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

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