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

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

The Eaget Box: A Thrift Store Curiosity

I found this weird thing at the thrift store. A box in the electronics section, with some USB ports, AV jacks, an a hard drive bay....

2024-03-17 by XCVG Long Form Tech

Happy St Patrick’s Day!

2024-03-17 by XCVG Art

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I’ve unpublished the last of my Android games from Google Play. Most have probably been hidden for a while since they all target outdated API versions....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