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Adobe Suite vs AI Bro Vibe Slop Clone really does feel like a "would you like a shit sandwich or a puke cupcake" situation

It's election season (again. already.) Text version here: blog.xcvgsystems.com/its-election...

A Decade of Jank postmortem part 2 (looking back on the entire decade of SBIG games) xcvg.itch.io/guildford/de...

DOOM, 1993. I've played it everywhere, on just about every device imaginable, and it's what got me into game design.

I went to the renaissance faire instead of Full Indie Summit this year, and it felt 100% like the right decision. I'm still not completely sure what to think of that.

Postmortem for A Decade Of Jank is out tl;dr this is the last SBIG game from me but it's not done yet xcvg.itch.io/guildford/de...

oh hecc it's already been a month since sbig jam I should really finish that postmortem

Xbox backwards compatibility on PC feels like it should be a bigger deal, it's barely made the news. It's also crazy to me that they shipped a whole 360 emulator to make 4 OG Xbox titles run.

I made a Windows ARM64 build but does anyone actually have a WoA device?!

this year's very unfinished entry to So Bad It's Good Jam xcvg.itch.io/guildford

CommonCore R7 is here, with minor changes over R6 and targeting Unity 6.3 LTS github.com/XCVG/commonc...

Finally, the Shattered 3 postmortem (kinda) xcvg.itch.io/shattered3/d... tl;dr it was cancelled, I might get back to it, but still a lot of unknowns and it isn't coming any time soon

It's been over a year since I declared Shattered 3 cancelled and I'm finally finishing up a devlog about it

I kinda want a github repo CD but also it kinda feels like a phishing scam. Could always just burn my own...

and TIL I learned about the #ShittyCameraChallenge I think some of my cameras do qualify...

TIL about "make a terrible comic day" (unfortunately it was 3 days ago)

ngl this seems like a spectacular own goal on their part

Slightly late to the party, but as promised, a special piece for Pride Month!

Happy Pride Month! I do have an art piece in the pipeline, but it wasn't quite ready in time for June 1

if there's a Nissan Rogue they should make that their naming convention Nissan Paladin. Nissan Warlock. Nissan... Bard?

it's not like I have a whole pile of other games to play or anything

I finally bought my first ttrpg book, and it is not D&D

a whole bunch of the demos I had lined up to play on Steam were removed after release/next fest which I sorta get but also is wild to me as someone who grew up on Q3DM17, Tobruk and Silent Cartographer my guys I am more likely to move on than buy your full-price game sight unseen

@gamesewer.com is coming back for 2026 and I'm hyped!

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 something more sane) xcvg.itch.io/daybreak

I'm kinda coming around to the idea of characters being the single most important part of a game for fan engagement and long-term mindshare

Been trying some demos and shorter games blog.xcvgsystems.com/trying-some-...

Not a full breakdown on why it didn't land for me, but a few thoughts on The Outer Worlds 2 blog.xcvgsystems.com/i-gave-up-on...

I gave up on The Outer Worlds 2. It just didn't click for me, even after eighteen hours and many second chances. Maybe I'll do a piece on this, maybe I won't.

Finished my piece on BG3 Act 3, in record time. Nothing groundbreaking, but a way of looking at it I haven't seen much before. blog.xcvgsystems.com/act-3-nearly... (apologies in advance for the hyperbolic clickbait title)

The Fallout series is really good but it dances on the edge of "too bleak, stopped caring" for me. (also I still haven't fully forgiven it for basically pulling a Happy Ending Override for at least 1/2/NV and possibly the whole series)

Taking down more videos again blog.xcvgsystems.com/march-2026-v...

I want to like The Outer Worlds 2 but to be honest it's kinda been a slog so far. It's just not drawing me into the world or selling me on the characters, and those are at the top of the list of things that get me engaged with a game.

Okay, I'm sure she has a great story and it's not what I expect, but my first thought was "we have Karlach at home"

not perfect but I finally stopped procrastinating on the "2025" concepts from left to right: Sakura, Gina, Lily, Delora