Trevor King-Yost

Game Design Lead / Shadowrun Returns, Dragonfall, Hong Kong | Also BATTLETECH, NECROPOLIS, Crimson: SP, Call of Duty: WWII, Pirates of the Burning Sea

[Trevor Moore @itrevormoore]

I have spent all morning designing this video game and I’m sorry to say, it’s a piece of shit.

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

these are my sons

I am ALL out of steaks thanks to my children and I couldn't be more proud #actionbutton

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

@xArcky The secret sauce is that you can kick the barrels into the enemies or kick the enemies into the barrels. There is no wrong way to play 😉

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

@logicalerror FWIW your tools are the biggest reason I would use Unity again. Thanks 🤝

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

In awe of @108's completed Season 1 of Action Button Reviews. One of my favorite moments, from ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS DOOM: https://t.co/pD1IDVt0cC

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

Ready to pull an all-nighter over here 👏

[HORRORVISUALS @horrorvisuals]

𝐼 𝑆 𝑂 𝐿 𝐴 𝑇 𝐸 𝐷

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

@logicalerror @thekarlhenkel @pydon @faiflow Love this. Would be incredible with that spot-picker tool on a modifier key like Shift! Much better than stock Unity transform handles

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

@radiatoryang That's fair, and a bummer. I love HL2, but HLA is a great sideways evolution of the formula. Only bring up those games as a closer touchstone of pacing and environment, not for the military sim gun nerdism - and that playing Alyx with ill-fitting mechanics won't convince anyone.

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

@radiatoryang Besides VR itself, the feeling of Alyx of a more slow paced, intimate game of exploring denser spaces would be wasted by just pasting HL2's player values onto it. Valve (I think it was Robin Walker?) said the average playtester had better aim in VR - so this balance affects both.

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

@radiatoryang Depends on what you're after to "fix it for non-VR". HL2's 6-13 mph movement is silly for realistic spaces + HL2's weapons are overpowered compared to the ones designed for Alyx. I think you'd get a decent approx. of the gameplay with some systems like Receiver crossed w/ SWAT 4.

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

@sdgiesselmann Honestly hard to pick a favorite, @joewintergreen 's thread is a great summary. I keep falling back to calling them Brushes but the mesh workflow plus UV and Hotspot textures is so freeing. I've even made physics props in Hammer, exported to dmx and vmdl, in seconds.

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

Released my first Half-Life: Alyx map on the workshop. Relentlessly addictive tool set and workflow, rewarding to play-test over and over in VR. Hard loop to beat. #leveldesign

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

https://t.co/ZmLKphkSJK

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

Left: Berlin, Oct 2019

Right: Half-Life: Alyx level I just wrapped up in the SDK. Will release on the Workshop this week. Lightmap budget still lower than real life. #HalfLifeAlyx #leveldesign

[Olly Moss @ollymoss]

The Alyx tools are out! Here's something I've been messing around with in my spare time.

[tim rogers @108]

the reason for the delay: i lost a bunch of footage due to a horrible mistake. also, i had to redo a bunch of audio. some of the audio, however, is just gonna Not Be Perfect this time. oh well. here's the last fifteen seconds

[Joe van den Heuvel @ImplicitAction]

An early test of the npc locomotion tech developed for #HalfLifeAlyx #animation #VR

[Trevor King-Yost @yost_king]

It's been so long that just looking at a carved brush with a brick texture on it makes me happy.

[Valve @valvesoftware]

Return to City 17 in just six weeks. Follow https://t.co/Jwo28Gv5qO and https://t.co/R3DOBJdsOh for more news.