dev

Unity: My journey and my take

It’s an exaggeration to say my experience with the Unity engine is synonymous with my journey in game development, but not by much. I started using...

2023-09-16 by XCVG Game Dev Long Form

Will probably do a longer post on the whole Unity situation this week but… it’s another reminder that you are beholden to your engine vendor as...

2023-09-12 by XCVG Game Dev

CommonCore 5.0.0 Released

After a bit of a documentation-related delay, CommonCore 5.0.0 is now released! https://github.com/XCVG/commoncore/releases/tag/5.0.0

2023-08-28 by XCVG Game Dev

Looks like it’s the end of the line for my last Android games on Google Play. They’ve been phasing in new target API requirements and on...

2023-08-21 by XCVG Game Dev

you have to make the game Released

Check out my entry to So Bad It’s Good Jam 2023, you have to make the game (if that doesn’t show up as a link, try...

2023-08-06 by XCVG Game Dev

SE7ENGOKU Spiral 2 Demo Released

The SE7ENGOKU demo I alluded to in my last post is now released! Check it out here: https://xcvg.itch.io/sevengoku

2023-07-28 by XCVG Game Dev

An updated demo of Project D759/SE7ENGOKU is coming. Not a ton of visual changes but a lot of gameplay tweaks that make it play a lot...

2023-07-26 by XCVG Game Dev

Chicago Theme for CommonCore

So I hacked together another UI theme for CommonCore. No, it’s not actually available in game, that’s for demonstration purposes only. This is based on the...

2023-07-08 by XCVG Game Dev

Source code and art pack for See Who I Am have been released https://opengameart.org/content/see-who-i-am-art-pack https://github.com/XCVG/apocalypse-and-chill_public

2023-06-23 by XCVG Game Dev

Shattered 2 2.1.1 Update

Almost a year after the initial release, the planned major update to Shattered 2 is now released and ready to play! Featuring new sidequests, achievements, collectibles...

2023-04-15 by XCVG Game Dev

Split out and re-released the RPG section of RiftBreak (from way back in 2020!) with some better quality of life features https://xcvg.itch.io/tim

2023-04-10 by XCVG Game Dev

Project D759

Finished my entry for Magical Girl Game Jam 7, a demo of sorts for a future project https://xcvg.itch.io/project-d759

2023-03-12 by XCVG Game Dev