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Zugzwang by Robert Yang This post details my process and intent for making my new release Zugzwang (pronounced in German like  /ts'OOK...

This year I'm investing a lot more of my time and energy into streaming. For better or worse. First, I'm continuing my Level Wit...

As part of previously announced shifts for this blog , I'm going to start pitching my longer design articles to various outlets instead...

Last week I finished playing through the entirety of NaissanceE (2014) , an avant-garde walking sim / platformer game inspired by brutali...

This post is about how we talk about video games, but it takes me a little while to get there... This year, I was interviewed for two ar...

A soldier hiding behind a gray box in a futuristic lab, from Deus Ex Human Revolution (2011) The room pictured above from Deus Ex: Human...

This happened last night. I'm so so sorry. ⚡️I unrolled the full thread for the “Half-Life 2 arch debate” so it's easier to follo...

I've completed my winter hibernation and I'm gearing up for a new season of Level With Me , my livestream show where I play video...

cover of PCGUK 310 A while ago I wrote about the process of importing Half-Life 2 levels into Maya -- but I didn't divulge why I...

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

Here are two old level design illustrations I did for a PC Gamer feature on level design in Half-Life 1, quite a few years ago. In the ov...

combined screenshots from Final Fantasy 12 (PS2, 2006) and Final Fantasy 12 HD (PS4 Pro, 2017) You either love or you hate Final Fantasy...

Like a lot of digital artists today, I learned Photoshop in the late 90s in order to make awesome-looking fan sites and "professiona...

old WIP production still from an early version of The Tearoom I want to talk a bit about the formal design constraints in my gay sex gam...

For  the new issue #002 of the video game architecture zine Heterotopias , I've contributed a piece on chairs in video games (though...

[ cs_ppc.bsp ] by: Walnut<+>Warrior for: Counter-Strike pic.twitter.com/P8XWw0ppuD — .BSP (@dot_bsp) February 18, 2017 The ex...

Trackmania games have very robust track editors that let the community build and share custom tracks very easily. This ease of use and imm...

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...

Me and Eddie now have 12 days (less than 2 weeks!) to complete this Robert Moses city game, so we're now transitioning into a late sta...

Now that summer vacation is here and I don't have to teach, I now have a lot more time to put into some projects. Here's one of t...