Will Webster

Saturday returns!
I take a moment to account for the week’s small but stubborn work. #SaturdayDevlog

The next cutscene now stands close to completion.
Only a few frailties remain — minor bugs and sprites awaiting their proper form.

#pixelart #gamedev #2D #GodotEngine #gaming #indiegame

The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00!

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Asset Forge by Kenney Create your own 3D models and 2D sprites!

Hey there, #GameDev people! Have you checked out Asset Forge by @kenney.nl yet? No? Well, you should. It makes prototyping 3D games infinitely faster (especially for someone with zero art skills, such as myself).

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Quick preview of the modular sci-fi kit which will release on Sunday, for free. It's the first time I've included a texture (for the floor) in my 3D #gameassets and it really makes a difference, it'll be integrated in the colormap - so it's still all 1 material/texture! 🎉

Me: Mucho ambitious game dev plans for weekend.
#NoMansSky: releases new expedition with space trucks
#Satisfactory: releases full steam deck compatibility
@netflix.com: brings all of Stargate SG-1 #StargateSG1 to streaming on Sunday
Me: ?!?!
#GameDev #SteamDeck

More gifs and code snippets in the full article. Let me know your thoughts!

A few other systems I could work on next, to build out more of the "interference" events. Aiming for a new article over the weekend with the details!

Finally, some further experimentation with custom method allowed me to inject the interference text into the middle of the tweening. A more subtle effect of something else probing the system!

Next, I played around with another code snippet @qaqelol.bsky.social provided in yesterdays thread. That gives a really nice sweeping effect for the text tweening, visually distinctive from what we've had previously. I can use this with NPC conversations with the player.

Putting in a monospace font, I found a few errors in my logic that meant it visually misbehaved. Resolving those and we have a much more uniform appearence of the text

A Game Dev Journal — 12/02/2026 Riding the motivation wave, refactored some code, experimented with monospace fonts and found new ways to inject our interference text

I've experimented with text tweening some more! Switched in a monospace font, fixed a few glaring issues, and ultimately injected the interference text in a way that hope gets a few more cyber-horror points. Full article: medium.com/@willdwebste... and some summary gifs below. #Godot #GameDev

It seems Control nodes are in the lead!

Do you have anything you wish was easier to understand related to Control nodes / UI in #Godot ?

Or games with a UI you'd like me to recreate and explain?

#GodotEngine #GameDev #UI #Controls #Interface

Thank you so much, really appreciate it.
Aha, thanks for sharing that code - that's very cool (and another "today I learned" with tweens) Hmmm, wonder if I could use that to inject the interference text more subtly, while other characters continue to cycle 🤔 looking forward to experimenting more!!

Plenty more tweaking and playing around to do but its good to reach a point where I feel like I have something actually interesting to show off haha! Let me know your thoughts!

I'm building a bit of a, I guess, "cyber horror" game, where some external entity starts interferring with the game. So I added an intermediary step to the interpolation, that the system quickly tries to recover from

Here's the final result of a loading screen with a few lines that interpolate in

A Game Dev Journal — 10/02/2026 Inspired by a reddit post I played around with tweens in Godot and made a loading screen. And introduced some interference…

Having been lacking motivation for a while, I stumbled on @qaqelol.bsky.social recent post on tweening strings: bsky.app/profile/qaqe... which inspired me to play around with a computer system/matrix-esque loading screen. A medium article here: medium.com/@willdwebste... and a few gifs below

tiny page about tweening strings for 2.2.0

#Godot #GodotEngine #Tween #GameDev #Trick

Save 20% on Pixross on Steam Over 150 relaxing nonogram logic puzzles featuring additional challenges and unlockable customizations!

Working on an update for an older game of mine; Pixross! The new (free) update will fix things that the community reported including more larger puzzles, no more revealing clues too early and Steam Cloud support!

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YouTube video by Fizgig Can You Pay Off All Your Debt While Only Using Your KEYPAD?! - Key Your Debt

Duuuuude! First time someone played my game on YouTube! He showed me some love and I want to share his channel with others. Please Check out Fizgig!! Thank you so much for checking out my strange little game!!
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames
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Some of both, though not quite the 50 : 50 split I was aiming for. A bit more lazy than productive :p

Ahhhh that's awesome. And a healthy number of reviews (actually quite a lot compared to sales which is great) and nearly 90% positive. That's such a huge start for your first game. You should be deservedly proud!
What do you think your next steps will be? (After recovering from launch stress!!)

This is probably going to sound daft (please forgive me as I'm someone with extremely little artistic knowledge/skill) but I had no idea that so much detail could be brought in via the texture itself. Rather than needing to be on the base model. Like with the windows. Honestly this gif blew my mind!

What about Faces of Evil Link and Wand of Gamelon Zelda?

Will Webster – Medium Read writing from Will Webster on Medium.

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

StarRupture has just sold over 500 000 copies on Steam!
Thank you, everyone, you're amazing! <3

Slip and fall incidents are not covered by convict insurance.

Care is advised when traversing elevated terrain.

Made a halberd/pike thingy, now you can slice AND stab your enemies! :D

#gameassets #blender3d

New World is closing its servers on January 31st 2027. Why can't players play locally on their own machines? And set up their own servers.

We should own the games we pay for #stopkillinggames

It's time for legislation to protect consumers, and the work of developers.

Retro Textures 1 is out now! 🎉

Completely free to download and use in any of your projects. Includes 115 textures like walls, floors, windows, doors and much more!

kenney.nl/assets/retro... (no tracking, no ads, no sign-up, etc.)

CASSETTE BOY is finally out.
Years of graphics, programming, and sound all done solo.
Huge thanks to the publishers who supported me, and to my family.
This game is my idea of what a ”game" is. I hope you enjoy it.

#IndieGame #IndieDev #SoloDev #GameLover