Radiator Blog

There's been some game dev twittering about Unity vs. Unreal lately . Why use Unity when Unreal is better? The basic consensus is that U...

Warning: this is a fairly technical game developer-y post. If you came here for gay sex, I'm sorry. For an upcoming project commission, ...

I wanted to be able to write game dialogue in Google Docs (from my phone or tablet, or to share with external collaborators) and then aut...

In Dublin, I visited the  Lucian Freud Project at IMMA . If you're not familiar with painters (who is these days?) Lucian Freud is...

Traditionally, game developers use Unity for real-time 2D and 3D games and shun any use of pre-rendered video, partly out of design dogma...

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

A month ago I attended a one-day  Games As Research symposium , hosted by TAG at Concordia University and organized by Rilla Khaled and...

I'm building a Unreal Tournament 4 level in preparation for a level design studio class I'm teaching next year. I've been usi...

I've been sculpting a lot in VR lately (via Oculus Medium) trying to figure out whether it's "the future" or not. While ...

So I'm working on (another) article about level design in Half-Life 2. I chose the d2_coast03 map of the Highway 17 chapter, which is...

Unity's blendshape controls -- basically just a list of textboxes -- were going to cause me a lot of pain. After wrestling with broke...

This post vaguely spoils random bits of Firewatch and The Witness. I wouldn't worry about it. Only a few years ago, hiking games (f...

This is a technical overview of how I built certain parts of Rinse and Repeat . It spoils the game, so you should probably play it first ...

I'm getting ready to release my next gay sex game, which means a lot of builds and testing. This game, in particular, has a lot of pa...

Mixamo got bought out by Adobe... as part of the merge, they've turned off all their billing systems... which means almost everythin...

This post is adapted from a talk I gave at Indiecade East 2015, where the theater was way too small for the crowd, so not many people got ...

Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, California) Here's how I generally, theoretically, approach lighting in my games and game...

I'm making a small Thief-like with integrated level editor (3rd time's the charm!) to test (and teach myself) four (4) main featu...

EDIT: v0.21 adds .OBJ export from the webplayer; you can now actually use this to make models and import it into whatever you want. (If...

Unreal Engine 4. Very good high-end support, integrated vertex-painter, great for making 3D shooty games in huge landscapes. But it's v...