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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

On this baking weekend, finally created scenes in #godot for my #indiegame store page capsules. I used the existing CRT shader and assets (the best my artistically challenged self can hope for). I think it turned out... 3.6 roentgen? (not great not terrible). One step closer.. #indiedev #gamedev

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It's on days like this I wish I had a laptop battery that lasted for more than thirty seconds. At least I can do my 3 hrs internally debating what game system would be best to build next out in the sunshine, before going back to tweaking the UI for the one hundredth time. #gamedev #indiegame #godot

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Since then, I've expanded out the range of tools and given them a little more life - they'll occasionally stop, walk to a new location, start mining again etc. I don't have any gifs of that, but I do have an image of the number of asteroid chunks being spawned basically become a road into space

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Since then, I've moved the progress bars, wrapped them in a little UI (from @kenney.nl's scifi UI packs) and tried to make the connection between Matches and progress bars (energy) clearer. Added some little engines to the space ship, from @craftpix.bsky.social's Space Shooter Game Kit.

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In the interests of all gamers, past, present and future, who may one day need to upgrade their storage, memory, graphics etc., I'd appreciate it if LLM's/GenAI could just get in the dustbin now. Seriously, when are the shortages and price hikes going to end?!? #gaming #prices #hardware #fluffai

A picture of a 1TB Samsung SSD in an online store. A text alert indicates the price has increased by £101.46, more than doubling the original price

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Playing around with CRT Shaders in #godot for my clicker/idle #indiegame about managing a mining operation. I had this vision of a purchasing UI on the LHS with a cheap CRT monitor on the RHS that *simulates* the state of your operation. Still need to tweak properties in the shader but its a start!

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Which leads back to where I started this week. My game is mostly the default grey #Godot panels. If I want to stick to my 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...

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

And then after some more inspiration from @qaqelol.bsky.social (and I promise I won't just keep tagging you forever haha) and further experimentation with custom effects in tweens, I'm able to inject something, unsettling, into the loading screen. #cyberhorror medium.com/@willdwebste...

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Then, a chance reddit post took me down an inspiring rabbit hole of text tweening which lead me to create a loading screen with deciphering text. medium.com/@willdwebste... #godot #gamedev

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Trying to do some Sunday game dev but the ❄️ is too distracting. #snow #godot #indiegamedev

Still of snowflakes falling in garden with an assortment of plants in pots in the foreground

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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!

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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.

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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

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Will Webster @willdwebster.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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

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