Happy Pride Month!
Continue reading...By The Meridiem Gleam Updated
Surprise! By The Meridiem Gleam has been updated, with a ton of small fixes and minor improvements (including an option to swap the minigame controls to...
Continue reading...1348 Ex Voto First Impressions
Adapted from an in-progress Steam review My first impression, after not quite two hours of gameplay, is that 1348 Ex Voto is nowhere near as bad...
Continue reading...Trying Some Smaller Games
Four short mini-articles for four short experiences. After bouncing hard off The Outer Worlds 2, I decided to poke at my backlog a bit instead of...
Continue reading...I have complicated feelings about AI
So. AI. I could just join the chorus of voices opposing it in every way, shape, and form. Or I could throw morals to the wayside...
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Gina as Dame Aylin and Sakura as Isobel. They’ve upped their costume game this year!
Continue reading...This merge game can fit so many harmful stereotypes in it
Adapted from a thread on Bluesky An aside: I’m calling this a merge game because I’ve heard others call it that. I’ve played a bunch of...
Continue reading...Boulder’s Gate 4 released
Boulder’s Gate 4 by XCVG My entry for So Bad It’s Good Jam 2025, ostensibly a parody of Baldur’s Gate 3. There’s a few layers to...
Continue reading...Shattered 3 Prototype Release
Shattered 3 may never be a thing, but here’s a demo of what was done so far. A devlog covering where this project was meant to...
Continue reading...Another political post
I don’t like doing political posts. I’m no longer a Strictly Apolitical Creator, but I’d still much rather be writing about TV shows or old electronics....
Continue reading...Shattered 2 Source and Art Pack Release
After half of year of delays, the Shattered 2 source code and art pack are finally here! Art pack: download from OpenGameArt Source code: clone from...
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Finished my Heretic level. It’s not on idgames yet but you can grab it from https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/rx1l8whpuovz4o9/xs_htest.zip/file . Requires a Heretic IWAD and a reasonably recent version...
Continue reading...Starlight Nights released
A surprise game, created for Trans Joy Jam 2025. By day, you’re a Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton. By night, you fight mysterious nightmares with magical...
Continue reading...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...
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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...
Continue reading...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...
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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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...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...
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Some progress on Project Daybreak/Big Team Heavies/Outliers 3 (I really need to come up with the final title)
Continue reading...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....
Continue reading...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...
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