radiatoryang

radiatoryang, 4 hours ago to random

was playing Dark Souls 2 and got invaded with hacked items

so now the inventory menu crashes the game, my account is shadow banned, and I have to delete the character

and it’s like a real curse, more interesting and powerful than any game lore or mechanic

thank you griefer for turning me to stone

radiatoryang, 11 days ago to random

Level Design Book update: comprehensive rewrite of "Cover" (for combat / stealth games) https://book.leveldesignbook.com/process/combat/cover

screenshot excerpt of the linked page

radiatoryang, 2 months ago to random

new little web game made on my phone: “let’s look at javier bardem” https://downpour.games/~radiatoryang/let-s-look-at-javier-bardem

radiatoryang, 3 months ago to random

new blog post: level design notes for "Taught By Thirst", my new Quake map that adapts de_aztec from Counter-Strike https://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2024/02/new-quake-map-taught-by-thirst-for.html

part of Remix Jam where we adapted maps from other games for Quake (e.g. Blood Gulch!... and Rainbow Road?!) https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/remix-jam.315/

radiatoryang, 4 months ago to random

working on some Dark Souls level design analysis https://book.leveldesignbook.com/studies/sp/undead-burg-dark-souls-1

took a while to figure out a workflow for the diagrams but now I'm happy with it, thx noclip.website

also, browsing the LODs show an older version of the level (!)

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radiatoryang, 7 months ago to random

UCLA Games is hiring a tenure-track (!) critical research / experimental games / art games professor, deadline is Nov 11 https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08835

radiatoryang, 7 months ago to random

NYU Game Center is hiring 2 full-time game professors! one for game art + one for game design / dev... deadline is Nov 1st, more info here: https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-join-the-nyu-game-center-faculty/

ps: I don't work there anymore so don't ask me any questions about it! ask nyu ok! it was a great job though and I miss them

radiatoryang, 8 months ago to random

my website tells me this old 2016 blog post of mine is getting some views for some reason?... I re-read it and it's actually still OK / I wasn't full of regret https://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2016/03/a-history-and-triumph-of-environment.html

Nifflas, 8 months ago to random

Does videogames have any equivalent to Dogme 95? Like, some kind of weird movement involving a set of restraints for making a game that multiple devs can participate in?

radiatoryang, 9 months ago to random

enjoyed this long read about the history of gay villains on tv / film https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/t-magazine/gay-villains-white-lotus-ripley.html

radiatoryang, 9 months ago to random

New Zealand indie game devs: the national game prototyping fund ($10k-150k NZD) is now open to devs outside of Dunedin (e.g. Auckland, Wellington)... submit an expression of interest by 8 Sept 2023, info is here: https://www.nz-code.nz/funding

radiatoryang, 9 months ago to random

here’s a basket I repaired for my mother in law… bottom had rotted out from sitting in water… I cut some fresh leaves and wove them in

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radiatoryang, 9 months ago to random

I appreciated this "Normal Person's Guide To The Room Temperature Superconductor Drama" https://defector.com/a-normal-persons-guide-to-the-room-temperature-superconductor-drama

radiatoryang, 9 months ago to random

liked this Soderbergh interview about tiktok / AI / streaming / what the strikes are really about https://defector.com/steven-soderbergh-says-its-time-to-tear-the-streaming-model-down-to-the-studs

After that you had been working with HBO Max, or Max now. Did you see any data while you were working with them? > No. Was it just like, “no way”? > I was given adjectives. “We feel good about these numbers.” “The comps are right in line with what we were hoping for.” And does that get in the way of your work? > Well, it's just, there are two potential reasons that we're not getting all of the information. One is that they're all making a lot more money than anybody knows and that they're willing to tell us. The other is they're making a lot less money than anybody knows. And they don't want Wall Street to look under the hood of this thing in any significant way because there'll be a reckoning that will be quite unpleasant. It's one of those two. My attitude is, I'd rather work in a...

radiatoryang, 9 months ago to random

greatest lighting curve of all time https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Half_Lambert

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radiatoryang, 9 months ago to random

gonna go back in time to 2003 so I can make a flash game on newgrounds about throwing shit at the duolingo owl

Nifflas, 10 months ago to random

I'm gonna be stuck on an island 6 hours. It has a cafe and a forest. Give me quests! I'll complete as many as I can!

radiatoryang, 10 months ago to random

very cool blog about what it's like to live in antarctica / how a modern research base works: https://brr.fyi (photos by the anonymous blog author)

photo of a small research camp
photo of underground ultra-cold storage
photo of a drill in sea ice

radiatoryang, 10 months ago to random

we wanted to watch geodesic dome videos so we searched for #dometok but then tiktok started showing us #dommetok and I thought “hmm”

radiatoryang, 10 months ago to ai

kinda hope the actors-writers strike helps society understand #ai less as a vague sci-fi thing, and more as corporate strategy to own people forever... and it's happening right now (via @acarboni // https://twitter.com/acarboni/status/1679614344915722241)

radiatoryang, 10 months ago to random

to fully replace all my apps I just need everyone to post more short video on mastodon... specifically: 90s simpsons clips, 80s music videos, rugby highlights, scenes from the godfather, guy eating rations from WW2, womens haute couture, large dogs riding things, and people falling in humorous ways set to highly distorted pop music

radiatoryang, 10 months ago to random

if there’s a salt lamp on the table, and you want to know if it’s really made of salt, is there any simple way to find out other than tasting it

radiatoryang, 10 months ago to random

theory: backrooms is just 60s/70s institutional interior design nostalgia (via @oldroadside)