Robert Yang
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indie game dev; gay-married to @eddiecameron ; //
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Level Design Book update: comprehensive rewrite of "Cover" (for combat / stealth games) ... some excerpts:
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"whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely becomes its signature" -brian eno
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lol this is the same company that bans my gay games and refuses to explain why... happy pride, everyone
This month and every month, wear your Pride on your sleeve.
Our limited edition 2019 Pride tees are on sale now. Whether you're Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Pansexual, Asexual, or an Ally, our expanded collection has you covered!
Purchase here:
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shot composition is not level design, screenshots aren't levels, no one plays games like this
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whenever I taught Papers Please in college classes, discussion was always like --
US students: "this is obviously about russia"
international students: "this is obviously about america"
I think Papers Please is one of the most interesting game to watch letsplays of, because WOW the way people react to this game is telling.
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when I lecture on level design, I do a 30 min lecture about level layouts; I put it into a diagram, hope it's useful
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never knew this -- it took a newly-hired (gay) programmer, oblivious to office drama, to implement gay people in basically one of the most popular and influential games of all time
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finally got the ivy painting tool into a usable state, it feels kinda magic... but still need to optimize it, will probably release it for free tomorrow
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anyone else look at old historical maps and be like "this is a fake fantasy world with too much worldbuilding, try again"
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HK protesters have amazing tactics / coordination... umbrellas to block security cameras, cash to buy subway tickets with no paper trail, regularly sharing food and resources, megaphones to coordinate movement and share info... super inspiring
As police approach, protesters open up the barricades to allows traffic through again so that the traffic heads directly into the path of the incoming police, blocking their approach.
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no one will ever fondly remember your stable polished bug-free game... instead, let us embrace the jank, build jankware, revel in the jankcore
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happy "international men's day" or something?? to celebrate, you can play my free masculinity simulator HARD LADS from this summer
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if you liked Crazy Rich Asians and you're also gay as hell, check out 2 classic gay AA 90s movies... The Wedding Banquet (gay Asian guy hides white partner from parents) and Saving Face (Asian lesbian reckons with mom and gf)
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maybe sickos are like the gut bacteria of a website... you need a good baseline balance of sickos to do their weird fucked up microbe shit
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so many good third wave indie immersive sims are coming from european and russian culture... stuff like My Summer Car and Jalopy and now this, meticulously crafted first person games with no heroic conflict... just a mundane loneliness alleviated by intense attention to objects
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lol adobe just broke photoshop for pixel artists, texture artists, FX artists, animators
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can't wait for
@Twitch
to uphold their content policy consistently and ban cyberpunk 2077, since they already banned my gay dick pic game for its customizable genitals 🙀
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everyone has been forwarding this tweet to me but I don't understand why, oh well
I've tried different objects, grabs and gestures. It's not perfect yet but it works quite well
#procedural
#unity
#gamedev
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animation test... but still gotta implement the rest of masculinity: drinking, smoking, swearing, and kissing
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I already knew this from playing Civ 4 where you need to discover Fascism before you can build Mt Rushmore
No U.S. citizen is taught this.
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me: I wish level design would learn more from real-world architecture
(real-world architecture starts designing US high schools like FPS levels)
me: no, stop,
There are subtle places for students to hide, curved hallways with limited line-of-sight and areas of the halls that jut out for protection.
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I'm making this into a game now
I went to the Masculinities exhibition at the Barbican just before lockdown and I don’t understand why they didn’t dedicate a room to this video??
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can hardly wait for my GDC talk submissions to get rejected
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my next gay sex game will let you import your final fantasy 7 save files
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I'm trying to figure out clothes for my stripper game -- I want his shirt to rest on the floor, but cloth sim only works on sphere colliders, so I put a giant invisible moon beneath the stripper -- however, the shirt just slides away at 20 mph?... (the trumpet is unrelated)
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new tool release: Hedera is my new 3D ivy painting tool for Unity with detailed growth sim and proc gen mesh options... includes ivy shaders, textures, and 5 presets for realistic or cartoon ivy... free and open source, get it here:
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every pride the "british lads hit each other with a chair" video goes viral again, so please enjoy my free fan game Hard Lads, as mandated by pride
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I made a free open-source Unity editor tool that can automatically download and import Google Docs / Google Sheets / whatever into your project... good for collaborating with designers or writers via browser, and then seeing the results instantly in-game
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I hate how everyone in facebook's shitty fake VR is just a floating torso; zero ass, zero sex; it's so anti-vrchat that it's basically homophobic
That Facebook’s first ad for Horizon tried SO hard to make it seem like The Good Place is indisputable proof that it’s The Bad Place
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if you're going to make gordon freeman into a hot science daddy with nathan drake jawline, then at least have the decency to make it porn... right now this serves nobody
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me: yay this mirror hack might work
(1 second later)
me: oh no
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new tool: Merino, free open-source game narrative design tool that lets you write and playtest Yarn scripts in the Unity Editor... info / download:
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@nytimesbooks
none of the copyright lovers in these replies have even bothered to look at the IA's actual lending mechanism: encrypted PDFs wrapped in timed DRM tied to the borrowers account. No self respecting pirate would call this piracy.
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we go back to his place; we’re in bed doing Stuff; he decides we need music to uhh set the mood
so he starts his computer, logs into Facebook (?!) and opens up FarmVille (?!?!??)
and clicks on the jukebox in his FarmVille farm
and as the midi ringtone plays, I just look at him
What’s the most awkward date y’all ever been on?
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thanks everyone for sending this to me, I can confirm that it is indeed a New Game Idea
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dear
@Twitch
social media freelancer: sorry, I know your employer's hypocritical and offensive rainbow-washing is not your fault
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bless oblivious gays everywhere, strive to overrule institutional homophobia without even realizing
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I mean this sincerely: I'm kinda in awe of how straight people are finding so many new ways of being straight
The queen is tethered to my belly inside of a cage. Poetry.
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is there a name for those times where you spend a long time agonizing over the "smart way" to make / do something... but then give up and do it the "dumb way" and then you're done in like a minute?
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new game idea
Massive semen explosion after blaze hits bull artificial insemination facility, firefighters forced to dodge "projectiles"
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dear fellow level designers: I love you but can we plz stop drawing "leading lines" on screenshots to "prove" something?
1) yes, hallways and walls are linear
2) yes, lines converge in the distance, it's linear perspective
3) there are memes about the logic of what you're doing
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major life change announcement:
- Fall 2020 will be my last semester at
@NYUGameCenter
- I'm leaving New York, moving to New Zealand at end of the year
- this means I'm available for contracting or design / development work in 2021?
- info + blog post:
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0.1% of players are looking at the bridge, the bridge is irrelevant to the task at hand..."weenies" have 0.1% of the power you think they do
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I couldn't find a decent takeout food box 3D model so I made one and I've uploaded it for free download with CC0 public domain license... let's put more food in games ok
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I would be shocked if twitch gave special treatment to aaa games, while policing the shit out of my queer games that are actually about sex and bodies... I would just be totally shocked at their blatant hypocrisy, would never see it coming 🙀
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border guard: why do you come to germany
me: to speak at a festival
guard: what festival
me: amaze
guard: (not listening) ok
guard 2: are you famous
me: no
guard 2: (to other passenger) do you know who he is
other guy: (laughs at me) no
I'm really loving this dry berlin humor
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anyone else buying deathloop in its first week in the futile hope that better sales numbers will mean arkane won't be forced to make a live service lootbox burger king royale
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can we stop asking old guard AAA about immersive sims, and instead talk to all the indies who are doing better work with far more insight?... car sims like Jalopy or My Summer Car, dwelling sims like It's Winter, story sims like Paratopic, survival sims like The Long Dark, etc
Retirement of Deus Ex and Dishonored "probably should have affected the way I think about System Shock 3, but honestly it hasn't"
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we already know we're in the mountains, we've been walking through them for the past hour, it's fine, we don't need disneyland skybox at all times
my env art nitpick: the trees are implausibly tall and skinny since they're not crowded in a forest competing for sunlight
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we live in a fallen world
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so did twitch ban cyberpunk for its prominent usage of video game genitals yet? 🤔🤔🤔 anyway play my dick pic game, which has over 1 million possible 3D penises
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pretty sure if I textured a tunnel like this, I'd be shot into the sun
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each night of escalating police brutality just makes an even bigger case for abolishing them? at this point, it's like defunding the police is the nice moderate compromise
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lol we're all fucked
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gamers: robert why do you make such weird games
me: AAA made a 100 hour rpg where the usa has been nuked and president beto o'rourke, with his dying breath, dreams about a femme cat boy king collecting enough fabric to convince a dog to go mine ore in his new imperialist paradise
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in ni no kuni 2, I'm a femme cat-boy king who does mindless repetitive chores for a gang of queer butch shipbuilders... finally, a video game power fantasy that actually makes sense
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today I learned the Knights Templar were disbanded via "rimming scandal"... its up to me to make the true AssAssins Creed game we all deserve
It's also associated with religious heresy. When the Knights Templar were disbanded for heresy, the accusations included anal kissing, all linked to devil worship. Eating ass was a sign of Evil!
(This is probably a representation of a Templar)
(Morgan, MS g24, f. 070r)
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congrats to all the book authors who allied with massive corporate publishers to destroy the internet archive and libraries in general
In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book.
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watching HK protestors use a traffic cone to extinguish a tear gas grenade in less than 30 seconds is amazing and gorgeous, it's like a ballet
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@nytimesbooks
"unrestricted" is really irresponsible and misleading here -- there are unlimited borrowers (because that's how the internet works!!!!) but the actual files follow standard ebook lending practices
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dear whoever works on tweetdeck: (1) thanks for making a usable twitter client, (2) please never ever let the main twitter UX team anywhere near you; don't sit next to them at lunch; don't even speak to them
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this is what rivers do?? wtf
An attempt to visualize in three dimensions an incising meandering river; flow from top to bottom of image
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random dad on plane: so what do you do
me: I make video games
him: oh wow, which video games
me: .............
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to close out pride month I'm releasing a new free gay sex game: ZUGZWANG is a tactical first person gay sex dungeon roguelike where you play as a sex angel redeeming men for precious fluids... info + video + free download is here (NSFW):
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kojima: death stranding is a metaphor for the internet
players: (use death stranding like they use the internet)
kojima: wait, no, stop,
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I'm working on a game that isn't sexual (!) and I coded the NPCs to look at the player if they're nearby... but I miscalculated the player position so actually they're just looking at the player's ass all the time??? I guess life always finds a way...
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industry dudes upset about "censorship" (of loot boxes) while twitch continues to ban my games by secret trial ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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this section is about slowly following a slow moving NPC, readability isn't especially important, this isn't a Sonic level... and even so, it's still readable with lighting and context, it's just not screaming at you
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the more I think about it, the more angry I get about Tim Cook's lawyers hating LGBTQ games... like, fuck this guy??... or actually, don't fuck him, no one should have sex with Tim Cook ever again... I hereby ban him from all gay sex, even retroactively
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gamers: omg the kojima game has peeing
me, 2 years ago: 💦 💦
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Hey
@itchio
please make a patreon subscription thing so that we don't have to use patreon anymore
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The ESA stance against game preservation is anti-academic, and willfully misunderstands the nature and shape of doing games history
"It is unlikely that anyone, including proponents, would invest thousands of hours of labor over a period of years merely because a scholar someday may wish to study the game," the ESA writes.
fuuuuuuuuuckkkkkk yoooouuuuuu
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Gamejolt's new anti-sex policy is fucked up imo; Curtain is great and important; it's sad to see the internet gentrify further every day like this
😐
I mean, I think there's a difference between 'curtain', a game about abuse that talks about it indirectly in the hopes of helping people, and some porn game, but idk
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announcing
#GayWesternJam
Dec 2-9... make a small game, short story, or art thing that has gay cowboys, queer cowfolks, bisexual deserts, trans train robberies, the music of Orville Peck, "Jolene", rugged beauty, gritty betrayal, etc.
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reminder that gender gap in tech looks v. different outside of US... almost as if a "rational biological" world view doesn't explain much? 🤔
American women only receive 13% of CS Bachelors degrees ~2013, yet is a popular major in India: 42% BS; 67% MS. How and why is this?
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I'm on a bus where a middle aged white guy was calling a tmobile support hotline... but then he started freestyle rapping about bitcoin?? (?!?!)... and then they hung up on him lol
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just got GDC talk evaluations back...
(1) many felt it was too basic, which is understandable, but as I said at the start of the talk, it was for beginner / intermediate designers
(2) lol apparently industry men don't like it when you call for applause for the concept of gay sex
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new game release: "We Dwell In Possibility", a queer gardening sim game in collab with
@squinkyelo
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@aya_yco
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@hellophia
(art),
@SoFunkyItHertz
(sound), and commissioned by
@MIFestival
... play it free in your browser here: (5-10 min)
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finishing up the final boss of me and
@eddiecameron
's co-op JRPG "Eternal Wonder"... I hope players will understand the subtlety of our metaphors
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I agree with the general critique "I feel like I'm just walking through random places and looking at graphics"... but this is the core experience design (as intended???)... this isn't something you solve by rearranging trees and changing a wall color
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these screenshots are basically the same -- vague collapsed manmade thing with some grass? I barely even noticed it was a bus
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wow, instead of a suspiciously blank page () it turns out that
@itchio
has a fully-functional LGBT tag with lots of gay and queer themed games
with steam straight up deleting our lgbt tag, this is a great reminder to put your past and future games on itch instead if you already haven't 💕
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“self love is not so vile a sin as self neglecting” — this antique wall mirror
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they're going after abortion and immigrant rights today, but get ready to defend gay marriage all over again too
Children of LGBT U.S. citizens may be stripped of their birthright citizenship due to a policy that de-recognizes their parents’ marriage
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happy pride!! we just launched DreamboxXx, a big gay video game bundle with proceeds going to lgbtq / pro-immigrant nonprofits; please consider donating (the 69% discount was totally a coincidence, I didn't plan that, but I do view it as a divine blessing)
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so proud of nyc rn
On the main stage of Times Sq, Ninja's goal of getting one million New Yorkers to do the floss dance comes just short by 999,995
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this would be a decent bit for a counter strike map... take the stairs, or risk the piss window?
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when I was 8 I thought "director's cut" referred to the black bars at the top and bottom of a letterboxed movie -- like, the director had literally cut off the top and bottom of the movie frame
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making a new quake map, it's gonna be a big fuckin tree that takes up the entire maximum playable area allowed in quake
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whoa the fluffy fur collars in uncharted 4 just use the "shell" technique (popularized by shadow of the colossus), I thought they had a fancy shader or something
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