VVVVVV News

How Terry Cavanagh bet it all on the simple joy of platforming

In 2007, on the eve of what is now known as the Great Recession, a market risk analyst decided to quit his job and embark on a career which, from a risk mitigation perspective, his colleagues would have advised against...
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Classic platformer VVVVVV just received its first update in 7 years

Back in April, we reported that classic platformer VVVVVV was about to get its first update in seven years. Now I can report: classic platformer VVVVVV has now received its first update in seven years.

The changelog is huge, but its key additions are 60FPS support, new graphical options, and hundreds of bug fixes.

In early 2020, the gravity-flipping platformer VVVVVV celebrated the tenth anniversary of its release by going open source. That meant the source code was posted to Github, where anyone with an interest could download and mess around with it in just about any way they saw fit. And as a direct result of that, VVVVVV's first update in seven years is now live...
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The classic gravity-reversing platformer VVVVVV from Terry Cavanagh gets a huge upgrade

After being released for more than 10 years, VVVVVV is back with a big new version which follows on from the source code being released back in early 2020.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/08/the-classic-gravity-reversing-platformer-vvvvvv-from-terry-cavanagh-gets-a-huge-upgrade

VVVVVV 2.3 out now!

Hey everyone! I am super proud to announce VVVVVV 2.3, the first major update to the game in seven years!

(Adorable fan art by Cheep! Check out more of their work on Twitter!)

This release was made possible as a direct result of making the game's source code available last year, and accepting contributions from the community. It's the result of nearly 2000 commits to the codebase, fixing hundreds of small bugs and making the game run at its best on modern computers. A really big thanks to all of our contributors for helping to make this happen - especially Ethan Lee and especially especially InfoTeddy, who contributed the vast majority of the fixes to this version.

I'll link the complete changelog below, but the highlights are:

60+ FPS support
Improved graphical options
New features in the editor
Hundreds of bug fixes

For the complete change log, see here! Enjoy the update!