Double Fine PsychOdyssey recaps / viewing guide, episodes 01-17
Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey, chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its...
View ArticleThe joys of the anti-farm sim: "Before the Green Moon" by turnfollow
SPOILER ALERT: This post SPOILS what happens in Before The Green Moon. I strongly recommend playing it first.Before The Green Moon (on Itch and Steam) is a post-apocalyptic indie Harvest Moon / Stardew...
View ArticleDesign review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin
I completed the main campaign in Redfall (official site,Steam, also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled...
View ArticleDesign review of Against The Storm, by Eremite Games
Against the Storm by Eremite Games (Steam page, official site) is a popular 2.5D town-building run-based RTS with a Warcraft 3 inspired aesthetic and a deckbuilding meta-game progression.You spend an...
View Articlenew jam game: Where's the beef
I released a quick little jam game about 2 weeks ago, but I realized I never posted it here, so here it is:"Where's the beef is a silly little beef-finding web browser game made in zero hours for 0h...
View Articlenew Quake map: "Taught By Thirst" for Remix Jam
Taught By Thirst is a new Mesoamerican themed single player Quake map that I made for Remix Jam, a 3 week community level design event where we all adapted multiplayer maps from other games for Quake....
View ArticleDesign review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game
Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off.The main design inspiration here is obviously Gone...
View ArticleOn "Sudden Death" by Cecile Richard, nat_pussy, and isyourguy
As a fellow gay Australian Rules Football gamemaker, I am honor bound to write about Sudden Death by Cecile Richard and nat_pussy with help from isyourguy -- a 30-45 minute "romantic sports fiction"...
View Article"What's on your bookshelf" at Rock Paper Shotgun
Just a brief update here -- I recently had the honor of participating in Rock Paper Shotgun's "what's on your bookshelf" interview series.It's one of my favorite gaming journalism things happening at...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleRadiator 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...
View ArticleTryhard 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...
View ArticleTryhard 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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