(June 2020, ongoing)Short motion-control game about consent, kink, and spanking the hell out of this dude.
Part of the Sexy Microtalks sessions.
(December 2014)Male shower simulator about punctuality and submission. (July 2009, remastered October 2015)Short driving game about pleasuring a gay car and bringing it to climax. (June 2017)Copyright © Robert Yang 2019, unless it's not.2-page illustrated level design analysis of d2_coast03 in "Highway 17" (Half-Life 2), commissioned for PC Gamer UK #310 (November 2017)Art tool for painting 3D ivy in Unity, simulates growth and sunlight with 25+ different settings to configure. NYU Game Centre professor and independent developer Robert Yang never thought teaching a class on Twitch would be a good idea, but only once he was in the thick of things did the enormity of the task dawn on him. An homage to late homo-hop. Research Interests. (May 2015, remastered April 2016)I've contributed sample project code to Yarn Spinner for Unity, a free open source branching dialogue story plugin. (September 2015, remastered November 2018)Small 2-4 minute game about watching a dude slowly / erotically stick a thing in his mouth. (420 is the weed drug number; 69 is the sex number. An homage to late homo-hop. Staff Data Scientist, Migo | NYU Courant | University of Maryland | IIT Bombay Verified email at migo.money. Human moderators and plugins could ease the pain, but Twitch is still a public platform that doesn’t do enough to protect students’ privacy.“This is by far the most popular stream I’ve done... but I’m pretty sure I never want to do it again,” Yang says. British masculinity simulator about smoking, drinking, kissing, and pain. Jorge F. Mejias Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam Verified email at uva.nl. (June 2020)Experimental board game on open-pit mining and organized labor. (debut August 2018, ongoing)A (practical) talk about designing sex as a gameplay system and intimacy as simulation. Possibly, his students even gained a few new followers out of it.
Profile of Robert Young. “Oh hello, Amber,” he said to a student who’d identified herself in chat. (May 2015, remastered April 2016)I've contributed sample project code to Yarn Spinner for Unity, a free open source branching dialogue story plugin. Students probably enjoyed seeing strangers popping into their class, Yang says. Robert Yang makes surprisingly popular games about gay culture and intimacy -- he is most known for his historical bathroom sex simulator The Tearoom and his male shower simulator Rinse and Repeat, and his gay sex triptych Radiator 2 has over 150,000 users on Steam. Robert Yang (Chinese: 杨若波) is an academic, artist, and indie video game developer, whose work often explores gay subculture and the boundary between video game and art. “69 is the weed drug number,” one person helpfully declares. I had trouble performing basic classroom management tasks like timekeeping and facilitating student discussion,” he says.
Part of the Sexy Microtalks sessions. That might stymie efforts to get kids in class to participate if they’re unsure of who else is watching. Geometric group theory, metric geometry and quantitative geometry. (September 2016) Robert Yang is an indie game developer, academic, and writer, based in New York City. (July 2009, remastered October 2015)Short driving game about pleasuring a gay car and bringing it to climax. Pavel Osten Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Verified email at cshl.edu.
Part of "Invisible Intuition" for Level Design Workshop. Robert and Matt have been part of the NYU Game Center for years, as adjunct and visiting faculty respectively.
“They changed their mind.”Robert Yang streamed his class to students and eager strangersFaced with remote classes, one student joked that Yang should use Twitch to teach his class. (January 2015)Essay at Kotaku about how player-side modding to add a gay male context can radically transform an authored game narrative.
The Tearoom is a (free) historical public bathroom simulator about anxiety, police surveillance, and sucking off another dude's gun. Twitch chat suddenly has an echo, and it sounds like “nice.” Yang, a developer and New York University Game Center professor, is teaching a course about the sociology of streaming and Twitch by streaming on Twitch, with mixed results. Robert Yang (Chinese: 杨若波) is an academic, artist, and indie video game developer, whose work often explores gay subculture and the boundary between video game and art. (March 2019)Introduction to lighting design for video games, three point lighting, general workflows.
“I was never sure who was paying attention or when to move on.”To Yang, Twitch might be a fine option for lecture courses — or classes that don’t need discussion — but for those that require interaction, it’s a total mess.