Will Webster

This will be the year I switch from software development to self-employed Game Dev. I'm documenting my journey over on Medium: @willdwebster" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@willdwebster, with some other writings (game reviews, random musings etc.) Clap, comment or just await my success/failure! ;D

I'm spending $1,000 on indie games: 29 games bought. $205 down, $795 to go. If you're a solo dev or small team (or know a great indie game), drop your Steam link. I'm going until the $1,000 runs out.

The number of times I've loaded up an old save game and... "Where am I? What am I doing? Why did I leave all of this like this? Why does nothing make sense?" And just decided to start over with a new game....

People don't realize how much strength it takes for you to pull your own self out of a dark place mentally. If you've done that, I'm proud of you.

Just passed $100 in lifetime donations/tips for Mesh2Motion since it started. A big milestone! 🎉🥳 support.mesh2motion.org

Mesh2Motion can be used as a replacement for Mixamo. You all know my stance on Adobe and how important I think it is to move away from that company, so if you have anything to spare; please fund development on this. It's important for indies! (I donated $100)

This indie dev is making a game where you can literally play as Ancient Egyptian wall art. - Switch between a 3D archaeologist and living 2D art - Survive puzzles that fight back - Progress by mastering both worlds It’s called Fresco. This mechanic is genius.

Calling out into the wilderness for help: why might collision randomly stop working in a Unity build of a game. After about 1 hour of gameplay, certain collision just STOPS working for SOME objects (doors and crates, in my case). The only way for it to start working again is by closing the application entirely. This is significant because: the player controller that has this problem is RESPAWNED entirely fresh and new if you go back to the main menu. So you'd think the issue would fix itself once going back to the main menu. Which makes me think it's something wrong with the render pipeline of physics entirely. Some kind of corruption. Any thoughts?

Do you play video games on easy mode?

Birthday Sale! It's my 33rd birthday, and for the next 24 hours you can buy the Complete KayKit Collection for 33% off! 🥳 itch.io/s/181911/birth…

Starter Kit: Racing for @godotengine is now available! 🎉 Easy to understand code, fully open-source & 3D models included! It's a little rough around the edges, but feel free to do pull requests if you can improve on it! github.com/KenneyNL/Start… #gamedev #gameassets

@BellaBaddie__ Might and Magic VI/VII/VIII. Which I could tell you why. I've played through them a countless number of times. Still remember when I first booted up VII many, many years ago. Some of those music snippets just live rent free in my head!

What old video games do you still play regularly?

I am genuinely sick of seeing this nonsense. If you didn’t pass basic physiology, please, just shut the f up about optimizing your health. Let’s talk biology: Vitamin C and B-complex vitamins are water-soluble... the second you shove 25 grams of C into your veins, your kidneys start working overtime to flush it out. You aren’t 'loading your system'; you are literally paying to produce the most expensive urine on the planet...! And don’t get me started on the NAD+ IVs. It’s an expensive biochemical fairy tale. NAD+ is a large, fragile molecule. It gets chewed up by enzymes in your bloodstream long before it ever touches a cell membrane, let alone enters the cell to 'recharge' your mitochondria. It makes me so angry because it’s not just a harmless trend, it’s a grift that prays on people who don't know the difference between a real medical intervention and a wellness scam.

Are you this old?

A question to #godot #indiegame devs. What approach have you used for save/load of persistent (across game sessions) data? Did you use JSON (perhaps following the Godot tutorial on the subject), use binary serialisation, or something else entirely? What influenced your decision?

Okay this is pure madness. Wishlists just spiked into the stratosphere. I genuinely need to lie down. #IRONNEST 🔥 #indiedev

On paper, my game is a terrible financial decision: - $10,000 needed in sales to recoup dev expenses. - $50,000 to cover 3000~ hours I’m investing (at minimum wage). - $60,000+ is where it actually becomes profitable. - First solo game, unknown dev That's a huge number, and unlikely to get achieved. But I'm doing it for love, entertainment, passion, a meaningful story, and hopefully, a memorable horror game. That was why I got into this ♥️ #indiegame #gamedev

Spellmasons is only 7 reviews away from 1000! Hard to believe it

Which leads back to where I started this week. My game is mostly default grey #Godot panels. If I want the goal of releasing a demo for SteamNextFest in the summer, I need something visually better, even as a placeholder! So here's to actually making a better UI... next week...

and a system for unlocking additional content - more tests, surveys and forum threads - as the player progresses through sessions of the game. @willdwebster/a-game-dev-journal-15-02-2026-ec513660a30a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@willdwebster/… With some occasional interludes for snow, mini-flooding and gutter clearing.

Since starting this #indiegame journey in #godot, after being made redundant last year, this feels like one of the few weeks where I've put in an actual full-time shift of #gamedev (including evenings and weekends, so healthy, much sustainable...) So here's a week in review...