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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...

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...

In "Portraits and Repetition", Gertrude Stein argues that repetition is better understood as "insistence": "....

Last week I finished playing through all of BioShock 1 for my weekly level design let's play series Level With Me. My playthrough wa...

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...

I was playing the open world stealth game  Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (2015) and I kept failing Mission 33 ("Subsistence: ...

WARNING: This post somewhat "spoils" the 2014 game Universal History of Light. Stephen "increpare" Lavelle's &q...

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 gives vague conceptual SPOILERS for The Beginner's Guide , and spoils a few specific moments. You really shouldn't worr...

This is a post detailing my process and intent in making Rinse and Repeat. It discusses in detail how some of the game systems work and wha...

This post is significantly changed from a talk I gave at Different Games . It was prompted by Jon Stokes approaching me and helpfully te...

My very strong favorite of the TIGSource "Sports" compo is Pierre Corbinais' "Tiny Soccer Manager Stories." It...

Wow, I've been blogging here for about 3 years now. This blog is now approaching the end of its toddler years. Much like last year , ...

I'm working on a new game that reuses a lot of Souvenir 's code, so lately I've been doing more research into non-monoplanar ...

Hey! I've been chugging away on my 7 Day FPS entry, "The Leaden Circles," a single player squad FPS based on Virginia Woolf...

(This architecture criticism post was  cross-posted to my department's research blog, Game @ Parsons . In general, I post my archite...

I'm a bit late on the trolley here, but here's the latest postmodernist / poststructuralist artsy Source mod to hit the scene -- i...

Mention the "bridge in de_aztec" to any Counter-Strike player and they'll nod knowingly. Sure, you might have Aram Bartho...

I wanted to airlock Ashley Williams as soon as I met her. The vehicle physics are awful, like a shopping cart coated with Vaseline. The PC e...

low-res photos ripped (under Fair Use) from the New School Free Press article on the same game ... apparently not all LARPs are about thr...