Radiator Blog

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...

Manchester International Festival (MIF) just announced my upcoming project "We Dwell in Possibility" , a queer gardening crowd sim...

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 made another Quake map! This one is called "Smell It In The Street" and it was made for the Doom Tintin map jam , a level design...

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...

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...

screenshot from my game Rinse And Repeat, with a sexy shower hunk speaking in Russian subtitles This post is adapted from a talk I gave ...

Sorry I haven't posted lately, we've been pretty busy here at NYU Game Center with the start of the new semester. We're also cu...

Darner's Digest is a series of occasional posts about the game dialogue system Yarn. Last time, I talked about some Yarn community ne...

Darner's Digest is a series of occasional posts about the game dialogue system Yarn. As I've written before , there are a varie...

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...

Unreal Engine 4 We're now a few weeks into the Unreal level design class, and things seem to be going OK. Our students have enough f...

GDC finally uploaded my talk from 2015 on level design history and futures ... and already, the conservative gamer-gestapo is whining abo...

I've been sculpting a lot in VR lately (via Oculus Medium) trying to figure out whether it's "the future" or not. While ...

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...

A lot of people will say Kentucky Route Zero is "minimalist"... but I think that label is pretty misleading. It packs every ...

This is work in progress on a new project branching off an existing project... it's probably a game about cruising . I wanted the bathro...

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