X-YZE
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
X-YZE (pronounced "excise") is a bump combat action game with a mysterious short story.
CLICK FOR CONTENT WARNINGS (a little spoilery)
psychological manipulation, anxiety, panic attacks, gender/body/identity dysphoria, depression, dissociation, mild body horror, suicidal ideationFEATURES
- Play as a creature!
- Bump combat
- Mostly linear servers (aka levels), each with unique types of daemons (aka non-boss enemies) / hazards / etc and a boss fight at the end
- Unlockable arcade mode (includes server and boss practice)
- 2-4hr playtime, depending on playstyle (less than 1hr is viable in arcade mode)
- ~3k words of a mysterious short story, delivered in small doses throughout and between servers
- Keyboard and gamepad support
- All original music, sound effects, and art
MECHANICS
- BUMP COMBAT - No attack button. Just walk into daemons to attack automatically.
- DASH - Just as useful for offense as for evasion.
(NOTE: Dash not unlocked at start of game)
- DIAGONAL MOVEMENT IS FASTER - Yes, I know how to normalize my vectors. No, I will not normalize my vectors.
- ATTACK GAUGE - Your attacks charge up the gauge and therefore increases your damage; but even 1 hit from a daemon resets it!
- DAEMON & SERVER VARIETY - The player mechanics have depth, but they are fairly simple. The spice comes from how those mechanics interact with the daemon and server design.
CONTROLS
KEYBOARD:
- Arrow keys / WASD: Move
- Z / Spacebar: Dash, Confirm, Advance text
- Esc: Pause, Skip text
GAMEPAD:
- D-pad / Left stick: Move
- Bottom / Left face buttons: Dash, Confirm, Advance text
- Start: Pause, Skip text
NOTE: Dash is not unlocked at the start of the game
BONUS STUFF
The game is free, but you can get some goodies if you pay certain amounts...
For $10 or more, X-YZE BONUS PACK:
- SERVER & DAEMON GUIDE - 35-page PDF full of tips & blurbs about each server and daemon in the game. Includes exclusive illustrations by Alix of every daemon!
- CONCEPT ARTBOOK - 15-page PDF showcasing concept art from throughout development, plus some scrapped stuff. Includes commentary from Alix!
- LEVEL DESIGN NOTEBOOK SKETCHES - Folder of level design notebook sketches from as early as Feb, 2024 (1 month into development).
- GAME TRANSCRIPT - Simple PDF containing the full text of the game.
For $15 or more, X-YZE BONUS PACK + X-YZE SFX PACK:
- All the sound effects I made for the game, plus some unused ones.
- 150 sound effects, 44.1k / 16-bit WAV format.
- Royalty-free,Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
The SOUNDTRACK is available separately on Bandcamp
CREDITS
CHRIS LOGSDON: Game design, programming, music & SFX, writing, logo, most in-game art, most daemon character design, character design for 1 boss, Server & Daemon Guide
ALIX LYTTON: Player character design, most boss character design, dialogue portrait art, cover art, character design for 3 of the daemons, Concept Artbook, feedback + testing + proofreading
JACOB ALBANO: Some tools dev
PLAYTESTERS:Alix Lytton,azalea evergreen,John Thyer,Melos Han-Tani,NARFNra,Polly,Seth Prestwich,Sraëka Lillian,Thomas "jetstorm4" L.
SOUNDFONTS:stgiga;CliffyJiffy, Kaiden;jsw11jsw, VentusArranger;HandlebarOrionX;Joo
FONTS: EquipmentPro, yolk_6 bysomepx; monogram bydatagoblin; NotJamSciMono13, NotJamSlabSerif11 byNot Jam; m3x6, m5x7 byDaniel Linssen
INSPIRATIONS
I plan to write in more detail about all of this in the future, but here are some highlights...
- Bump combat:Ys I and II,Angeline Era,Sylvie RPG: 7 Elf Apocalypse
- Various mechanics: Many shmups of old
- Aesthetics: Mega Man Battle Network, Phantasy Star Online, Summer Wars, Digimon, PC-88 era HUDs
- Music: Too many to list here, but in general I tried to only listen to non-mainstream non-video-game music while composing the OST
- Touhou very much informed the pace I dole out story
| Updated | 7 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows,macOS,Linux |
| Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (13 total ratings) |
| Author | Chris |
| Genre | Action |
| Made with | Aseprite,Godot |
| Tags | 2D,Action-Adventure,Arcade,bump-combat,bumpslash,Dark,Furry,LGBTQIA,Pixel Art,Short |
| Average session | A few hours |
| Languages | English |
| Inputs | Keyboard,Gamepad (any) |
| Links | Soundtrack |
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Hi -- I'm from thePortMaster crew. We port modern games to retro handhelds. I'd love to add this game to our catalogue. Would you be okay with us distributing your game files in our port packages? Of course, we'd credit you, and all that. If not, that's fine -- we can instruct players to download them (from here) to add manually. Thanks for considering.
EDIT: Ah, I see the blog post about this now. Best of luck solving the issue! Original comment remains below:
On my m1 mac, I get a segfault when I run it using the command (and it just crashes when I open it as an app, after showing a little Godot logo window).
Same result if I run it in Rosetta mode.
Here's the terminal output:
Godot Engine v4.2.1.stable.official.b09f793f5 -https://godotengine.org
OpenGL API 4.1 Metal - 88.1 - Compatibility - Using Device: Apple - Apple M1 Pro
RUNNING X-YZE VERSION v1.02
/Users/phoenix/Downloads/X-YZE_MAC/X-YZE_MAC/X-YZE.command: line 15: 65888 Segmentation fault: 11 "$BASE_PATH/X-YZE.app/Contents/MacOS/X-YZE" "$@"
Saving session...completed.
Deleting expired sessions... 6 completed.
[Process completed]
If I run it with Crossover, I get a much longer pagefault error printout:
Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0x0000000000000000 in 64-bit code (0x006fffffb0a449).
Register dump:
rip:00006fffffb0a449 rsp:000000000081eca8 rbp:000000000081edbb eflags:00000202 ( - -- I - - - )
rax:0000000000000000 rbx:000000000c657d70 rcx:0000000000000000 rdx:0000000009700050
rsi:0000000009700050 rdi:0000000000000000 r8:0000000000000080 r9:0000000000000000 r10:000000020c829020
r11:0000000000000202 r12:0000000000000000 r13:00000000094f0048 r14:0000000000000001 r15:0000000000000000
Stack dump:
0x0000000081eca8: 00000000094f0040 0000007d00000000
0x0000000081ecb8: 0000000140c5d203 000000000ee6c038
0x0000000081ecc8: 000000000c657d70 0000007d00000000
0x0000000081ecd8: 0000000000000006 000000000081edc0
0x0000000081ece8: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x0000000081ecf8: 000000000081edbc 000000000081edbb
0x0000000081ed08: 000000000081f2d0 000000000ee9fd70
0x0000000081ed18: 00000000094f0048 000000000081edbc
0x0000000081ed28: 000000000081edc0 0000000144214b28
0x0000000081ed38: 0000100200eb0000 0000000000000000
0x0000000081ed48: 0000000000000090 000000000ee6c040
0x0000000081ed58: 0000000000eb0000 0000000000000000
Backtrace:
=>0 0x006fffffb0a449 in msvcrt (+0xa449) (0x0000000081edbb)
0x006fffffb0a449 msvcrt+0xa449: movdqa %xmm0, (%rdi)
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Really neat, unique game! The intimate narrative brought a few favorites to mind but overall I’ve still never played something quite like it. Partly because this was my first time experiencing bump combat so it was interesting learning a system that focuses so heavily on positioning. The music and the punchy sound design/feedback is great and it was fun seeing all the cute enemy sprites (I think Drillady is my fave ^^). I do feel there was quite a difficulty spike in the third server, though I appreciate the difficulty customization options. Still, I would say I enjoyed the first half more as I was enjoying the moderate challenge and figuring out the puzzle of each room, and I think if save points were just a bit more frequent and some of the late-game sections were a little less chaotic I would have stuck with the default difficulty throughout. That said, the bosses were the highlight of the game for me overall, especially the final one which was genuinely such an inventive design that was a blast to learn! Also all the bonus concept art stuff rocks!
Won in a little over two hours of playtime! Absolutely adored this chris, amazing work. Constantly cried out "holy shit that's some Game Design" at every new enemy/setpiece. The cathartic finale ruled but my number one favorite part might be the twist to the arbiter fight and how it ties into the rest of the level, really thrilling and well-done. Pitch-perfect music and sound design too. Excited to try out arcade mode and peruse more of the lovely bonus materials!!
Edit: I see there was already a version update that I missed that may have addressed the softlock and other issues. Downloading it now.
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I'm currently about 4.5 hours into the game and reached a level where everything is extremely dark and doesn't show well on my capture card. From there, I wasn't entirely sure what to do.
There also seems to be a soft bug where using the thumbstick to move on gamepad can occasionally cause the pause menu to bug out and not activate or fail to close when pressing the start button. This doesn't seem to happen with the dpad at all.
I also encountered a softlock where the switches seem to half-reset such that they're visible but non-interactable. When I went to take a clip of that, locks reactivated putting me in a softlock. https://www.twitch.tv/annmwhite/clip/SillyFantasticDunlinDxAbomb-CRpwsKnUa_e-FzD...
If it helps, I'm running the Linux build via Steam Deck.
Thanks for playing!
Yep, that softlock with the switches has been fixed with the 1.01 update.
As for the pause menu/thumbstick issue, I’m not sure… I had one person playtesting on Steam Deck, and they did have issues with the gamepad not being recognized, and that some gamepad inputs would pass through to the OS, such as the left face button opening the OS on-screen keyboard. We never entirely figured out the reason for this, and we hadn’t encountered the issue you’re describing. Some of their issues were fixed when they ran the game via Steam rather than via desktop. Which way are you running it?
Someone else, playing on Windows and with gamepad, seemed unable to pause at all. I’m wondering if this is all related…
Please do report back if you learn any more details!
I played the game entirely through the main Steam Big Picture gaming mode rather than desktop mode. I used Desktop mode exclusively for copying the files to the Steam Deck and adding it as a Non-Steam game.
It's possible to get the weird non-pausing behavior as early as the very first room of the game by rapidly rotating the stick and mashing start a lot. When this is happening, the pause sound can be heard, but the menu doesn't display / doesn't close.
https://www.twitch.tv/annmwhite/clip/SpineyAnnoyingCroissantNononoCat-JxJXU3ecbL...
Oh! Also there was an additional issue where during a longer session where I was switching across multiple gamepads, the stick input got bugged such that it acted as if the directions were being briefly/rapidly tapped.
https://www.twitch.tv/annmwhite/clip/TemperedPolishedTroutFeelsBadMan-JE_2pxr0v9...
(Not visible via the built in input display, but I'm holding the stick tilted.)
I think this is a Godot bug rather than an X-YZE bug because I've encountered the same behavior in Brotato, and likewise the only solution I have for it there is to close and relaunch the game.
The darkness thing might entirely a problem with my vision and my hardware setup. On my main monitor I could sorta see the layout of the ground if I stood up rather than sat down, but on my other monitors, it was almost entirely dark except the specifically lit areas and the ?snow?.
Steam Deck Background Recording: revelromp.com/x-yze/dark1.mp4
Capture Card Recording: revelromp.com/x-yze/dark2.mp4
A photo, which probably doesn't help much: two.png On the top, the path I came from going downwards is still kinda visible. On the monitor I was seeing the screen from, that was pretty much all black.
One of the viewers was able to see the snow, but said it looks solid: https://www.twitch.tv/annmwhite/clip/AnimatedAdventurousSwordMoreCowbell-St4bSII...
Basically, if the floor, spikes, switches, etc are meant to be visible, it's really really hard to see? Which I kinda assumed may have been the point.
Oh wow, yeah the way it looks in that capture card recording is way darker than intended. You're supposed to be able to just barely (but still reasonably) make out the silhouette of the level against the BG, but it looks like the BG shows up as basically just full black.
I'll figure something out to address that. Maybe a config menu setting that boosts the brightness of that BG specifically... maybe an outline around the level... will have to think about it.
Just uploaded an update (V 1.02) that should fix the pause weirdness with controller, plus adds a setting to boost the brightness of the PUR background. Many other things too, but hopefully the bugs you experienced are taken care of now. Thanks again for letting me know about them and tracking down some of the repro steps!
- Download "X-YZE_LINUX.zip" and extract it.
- Inside the extracted folder, you should see 3 files: "_CREDITS - X-YZE.txt", "_README - X-YZE.txt", and "X-YZE_LINUX.zip". Extract that .zip file.
- Inside of that extracted folder, you should see 2 more files: "X-YZE_LINUX" and "X-YZE_LINUX.sh". You should be able to run either of those.
Retl / Ann mentions you may need to mark them as executable. I'm not a Linux user, so I can't tell you exactly how to do that. However, a quick web search on the topic gave me this result, which may be helpful for you: https://askubuntu.com/questions/229589/how-to-make-a-file-e-g-a-sh-script-execut...
Great work! Finished the game in roughly 3 hours total and had a good time with it. I've left much (maybe too much) more detailed feedback along with a rating of the game, but I also wanted to leave a public comment. The bonus material is nice as well, it's always fun to read about the processes behind a game's development.
X-YZE's combat is so much fun & the story makes me cry!! Usually my wrist keeps me from playing games like this long-term, but the gameplay settings helped me find a way to adjust where I could complete the game comfortably!
I love this game with all my heart & I'm so grateful to be a part of bringing it to life 💖 Thank you for making X-ZYE!! Bumpy game forever!!!
