Radiator Blog

For the first time since 2014, the #7dfps challenge is starting tomorrow. If you're not familiar, it's a week-long jam to make a f...

screenshot from "Brutalism: Prelude on Stone" by Moshe Linke The other day in level design class, a student brought up Moshe L...

Game feel always has a narrative aspect tied to the player's in-game identity -- but in a top-down strategy game, who are you? Why do...

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 ...

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 ...

Last time I tried some type of "procedural narrative" thing, my hubris got the better of me -- naming the system after one of ...

This post relies on familiarity with the gameplay / affordances in Thief. You may want to read Dark Past or my write-up on "Assassi...

If Bethesda's detailed GDC presentation about modular level design kits for Fallout / Skyrim showed me anything, it's that modula...

The current narrative systems prototype Shakespeare has been somewhat disappointing so far: the director switches, seemingly erratically, b...

To review: procedural UVs are amazing and you should consider using them in your games. Now, the old triplanar shader I posted was grea...

This assumes familiarity with Shakespeare, a procedurally-branching narrative system that I'm designing. For an overview / introductio...

Last time, I wrote about procedural narrative in the context of "process intensity." Here, I expand more on designing the proce...

Wow, I've been blogging here for about 3 years now. This blog is now approaching the end of its toddler years. Much like last year , ...

Short version: I've chickened out, a bit. Long version? To make some sort of procedural "anything", you have to have an i...

Convo is a tactical squad romance about applied linguistics and binge drinking. I remember when I was of legal age (okay, well, of kinda ...

"In Ruins" is a first person procedural platformer-explorer thing. Spoilery critique after the jump:

EDIT, 16 May 2013: Unity has changed their Browser to Web Player communications, but just a little. Basically, you don't use "get...

Valve's Elan Ruskin gave a fantastic talk at GDC 2012 on using "Rule Databases for Contextual Dialog and Game Logic" -- ba...

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

For my master's thesis (no, not Pilsner , though I still like the idea and I'm going to re-work it more as a single player puzzle ...