Radiator Blog

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin,...

Logjam by Robert Yang Logjam is the latest in my gay sexuality series -- a short small game about a middle aged lumberjack daddy processing...

This post spoils what happens in my Quake map. If you care about that, play it first. I made another Quake map -- this one was for a map jam...

Hard Lads by Robert Yang This post “spoils” what happens in my new game Hard Lads . If you care about spoilers, you should play it before...

My colleague Clara Fernandez-Vara pointed me towards this great game writing talk by Jon Ingold this year at AdventureX , an excellent ...

I've just uploaded an updated version of Rinse and Repeat: it is now known as Rinse and Repeat HD , which is basically the same versio...

OK I know Heavy Rain isn't an FPS but I like this screenshot so I don't care Every semester for our introductory Games 101 hist...

This post is adapted from a talk I gave at Queerness and Games Conference 2018 . Game feel is most known through indie game developer S...

This post spoils some gameplay systems / moments in Fortune-499 and its general themes, but none of the specific plot events. I just fini...

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

damn pic.twitter.com/kzGGyOLof3 — Robert Yang / Roberto Yanga (@radiatoryang) January 10, 2018 The other day, someone wrote to me but co...

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

Last week I finished a Level With Me run through Dear Esther (2012, Source Engine) with level design commentary -- I spent roughly 30-50...

So, like much of game dev Twitter, I too saw Matt Walker's Twitter thread that summarized a CEDEC 2017 talk on how Nintendo built th...

This post spoils some mechanics and game systems in Slime Rancher. One in-game day in Slime Rancher , I found a rare " quantum slim...

Here's a few recent updates in the """discourse""" within the exciting world of QUEER GAME STUDIES!!! ...

old WIP production still from an early version of The Tearoom I want to talk a bit about the formal design constraints in my gay sex gam...

A few months ago, I wrote about how I think VR "empathy machines" are basically just a form of appropriation , where VR brands ...

Murder She Wrote was a long running TV show about an elderly mystery novelist (played by Dame Angela Lansbury ) who happens to solve all t...

Virtual reality is a weird collaboration between several different fields / industries, and each practice brings its own assumptions and ...