XCVG's Blog – Page 3 – Indie dev, writer, "artist", tech enthusiast

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

After procrastinating on it for five years, I finally made a vector version of the XCVG Systems logo. It took me about 20 minutes. The improved...

2023-06-25 by XCVG Uncategorized

finally actually wrote some rules for the Discord server

2023-06-25 by XCVG Uncategorized

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

the customary mid year status update is up now https://www.xcvgsystems.com/2023/06/mid-2023-status-update/

2023-06-22 by XCVG Uncategorized

mid-2023 status update coming soon, and a few art and source releases

2023-06-20 by XCVG Uncategorized

reading through old Anandtech articles I forgor AMD used to have their own fabs

2023-06-17 by XCVG Uncategorized

In a bit of a creative rut right now, but things are maybe picking up again. I’ve got a lot of potential projects but nothing I’m...

2023-06-10 by XCVG Uncategorized

CommonCore 5.0.0 Preview 1, the first release of the Edgewater (5.x) series, has been released! Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/XCVG/commoncore/releases/tag/5.0.0-pre1

2023-05-21 by XCVG Uncategorized

Gap Year Part 1: Social Distancing

Gap Year is a tie-in to the Outliers and Outsiders series of games, filling the gap between At The Break Of Dawn and The Crystal Tower. It can be...

2023-05-19 by XCVG Uncategorized

I will be taking down my old fanfics from Fanfiction.net in the near future. If, y’know, there’s anyone out there who still cares about those. The...

2023-04-20 by XCVG Uncategorized

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

Another update on the Shattered 2 update

2023-03-29 by XCVG Uncategorized

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

Been very busy lately but have been working on a thing for Magical Girl Game Jam 7

2023-02-27 by XCVG Game Dev

Some worldbuilding for Shattered 2

2023-02-10 by XCVG Game Dev

I already found a bug in CommonCore 4.1.1, looks like there’s going to be a 4.1.2 after all (at some point)

2023-02-05 by XCVG Game Dev

CommonCore 4.1.1 is out! Just another very minor release. https://github.com/XCVG/commoncore/releases/tag/4.1.1

2023-02-03 by XCVG Game Dev

An update on the Shattered 2 update (linked below the fold)

2023-01-25 by XCVG Game Dev

On visual novels and dialogue systems

So, I’ve mentioned my various visual novel projects. Not so much here, but elsewhere. What’s funny is there’s a direct lineage, at least technically, from the...

2023-01-20 by XCVG Game Dev Long Form

A Concept

A concept for a game I will probably never make. Clean version of the art in the post. There’s a bit more to this idea than...

2023-01-11 by XCVG Uncategorized