Will Kwan

YouTuber & indie gamedev making Dream Fortress. Wishlist on Steam pls 👇

[Will Kwan @_willkwan]

Early trailer for my survival roguelike building game Dream Fortress, wishlist on Steam to help me out!! https://t.co/3Xr0G22uqF

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Typical conversation when I show my game to other devs:

Them: What game engine are you using?

Me: It's my own custom engine.

Them: Why not use Unity/Unreal/Godot?

Me: They're too slow for real-time procedural generation/animation.

Them: Cool! So you're going to sell your engine to other devs right?

Me: Uhh no I made it free and open-source.

In order to stop repeating this conversation, I made this 4 minute video going over Flo, my open-source Rust/Vulkan engine (WARNING: not production ready).

I'm not against selling game developer tools, but this is a small business compared to making a game. My favorite tools like Bevy, Blender, etc. are free products created by non-profit organizations, and plenty of contributors would love to be able to make minimum wage working on stuff like this. Plus I'm better at game design anyways so I don't want to distract myself right now by monetizing the engine, unless I see something that I would pay for myself. The only paid software products I use for gamedev are the AI code editors, and I'm sure I'm costing Anthropic a lot more in server costs than the $200/month Claude Max plan.

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5000 lines of Vulkan boilerplate later

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First 3 months working full-time on my colony sim game with the #Bevy engine: https://t.co/xjCqpENWaB

#proceduralgeneration #gamedev #indiegames #rustlang #wgpu

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new features in my game are definitely not inspired by a very popular diorama building cozy game #TinyGlade

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Was having trouble simulating realistic water in my @BevyEngine game but one must endure the rain to see the rainbow!! Simplifying things for now by using the pipe method to move vertices up and down on the surface plane. I'm sure I made many mistakes but here's my code snippet: https://t.co/xpSsVYkFfy

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3 types of vibe coders

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If you're wondering if a Steam game is infested with bots, compare the player count with Twitch viewers.

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1 week learning #GunZ and how it helped me make a game: https://t.co/ncul7NYcmH

#GunZtheDuel

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Fortnite discovery algorithm been giving my strategy game Guard Commander a second life these last few weeks. I'm focused on a different game atm, but if anyone is interested in partnering to make this really blow up, DM me. #UEFN

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Trained a reinforcement learning agent to play a custom Fortnite map using real-time screen capture and Windows input simulation. Here are the convolutional filters visualized.

Code: https://t.co/6xJXtaU78g
Full Vid: https://t.co/hZme77O63w

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https://t.co/7C51zevdbv finally found the upload button

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Training AI to play Fortnite so I don't have to: https://t.co/28k7GBkhs3

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Been working on setting up reinforcement learning for Fortnite. Some hacky demos: https://t.co/ogINFp1hI2

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@TeamYouTube 130k sub channel got hacked could you please help? https://t.co/35pwR9LKL5 now it links to another channel, password was changed 5 hours ago. I think I downloaded some malware from a Twitter message.

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@LeeFoulger wtf just noticed thanks for the heads up.

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Trailer for my first Fortnite map Guard Commander. It sucks but got 9k plays in 3 weeks with no promotion.

Design process + business/life updates in my YouTube vid: https://t.co/LSTk7wc0rF

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my aim sucks so I made a Fortnite map where you spawn bots to go pewpewpewpewpewpewpewpewpew

https://t.co/7RZfUUSycl

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@darkbelg 2v2 capture the flag!