XCVG's Blog – Page 2 – Indie dev, writer, "artist", tech enthusiast

The Thunderbolt Compatibility Conundrum

This looks like it should work, but it doesn’t. It’s not because I’ve used an outright wrong adapter, say a USB-C to mDP adapter in the...

2024-02-25 by XCVG Long Form Tech

Happy Lunar New Year!

2024-02-10 by XCVG Art

Style, Setting, and Sequels: Musings On John Wick

This is (obviously) not the long-promised “shrinking as a creator” post. I will get to that one, but to open 2024, I wanted to do something...

2024-01-08 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

It’s not quite 2024 for me, but it is for some folks. Happy New Years, everyone! (4/4 of the Holiday 2023 art series)

2023-12-31 by XCVG Art

It’s almost the end of 2023, which means it’s time for the yearly status update! https://www.xcvgsystems.com/2023/12/end-of-year-2023-status-update/

2023-12-28 by XCVG Site News

3/4 of the Holiday 2023 art series

2023-12-24 by XCVG Art

Gap Year Part 2: Pandemic Time

The second part of Gap Year, a three-part illustrated novella that ties into the Outliers and Outsiders series of games, is out now- just in time for Christmas!...

2023-12-24 by XCVG Uncategorized

2/4 of the Holiday 2023 art series

2023-12-12 by XCVG Art

A special art series for the Holiday 2023 season, this is 1 of 4

2023-12-10 by XCVG Art

I’ve unpublished the last of my Android games from Google Play. Most have probably been hidden for a while since they all target outdated API versions....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

Happy Halloween!

2023-10-31 by XCVG Art

I wanted to love Starfield

Or, how to break your game loop

2023-10-29 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

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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

I really wanted to love Starfield, but in the end I merely liked it

2023-10-08 by XCVG Commentary

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