Radiator Blog

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...

I've written previously about murder in Skyrim , epic Skyrim fan game Enderal , and a very bushy Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City . ...

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

My third Quake map is another multi-level arena, a bit similar to my previous map Smell It In The Street . I made it for Speedmap #210 (SM21...

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...

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

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

I've been streaming some Thief 1 for the past month , which has gotten some people interested in trying the game for themselves. You ...

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

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

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

I've been working with Source SDK 2013 base for the past few months, and I thought I'd share some notes on workflow for any future m...

If you have a lot of custom code, there are probably some compelling reasons NOT to try to upgrade your existing code to Source 2013 unless ...

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

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

A year and a half ago , I was working on a Source re-mastering of Adam Foster's classic "Someplace Else" to plug into Blac...

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...

In the last few weeks, Valve has dropped the GCF file format. A "GCF" was like a ZIP file containing thousands of game files. They...

"From Earth" is probably going to be one of the very last Half-Life 2 mods ever made. It's Mirror's Edge-ish first pers...