Radiator Blog

Hello all. It's 2020. The world feels... different. Hopefully you're all doing OK! A recap of what I've been up to -- In the...

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...

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...

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...

I did not go to game design school -- not that I had a choice, since only a handful of game design programs existed when I attended college....

photo of Tanya DePass speaking at QGCon 2017 The Queerness and Games Conference (or QGCon) is running again in 2018, this time in beaut...

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

As mentioned before, I'm going full-time with NYU Game Center starting this September. For this upcoming fall semester, I'm going t...

Registration for most students at Radiator University has already begun. Make sure you sign-up for these classes soon before they completely...

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

The internet has been abuzz about "8:46" , "a narrative driven experience designed for virtual reality, which makes you embo...

QGCon 2015 at UC Berkeley has just put up their list of speakers and sessions . If you'll be around the Bay Area that weekend (in about...

The good folks at QGCon  at UC Berkeley need YOUR session proposals for their third year running. I participated in the first year it ran...

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...

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

At this year's GDC in San Francisco, I'm going to be delivering a rant as part of the "Game Educators Rant" session . I...

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...

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

(NOTE: There are sketches of nude human figures in this post, with their anatomy intact.) If you ask any great AAA game artist about th...