Robert Yang

Digital games

• Zobeide (2012) an asynchronously-written first person hypertext in the city of desire.
  (w/ Robin Arnott)
• Souvenir (2012) a first person platformer inside your memories.
  (w/ Ben Norskov.)
  (w/ Mohini Dutta.)
  (w/ Alejandro Ghersi.)
• Jersey Shouroboros (2012) consume the Jersey Shore cast in a perpetual cycle of self-destruction.
  (w/ Eddie Cameron.)
• Apollo 2 (2011) a first person poem made in 0 hours.
• Dinner Secrets (2011) a silly Kinect prototype.
  (w/ Eddie Cameron.)
• Super Cult Tycoon 2 (2011) a tycoon / tower defense satire about religion and money.
  (w/ Eddie Cameron.)

Analog games

• Butte, Montana. 1973. (2011), a board game about open-pit mining that uses chemical reactions to pollute itself.
• Feng Shui (2010), a board game about interior decoration, client-designer relationships, and chopsticks.

Level design / mods

• Level With Me (2011)
• Radiator (2011)
• Anomalous Materials (2009)

Writing

• A People's History of the FPS (2012), a 3-part essay on the WAD, the mod, and the postmod, at Rock Paper Shotgun.
• Future of the FPS (2012), a feature on the past, present, and indie future of the FPS genre, in PC Gamer UK #240.
• Level with Me (2011), a 7-part series of level design interviews at Rock Paper Shotgun.
• Dragon Age: Origins is the First Game About Gay Marriage (2010), attacking immaturity at Kotaku before it was more fashionable.
• Not That There's Anything Wrong with That (2009), on making gay games for straight players, published twice at The Escapist as a "Best Of".

Academia / talks

B.A. in English (2010) from UC Berkeley.

MFA in Design & Technology (2012) from Parsons The New School for Design.

• Yang, Robert. (2012) "Lighting Design for Level Designers." GDC Europe 2012 in Cologne, Germany. 14 August 2012.
• Yang, Robert. (2012) "A People's History of the First Person Shooter." No Show Conference at MIT, Boston. 15 July 2012.
• Yang, Robert. (2012) "How to 'Get Better': Approaches to LGBTQ-relevant Video Games." 9th Annual Games for Change Festival at NYU, New York City. 19 June 2012. [TRANSCRIPT]
  PRESS: Kotaku, GayGamer.net, IndieGameMag
• Yang, Robert. (2011) "Handle with Care: a first person game about gay divorce." Critical Information: Mapping the Intersection of Art and Technology at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. 3 December 2011.

Honors and exhibitions

"Jersey Shouroboros" was nominated for Best Use of Theme / Best Overall, and won the NYU Audience Choice award at Global Game Jam 2012.

"Goldblum" won the NYU Audience Choice "Wildcard" award at Global Game Jam 2011.

Zobeide has been exhibited at:

• "Playing the Game" at Spazio O' Artoteca in Milan, Italy.
• "Lunarcade: Spatial Narrative" at Serial Space in Sydney, Australia.

Radiator has been exhibited at:

• "Learn to Play" at the Euphrat Museum of Art in Cupertino, California.
• "Vida interior" at Intermediae in Madrid, Spain.
• "Playful y Playable: Critica y Experimentacion con Videojuegos" in Vitoria, Spain.
• "Espacio, tiempo y emocion" at Intermediae in Madrid, Spain.

Press

• Super Cult Tycoon 2:
  • Kotaku [1]
  • PC Gamer [1]
• Radiator:
  • Rock Paper Shotgun [1] [2]
  • Wired UK [1]
  • Eurogamer [1]
  • Game Developer Magazine [1] [2]
  • Die Zeit [1]
  • Destructoid [1] [2]
  • Podcast 17 [1] [2]

Copyright Robert Yang, unless it's not.
Contact me: @radiatoryang or yang.robert.w@gmail.com. CV provided on request.