Showing posts with label imagined mods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label imagined mods. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Postcards from Quakeland, 2022

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Some random notes and thoughts from Quake modding land, in this cold wintery June of 2022: Community Hubs Official Mods The Future of My Qua...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

new Quake map: "Smell It In The Street"

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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...
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...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Grinding as repetition as savefiles as insistence

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In "Portraits and Repetition", Gertrude Stein argues that repetition is better understood as "insistence": "....
Friday, June 29, 2018

The Forgotten City (Skyrim mod) as dense quest

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This post kind of spoils (but not really) some of the Skyrim quest mod The Forgotten City . Bethesda open world RPG games have develope...
Friday, May 26, 2017

From modders to mimics: a people's history of the "prop hunt" genre

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This post contains minor gameplay spoilers for the first hour of Prey (2017). Contemporary game design is built on the blood, sweat, and...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

"Psycho-material geographies" of 3D spaces, and The Beginner's Guide by Davey Wreden et al

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This post gives vague conceptual SPOILERS for The Beginner's Guide , and spoils a few specific moments. You really shouldn't worr...
Friday, September 4, 2015

Unfinished business

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Monday, March 23, 2015

Level With Me, vol. 1 re-release (v1.1)

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I have updated my old experimental Portal 2 mod "Level With Me" to work with current versions of Portal 2. This mostly involved re...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Much Madness is Divinest Sense.

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A couple things got me thinking: Source SDK Base 2013 does not require any purchases whatsoever, and is freely available to all Steam u...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

"Keys" by Ryan Trawick, and the emerging shape of post-mod culture and walking simulators

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Keys is a newly released single player Source mod, made mostly by Ryan Trawick, that is freely available to anyone with a Steam account....
Monday, March 10, 2014

Course catalog at Radiator University, Fall 2014

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If I had a university, these are some of the courses I'd run: PE822 -- CS:GO SPORTIFICATION INTENSIVE (2 units, Detroit campus) In 19...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

"Black Mesa Source: Makeover Xtreme" at Indiecade East 2014

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Indiecade East in New York City is happening in... about a month... and I'm giving a talk there. (A talk that I should start writing. Sh...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Course catalog at Radiator University, Spring 2013

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If I had a university, these are some of the courses I'd run: GD 202: LEVEL DESIGN STUDIO: SPACE AND DATA There are two paradigms of ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Levels to Look Out For, June 2012: "Future of the FPS"

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I don't normally theme these posts around anything, but these three indie FPS experiments share so much DNA that it's impossible to ...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Koumei Satou working on a sequel to Mistake of Pythagoras? Or probably not.

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Longtime Half-Life 1 / Source mod players may remember Koumei Satou, who made crazy quirky single player mods like Sweet Half-Life (HEV s...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Frontiers, and why I'm afraid of working with multiplayer.

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Frontiers is a multiplayer Half-Life 2 mod where one team is border guards and the other team is refugees, with environments and visuals ...