Showing posts with label environment art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment art. Show all posts
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Design review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game

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Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British...
Sunday, February 4, 2024

new Quake map: "Taught By Thirst" for Remix Jam

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Taught By Thirst is a new Mesoamerican themed single player Quake map that I made for Remix Jam , a 3 week community level design event whe...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Open world RPG design notes from Enderal, a big long Skyrim mod

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I'm playing a giant Skyrim "total conversion" mod called Enderal . It does a lot of interesting things but also less-than-good...
Monday, July 8, 2019

On climate crisis games, for Rock Paper Shotgun

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As part of previously announced shifts for this blog , I'm going to start pitching my longer design articles to various outlets instead...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Black and white and re(a)d all over: on SOD (1999), Half-Quake (2001), Jeux d'ombres (2007), and NaissanceE (2014)

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Last week I finished playing through the entirety of NaissanceE (2014) , an avant-garde walking sim / platformer game inspired by brutali...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Remastering Rinse and Repeat

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Rinse and Repeat remastered, for Radiator 3 (2018) Rinse and Repeat (2015) I'm nearing the end of the remaster process for my sh...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Level With Me, BioShock 1 (2007) complete

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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...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Level With Me: Dear Esther (2012), complete!

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Last week I finished a Level With Me run through Dear Esther (2012, Source Engine) with level design commentary -- I spent roughly 30-50...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Toward an honesty of pixels: on Final Fantasy 12 HD and Quake 3 Arena

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combined screenshots from Final Fantasy 12 (PS2, 2006) and Final Fantasy 12 HD (PS4 Pro, 2017) You either love or you hate Final Fantasy...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Bevels in video games

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Like a lot of digital artists today, I learned Photoshop in the late 90s in order to make awesome-looking fan sites and "professiona...