Radiator Blog

In keeping with tradition, I do a round-up of this blog's "notable" posts from the past year, and offer a bit of reflective c...

This post is part of a series about "sex games." There were so many games about sexual poking that I had to give them their o...

This post is part of a series about "sex games" , based on a talk I gave at GaymerX3. (CONTENT WARNING: these posts have sexua...

This post is part of a series adapted from my talk at GaymerX . No, I don't know when the video recording will be uploaded, sorry. S...

I'll be in San Jose next week for GX3, a video game expo, to deliver a talk entitled "That One Time I Repeatedly Gave Birth to Fu...

WARNING: This post "spoils" an early quest in Fallout 4 and a later quest in Fallout 3. The "Diamond City Blues" qu...

This is a technical overview of how I built certain parts of Rinse and Repeat . It spoils the game, so you should probably play it first ...

The internet has been abuzz about "8:46" , "a narrative driven experience designed for virtual reality, which makes you embo...

This post gives vague conceptual SPOILERS for The Beginner's Guide , and spoils a few specific moments. You really shouldn't worr...

NOTE: This post talks about Radiator 1, and spoils much of what happens in it. I've cleaned up and re-released an old single play...

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

So I've made quite a few sex games that have "gone viral" over the past year, and I'd like to talk a little bit about my e...

My newest game, Rinse and Repeat , was banned from all broadcast on Twitch about 4 days after it was released. It joins my previous game...

this amazing poster is by the incomparable Eleanor Davis No Quarter is an annual games exhibition in NYC that commissions original work...

This is a post detailing my process and intent in making Rinse and Repeat. It discusses in detail how some of the game systems work and wha...

QGCon 2015 at UC Berkeley has just put up their list of speakers and sessions . If you'll be around the Bay Area that weekend (in about...

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...

The Loch is a 2013 Scottish fishing RPG by Mitch Alexander. In it, you "fight" fish in turn-based JRPG battles symbolizing the...

In the vein of "Platform Studies" or "Code Studies", we might consider a "Game Development Studies" ("...

Me and fellow designers Naomi Clark and Nina Freeman will be running a keynote session at Indiecade 2015 tentatively called "Pillow...

(SPOILER WARNING: this post has some not-really-that-important spoilers for Massive Chalice.) Massive Chalice is a pretty OK game -- i...

My piece for Aevee Bee's micro-games-e-zine ZEAL is out. It's called "Bodies, I Have In Mind" , and it's about my bo...

Hello! My "Boss of Honor" keynote talk at upcoming gay game convention GX3 is called  "That One Time I Repeatedly Gave Bi...

Hylics , by Mason Linderoth , is one of the best RPGs made in the last decade. Imagine a game finely distilled so as to consist solely of...

I just read this article about how plants are intelligent . It's a classic philosophical problem. Is a brain in a jar any different f...

Mixamo got bought out by Adobe... as part of the merge, they've turned off all their billing systems... which means almost everythin...

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&#...

Some recent sightings of some sex games out in the wild... approach with caution. Hurt Me Plenty at Two5Six in New York City. (May 2015)...

Thanks to all your support, Stick Shift has been greenlit for distribution on Steam ! The gamers have spoken!!! Now to do this giant mess o...

This is part of a series on how I approach game lighting, from a more general and conceptual perspective. I build most of my examples in...

Brendan Keogh did a lovely write-up of my recent work for Reverse Shot , an online magazine at the Museum of the Moving Image. Yang, on th...

I've put Stick Shift on Greenlight. Because why not? I thought it would be a good fit for Steam because it's probably the most game...

The first reaction most people had was, "it's bigger than I expected." 575 pages to be exact. But that obfuscates the actual...

The good folks at QGCon  at UC Berkeley need YOUR session proposals for their third year running. I participated in the first year it ran...

As a palette cleanser from the last four sex games, I've been remaking my favorite of Alan Hazelden 's Puzzlescript suite, "...

Right-side modified from “Unscaping the Goat” (Ed Byrne, Level Design in a Day @ GDC 2011) This is adapted from my GDC 2015 talk "L...

This is a post detailing my process and intent in making Cobra Club . It has SPOILERS; if you care about that kind of thing, then you sh...

Haven't had time to write lately -- it's finals week here in New York City, so it's been pretty busy with grading and making sur...

This is part of a series on how I approach game lighting. Part 1 was about light fixtures, and part 2 is about light as a formal material...

This is a high level discussion of how I achieved certain effects in Succulent using Unity. It spoils the game, so I recommend you play ...

I'm stealing the first three paragraphs of Pippin Barr's lovely post : (see also -- Emily Short's take ) A post called Minimum...

This is a high level discussion of how I achieved certain effects in Stick Shift . It spoils the game , so I recommend you play it and/or...

This is a post detailing my process and intent in making Stick Shift . It has SPOILERS; if you care about that kind of thing, then you s...

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

I have updated my old experimental Portal 2 mod "Level With Me" to work with current versions of Portal 2. This mostly involved re...

Here's how I generally, theoretically, approach lighting in my games and game worlds. Part 2 is about light and function, mostly for l...

I'm cautious. I've been watching #altgames from a distance. Quite a few years ago, Jim Rossignol said I was supposed to be part of a...

"American Corinthian" via Paolo Pedercini In about 3 weeks at Different Games 2015  in Brooklyn, I'll be speaking about &...

Here are some thoughts I thought during GDC 2015. Virtual reality: I didn't get to try Valve's fancy new thing that requires ever...