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Logjam by Robert Yang Logjam is the latest in my gay sexuality series -- a short small game about a middle aged lumberjack daddy processing...

Hard Lads by Robert Yang This post “spoils” what happens in my new game Hard Lads . If you care about spoilers, you should play it before...

" Out For Delivery is a 42 minute playable documentary shot with a 360-degree camera. The slice-of-life experience follows a food de...

I've just uploaded an updated version of Rinse and Repeat: it is now known as Rinse and Repeat HD , which is basically the same versio...

Bicycle Thieves (1948) This is adapted from a spur-of-the-moment Lost Levels 2018 talk. In video games, we understand realism as mea...

This post spoils Un Pueblo De Nada as well as a few parts of Kentucky Route Zero. The newest Kentucky Route Zero interlude  Un Pueblo De...

screenshot from "Brutalism: Prelude on Stone" by Moshe Linke The other day in level design class, a student brought up Moshe L...

pictured above:  "Now Play This" at Somerset House, London, UK. 2016. Sometimes people want to exhibit my gay sex games for t...

A few months ago, I wrote about how I think VR "empathy machines" are basically just a form of appropriation , where VR brands ...

Game feel always has a narrative aspect tied to the player's in-game identity -- but in a top-down strategy game, who are you? Why do...

This post spoils Into , which is about 5-10 minutes to play. You should probably play it first, if you care about spoilers and such. I...

This post is part of a series about "sex games." There were so many games about sexual poking that I had to give them their o...

This post is part of a series adapted from my talk at GaymerX . No, I don't know when the video recording will be uploaded, sorry. S...

The Loch is a 2013 Scottish fishing RPG by Mitch Alexander. In it, you "fight" fish in turn-based JRPG battles symbolizing the...

(SPOILER WARNING: this post has some not-really-that-important spoilers for Massive Chalice.) Massive Chalice is a pretty OK game -- i...

Hylics , by Mason Linderoth , is one of the best RPGs made in the last decade. Imagine a game finely distilled so as to consist solely of...

Here's how I generally, theoretically, approach lighting in my games and game worlds. Part 2 is about light and function, mostly for l...

"American Corinthian" via Paolo Pedercini In about 3 weeks at Different Games 2015  in Brooklyn, I'll be speaking about &...

Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, California) Here's how I generally, theoretically, approach lighting in my games and game...

I'm teaching an undergraduate "Games 101" class at Parsons this Fall semester, and putting together the syllabus has been... n...