Radiator Blog

For the Spring 2019 semester at NYU Game Center , I'll be teaching three courses: GAME STUDIO 2. This is a required core class for a...

Sorry I haven't posted lately, we've been pretty busy here at NYU Game Center with the start of the new semester. We're also cu...

This post is aimed at beginner / intermediate designers. It's a summary of the talk I gave at the GDC 2018 Level Design Workshop wi...

My Unreal Tournament 4 deathmatch map "Pilsner" isn't really done. But as an exploratory project, I've fulfilled my go...

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...

This semester, I'm teaching three game development classes. Here's a bit about each one: "Intermediate Game Development"...

This is a rant + technical guide about how to get an Oculus Rift DK2 to work with Unity 5 so that you can make stuff with it. Maybe. I'...

Hey, what's up, long time no blog -- I've been busy prepping game development classes for the Spring 2016 semester. This season, I&#...

In the vein of "Platform Studies" or "Code Studies", we might consider a "Game Development Studies" ("...

CENG 395: ESCAPING A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN (STUDIO INTENSIVE) In this class, we will analyze a variety of escape narratives, from stage mag...

Julia set  fractal thing of a quaternion function... I actually don't really know what that means, but it's pretty. This is kind...

I remember one time in design school when a guest critic called out my classmate's project, a website to facilitate bartering. The cr...

The other day, I sat down with a student in my Unity class to review some course material and answer some questions. They were wondering why...

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

Here's a bit of reflection on my first semester teaching Unity at an art and design school, mixed undergrad / grad level . They're i...

This summer, I'll be teaching 6 week Unity studio intensives at NYU Game Center . The "regular" class during the semester is u...

I'm currently teaching a Unity class at Parsons called "Building Worlds" -- and I'm treating it as my opportunity to get ...

This semester at Parsons, I have two things going on: 1) I'm teaching an undergrad / grad studio elective course. Currents: Building...

Design with Intent I remember reading Dan Lockton's original PhD blog, like, 5-6 years ago, and being impressed by his abi...

Liz Ryerson recently did a great write-up of level 5-5 from Wolfenstein 3D  (and makes a good case for the surrealism of 4-3 ) and it occu...