Wednesday, August 30, 2017

On the hopeful undead future of VR and "A Short History of the Gaze", by Paolo Pedercini / Molleindustria

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I played Paolo Pedercini 's first (and maybe last?) virtual reality piece "A Short History of the Gaze" last year at Weird...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Road trip sketches; notes on extracting and visualizing Half-Life 2 levels in Maya

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So I'm working on (another) article about level design in Half-Life 2. I chose the d2_coast03 map of the Highway 17 chapter, which is...
Friday, August 18, 2017

Teaching, Fall 2017

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As mentioned before, I'm going full-time with NYU Game Center starting this September. For this upcoming fall semester, I'm going t...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

StoryCode August 2017 Forum at Film Society, Lincoln Center, NYC

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Next week on August 22nd, I'll be giving a presentation for StoryCode , a local community group focused on immersive media and story...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Go West young Slime Rancher, and grow up with the country

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This post spoils some mechanics and game systems in Slime Rancher. One in-game day in Slime Rancher , I found a rare " quantum slim...
Monday, August 7, 2017

Recent developments in queer game studies, Summer 2017

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Here's a few recent updates in the """discourse""" within the exciting world of QUEER GAME STUDIES!!! ...
Thursday, August 3, 2017

Cleaning out some old Black Mesa archives for PC Gamer

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Here are two old level design illustrations I did for a PC Gamer feature on level design in Half-Life 1, quite a few years ago. In the ov...
Monday, July 31, 2017

new tool: Yarn Weaver

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I'm working on a game that uses the excellent Yarn and YarnSpinner narrative toolkit for Unity. For this project, I'm also collab...