Saturday, July 26, 2014

new game: "Chandelier" for makega.me

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I was eating fried chicken and "Chandelier" came on in the restaurant and it was a pretty catchy tune so when I went home I mad...

Nostrum design problems and world as interface

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I am currently trying to prototype some sort of social simulation in Nostrum , and I am currently facing three main design problems: fo...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

If you see something, say something

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I was telling my sister about Cards Against Humanity and the rape allegations against Max Temkin . I told her I now felt strange about acc...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

"Keys" by Ryan Trawick, and the emerging shape of post-mod culture and walking simulators

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Keys is a newly released single player Source mod, made mostly by Ryan Trawick, that is freely available to anyone with a Steam account....
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Game engine review roundup

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Unreal Engine 4. Very good high-end support, integrated vertex-painter, great for making 3D shooty games in huge landscapes. But it's v...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Nostrum and "strategic retreat" into conversation analysis

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So I was reading some of the Versu design papers and suddenly it hit me: they're doing a lot of the procedural narrative stuff that I w...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Someplace Else source files (for Black Mesa Source) + "Majestical" env texture set

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A year and a half ago , I was working on a Source re-mastering of Adam Foster's classic "Someplace Else" to plug into Blac...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Noserudake 2 and the language of development

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Noserudake 2 is a fantastic Unity browser game where you balance things on a platform. It is also the sequel to Noserudake 1 , and the J...