Nick Burnham

screenshot of the TrenchBroom shape picker tool

Just taking a look at TrenchBroom again after a couple years (!?) but it's very cool that it has some simple shape prefabs built in now.

The Fallen Aces SDK is pretty sweet so far, hope it keeps getting updates. A lot easier to use than the actual Build Engine/Mapster32 for a "2.5D" immersive sim-ish style of game.

Cannot... resist... sewer levels www.slipseer.com/index.php?th...

Wrapping up the Peter Pan series with the ballet tonight, it's been a lot of playing! My chops are like raw sausage. Looking forward to doing the West Side Story suite in April.

Baby Steps credits screenshot showing Clear time: 14:17:49 Steps taken: 56694

Finished a first playthrough of Baby Steps, that's probably one of my favorite games now.

The team that worked on the commander deck? A+ no notes

Cards funny

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people love it when a door is sealed by an unknown force

Covers of two music etude books by Vladislav Blazhevich - "70 Studies for Tuba" and "Low Range Studies for Trombone"

Got a couple new (to me) Blazhevich etude books to improve my low range. Playing Rochuts down an octave pretty regularly is definitely helping there as well.

A screenshot of Baby Steps with the camera approaching a mountain of cardboard boxes in the middle of a forest. Written on one box is the text "BOX HELL" and an arrow pointing to the entrance.

Ohh Baby Steps summed up level design pretty well I see

Imagine going out to eat today of all days when you can just play Draw Steel with your boys

YouTube thumb for Exploring Eora: Pillars of Eternity 1, 2, and Avowed by Noah Caldwell-Gervais

Zoom in on the duration: 5 hours, 5 minutes, 52 seconds

Mahershala Ali in True Detective, old and confused mode

For his perfect console @jon.inkle.co, narrative designer and co-founder
of @inkle.co, chose:

1. Plundered Hearts
2. Blade Runner: The Adventure Game
3. Riven: The Sequel to Myst
4. The Last Express
5. Shadow of the Colossus

Listen to Jon discuss his picks in this week's episode:
sptfy.in/3lqj

It's happening.

We're getting fully-produced renditions of the ENTIRE Eviternity II OST.

That includes:
🔹 Dragonflight
🔸 Hyperdrive
🔹 Vector
🔸 K2
🔹 The Necromancer's Demise
🔸 A Dreamless Eternity
🔹 I Wish I Was Where I Was When I Wished I Was Here

As with anything this man does, I'm psyched.

Took a break from my watch thread so I'll start again here.

*The Beauty* is interesting, feels like Cronenberg, like eXistenz or Videodrome, but still with American Horror Story's signature plastic and tight black suits. The writing is not as smart as I was hoping, but I'll probably keep watching.

Took me a bit to realize Bsky added activity notifications finally, but we are so back.

Space is not a wall: toward a less architectural level design Maybe video game level design theory needs less focus on architecture? And maybe I'm part of the problem? My bad.

new blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...

New Vegas is my go-to for this, but also the Pathologic games approach it as well.

I love that book and DG. Works of art there.

‘It’s the underground Met Gala of concrete murderzone design’: welcome to the Quake Brutalist Game Jam Quake Brutalist Jam began as a celebration of old-fashioned shooter level design, but its latest version is one step away from being a game in its own right

thanks to @ricklane.bsky.social for talking to me and other modders. sorry not-sorry for the ludicrous headline quote

btw credit to @asponge.bsky.social who coined “concrete murderzones” years ago to describe QBJ1 and it stuck in my head all these years

Notes on level design workflow for the 3D platformer Big Hops A behind-the-scenes look at some of the tooling, level design methods, and metrics use for this cartoony 3D exploration game I helped make.

new blog post: notes on level design workflows for the 3D platformer Big Hops www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/01/note...

gurgi looks like luke skywalker in the last jedi lmao

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

genuinely stunning image

SHELVED BY GENRE awakens far below the Misty Mountains, and with riddles and talking eagles and exploding pine cones, the hosts continue their discussion of THE HOBBIT! Also, we learn so much about what Tolkien thought of airplanes. rangedtouch.com/2026/01/16/t...

With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...

It's objectively strange that Chrono Trigger is the name of a JRPG series about time travellers dealing with a crisis, and Time Crisis a series of light gun games.

UFO 50 has been shortlisted for Best Game at the 2025 #GameMaker Awards! Fantastic group of games we're a part of - it's an honor.

Our team members have been using GameMaker to make games for a long time. Big thanks to everyone at @gamemaker.io!

🗳️You can vote for us here: opr.as/GMA25-Vote

Why Is Everyone Posting About a Half-Life 3 Announcement Soon? - IGN Haha. Yeah, I know. "Half-Life 3". The long-fabled, often-rumored, still non-existent third numbered entry in the Half-Life series that fans have craved but never gotten a credible whisper of. It's be...

when i started writing this i was absolutely convinced it was going to be a joke on the level of the silksong chocolate cake debacle but after researching it they've made a believer out of me i'm sorry to say
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Between Hit Man and Running Man, Glen Powell has now been in two movies where he gets to put on silly little disguises and goofy voices and I think it’s a niche he should keep doing in all his movies

A plea for help. 🙏
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.

His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org

Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙