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....
Continue reading...A jam postmortem (of sorts)
Gap Year Part 3: New Normal
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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...
Continue reading...The Canoscan FS4000 Film Scanner
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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...
Continue reading...Project Daybreak Released
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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...
Continue reading...The Eaget Box: A Thrift Store Curiosity
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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....
Continue reading...The Thunderbolt Compatibility Conundrum
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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...
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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)
Continue reading...Gap Year Part 2: Pandemic Time
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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!...
Continue reading...you have to make the game Released
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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...
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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...
Continue reading...Chicago Theme for CommonCore
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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...
Continue reading...Gap Year Part 1: Social Distancing
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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...
Continue reading...Project D759
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Finished my entry for Magical Girl Game Jam 7, a demo of sorts for a future project https://xcvg.itch.io/project-d759
Continue reading...A Concept
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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...
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