<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ad maiorem Devlog - itch.io</title><link>https://leofassb.itch.io/ad-maiorem</link><description>A solitaire game of the old Society of Jesus, 1540–1773 — every rule and card cites its source.</description><item><guid>https://leofassb.itch.io/ad-maiorem/devlog/1683503/why-you-cannot-save-the-society-counterfactuals-and-a-fixed-end</guid><title>Why you cannot save the Society: counterfactuals and a fixed end</title><link>https://leofassb.itch.io/ad-maiorem/devlog/1683503/why-you-cannot-save-the-society-counterfactuals-and-a-fixed-end</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:23:32 GMT</pubDate><category>devlog</category><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzMwMzk4ODgwLmpwZw==/400x224%23c/p9ZUv8.jpg" class="post_image"/><p>Every game of Ad maiorem ends the same way. On 21 July 1773 Clement XIV signs the brief Dominus ac Redemptor , and the Society of Jesus is dissolved. You cannot prevent it. What you decide is how hard...</p>]]></description></item><item><guid>https://leofassb.itch.io/ad-maiorem/devlog/1681678/ad-maiorem-a-game-you-cannot-win</guid><title>Ad maiorem: a game you cannot win</title><link>https://leofassb.itch.io/ad-maiorem/devlog/1681678/ad-maiorem-a-game-you-cannot-win</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:39:33 GMT</pubDate><category>devlog</category><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzMwMzU4Mjk4LnBuZw==/400x224%23c/aovEhe.png" class="post_image"/><p>The old Society of Jesus lasted 233 years, from Paul III&#039;s bull of 1540 to Clement XIV&#039;s brief of 1773. Ad maiorem is a solitaire game about those years, and it has one rule I refused to bend: the bri...</p>]]></description></item></channel></rss>