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New game announcement: "Tryhard" + "A Sportslike Manifesto"
Tryhard is an upcoming sports RPG about managing an underdog rugby club in New Zealand.We're still quite early in development. But for now, it'd really help us if you wishlisted the game on Steam or...
View ArticleThe year of the blog? + how to easily put a Bluesky feed widget on your website
V Buckenham has declared that this is the year of the blog. I suppose I shall answer the call. It must be so.I used to blog with shocking regularity -- at my peak (or my lowest point?) I was writing...
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Radiator University, Spring 2025 course catalog
Welcome back to Radiator University! Although it's been 7 years since we last offered any courses, we wish to assure you that we're absolutely open for business and/or scholarship, thanks to a fresh...
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Tryhard devlog - about the setting, game world, and worldbuilding
Now that we’ve announced our upcoming game Tryhard (... WISHLIST ON STEAM?) I can talk more openly about our design and development process for it.Today's post is about the game's setting, world, and...
View ArticleYep I'm at GDC 2025 (links / presskit / dance card)
Yep I'm attending GDC 2025. (For better or worse, I've made too many commitments to cancel.)The best way to contact me is to @ me on BlueSky or email me( yang.robert.w [AT] gmail ). You can also...
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Tryhard dev log - Cutscene and Game Scripting with Yarn Spinner v3.0 beta
In our upcoming game Tryhard, we have cutscenes and dialogue and level scripting like many other RPGs. This dev log is about how we’re implementing some of that stuff in the game. (Note that I'm...
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Space is not a wall: toward a less architectural level design
(This post is adapted from my micro talk "Teaching and Rethinking Level Design" at the GDC 2025 Educators Soapbox session. That's why it mentions "students" in the slide above.)People want to do level...
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Upcoming game dev events in Australia and New Zealand, June - August 2025
Down here in the other hemisphere, Australians and New Zealanders are approaching winter... which means it's time to leave the beach and attend some game developer events. I'll be participating in a...
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"After School" - from LAN Party (2024)
photo of a random 2000s era US cybercafe(This personal essay was written for LAN Party, a nice photo book about LAN gaming culture curated / edited by merritt k, along with many more essays like this...
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A foray into TikTok / notes on social media aesthetics
So I've finally done it. I've made a TikTok account (@radiatoryang). Forgive me.I still prefer text over video, and I certainly don't intend to "pivot to video"... but it was feeling increasingly...
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Postcards from TikTokland: week 1
A week ago I threatened to make some TikToks. I set a personal goal to make one TikTok a day, just simple basic daily vlog stuff of whatever I was already doing.And now it's been a week and I've done...
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new web game: Don't Rank Cuomo
Don't Rank Cuomo is a free short web game about not voting for / not "ranking" Andrew Cuomo, a corrupt disgraced neoliberal New York politician who's unfortunately running for mayor of New York City....
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I'm keynoting Freeplay Angles 2025 in Melbourne, July 31 - August 2... +...
In about 2 weeks, I'll be giving a keynote at Freeplay Angles 2025, an indie video game festival in Melbourne, Australia, running from July 31 - August 2, 2025.I'd give a hint for what my keynote's...
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Postcards from TikTokland (month 1) + comparing TikTok to Bluesky
So I've now been playing the weird MMO known as TikTok for more than a month, and I thought I should reflect on my time there. In contrast to my first week on TikTok where I posted every day, I've now...
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How Dread Delusion structures its side quests
talking to the "Inquisitor" at the beginning of the gameDread Delusion (2024) by Lovely Hellplace is a retro-style indie first person RPG about exploring strange floating islands and talking to the...
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new game: Rainbows Are Carnivores, a gay fishing / aquaculture romance
Rainbows Are Carnivores is a gay fishing / aquaculture romance video game about using your pole to catch some high quality hogs."Hog” is, of course, angler slang for a big fish, like a rainbow trout....
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Life notes (2019-2025) + Sweet Sixteenth (16th) Blog Anniversary Mega-Roundup
I haven't done one of these end-of-the-year blog roundups since December 2018. This blog is now 16 years old. Maybe now's a good time to catch up over the past 6 years of my life??Here's my "greatest...
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new Quake map: "One Need Not Be A House" for Quake Brutalist Jam 3
"One Need Not Be A House" is a large non-linear concrete bunker island / brick brutalism map that I made for Quake Brutalism Jam 3 -- a huge single player mega mod for Quake 1 with 77 (!!!)...
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Notes on level design workflow for the 3D platformer Big Hops
overview of the Ocean intro levelI made some levels for the 3D platformer game Big Hops by Luckshot Games, and it's finally released! You can now play it on Steam, Switch, and PS5.So far the game is...
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The future of public game arts festivals and non-commercial games culture
Freeplay Parallels in 2024 in Naarm Melbourne, AustraliaThis year the oldest living art games non-profit in the world, Freeplay (Australia), announced they were like a year away from shutting down, so...
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"Thanks for injecting me with 500 cursed Black Knight Ultra Greatswords" for...
I have a new piece up at Rock Paper Shotgun about Dark Souls 2 (2014), but no prior Dark Souls experience is necessary to read it.It's about when I got hacked in Dark Souls 2. Basically a malicious...
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Manifesto Jam 2026 - notes and links
Street Corner Orator, 1938 (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL)Cécile Richard is running the 2026 edition of Manifesto Jam. Time is running out to submit your brilliant bold game...
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My interview on Radio New Zealand about Americans
look at how laid-back I amRecently I spoke to Radio New Zealand (RNZ) journalist Ke-Xin Li about... Americans. The radio segment is called "First Up: Increase in number of Americans granted New Zealand...
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Radiator Forever is "Gay As A Service" + its debut July 2026 Update is Rinse...
CONTENT WARNING: This post is mostly "SFW" (Safe For Work) but the pictures are somewhat spicy, though Instagram-safe.Radiator Forever is a new ongoing re-remaster / re-re-release of my short...
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Life in TikTokland, year 1 + advice for game devs for getting into vertical...
my most popular videos: lunch shitpost, BL joke, Australia complaints... three different genres?I've been posting vertical videos on TikTok / Instagram Reels for about a year now. I already did my...
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