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William Davis

@willdavis.bsky.social

Indie game dev. Co-founder at Hawkward Studios. Working on an underwater action game.

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Modulus

Modulus

If you like factory games give Modulus a shot. Played the demo for just over an hour. Goes from "oh that's an easy shape" to "oh wow I have to cut this and change it's color then glue it back together in the right shape" pretty quick. Love the copy tool!

06.08.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Jurassic Park Rebirth should have let Scarlett be a badass for the whole movie instead of falling for Dollar Store McDreamy.

Jurassic Park Rebirth should have let Scarlett be a badass for the whole movie instead of falling for Dollar Store McDreamy.

Hahhahahah. Didn't expect Jurassic park redditors to agree with me. πŸ˜†

05.08.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Game dev break

Game dev break

Dang. Hope you feel better.

05.08.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really pretty photos

05.08.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Indie Spotlight: Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island - Can I Play That? As can be expected from Whitethorn Games and their developers, accessibility is not a myth in Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island.

In a return of short form reviews of indies, Mike leads with an Indie Spotlight of Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island by @polygontreehouse.bsky.social.

Like other games published by @whitethorngames.bsky.social, Mythwrecked features great accessibility and disability representation!

05.08.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Up to 25fps after switching the dodge montage setup to a soft reference data table. My brain is done for the night.

05.08.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Material size map

Material size map

Managed to reduce some of the size map and got back up to 20fps.
I have a reference to a material overlay for my water mage that was 36MB, reduced to 27MB. I feel like that doesn't need to be that big for something activated on an Ult. Got any material wizards with time to make something?

05.08.2025 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Unreal stats

Unreal stats

Looking at my Unreal stats trying to optimize stuff and hmmm. There sure seems to be a lot going on in that left reference

05.08.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have some art for yachts in my indie game. Gabe. Gabe. Fund me. Gabe!

04.08.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

URGENT NEED:
There is instability with my day job due to a toxic environment, meanwhile I am dealing with large financial obligations and life changes and need funds.

I still have slots open for photoshoots and would greatly appreciate being able to work with you!

#photographer #otakon #fanexpo

17.07.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Reminder that I hire real artists for all the pretty stuff and will probably need a Kickstarter to cross the finish line.

So anyone want to come see the indie game we're making?

We got tanlines.

04.08.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just an FYI, I am absolutely open to freelance work!

If you have character or shader work you need done, drop me a line and let me work with you on your cool projects!

04.08.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Are you ready to enter the Dark Rooms? Wishlist the game now at darkroomsgame.com

#indiegame #gamedev #unrealengine #darkrooms

04.08.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
Preview
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it . Alt: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .

I actually want some road map art too because I think that'd be fun.

04.08.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hope everyone is having a good start to your week so far.

04.08.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Best Transformers movie ive ever seen. This is the one that my kids also enjoyed.

04.08.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Daammmnn

04.08.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't afford anything in Dallas either. Let the billionaires leave.

04.08.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is gross.

Find some artists to commission, or indie devs to support, or actual podcasters to listen to.

04.08.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
a cartoon mouse stands next to a piece of cheese Alt: a cartoon mouse stands next to a piece of cheese
04.08.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sitting here in a customer's car at work and just randomly thought of how I want the goblins in my world to be.

Of course it doesn't match what's written in the lore Bible so I'll have to revise that.

Not sure why I didn't think of this sooner.

*runs off to DM the artist*

04.08.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Take your time Feesh. Family comes first.

04.08.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Post a mermaid

04.08.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I loved going to blockbuster to rent games.

I loved going to toys r us to find masterpiece transformers.

Can't do either one of those things now.

04.08.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I crashed it bulk editing textures. Also this is how I find out I have 145 asset editors open. Noice.

04.08.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Massive engine failures and they hate honoring their warranty.

04.08.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nissan if it doesn't have the cvt transmission. Those end up with shuddering problems constantly.

Get a Toyota if you can find one.

Ford is kind of a 50/50 on if you'll get one that is durable or not.

I wouldn't get a kia/Hyundai
Or a chevy

04.08.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean a really good monte cristo.

04.08.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Unreal engine texture stats

Unreal engine texture stats

Unreal engine distance culling and world position offset

Unreal engine distance culling and world position offset

Couldn't find an anim pack on thr marketplace I'm happy about for the rogue. So I did some minor things today and started looking at optimization routes.

04.08.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing tops the X-men theme.

03.08.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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