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Tips for implementing / coding an in-game options or pause menu functionality...
 I recently implemented an in-game options menu in Unity. Mine looks something like the thing above. A surprising amount of the required functionality is already implemented in Unity, you just have to...
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Radiator 1 notes, memories, and regrets.
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 player Source Engine mod of mine called Radiator. It is free, and anyone with...
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"Psycho-material geographies" of 3D spaces, and The Beginner's Guide by Davey...
This post gives vague conceptual SPOILERS for The Beginner's Guide, and spoils a few specific moments. You really shouldn't worry about it, I mostly just talk about me in this. I was one of the people...
View ArticleThe limits of a conceptual VR student game; and what would a "better" game...
The internet has been abuzz about "8:46", "a narrative driven experience designed for virtual reality, which makes you embody an office worker in the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the...
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"Rinse and Repeat" technical post-partum / how to do over-complicated wet...
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 if you care about stuff like that.Rinse and Repeat took about 1-2...
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That's why they call it the Diamond City Blues
WARNING: This post "spoils" an early quest in Fallout 4 and a later quest in Fallout 3.The "Diamond City Blues" quest, one of the better quests of Fallout 4, begins at an upper-class bar in Diamond...
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"That One Time I Repeatedly Gave Birth to Fully Grown Wolves, and Other Gay...
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 Fully Grown Wolves, and Other Gay Sex Games That We Deserve" about my...
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Sex Games, part 0: the sex games awaken
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.So, let's talk sex games. As a possible "GAYmer" at GaymerX, maybe...
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Sex games, part 1: sex as bodies
This post is part of a series about "sex games", based on a talk I gave at GaymerX3.(CONTENT WARNING: these posts have sexual images and content.)One definition of sex that I'm going to use here is "a...
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Sex games, part 2: sex as gesture / sex as poking
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 own category. I mean, poking is a very distinctive gesture. It's a very brief...
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Radiator Blog: (belated) Sixth Year Anniversary
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 commentary. This year, it arrives about a month late, because I forgot....
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New years resolution, 2016: some more gay sex, and "Maven"
@mooonmagic@mousefountain played Thief 4, thought "stealth is dead"; Invisible Inc, "stealth is real"; AssCreed London, "huh I can do that"— Roberto Yanga (@radiatoryang) January 1, 2016... so, my 2016...
View ArticleTwo 2016 NYC games conferences to submit talks to, like, right now
What kind of games conference do you run after an IndieCade conference co-chair confesses that games conferences aren't "working"? Well, uh... let's do a bunch of conferences to try to figure it out!...
View ArticleSpring 2016 semester in game development
Hey, what's up, long time no blog -- I've been busy prepping game development classes for the Spring 2016 semester. This season, I'm teaching four (4!) courses across 2 different universities, which is...
View ArticleRadiator World Tour, spring 2016
Here are my current games event plans for the upcoming 2016 games event season. It's pretty packed. If you'll be around too, feel free to say hey if you see me.GDC 2016 in San Francisco, California...
View ArticleOculus Rift DK2s kind of (secretly) do work on laptops (sometimes) and you...
This is a rant + technical guide about how to get an Oculus Rift DK2 to work with Unity 5 so that you can make stuff with it. Maybe.I'm teaching two virtual reality classes this semester, and I was...
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In-progress: Radiator 2 for Steam
I'm putting Attract Mode (the gay bar game) on hold to re-think the core social sim system, and Maven (my open world Thief-like) is on hold until Unity 5.4 ships (I tried bringing it into the 5.4 beta...
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Identity, camerawork, and time in games; on "Into" by Charle Taylor Elwonger
This post spoils Into, which is about 5-10 minutes to play. You should probably play it first, if you care about spoilers and such.Ingmar Bergman's film Persona (1966) is about two people who kind of...
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A history (and the triumph) of the environment artist: on The Witness and...
This post vaguely spoils random bits of Firewatch and The Witness. I wouldn't worry about it.Only a few years ago, hiking games (first person games with a focus on traversing large naturalistic...
View ArticleGDC Microtalks 2016: "Everybody Loves to Play", March 17 at 4 PM in Room 135,...
It's GDC season again.I'm going to be delivering a 5 minute microtalk on Thursday as part of MC Richard Lemarchand's impressive lineup, alongside Jenn Frank, Bennett Foddy, Steve Gaynor, Mathew Kumar,...
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