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These are design notes about my process and intent, and it may spoil what happens in the level. I made my new single player Quake map "...

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

I made another Quake map! This one is called "Smell It In The Street" and it was made for the Doom Tintin map jam , a level design...

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...

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...

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

I'm building a Unreal Tournament 4 level in preparation for a level design studio class I'm teaching next year. I've been usi...

So, like much of game dev Twitter, I too saw Matt Walker's Twitter thread that summarized a CEDEC 2017 talk on how Nintendo built th...

from de_crown , by FMPONE and Volcano UPDATE, 11 NOVEMBER 2021: this blog post is OK, but I would recommend reading the "Blockout...

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...

I've been working hard on my historical bathroom simulator The Tearoom, and I'm desperately trying to finish it within the next cou...

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...