Radiator Blog

So I've finally done it. I've made a TikTok account (@radiatoryang) . Forgive me. I still prefer text over video, and I certainly do...

photo of a random 2000s era US cybercafe (This personal essay was written for LAN Party, a nice photo book about LAN gaming culture  curated...

(This post is adapted from my micro talk "Teaching and Rethinking Level Design" at the GDC 2025 Educators Soapbox session. That...

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British...

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin,...

SPOILER WARNING: I keep specific story spoilers vague, but I do have to talk about what happens in the games somehow. So I still kinda spoi...

I made a new single player Quake 1 map called "Breakfast Under The Balloons" for the community map pack Coppertone Summer Jam 2 , ...

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

There's been some game dev twittering about Unity vs. Unreal lately . Why use Unity when Unreal is better? The basic consensus is that U...

SPOILER WARNING: this post spoils levels, main quests, and gameplay systems in Deathloop I guess this post is my contribution to Deathloop d...

I've written previously about murder in Skyrim , epic Skyrim fan game Enderal , and a very bushy Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City . ...

For Rock Paper Shotgun, I recently wrote a three-part series "Quake Renaissance" . Part 1 is an industry history of Quake's c...

all drawings by Eleanor Davis "We Dwell in Possibility" (WeDIP) is a new queer gardening simulation game about planting bodies and...

My fourth released Quake single player map "Daughter Drink This Water" is now out, as part of a community map jam pack called Sini...

I'm playing a giant Skyrim "total conversion" mod called Enderal . It does a lot of interesting things but also less-than-good...

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...

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...

I finished playing two 2020 RPG tactics games recently: Horizon's Gate and Gears Tactics. I've also written at length about Invisibl...

OK I know Heavy Rain isn't an FPS but I like this screenshot so I don't care Every semester for our introductory Games 101 hist...

This week I finished streaming through all 15 official missions of Thief 1  (Gold edition) as part of my "Level With Me" project...