VERGE, and it' subsequent release VERGE 2.0, are engines for the creation of 8-bit and up 2d-games.

VERGE was created to make RPGs of the console game variety, examples including: Final Fantasy, Lunar, and Phantasy Star amongst others. It has since expanded into being a stable platform to develop quickly any type of 2d game you could've played on a SNES or Genesis, Like Platform Games (ie. Super Mario Bros.), or puzzle games (i. e. tetris) etc...

Verge (?), n. [F. verge, L. virga; perhaps akin to E. wisp.]

1.

A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.

2.

The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.

[Eng.]

3. Eng.Law

The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.

4.

A virgate; a yardland.

[Obs.]

5.

A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.

Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favorable to it, the theory . . . implies an absurdity. J. S. Mill.

But on the horizon's verge descried, Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail. M. Arnold.

6.

A circumference; a circle; a ring.

The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow. Shak.

7. Arch. (a)

The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.

Oxf. Gloss. (b)

The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.

Encyc. Brit.

8. Horol.

The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.

9. Hort. (a)

The edge or outside of a bed or border.

(b)

A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.

10.

The penis.

11. Zool.

The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

Syn. -- Border; edge; rim; brim; margin; brink.

 

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Verge (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Verged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Verging (?).] [L. vergere to bend, turn, incline; cf. Skr. vj to turn.]

1.

To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.

2.

To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.

Our soul, from original instinct, vergeth towards him as its center. Barrow.

I find myself verging to that period of life which is to be labor and sorrow. Swift.

 

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