The Comfort of Fixed Lightmaps
Why static light and baked shadows still make old spaces feel uncannily lived in.
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System Shock 2's Ship as Character
On level design, atmosphere and the silent storytelling of spaces.
Reading Terminals in an Age of Lore
Why text logs, emails and data pads used to feel like discovery, not filler.
From the Notebook
Random entryLate-night track from the Battlefield 1942 menu. Functional, oddly melancholy, somehow warmer than it had any right to be.