Radiator Blog

This week I finished streaming through all 15 official missions of Thief 1  (Gold edition) as part of my "Level With Me" project...

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 a few general gameplay spoilers for Dishonored: Death of the Outsider. Many years ago, Rock Paper Shotgun published ...

The last moment of my last Invisible Inc run on "Expert Plus"; don't read the game text if you don't want spoilers I...

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...

This post does not spoil any specifics of the "plot" in Gone Home, but it might sensitize you to its delivery mechanisms and so...

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

(lighting / color test with random NPC mobs) Me and Eddie decided we should make a game this past / current weekend. It started with our...

This post DOES NOT spoil Dishonored's plot, but it DOES spoil a little bit about how Dishonored's branching narrative works. I...

Hey, I just remembered to do these again, so here's some recent work-in-progress environment art / level design deserving of your notice...

Thief 1 and 2 didn't have an "open world" structure. They got around this constraint (and arguably, surpassed the "ope...

From "Payday: The Heist" I went to another BLDGBLOG / Studio-X event: "Breaking Out Breaking In." This time, it was ...

Liz Ryerson recently did a great write-up of level 5-5 from Wolfenstein 3D  (and makes a good case for the surrealism of 4-3 ) and it occu...

I'm currently taking an architecture criticism class taught by Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic at the New Yorker. These are m...

Even after given a generous extra week, we weren't able to finish our game in-time for the Super Friendship Club's "Justice...

Had to throw away a lot of level design because the layout was simply no-good. Going for a more methodical approach this time instead of th...

2 weeks left to finish a crazy overambitious collab with Eddie Cameron. Stay tuned.

This is a series of posts that analyzes the immersive sim . It's a play on the excellent RPS feature, Dark Futures . Many moons ago, I...

Last time , I mentioned a lot of games that we like for their emergence and "cool stuff that happens" -- but the difference is th...

These are WIP levels / env art that I liked, and most of them are hopefully close to release / are released. I command you to like them as w...