Radiator Blog

Yep I'm attending GDC 2025.  (For better or worse , I've made too many commitments to cancel.) The best way to contact me is to  @ m...

I'm already exhausted, just from looking at this picture Here's some of my GDC 2019 plans. The usual GDC disclaimers apply: GD...

This year during GDC, I'm happy to be participating in DELETE GDC , a big party where you can play a bunch of new never-before-seen g...

GDC season is coming up soon. If you have any interest in level design and you have something to say about it, then please submit a proposa...

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...

In keeping with a tradition I've done for GDC 2012 and GDC 2015 , I like to try to condense general moods and topics at GDC. What happe...

Everyone's doing a bunch of GDC advice for first-time GDC attendees on Twitter, so I thought I'd chime in with a few tips of my o...

GDC finally uploaded my talk from 2015 on level design history and futures ... and already, the conservative gamer-gestapo is whining abo...

Hey there. I'll be returning to GDC in 2018 with a talk called "How to Light a Level" ... Here's the blurb: Lighting is ...

I'm trying to get all my traveling arrangements for next spring -- and it turns out I'm going to be visiting Europe quite a bit! Her...

Steve Gaynor (before he changed his hair!!!) presenting on Gone Home at Level Design In A Day 2015. If you have something to say about l...

Here's a few recent updates in the """discourse""" within the exciting world of QUEER GAME STUDIES!!! ...

I remember when I was totally bewildered and disappointed at my first GDC. Since everyone is doing little advice columns / threads on Twitte...

This is a lightly edited transcript of the 5 minute microtalk I delivered as part of a panel at GDC 2016 . Thanks to Bennett Foddy and Ri...

It's GDC season again. I'm going to be delivering a 5 minute microtalk on Thursday as part of MC Richard Lemarchand's impressi...

Right-side modified from “Unscaping the Goat” (Ed Byrne, Level Design in a Day @ GDC 2011) This is adapted from my GDC 2015 talk "L...

Here are some thoughts I thought during GDC 2015. Virtual reality: I didn't get to try Valve's fancy new thing that requires ever...

Hello. Here's some of my GDC plans. See you blog readers at some of them! Don't be afraid to say hey. MONDAY: I fly-in and arrive ...

I'll be presenting a talk on "Level Design Histories and Futures" at the Level Design In A Day track at GDC 2015 , alongsid...

I'm attending two three games events this season. Hangout with me! Here's my schedule currently: Indiecade East 2015 , Feb 13-15...