With @threeohfour.bsky.social, amazing #indiegame dev known for Technobabylon, Unavowed, & more. We talk heavy metal, why we make indie games, living in nature-filled Pacific regions yet working on urban cyberpunk, & Ben's exciting new sci-fi fantasy adventure Gilt! www.youtube.com/live/1lRT4Ou...

Dave is being far too kind here, but I really did enjoy doing this interview. :)

I was literally wondering when this book was going to come out yesterday. The game is great, the books are great. Picking this one up for sure.

My detective adventure Midnight Saturn has just been released! 🕵️🌆 Get it with a 20% launch discount! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3909740/... #indiegame #indiedev #adventuregame #pointandclick

I help test this beautiful thing and it’s very bad to be a tester for a game that you keep one-more-turn ing but also very good.

🌖 Amberspire is OUT NOW! 🌇 A dice driven science fantasy city builder. Grow your city atop a mausoleum moon, interact with strange weather and ecology, gain influence to make deals with powerful off-world factions, experience the history of a future city. PC, Mac, Steam Deck s.team/a/3350750

Amberspire is out TOMORROW, on Steam, for PC Mac and Steam Deck. It's a science fantasy city builder with increasingly abstract dice, esoteric and powerful factions, and an ecology atop a mausoleum moon.

Hi everyone my Star Wars opinion is that this game should have been called Age of Empires Strikes Back.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

An update for anybody wondering whether I still hang out with spiders and play old games…

I’ve been having such a nice time with OpenLoco lately. I loved Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion back when it came out, and this is a very fine open source implementaiton of it. It’s still so satisfying to watch my charming little transport empire operating.

I am a minimalist. This giant stack of old games to play, this huge pile of books to read, this is the minimum I can imagine having. Without restraint I could easily have filled a house, completely, with the things that intrigue me.

Zhuang Zhou would have loved cryptic crosswords.

4:47pm Friday and the puzzle design I’ve been trying to summon all week finally arrives in my brain, almost perfectly formed with very little development needed to get it right. A sense of relief like no other.

See you May 14th on Nintendo Switch!

Sorry, science, but Age of Empires proves that Herman Melville was right.

Opening a book on my desk vs opening a book in my game.

Trying to understand old functions I’ve coded:

Philosophy would be a remarkable job. Imagine pausing your workday of deciphering time as a qualitative multiplicity because it’s time for a sandwich and a cup of tea.

Through my kitchen window at 5:30 this morning I saw Mercury, Saturn and Mars in a neat triangle, tucked together. A temporary constellation that shimmered vividly. It is easy to be in awe of our solar system.

One marriage proposal and two comments about my toes/feet that I will not be repeating here. Yes, I was wearing shoes. No, I don’t understand it either.

Had to wear a thrift shop outfit for my gig on Saturday night so I picked brown corduroy jacket + waistcoat and flared jeans and kept making Disco Elysium Expressions.

My Windows 11 laptop wakes as if from a fever. It is confused, disoriented. It wonders what it is doing awake, why anybody should have to work while sick like this. What has gone wrong with its life that it can’t take time off to recover from the terrible illness that plagues it?

Not sure wtf @awesomonster.bsky.social is doing hanging around in the game I’m playing.

A few previews of Gilt in motion: ben304.blogspot.com/2026/04/devl...

Reminder to share with your friends who love a Weird City, and to the rest of your friends who just don't know it yet

Actually the visual effects have been my favourite part of working on Gilt so far. Just the process of iterating though prototypes and trying various approaches is so energising to me.

A few previews of Gilt in motion: ben304.blogspot.com/2026/04/devl...

I love the words Jonas wrote in these audio dramas. Gospels of the Flood still echoes in my mind five years later. Azathoth Blues is filling, like a meal. Sincerely constructed, thoughtful and rich with intent. They deserve your attention, and you deserve their wealth of ideas.

I've been reading through The Manual tonight (a circa 1988 slightly-tongue-in-cheek-but-not-really booklet about how to publish a number one single in the UK) through the lens of an indie game developer, and there's a LOT that resonates 40 years later and across different industries, but THIS.

Hello #PortfolioDay ! I'm Anastasia and I'm a 2D artist at @inkle.co Here are some of the games I've worked on! ✨

Had a lovely time with @inkle.co’s TR-49. A fun way to follow breadcrumb trails and slowly work out the mysteries hidden within. A couple of real nice epiphany moments, too.

People goof about ‘biblically accurate’ a lot these days but the Eye in my Wadjet Game is genuinely ophanim inspired.

I was told about this by @colin.how the other day and I said “no” supportively.

Unsuccessfully coping with the natural beauty of trigonometry.

Episode 7 is out. If you've been following the show, the title should tell you that shit is about to get real. If you haven't - why not check out a unique work of cosmic horror noir? There really isn't anything quite like it.

NPCs who are doing nothing but say “Sorry, I’m too busy to talk right now.” Just write a short exchange instead.

I’m looking at a product video for a bread slicing and bagging machine because I couldn’t sleep without finding out how they get loaves into the bags so neatly but now I’m confused by “Up to 40/42 bags per minute”, surely the use of “up to” should only quote the highest figure?

everything to think about, everything to notice

Got stuck for 10 minutes while prototyping because I forgot to normalise a vector. I yearn to have a better intuition for maths but don’t practice it enough to achieve that. Therefore I am stuck making beginner errors.

You can try this Russian Windows 3.x game for yourself right in your browser now. I even translated the menus and help. archive.org/details/pobe...

There’s a beautiful, strange allure to the colour purple. It feels occult to me, otherworldly. Gilt features the colour in many small ways.

The Days Gone swarmers sound like Jonathan Davis from Korn.

@awesomonster.bsky.social Now see here, you, if you don’t love this game then I’ll eat my hat!! bsky.app/profile/thre...

I played a little bit of Heroes of the Seven Islands and genuinely adore it. A super charming and engaging point & click RPG.

🐈 New comic: You Have Cats?🐈

There’s a beautiful, strange allure to the colour purple. It feels occult to me, otherworldly. Gilt features the colour in many small ways.

@oldskool.org I remember some time ago you asked about 80s DOS game recommendations, and I suggested Loom. Did you ever get around to trying it? I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately.