Radiator Blog

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

Hey all. Hope everyone's been doing OK. Remember level design? That's still important, right? Anyway, I wrote a 2 part feature ...

This post is about how we talk about video games, but it takes me a little while to get there... This year, I was interviewed for two ar...

cover of PCGUK 310 A while ago I wrote about the process of importing Half-Life 2 levels into Maya -- but I didn't divulge why I...

Here are two old level design illustrations I did for a PC Gamer feature on level design in Half-Life 1, quite a few years ago. In the ov...

Brendan Keogh did a lovely write-up of my recent work for Reverse Shot , an online magazine at the Museum of the Moving Image. Yang, on th...

I have updated my old experimental Portal 2 mod "Level With Me" to work with current versions of Portal 2. This mostly involved re...

Level With Me is a whole new batch of "candid interviews with game developers about their design process" going up on Rock Paper ...

I remember talking to a game journalist about the difference between interviewing AAA developers and indies. He said a lot of indies and aca...

I have a knack for sending too much material to journalists when really they just want a quote or two. I promise to stop doing that. In th...

Liz Ryerson recently linked here in her "recommended game criticism reading list" at the New Statesman, and John Brindle recently...

Part 2 is up now. We talk about Portal 2 puzzle design, inspirations behind the underground chapters, and certainly nothing about HL3. I...

I adapted my blog post into a short article for the October 2012 issue of Game Developer magazine , promoting the art of the humble textu...

I've turned  my No Show Conference talk into a 3-part essay series for Rock Paper Shotgun. It argues for a long-standing but suppres...

I was asked my opinion on this very important topic (?!) for a Kotaku piece and given the editorial constraints, the author chose to quote...

The gist: a lot of stuff on Kotaku is dumb and poorly written. Truly a revelation.