Radiator Blog

I recently released a Unity WebGL game and the process was a bit painful. Here's what I learned... In summary:  I was using built-in pi...

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 recently used Unity Timeline to do cutscenes in a game. Once you figure out how to use it, it works great, but that learning curve of ...

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...

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...

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...

This post spoils the core gameplay and player progression in Subnautica, but not the specific story nor scripted plot events. Subnautic...

I've been using Yarn for a little while, and I've grown to prefer it as my "talking to NPCs" solution for game developm...

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

  I recently implemented an in-game options menu in Unity. Mine looks something like the thing above. A surprising amount of the required...

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...

In Hurt Me Plenty , I implemented "real-world" cooldown timers, which persist even if the player restarts the program. The cooldow...

Julia set  fractal thing of a quaternion function... I actually don't really know what that means, but it's pretty. This is kind...

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...

I was prototyping a game concept with branching dialogs for conversations and/or CYOA story events, so I started looking at various solut...

I'm working on a project with a collaborator who doesn't use Unity and doesn't really have an interest in game development (g...

The other day, I sat down with a student in my Unity class to review some course material and answer some questions. They were wondering why...

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that grass rarely fades linearly into dirt. Grass is often quite clumpy. I wasn't satisfied w...

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