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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Sep 13

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

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Sep 12

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

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Jul 22

you go garrett

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thanks, URP actually

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Jun 4

I wrote an update on We Harvest Shadows, check it out here. ♥

store.steampowered.com/news/app/155...

We Harvest Shadows - Dev Update #4: Why It's Taking a While - Steam News

Hi everyone, David here again! Believe it or not, it's almost been a year since I revealed We Harvest Shadows to the world at gamescom 2024. It honestly bums me out a bit because I had been working on...

store.steampowered.com

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · May 28

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...

PAX East 2025 - Made with Unity indies

YouTube video by Unity

www.youtube.com

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · May 26

Thank you that means a lot, I wish you luck on your projects!

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · May 26

That’s incredible, basically we want to use the custom rendering tools to optimize for consoles. There are more reasons but compatibility with all platforms is my biggest concern

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · May 25

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.

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · May 23

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. ♥

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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · May 22

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:

David Wehle is hiring a Senior Unity Engineer

I’m looking for a Senior Unity Engineer who is comfortable wrangling spaghetti code, various interconnected asset packs, and the problems that come with that duct-tape approach to game development.

workwithindies.com

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · May 16

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

Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · May 16

New from me—I had a great time at PAX East last week and met truly incredible developers. I was also pulling my hair out at how many small teams outnumbered proper-sized studios.

It's good that indies can punch above their weight. It's bad that it's replacing stable work in games!

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · May 16

The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East

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Larry Hryb, Gamer Emeritus @hryb.me · May 9

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/...

Larry Hryb, Gamer Emeritus 📱⌨️🖱️🎮 on X: "Loved to see this anti cozy horror farming sim made in Unity 6.1 at the #PAXRising booth #madewithunity from @DavidWehle https://t.co/ZXiolMHVg4" / X

Loved to see this anti cozy horror farming sim made in Unity 6.1 at the #PAXRising booth #madewithunity from @DavidWehle https://t.co/ZXiolMHVg4

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · May 9

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 😆

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · May 7

Made it to Boston! See you at PAX

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Apr 29

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.

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Apr 23

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.

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Apr 23

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.

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Apr 18

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!

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Apr 12

I might do a live stream and deep dive into the Steam reviews and analyze it all. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?? It’s a great game!

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David Wehle @davidwehle.bsky.social · Apr 12

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)

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