Andrew Yoder
@andrew-yoder.bsky.social
Lead Level Designer at MachineGames. Helped on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and the rereleases of Quake 1 and 2. Modder of old games. American in Sweden. Views expressed here are my own.
Gave a talk with Hanna in Berlin for the Games Ground conference. I think it was recorded, but no idea where/when it might be uploaded
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Gave a talk with Hanna in Berlin for the Games Ground conference. I think it was recorded, but no idea where/when it might be uploaded
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Cleaning up my office and found the pre-draft of my novel Absolution: Some scribbled-in notebooks and scene frags on the backs of hundreds of discontinued library catalogue cards, which I then sequenced in story order.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Cleaning up my office and found the pre-draft of my novel Absolution: Some scribbled-in notebooks and scene frags on the backs of hundreds of discontinued library catalogue cards, which I then sequenced in story order.
It's 10 years since I started my first studio job in game development 🥳
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It's 10 years since I started my first studio job in game development 🥳
Player guidance here feels a bit excessive 😂
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Player guidance here feels a bit excessive 😂
Heard someone refer to King Crimson as "slightly less unhinged Primus", and they aren't wrong.
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Heard someone refer to King Crimson as "slightly less unhinged Primus", and they aren't wrong.
In today's Delta Green TTRPG session we had a hand-to-hand combat in a tiny New York apartment against a woman with a hatchet. The player characters sustained 2 major wounds before we managed to incapacitate the attacker. Easily could have party-wiped 😅
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
In today's Delta Green TTRPG session we had a hand-to-hand combat in a tiny New York apartment against a woman with a hatchet. The player characters sustained 2 major wounds before we managed to incapacitate the attacker. Easily could have party-wiped 😅
With some tv shows, the writing style and quality feels like it reveals the process of its writers room, catching glimpses of someone saying "yes, and" to a terrible idea before adding an even more terrible idea on top.
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
With some tv shows, the writing style and quality feels like it reveals the process of its writers room, catching glimpses of someone saying "yes, and" to a terrible idea before adding an even more terrible idea on top.
Reposted by Andrew Yoder
new blog post: notes on quest design in Dread Delusion, a very good indie first person RPG / Morrowind-like www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/11/drea...
The bleak and poignant open world sidequest design of Dread Delusion
World design / quest design review of Dread Delusion, a 2024 indie first person RPG / Morrowind-like
www.blog.radiator.debacle.us
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
new blog post: notes on quest design in Dread Delusion, a very good indie first person RPG / Morrowind-like www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/11/drea...
Reposted by Andrew Yoder
Weapons (2025)
November 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Weapons (2025)
I'm supposed to take an actual vacation, like leave-the-country vacation, in a few weeks, and it is such a stupid source of anxiety.
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'm supposed to take an actual vacation, like leave-the-country vacation, in a few weeks, and it is such a stupid source of anxiety.
Today I used a hex editor 😘
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Today I used a hex editor 😘
One of the joys of modding is the script archaeology of trying to understand when, how, and why a thing works at all.
October 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
One of the joys of modding is the script archaeology of trying to understand when, how, and why a thing works at all.
Current favorite Bowie era is his sad-disco era. youtu.be/eGuu7NiALvo
Stay (2016 Remaster)
YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Current favorite Bowie era is his sad-disco era. youtu.be/eGuu7NiALvo
You know when an old record player reaches the end and gets stuck looping silence, waiting to be reset, or else stopped?
October 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
You know when an old record player reaches the end and gets stuck looping silence, waiting to be reset, or else stopped?
At the pub heard "when I was a kid I used to do level design." I thought surely I had misheard, but the guy said "It's kinda like architecture, but [inaudible]."
October 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
At the pub heard "when I was a kid I used to do level design." I thought surely I had misheard, but the guy said "It's kinda like architecture, but [inaudible]."
starting a campaign of Impossible Landscapes for Delta Green today!
October 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
starting a campaign of Impossible Landscapes for Delta Green today!
Used up my budget for bad ideas.
October 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Used up my budget for bad ideas.
Meanwhile there's a marathon run in town today. A continuous 40k run seems excessive, but clearly a lot of people disagree 😅
October 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Meanwhile there's a marathon run in town today. A continuous 40k run seems excessive, but clearly a lot of people disagree 😅
Got a new personal best running a 10k in 60 minutes, plus a minute of warmup. That's a 6 minute improvement.
October 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Got a new personal best running a 10k in 60 minutes, plus a minute of warmup. That's a 6 minute improvement.
90s fps map names as increasingly specific cries for help.
October 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
90s fps map names as increasingly specific cries for help.
BSP hole keeps moving
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
BSP hole keeps moving
Forget cyber-punk, steam-punk, and diesel-punk: paper-punk is here. In a world wracked by autonomous ransomware entities and the degenerating ouroboros of llm AI, the world has gone offline to paper, filing cabinets, and card catalogs www.bbc.com/news/article...
How hackers forced brewing giant Asahi back to pen and paper
The maker of Japan's most popular beer, Super Dry, was hit by a major cyber-attack last month.
www.bbc.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Forget cyber-punk, steam-punk, and diesel-punk: paper-punk is here. In a world wracked by autonomous ransomware entities and the degenerating ouroboros of llm AI, the world has gone offline to paper, filing cabinets, and card catalogs www.bbc.com/news/article...
Dreamed of a texas chili served with a layer of béarnaise sauce on top.
October 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Dreamed of a texas chili served with a layer of béarnaise sauce on top.
Sometimes life is good and I get to go out dancing until 3 in the morning.
October 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Sometimes life is good and I get to go out dancing until 3 in the morning.