Andrew Yoder
andrew-yoder.bsky.social
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.
Sightseeing around Berlin
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Player guidance here feels a bit excessive 😂
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Qfwfq is an aspirational character
October 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Thinking about Cosmicomics again.
October 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Not saying this would cure America, but, like, would it hurt to try?
September 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If there was a Delta Green video game
August 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Status
August 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Last day of vacation, so here's a short story:
July 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Made a visit to Södermalm
July 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Philip K Dick out here flexing from page 1
July 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
some more Thomas Ligotti
July 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This Ligotti book is the most nihilistic fiction I've read in ages, but also very funny
June 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
a nice passage from Thomas Ligotti's "My Work is Not Yet Done"
June 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This passage in Foucault's Pendulum is interesting to consider in the context of ai
June 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I suspect Masks of Nyarlathotep is beyond my ability as a DM, but it's nice to have aspirations. The complexity is staggering.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Umberto Eco's novel "Foucault's Pendulum" is very good.
June 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Cool cathedral
May 31, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Earlier this week at Nordic Game, Hanna Hoffman and I got to talk a bit about our work on the level design and living world of Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, and it was a blast ❤️

I don't think there was a recording, sadly, but maybe we'll give the talk again sometime somewhere in the future
May 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A pretty typical Call of Cthulhu example of an investigator setup with pre-gen characters for the players. The PCs don't share goals and motives, and only interact with each other by coincidence. My players want to work together, but this setup puts them in tension from the start.
May 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Reading the rulebook for Delta Green, and lmao
May 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
May 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
April 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
lmao
(from Philip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?")
April 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"He's starting to believe"
March 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM