How time has flown. This was 4 years ago!

Proud to have scored and provided additional sound design for one of the great trailers: Twins of Olus!

Woah! It's bandcamp Friday! Please help me feed my ravenous children... and you get to chill out to my IVOR nominated OMNO soundtrack in return! (or some of my other music thats on there :D ) benedictnichols.bandcamp.com

The cutscenes in spiderman 2 are so long I forget how to play 🤣 old gamer indicator!

Why did I wait so long to start playing spiderman 2?! What an opening act…

Q: Am I allowed to use an organ for a game set in space without everyone thinking I must have got the idea from Interstellar? I arrived at the option from a completely different direction...

We have exciting news to share about Beyond These Stars! 👀 👇️ www.balancingmonkeygames.com/articles/our...

So LinkedIn keeps promoting jobs to me that are essentially writing music to train AI on….er, nope.

It’s worth a play, solo or co-op!

I did a thing…

For the sake of many indie devs I know, I hope this catches on in the industry!

A great first impression of the @TwinsOfOlus demo from NAG: "Art style and music are spot-on...strong musical score does a lot of the heavy lifting.... ...adds atmosphere without overwhelming the experience, grounding the world emotionally while letting combat and exploration shine." Cheers!

Delighted to be a part of this pretty and unique project: The Demo for Twins Of Olus is out now! Go check it out! Really enjoyed creating that unique blend of epic, mysterious, rockyish adventure and fun, and looking forward to writing much more in the future :)

A quick highlight reel showing off the bold and colourful stylized art in Twins of Olus #indiegame #indiedev

Tried to get back into Chivalry 2 this evening. I love the game for multiple reasons, but it is absolute carnage for an aging ‘noob’.

Delighted to be working on this with this splendid little team. :)

Happy New Year everyone, and to all the devs I know, may 2026 be a great year for you and your projects! If you need some music, I have some availability, so hit me up and let’s chat. My IVOR-nominated self is here to help ;-)

I'm grateful to the 55k streams of my music on spotify this year. It's not even really a drop in the ocean, but if it brought enjoyment or peace 55k times to people, then Im happy with that :)... and the week's worth of food shopping that it earnt me.

Definitely worth checking out...not biased. It really is. :D

The Falconeer Revolution Remaster is now available on Steam, for Free for all existing owners. Watch for massive promotions this weekend and a Daily deal monday!. Check out the massive changes here store.steampowered.com/news/app/113... #indiedev #solodev #thefalconeer

Thankyou! It is but a taste of what is to come :)

This is going to be awesome. It was great when it first released and now it’s even better. Go buy people…and buy the OST too… please 😆

In 15min or so the Galaxies showcase starts, featuring a trailer for one of my projects (music, some sound design). But whiiiich is it? Guess correctly for a free...like. :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8-S...

Delighted to be providing music to this game, it’s so good!

Am delighted to be contributing music to this game, I love it!

Tomas yet again adding huge updates for free to Bulwark (currently on sale). This guy is a machine!

Behemoth is the new free Expansion for #Bulwark is releasing on Steam this Wednesday. This is the big free expansion for the year and is another leap forward for the game. Share and support my dedicated way of evolving my games post-launch. No EA, No 1.0 just passion. #indiegame #solodev #indiedev

Delighted to see this Otherskin, possibly my biggest undertaking so far as Audio Lead, release for PC!

We're excited to announce the release date for Otherskin and it's coming to Steam very soon, on September 2nd. Please wishlist now and check out the latest trailer. Steam link: store.steampowered.com/app/1622630/... #otherskin #gamescom2025 #pcgaming #steam #steamgames #thirdpersonshooter

Thirdly: The wonderful team at @balancingmonkeygames.com released a trailer update for Beyond These Stars and its looking better than ever... thanks to @hoodedhorse.bsky.social for putting this great trailer together :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD4G...

Secondly: The First Explorers had a much desevered moment in the lime light with an on-stage presentation and update video released shortly after: youtu.be/Mt3dy_08Qo8?... For any settlers fan, this is well worth keeping an eye on!

Gamescon happened while I was away last week, so I missed the moment 3 projects I've worked on released new trailers and updates! First up: @fdgentertainment.bsky.social released the launch trailer for Otherskin! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJQX...

Very excited for this and delighted to have provided music for it. I’m a big fan of settlers so this was a real treat to work on!

“The soundtrack is fire” - I’ll take that for Sunday night encouragement!

Somewhat disappointed with the Nintendo Direct tbh. From what I can tell it’s mainly more repackages and square enix 2D-HD look-a-likes…I want to see more original ideas… (to partly justify my purchase lol) show me trailers people!

It's boggling to think that the OMNO soundtrack, which I poured heart and soul into, released 4 years ago today! So much has happened in that time, and I'm so grateful for the support and opportunities that have come since. benedictnichols.bandcamp.com/album/omno-o...

Anyone in my developer circles going to the Develop Conference next week? I’m considering popping along for a day, and any meet ups would be nice :)

@falconeerdev.bsky.social asked me which was my favourite trailer we made for The Falconeer.... possibly this one simply for that sync with the lightning :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzdy...

Having spent countless hours over the last x months fixing sound design for a project, this simultaneously relieves and irritates the hell out of me!

What can I say? I am one with nature….

Definitely a game people should be wishlisting…I’m not biased. Honest.

This evening I had the chance to turn on my PS5 and just play for the first time in several months. #ASTROBOT I’ll be back

I made this track 10years ago...can't even remember what for, but GOOOOOD MORNING TUESDAY! ...I suspect I was playing Splatoon at the time... soundcloud.com/benedictnich...

Have I acheived some level of notoriety?!

With it being Feb half-term and myself firmly stuck in the studio, it feels appropriate to re-share this track I wrote 5 years ago, inspired by my favourite red ski run... For it me captures all the excitement, energy and mild peril of hurtling down the slope! Hope you enjoy :) Its an old mix...

It’s a steal for quality gaming.

Gamers with perfect pitch: do you get upset/struggle when game music gets pitched around for creative purposes? (Eg…poor health => pitch detunes) is there a length of time you can stand it for?

And I got to score it…

It’s midnight on Friday night, what are you doing? I’m making the brave decision to delete 16 bars of theme during a sequence cos on gameplay testing it’s just toooo epic. Dunno whether to feel proud or sad….ill stick it in the credits 🥹

Ooh, that is satisfying. 40min of music integrated into a complex FMOD system in an evening and it works! Weeks of writing and viola! I shall sleep happy.