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 powers. You’re just like any other normal magical girl, inasmuch as any magical girl can be considered normal. There’s just one elephant in the room… It’s more of a sidescroller… Read more »
As another year comes to a close, it’s once again time for the customary recaps, rewinds, and retrospectives, and here’s mine. I can say that of all the years, 2024 has been one of them. It’s actually been a pretty good, if very busy, year for me personally, but creatively it’s a bit more complicated.… Read more »
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 be considered an ending to the first arc or phase. Gina and her companions are recruited into a special task force and sent around the world to fight monsters-… Read more »
CommonCore (page, repo) R6 is now released… and that means something a bit different than previous releases. There’s been a slight change in nomenclature, as you may have noticed, and with that change in nomenclature come some changes in how releases will be done going forward. This is a very small release compared to 5.0.0, because it’s… Read more »
I can hardly believe it’s almost 2024! I thought this would be a short recap, but once I started going through it I realized there’s actually quite a bit to go through, so let’s dive in. Updates, Updates, Updates Though there were no major releases this year, there was a major update to last year’s… Read more »
CommonCore (page, repo) is now up to version 5! This is a pretty small release, continuing the trend of versions 3 and 4 but coming sooner after the previous release. This version targets Unity 2021, and I’ve decided to shorten the release cycle to move on to Unity 2022 sooner while still doing one major… Read more »
Wow, it’s already time for the mid-year status update! This year has been a quieter one, although that is what I expected and planned for. I threw together a prototype of SE7ENGOKU for Magical Girl Game Jam 7, released as Project D759. It’s mostly a mechanics demo, with one level and most of the core… Read more »
Wow, it’s already the end of the year! This will probably be a shorter status update than the one from 2021. Some of that might be down to laziness, but most of it is because there’s just less to talk about than last year. I expected that, and I think I made the right choices… Read more »
The Crystal Tower (takagi) has been updated for 2022! The plan for this game has always been to update it a bit every year, and this iteration is here just in time for Christmas! The 2022 version (2.0.0) isn’t a dramatic overhaul, but some of the jankiest gameplay sections have been smoothed out, and the… Read more »
CommonCore (page, repo) has now reached its fourth major version! It’s not the most exciting release, but it brings some important improvements that reflect the relative maturity of the project versus where it was a year or two ago. For those of you not in the know, this is the framework that powers most of… Read more »