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Ben Kelly

@beeseekay.bsky.social

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Just a lil guy making lil games Co-founder of @capscollective.com, based in Australia Letterboxd: boxd.it/2tZXZ

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Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · Aug 2

Finally making the escape off Twitter, are intros a thing here?

I make games with a group called Caps Collective, and wanna follow some other game devs, let me know your suggestions!

Screenshot from the game “Fantasy Town Regional Manager”

Screenshot of the game “Have you eaten yet?”

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 22h

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 17h

I’m genuinely impressed just how smooth the #paxaus evacuation was for a 20k+ person event. Good work everyone, especially all those poor cosplayers in stilts navigating down those ramps.

Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 18h

Well at least this evacuation really shows just how big PAX has gotten

The crowd outside the PAX convention centre

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Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 2d

Parallels was a great time, but wow do some people need to learn to shut the fuck up once the talks start

Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 2d

After a day of recovery from post-AGDAs partying, I’m finally checked in to @free-play.bsky.social Parallels for another year of killer game talks

Me sitting in the balcony section of Freeplay Parallels

Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 3d

Highlight of my GCAP this year was getting to hear from the great @jesawyer.bsky.social, who flew half way around the world and fought jet lag to excitedly answer all our game design questions!

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Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone who missed out, get in quick!

Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social · 4d

Know someone who missed out on Parallels tickets? We rummaged around and found a few more in our pockets - but they're very limited!

events.humanitix.com/parallels25

Parallels - Last Minute Tickets Available Now

Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 6d

I did see they were selling Hornet enamel pins I was quite tempted by, but I decided to be responsible and only get one thing… until I come back later this week

Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 6d

I haven’t finished Silksong yet, but I’m fairly confident that the Clockwork Dancers will be my favourite boss fight in a game full of great fights.

They tell you exactly how they are gonna kick your ass, and then they kick your ass

A screenshot from Silksong with the Clockwork Dancers embracing in the air and Hornet on the ground

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johnjonarts.bsky.social @johnjonarts.bsky.social · 6d

I love these gay lil’ guys so much
#Silksong

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Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 6d

The ending of that fight is the most tragic moment in a boss fight since the Great Grey Wolf Sif in the first Dark Souls

Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 6d

There’s a lot of cool shit at the ACMI gift shop this week, but this was a must buy for me. It contains an exclusive interview with Team Cherry and a ton of design notes and concept art

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Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 6d

If you’re going to be visiting ACMI for the games exhibit this #MIGW, try to make 20 mins to see Charge! Agincourt.

A spin on Henry V with cardboard, with some great performances and a creative use of split screen, I was really impressed!

The entrance to the theatre for Charge! Agincourt near the front entrance of ACMI

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 7d

increasingly convinced preventing americans from getting their little packages is the thing that will take this government down

Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 8d

How bad are tariffs going?

I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business.

UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me.

That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯

Screenshot of message from UPS:

Hi Adam,
All import fees must be paid prior to delivery.
Save time - prepay online for your FREIGHTCOM shipment. If import fees are not paid before delivery, an additional surcharge will be applied.
Total Amount Due
119.20 USD
Additional charges may have been applied based on recent tariff policy changes.
Pay Now ›

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Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 8d

Basically any game that isn’t a cool action guy with a sword is ignored

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Caps Collective @capscollective.com · 9d

Caps Collective is gonna be at #MIGW, so come say hi!

We’ll be at #GCAP, Freeplay Parallels, and #PAXAUS, hope to see you there!

Ben and Jonathan from Caps Collective at the 2024 AGDAs

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Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 9d

It’s evocative in a different way to your other videos, you often leave me with ideas to turn over, but at the end of this one there wasn’t really a solid idea to jump onto, just this hard to describe feeling

Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 9d

I feel like the negative initial reactions are kinda a good sign, it means in some way the story stuck with them. I know for myself I finished the video with a sense of unease thinking what’s my Mouse Trap YouTube, or what weird habits I would find difficult sharing with a loved one.

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Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 11d

One Battle After Another is a big movie in a year full of big movies. Sinners, Weapons, Black Bag, even Superman and Thunderbolts were big swings. This has probably been the best year in movies since Covid?

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 11d

bill burr is doing what they hoped this event would achieve by spreading the word look how fine and normal this place is for a rich straight white man willing to accept money on the simple condition that he just be very careful to not joke about any of the wrong people or he'll die in foreign prison

causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 11d

What a disappointing dumb fuck Burr turned out to be. He's impressed that there's Starbucks and Burger King? Try saying something -- anything -- on stage about your fellow Netflix writer and comedian Abdul Aziz Al-Muzaini.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Screencap from a Hollywood reporter article that says: When he flew into Saudi Arabia, Burr’s nervousness crept back, but he was struck by the amount of local Western influence. “You think everybody’s going to be screaming ‘death to America’ and they’re going to have like fucking machetes and want to like chop my head off, right?” Burr said. “Because this is what I’ve been fed about that part of the world. I thought this place was going to be really tense. And I’m thinking like: ‘Is that a Starbucks next to a Pizza Hut next to a Burger King next to McDonald’s …? They got a fucking Chili’s over here!”

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 18d

Today in my quest to draw every Simpsons character ever: time to cover the rich history of Busman! (There’s not much.)

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Kris 🐝 @joyfulenby.bsky.social · 18d

I grew up believing it would happen "any minute now." I thought I was left behind one time when I didn't know where my family was when I was still a kid. It's wild... glad I got out. But I know so many people irl who think it will happen in their lifetime. They WANT the world to end.

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Ben Kelly @beeseekay.bsky.social · 18d

While I’m out here posting squid creatures, my personal fav Octodad pendant is still available. Keep him close and nobody will suspect a thing…

www.femmecraft.com/product/curi...

Curious Creature Companion Pendant with Tentacles | Femmecraft

Looking for a critter to help keep you company on your adventures? This lil tentacled creature loves to get out and about!*With a gold hand painted eye and iridescent orange skin, this lil polymer cla...

www.femmecraft.com

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Femmecraft Trinkets and Badges @femmecraft.bsky.social · 19d

From shapeless blob to distressingly moist looking sea creature, this pendant is finished and ready for a new home!
Available at www.femmecraft.com now! (Australian shipping only)
#artshop #bsnm #handmade #polymerclay

A black desk with a silver rectangular pendant base sitting on it, alongside some steel sculpting tools. The pendant base has a kaiju style creature built from polymer clay in progress in it.

A silver rectangular pendant with a partially finished polymer clay kaiju type creature with one large octopus style eye and a mess of tentacles below in the cavity. The pendant is resting on a grey wicker table.

A polymer clay sculpture of a little kaiju with a large octopus style eye and a mess of tentacles below being held between my thumb and forefinger.

A finished rectangular silver pendant with a kaiju style creature partially submerged in resin water, with a large octopus style eye and light blue markings that glow in the dark.

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Femmecraft Trinkets and Badges @femmecraft.bsky.social · 19d

Woohoo, new creation finished at last! Meet my very unique, glow in the dark, handsculpted kaiju pendant! Available here: square.link/u/CFThOkjp
(sorry, no shipping outside Australia)
#kaiju #bsnm #polymerclay #artshop

A small silver rectangular pendant base with a part shark part octopus kaiju type creature built into it with polymer clay. The creature is dark blue with one single large octopus style eye and a mass of tentacles below, and light bluw markings on the head and tentacles that glow in the dark.

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