VVVVVV
Game: VVVVVV (Windows, 2010)
The source code of VVVVVV, Terry Cavanagh’s 2010 game with music by Magnus Pålsson, released by its author in January 2020, where the desktop version is still developed with the community’s help. It’s the C++ port Simon Roth made for version 2.0, moved to SDL2, PhysicsFS, and Steamworks by Ethan Lee in 2.2; the repository also holds the mobile version’s code, and its main branch now uses SDL3. It contains all of the game’s code, levels, and text, but not its graphics or music. Version 2.4 (January 10, 2024) made it available in 21 languages and added controller-specific button glyphs, level editor improvements, and new commands for community levels. Compiled builds are published on GitHub; the latest is 2.4.4 (April 21). Its license lets you compile it for free for personal use; distributing compiled builds requires permission, and the repository lists the exceptions granted.
You needYou don’t need to buy the game: the code can be compiled for free for personal use, and the graphics and music are in the data.zip file of the Make and Play Edition, a free download from the game’s website for personal use; the data.zip from your own copy works too. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux.
- How it gets to PC
- Port of the released source code
- Console
- Microsoft Windows
- Original studio
- Terry Cavanagh
- Year
- 2010
- Author
- TerryCavanagh
- Stars
- 8.1k
- Last activity
- 2026-10-23 · 19 days ago
- Latest version
- 2.4.4 · 2026-04-21
- Language
- ActionScript
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