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Reflecting on RWBY Part 3: My Story

This RWBY Retrospective series ended up a lot more drawn-out than I intended, but we’re finally at the end. This one is more personal and perhaps...

2024-12-11 by XCVG Long Form

a nice wintery painting for December

2024-12-03 by XCVG Art

Capturing VHS tapes is kind of hard

I’ve recently* come across some VHS tapes I wanted to digitize. I’ve captured video before, both analog and digital, but I quickly found out that tapes...

2024-11-27 by XCVG Long Form Tech

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

Happy Halloween! They’ve managed to do themed costumes this time…

2024-10-31 by XCVG Art

I can’t be “apolitical” any longer

I’ve always been apolitical as a creator. In my decade plus run as XCVG Systems, I’ve never done a political post or even mentioned anything political...

2024-10-02 by XCVG Uncategorized

Reflecting on RWBY Part 2: Contradictions

How do you even start to talk about RWBY? There’s so much to unpack here. It’s not for no reason that the online discourse on this...

2024-09-13 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

Reflecting on RWBY Part 1: The Rewatch

As usual, I am fashionably late. I started my (re)watch of RWBY shortly after Rooster Teeth announced they were shutting down, but it took me until...

2024-08-06 by XCVG Commentary Long Form

Way late to Pride Month, but just in time for Vancouver Pride (?!)

2024-08-02 by XCVG Art

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

Gap Year Part 3: New Normal

The third part of Gap Year, a three-part illustrated novella that ties into the Outliers and Outsiders series of games, is out now, finishing up the series! This...

2024-06-26 by XCVG Uncategorized

The Canoscan FS4000 Film Scanner

This is my Canoscan FS4000. It’s a dedicated film scanner with a 4000dpi resolution, infrared cleaning, a USB interface, and batch scanning capability. I got it...

2024-06-20 by XCVG Long Form Photography

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

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

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

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