Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Gradually all these advancements and upgrades add up to a NPC-driven town that can maintain and feed itself automatically. Until then, you're forced to actually play the game, chopping wood and grinding for materials. It takes good parts of other good games, and skilled talented people spent lots of time and money on it.

Indy 52

Indy Film Games Puzzle 52

Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 when I was making the original prototype, there were also two other gay cowboy things on my mind: Orville Peck's hit single "Dead of Night" and the gay indie romance film God's Own Country. More recently, Angela Washko's "The Game: The Game" effectively merges PUA tactics and conversation trees as a powerful critique.

Pixel 52

Pixel Film Art NPC 52

Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge. It would feel terrible.

Fighting 52

Fighting NPC Puzzle AI 52

SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Okay, I got you to do all of this because we often find in our more advanced online course that we teach, students learn abstract concepts better if they first get their hands dirty working with the materials first. Okay, but before we jump into theory, let’s first play the game we’ve created. Want to Make Video Games?

Visual Scripting 52

Visual Scripting Scripting Data Editing 52