I've actually finished a game! No, sadly, not THAT game, but A game. It's called SimpleQuest, and it's an RPG I probably should have built a long, long time ago.

The game's got one playable character, one town, an overworld, and three dungeons. More importantly, it's got pretty much everything you'd expect from a simple Dragon Quest-style game: items, battles, levelling up, etc etc, but not much else. The game isn't very long, and it's as straightforward as possible.

If anyone out there is still working with Verge, I highly recommend doing the same sort of thing! Figure out what the absolute minimum you need for a game you'd like to make, and focus on just that. When you're done, you'll have a better understanding of the process, you'll have a bunch of code you've tinkered with enough to get working, and you'll have something to show off. THEN you can look at the next project. :)

I'm proud to announce Breadbrothers Games next title, Sully: A Very Serious RPG!

This title is a re-imagining of The Sully Chronicles (VERGE's own demo game since 1997), and will be coming out in the Summer of 2013 for PC, Mac, Linux, and Playstation Mobile (including the Vita).

Many of the Ancient Vergers of Old are involved with this project, and we're using a custom engine written in C# (based largely on the efforts of Zeromus and Gayo) that runs VERGE 3 assets in XNA/Monogame. After the release I plan on open sourcing the engine itself, but this isn't a priority for now.

For now... there's a game to finish!

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