Robert Yang
@radiatoryang.bsky.social
gay artist, game dev in nz // https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
making Tryhard, a tactics RPG about rugby https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
making Tryhard, a tactics RPG about rugby https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
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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
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 Robert Yang
My level editor for Unreal Engine called Scythe just got a new major update! Here's what's in it: 🧵 (1/)
November 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My level editor for Unreal Engine called Scythe just got a new major update! Here's what's in it: 🧵 (1/)
new vlog: I liked the Louise Bourgeois exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery vt.tiktok.com/ZSy9c4oxY/
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
new vlog: I liked the Louise Bourgeois exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery vt.tiktok.com/ZSy9c4oxY/
lil level design thing: I didn't like how these two walls met at their corners, felt thin / weak / implausible? but no room left to resize anything seriously... took me a while to realize I could just thicken the facade with beefy columns, also win some continuity across the facade too
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
lil level design thing: I didn't like how these two walls met at their corners, felt thin / weak / implausible? but no room left to resize anything seriously... took me a while to realize I could just thicken the facade with beefy columns, also win some continuity across the facade too
new vlog: how to enjoy summer in Aotearoa New Zealand vt.tiktok.com/ZSyuKGWSW/
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
new vlog: how to enjoy summer in Aotearoa New Zealand vt.tiktok.com/ZSyuKGWSW/
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 Robert Yang
The biggest day in esports has arrived. Q-UP is out. store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
Save 10% on Q-UP on Steam
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The biggest day in esports has arrived. Q-UP is out. store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
saw this on tiktok and it changed my life youtu.be/gHEsv9zs3mQ
Let's go Bassfishing [Psx] Intro + Simple and Clean [Utada Hikaru]
YouTube video by Jhonny Silva Martins
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 5:32 AM
saw this on tiktok and it changed my life youtu.be/gHEsv9zs3mQ
lol someone sent me a gift card but the gift card vendor email didn't say who it was from and looked so suspicious I inspected the raw email auth headers and double-checked the raw html and I lowkey spiraled over clicking the "redeem egift" link or not
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
lol someone sent me a gift card but the gift card vendor email didn't say who it was from and looked so suspicious I inspected the raw email auth headers and double-checked the raw html and I lowkey spiraled over clicking the "redeem egift" link or not
this 0.2 second cheek skin bounce effect had a higher budget than most indie games
Love this little animation of Shu pinching himself in Silent Hill F. The pulled corner of his mouth, the way his skin bounces back. Just a fun little well-observed moment.
November 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
this 0.2 second cheek skin bounce effect had a higher budget than most indie games
watched natural born killers. the style has aged really well, feels like anime sometimes, araki esque
November 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
watched natural born killers. the style has aged really well, feels like anime sometimes, araki esque
video call scenes in tv and movies are definitely worse than phone call scenes
November 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
video call scenes in tv and movies are definitely worse than phone call scenes
Reposted by Robert Yang
On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.
October 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.
is “baseball is stupid / weird (complimentary)” a mainstream opinion? I haven’t been following it much, beyond ohtani / this world series stuff / that guy with the huge ass
November 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
is “baseball is stupid / weird (complimentary)” a mainstream opinion? I haven’t been following it much, beyond ohtani / this world series stuff / that guy with the huge ass
Reposted by Robert Yang
norwest bank (designed by louis sullivan), horizontal view, broadway, owatonna, minnesota, 1988
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
norwest bank (designed by louis sullivan), horizontal view, broadway, owatonna, minnesota, 1988
just learned “glitch” comes from Yiddish + 1940s radio culture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch?...
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
just learned “glitch” comes from Yiddish + 1940s radio culture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch?...
Reposted by Robert Yang
Reposted by Robert Yang
Come work with me!
We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute.
A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.
We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute.
A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.
Assistant Professor Digital Arts, Game Arts 2026 (71102)
The Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Game Arts at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in Fall 2026. The successful ca...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Come work with me!
We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute.
A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.
We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute.
A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.
damn I should've taken the physics class in high school. now I just have this random useless fake physics spider-sense cobbled together from making video games
October 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
damn I should've taken the physics class in high school. now I just have this random useless fake physics spider-sense cobbled together from making video games
meals are unnatural. most animals are snacking creatures
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
meals are unnatural. most animals are snacking creatures
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New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg
Egg by Terry Cavanagh
why not be an egg
terrycavanagh.itch.io
October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg
my main competition is also tiktok. and I also lost this competition instantly
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
my main competition is also tiktok. and I also lost this competition instantly
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👀 look at our 14th annual lineup for Nov. 22, making some new games JUST FOR YOU (if you come here)
Jana Romanova
@nicole.pizza (Crush House, etc) & @okremiok.bsky.social (Pikuniku, etc)
@alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social (Metagaming, Triforce, etc)
Julián Cordero (despelote, etc)
Jana Romanova
@nicole.pizza (Crush House, etc) & @okremiok.bsky.social (Pikuniku, etc)
@alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social (Metagaming, Triforce, etc)
Julián Cordero (despelote, etc)
No Quarter is back!
On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition!
No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com
On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition!
No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
👀 look at our 14th annual lineup for Nov. 22, making some new games JUST FOR YOU (if you come here)
Jana Romanova
@nicole.pizza (Crush House, etc) & @okremiok.bsky.social (Pikuniku, etc)
@alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social (Metagaming, Triforce, etc)
Julián Cordero (despelote, etc)
Jana Romanova
@nicole.pizza (Crush House, etc) & @okremiok.bsky.social (Pikuniku, etc)
@alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social (Metagaming, Triforce, etc)
Julián Cordero (despelote, etc)
hand modeled a tree out of brushes (it was painful) but I think the level needs the visual contrast, maybe needs some shrubs too
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
hand modeled a tree out of brushes (it was painful) but I think the level needs the visual contrast, maybe needs some shrubs too
silent cartographer discourse made me quadruple the map size into a giant island thing. only the beachhead has a near-final flow so far, still trying to resolve the rest of it
October 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
silent cartographer discourse made me quadruple the map size into a giant island thing. only the beachhead has a near-final flow so far, still trying to resolve the rest of it
Reposted by Robert Yang
Coming in Spring 2026: Oeuf, a 3D physics platformer where U egg. Wishlist innit. store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/...
Oeuf on Steam
3D physics-platformer where you are an egg! Roll, hop and slide your way back home.
store.steampowered.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Coming in Spring 2026: Oeuf, a 3D physics platformer where U egg. Wishlist innit. store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/...