This pic cracks me up. One mistake in my demo was that the wolves were too cute, so they got a glow up. It's pretty scary when you can only see some teeth and eyes growling at you in total darkness. #gamedev

So @mikerose.bsky.social & I decided to do a silly podcast comparing notes about indie games & their history & also about suddenly being middle-aged & tired As anyone who knows both of us could have guessed, shenanigans ensued immediately Introducing ⭐ Mike & Rami Are Still Here ⭐ mikeandrami.com

The demo for We Harvest Shadows only had real-time lighting which hurt performance and looked only OK. We've put tons of work into using the new Adaptive Probe Volumes in Unity, and it's looking great. It makes the mornings look inviting and the nights TERRIFYING. #madewithunity

Not sure if I can pull off "wool cards" for the sheep, it's just so much overdraw (about 30+ in spots). I want the player to be able to tell that it's sheerin' time from a distance, but I'm not sure if this will work performance wise. About 10 sheep cut my FPS in half. :( #gamedev

I'm removing the leg motion of a walk animation, and now it looks like the sheep just has to do a little jig out of giddiness #blender #gamedev

Minimal UI is really important to me, but we kinda need an inventory or resources screen... so we're doing a second page in the ever-important notepad. Using Laplacian Deform for the first time in Blender, should work when baking it down to BlendShapes for Unity. #gamedev #blender

More work from the talented Bradley P, I love the thud as the shotgun hits the shoulder. I love good animators!

Claire is also getting a glow up, looking pretty good in URP so far

you go garrett

I promised my kids I wouldn’t tear down their couch cushion fort, so this is how I’m playing Nightreign tonight

More flashback environment work. I really love DP Emmanuel Lubezski and his use of natural light. For The Tree of Life, he asked the set designers to build the main house multiple times in different rotations, just so he could position the sun exactly how he wanted. #gamedev

Trying out some baked/dynamic light combos. Having time-of-day and weather makes it hard, but that sweet, sweet global illumination is too good to pass up. We're also gonna use the new adaptive probe volumes. Image courtesy of Will S, a new environment contractor helping us out! #gamedev #unity

I wrote an update on We Harvest Shadows, check it out here. ♥ store.steampowered.com/news/app/155...

At PAX East, Unity stopped by and they took a liking to my game! It was great visiting with them and sharing my concerns and hopes for the future (it really is my favorite engine). Here's the reel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmKX...

I'm trying stuff for fun on the weekends. Not that I don't like making games, but it's hard to keep going sometimes. So I bought a broken Gameboy and repaired the power and screen. It feels good to finish a project in a day instead of half a decade.

It's been difficult but we're converting We Harvest Shadows to Unity 6.1 and the Universal Render Pipeline. Here's the first look at the new weather system and shaders (new everything pretty much). We need more time but the wait will be worth it. ♥

David Wehle is hiring a Senior Unity Engineer for his first-person horror farming game, We Harvest Shadows! 🛰️ Contract, Anywhere 🔧 8+ years XP 🎮 Made in Unity Work with @davidwehle.bsky.social‬ and apply:

Fascinating article, thank you Bryant for the mention! It's going viral on reddit too, congrats

Loved seeing this anti cozy horror farming sim made in Unity 6.1 at the #PAXRising booth #madewithunity from @davidwehle.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/1559720/...

Great first day, met a lot of super nice people (including Major Nelson) and old friends! Always love watching people scream from the end of the demo 😆

Made it to Boston! See you at PAX

If you’re doing an open world type game with a dynamic day/night system, can forward+ rendering get close to deferred performance? We’re going to URP in Unity now and trying to make some decisions.

I noticed a nice bump of wishlists for We Harvest Shadows, and found this cool video by @gameranx! Top new horror games, I'll take it! Wishlist bump detailed for curious devs. The video is at about 220k views.

I'm sorry I'm late on this, but I'm THRILLED to be accepted into LudoNarraCon 2025 official selection! Such incredible games here, thank you @fellowtraveller.games for this honor.

I don't really put many hours into games like I used to, but Blue Prince was absolutely engrossing and fantastic. It's games like this that keep the magic alive for me with game dev, even through years of burn out. Thank you @dogubomb.bsky.social!

I can’t get over how Blue Prince has a 78% score on Steam, yet is also the best critically reviewed game of the year. What is going on?? (Btw I’m obsessed with it, I think it’s a masterpiece so far)

I have a few of these left, and I'm bringing them to PAX East! I wish I had enough for everyone, but I usually save them for people who had a special experience with The First Tree. Come visit and talk sad indie games with me at the PAX Rising booth on May 8-11!

Step into the future of indie gaming with the winners of the PAX Rising Showcase presented by Zenni at #PAXEast 2025! Experience all these titles first-hand in our Expo Hall. See the full list at PAXeast25.com/Rising#PAXEast #IndieGames #IndieDevs

We Harvest Shadows has been chosen for the PAX Rising booth at PAX East in Boston! Me and Elise will be there, please come say hi and try a new version of the demo. My game's demo is also in the big Earth Appreciation Festival showcase on Steam now! How'd I get so lucky? ♥

After a lot of spreadsheets, emails, artwork commissioning and data inputting it's rewarding to see an event I've organised showing up on the front page of Steam with a pop up too! Check out the sale here: store.steampowered.com/sale/EarthAp...

In the spirit of April Fools, there was a secret level in The First Tree, and it might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever made.

There's like 3 super cool things I wanna announce with We Harvest Shadows but it will have to wait. We're staying busy tho and working hard.

Still can't get over this bug. Wait for it...

I won't be at GDC this year, but hopefully next time! I'm really focusing on We Harvest Shadows atm.

A very nice IG reel by BucketJosh went viral and mentioned my game. It got about 1.6M likes and almost 20M views. WHOA. If you're wondering how this converted to sales for me, keep reading. #gamedev

SPLIT FICTION sold 1 MILLION units in its first 48 hours!!! The love you all show for our game is overwhelming! 😍 Everyone here at Hazelight are beyond happy - and we can’t stop enjoying your amazing reactions! 🤩 #SplitFiction

If you haven't read @LocalThunk's history of developing Balatro, do yourself a favor and read it now: localthunk.com/blog/balatro... #gamedev

Making games is exhausting. Someone needs to make a game that demonstrates that you can tell a decent story and have some mechanical fun with simple shapes and next to no population work. Obviously they’d have to call it something pretentious so people didn’t think they were just being lazy.

We're experimenting with unlockable filters for fun, and man, I'm getting strong Lighthouse or Night of the Hunter vibes now.

One of my favorite things is getting off the stupid computer and writing postcards for people who send me letters. I'm still struggling with healthy habits and long term sustainability with my work, but this has been an A+ thing for me.

what is going on at this farm? #horrorgaming

Messing around with depth masks for... things. #gamedev #horrorgames

I had a chance to talk to one of the devs of Mouthwashing at TGS (I really loved their previous game How Fish Is Made), and I AM SO HAPPY FOR THEIR SUCCESS! 500k copies sold of an inventive character-driven horror game. Love to see it. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/mou...

Thank you for the 200k downloads of the We Harvest Shadows demo! We're working hard on the full game, and there are a ton of exciting announcements coming this year. #gamedev

lol it looks like the dog is revolted with my petting attempt. #gamedev

uhh does this look like petting? It looks off to me. There are inherent limitations with hands on an overlay camera, but it just needs to look *close*

I really don't want go to Windows 11... or maybe it's not so bad? But I heard they got rid of the right-click context menu? ughh please don't make me upgrade

no you may not have my carrots. (testing cow head following and a new crop finally!)

I don't play as many games as I used to (3 kids, busy with my own game), but I am so hopelessly addicted to Subnautica. Took me a while to get into it, I know!

Messing with joints in Unity for the bobber on the fishing rod. See it dangling?? #gamedev