Radiator Blog

Just a brief update here -- I recently had the honor of participating in Rock Paper Shotgun's "what's on your bookshelf" ...

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

Hey all. Hope everyone's been doing OK. Remember level design? That's still important, right? Anyway, I wrote a 2 part feature ...

As part of previously announced shifts for this blog , I'm going to start pitching my longer design articles to various outlets instead...

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

Level With Me is a whole new batch of "candid interviews with game developers about their design process" going up on Rock Paper ...

A month ago I wrote about the Heart in Dishonored , and I'm glad my suspicions (it's a dressed-up radar / hint system / audio guide)...

I remember talking to a game journalist about the difference between interviewing AAA developers and indies. He said a lot of indies and aca...

Part 2 is up now. We talk about Portal 2 puzzle design, inspirations behind the underground chapters, and certainly nothing about HL3. I...

I've turned  my No Show Conference talk into a 3-part essay series for Rock Paper Shotgun. It argues for a long-standing but suppres...

To be clear, I think all readings of "Level With Me" are valid, even the ones that say it's pretentious (though I think it...

STARING EYES! It's unofficially Radiator vol. 3, and the only mod I'll have put out in the last two years. Watch this space  as r...

There are still some weird encoding errors (video editing isn't my strong suit) but if you ignore it, you can just watch and enjoy some ...

from "Photographs of the War in Afghanistan" I alluded to this during my RPS interview with industry veteran Magnar Jenssen -...

UPDATE 2: The second installment, with Polycount fixture Jack Monahan, is now up. Read part 2. It's been pretty quiet around here... t...