Google is trying to kill open app development on Android. Let's push back. keepandroidopen.org www.change.org/p/stop-googl...

Done the first draft on my AI post, around 3000 words. Hoping to get it out next week. This one's gonna be a doozy...

I was really hoping to do at least a drawing for Halloween this year, but I just don't think I'm going to have the time.

So, uh, is ~~343 Industries~~ Halo Studios just giving up? A UE5 remake of a game that's already had one remaster, without the beloved multiplayer, is... a choice. Not continuing Infinite's abbreviated campaign, or bringing us something brand new?

I installed Windows Me in an emulator for some reason

Somehow all three sticks of RAM in my Windows 98 retro machine went bad

Summary post on CVE-2025-59489 www.xcvgsystems.com/2025/10/upda...

The Excessive Sound Guys and You Have To Make The Game are now patched for CVE-2025-59489 (that concludes the patching adventure, summary post coming soon)

Project D759 (version 1.0.0) and SE7ENGOKU (Story Mode Preliminary Demo, previously 4c01d7 and now 65dadd6) are now patched for CVE-2025-59489

followed a video tutorial and managed to not completely screw it up? (the half-elf ears were not in the video but I couldn't help myself)

Shattered and In The Middle Of The Night are now patched for CVE-2025-59489 (almost there!)

At The Break Of Dawn and A Dream Of Valhalla are now patched for CVE-2025-59489

See Who I Am, Shattered 2 - The Promise, and The Crystal Tower are now patched for CVE-2025-59489

Starlight Nights and By The Meridiem Gleam are now patched for CVE-2025-59489

Smash up the stealership, Boulder's Gate 4, and Shattered 3 are now patched for CVE-2025-59489

www.xcvgsystems.com/2025/10/addr... tl;dr: Most games from 2020 to today will be patched, hoping to be done by the end of the month.

*slaps hood* this merge game can fit so many harmful stereotypes in it

I will post an update on the Unity vulnerability situation soon, I have quite a few affected games and am still evaluating what the actual severity is, which games can be patched, and which ones I'm going to be bothered to patch.

If you see this, post a picture from your device without explaining it

I just realized it's probably supposed to be "Lords Paramount" and not "Lord Paramounts"

I keep forgetting a) how much taller Gina is than Sakura b) what an absolute unit Gina is

time for some upgrades?

YouTube Playables is interesting because it lets you play mobile games cross-platform and without monetization. Some games play great without the enshittification, others were definitely relying on it for padding and engagement. Some are stupidly easy with a mouse, others are unplayable.

Sad to have missed Game Sewer but it sounds like it went well so hopefully we'll have a similar event again some time

Wait, ChipDrop is a real thing and not a sketch?

Speaking of AI, the Shattered 3 demo is now available in an AI-free variant for your viewing pleasure, and the itch page has been updated to reflect that version xcvg.itch.io/shattered3

I really ought to do a long-form blog post on AI, because my feelings on it are a lot more complicated than a simple "fuck AI" but I definitely don't see eye-to-eye with the AI hucksters.

@rayflower.bsky.social these are almost too nice to drink

So "I'm a gatekeeper and a hater. I'm also god's favourite princess" was originally an Azula meme before a Shadowheart one? Wondering if that rabbit hole goes even deeper

Depending on what's counted as a credit, I might be the weird outlier sitting under the line because all my games are kitbashed together from piles of random assets

these are real, but they will be very limited because they're a huge pain in the ass to cut out

getting ready for Full Indie Summit and another local event

One of my favourites, highly underrated and I only stumbled upon it by chance.

ODST is short for "Oh Dope She's Transgender"

I managed to burn 4 coasters, 3 of them on fancy M-Disc BD-R media. Possibly USB issues, or maybe those M-Discs are bad (I did buy them from a discount pile)

I let the intrusive thoughts win and made a "chocolate" milkshake that tastes halfway between uncooked cake batter and a new car scented air freshener

making fancy shaped cards to hand out at Full Indie and realizing why people don't make fancy shaped cards

I still need a name for my car smashy game

Google, what the fuck are you doing? arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Finished my postmortem for Boulder's Gate/So Bad It's Good Jam 2025: xcvg.itch.io/roxton/devlo...

TIL my dishwasher defaults to "cook everything" after a power interruption :(

Finally actually writing something vaguely resembling a series bible for Outliers... does this mean another Magical Girl Gina game is coming? (no, it doesn't)

I finally figured out how to use animation transitions and parameters I have been (mis)using the Unity animation system for about a decade

I know that computers are fast enough to emulate things in software, and virtualization is ubiquitous now, but I kinda wish those crazy "PC compatibility cards" that were a whole computer on a card were still a thing.

Some photos from Fort Langley with @biggayzuck.bsky.social and jnn_bt on Instagram... shot on a 1999 Sony Mavica FD-88.

Intrusive thought of the day: maybe you should create your own lesbian knight comic. I am starting to think I may have undiagnosed ADHD.

Works scrubbed from the internet are nothing new, but what about one where the announcement of its removal is also gone and the creators have disappeared? Only interviews, secondhand articles, and a handful of archived pages survive.

Playing through the entries in So Bad It's Good Jam, some very fun and unique ideas this year. The modifier was "genre fakeout" and I think it's one of the best modifiers yet. itch.io/jam/sbigjam2...

I figured out why none of my Unity WebGL games are saving data, could have sworn autoSyncPersistentDataPath defaulted to true at some point