Five Years in the Apocalypse

On August 11th, 2021, I uploaded version 0.1.0 of APOCALYPSE FRAME to itch.io. I had been working on a fully different game when someone tipped me off to LUMEN (in no small part because of the tag-based design 1 on top of very fast tactics). I had been trying to finally cross Xenoblade Chronicles X off of my list that summer and writing a game heavily inspired by it seemed like a fun little thing…