Ben Prunty - Generation Exile is Out Now!
@benprunty.bsky.social
I make game music: FTL, Into the Breach, Subnautica 2, Below Zero, Generation Exile & others. I did not work on Subnautica 1. - Polyamorous, ADHD, love cool jackets and my cats. No AI ever. He/him
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so uh, announcement time?!
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
November 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
so uh, announcement time?!
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
I love these!
My composition masters has asked me to write music for a game set in space with both exploration and battle elements, so what better excuse to pay tribute to one of my biggest musical inspirations, @benprunty.bsky.social ?
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Speedier than Photons
Technically a professional
soundcloud.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I love these!
I was always into both game dev and electronic music. When I was a teenager only 2 colleges offered game dev programs and I couldn't afford them. I could, however, afford a local 2 year communications program that included audio engineering. I thought maybe I could find a game dev job thru audio.
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I was always into both game dev and electronic music. When I was a teenager only 2 colleges offered game dev programs and I couldn't afford them. I could, however, afford a local 2 year communications program that included audio engineering. I thought maybe I could find a game dev job thru audio.
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One of the reasons we need universal basic income plus higher taxes on the rich is to boost the spending power of the bottom 60% and in doing so, reorient our economy around the needs of the majority of people who comprise it. As inequality has increased, our economy has adjusted to meet rich wants.
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
One of the reasons we need universal basic income plus higher taxes on the rich is to boost the spending power of the bottom 60% and in doing so, reorient our economy around the needs of the majority of people who comprise it. As inequality has increased, our economy has adjusted to meet rich wants.
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Games from Vancouver Steam Sale event is on and Generation Exile Sustainability Edition is 48% off!
store.steampowered.com/bundle/60317...
Bundle includes GenExile itself, Supporter DLC and soundtrack, composed by @benprunty.bsky.social (composer of Subnautica: Below Zero, Into the Breach and FTL)
store.steampowered.com/bundle/60317...
Bundle includes GenExile itself, Supporter DLC and soundtrack, composed by @benprunty.bsky.social (composer of Subnautica: Below Zero, Into the Breach and FTL)
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Games from Vancouver Steam Sale event is on and Generation Exile Sustainability Edition is 48% off!
store.steampowered.com/bundle/60317...
Bundle includes GenExile itself, Supporter DLC and soundtrack, composed by @benprunty.bsky.social (composer of Subnautica: Below Zero, Into the Breach and FTL)
store.steampowered.com/bundle/60317...
Bundle includes GenExile itself, Supporter DLC and soundtrack, composed by @benprunty.bsky.social (composer of Subnautica: Below Zero, Into the Breach and FTL)
Guy who's entire presidency is defined by acts of sedition: "getting a lot of sedition vibes from this"
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Guy who's entire presidency is defined by acts of sedition: "getting a lot of sedition vibes from this"
Thanks I hate it
Half Life (1998) is now as old as the first ever arcade game, Computer Space (1971) was when Half Life was released.
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Thanks I hate it
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I *do* think however that it's grotesque to be giving awards to companies that have laid off huge chunks of the workforce that worked on these games that are now getting awards
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I *do* think however that it's grotesque to be giving awards to companies that have laid off huge chunks of the workforce that worked on these games that are now getting awards
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Matt found the original "brainstorming document" for FTL -
Written on a big roll of paper in his apartment in Shanghai over beers.
You can see a lot of the foundational ideas there, but this was before we even pictured having ship-to-ship combat.
Written on a big roll of paper in his apartment in Shanghai over beers.
You can see a lot of the foundational ideas there, but this was before we even pictured having ship-to-ship combat.
August 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Matt found the original "brainstorming document" for FTL -
Written on a big roll of paper in his apartment in Shanghai over beers.
You can see a lot of the foundational ideas there, but this was before we even pictured having ship-to-ship combat.
Written on a big roll of paper in his apartment in Shanghai over beers.
You can see a lot of the foundational ideas there, but this was before we even pictured having ship-to-ship combat.
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
HELL YEAH this is incredible!
Lost Ship is the track that hooked me onto FTL and by extension the rest of your work so I couldn’t resist having a little jam to the new version. Gave me an excuse to practice in G# minor as well
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
HELL YEAH this is incredible!
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I'm booking work for 2026!
If you need a:
🎶 Video game composer
🔊 Sound designer
🎛️ Mix engineer and/or mastering engineer
🎤 Vocalist
… send me an email :)
📩 marinamakes.co/contact
Some examples of my work below 🤍 Shares always appreciated
If you need a:
🎶 Video game composer
🔊 Sound designer
🎛️ Mix engineer and/or mastering engineer
🎤 Vocalist
… send me an email :)
📩 marinamakes.co/contact
Some examples of my work below 🤍 Shares always appreciated
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm booking work for 2026!
If you need a:
🎶 Video game composer
🔊 Sound designer
🎛️ Mix engineer and/or mastering engineer
🎤 Vocalist
… send me an email :)
📩 marinamakes.co/contact
Some examples of my work below 🤍 Shares always appreciated
If you need a:
🎶 Video game composer
🔊 Sound designer
🎛️ Mix engineer and/or mastering engineer
🎤 Vocalist
… send me an email :)
📩 marinamakes.co/contact
Some examples of my work below 🤍 Shares always appreciated
Surprise! I just released FTL - Lost Ship EP, a small collection of never before published FTL music, including live tracks, music that was cut from the game, and an expanded piece I made in 2025 based on one of the originals.
benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl-lo...
benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl-lo...
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Surprise! I just released FTL - Lost Ship EP, a small collection of never before published FTL music, including live tracks, music that was cut from the game, and an expanded piece I made in 2025 based on one of the originals.
benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl-lo...
benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl-lo...
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
I hate to be cynical, but if that creepy fucking birthday message that was revealed a few months back did nothing to change the minds of the people in power, this will have no effect either.
I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I hate to be cynical, but if that creepy fucking birthday message that was revealed a few months back did nothing to change the minds of the people in power, this will have no effect either.
Nels made a great thread about Generation Exile's rough launch:
We launched GenExile, our solarpunk city-builder, in Early Access last week. We had ~35k wishlists before launch (not a barnburner but not nothin').
And they said, "Well, there's no way you'll convert literally 0% of your wishlists to sales."
I looked them dead in the eyes and said, "Watch me."
And they said, "Well, there's no way you'll convert literally 0% of your wishlists to sales."
I looked them dead in the eyes and said, "Watch me."
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Nels made a great thread about Generation Exile's rough launch:
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
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POSSESSOR(S) is launching today.
I have been the producer on this project for three years, & the last few weeks have been difficult. Most of the team isn't around anymore to celebrate the launch, so I wrote many words about these incredible people to celebrate them.
🖤 shorturl.at/MpMra
I have been the producer on this project for three years, & the last few weeks have been difficult. Most of the team isn't around anymore to celebrate the launch, so I wrote many words about these incredible people to celebrate them.
🖤 shorturl.at/MpMra
Celebrating the Possessor(s) team 🖤 | Notion
I am not one to post like this usually, but as things have developed recently, I want to take a minute and get some stuff off my chest.
shorturl.at
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
POSSESSOR(S) is launching today.
I have been the producer on this project for three years, & the last few weeks have been difficult. Most of the team isn't around anymore to celebrate the launch, so I wrote many words about these incredible people to celebrate them.
🖤 shorturl.at/MpMra
I have been the producer on this project for three years, & the last few weeks have been difficult. Most of the team isn't around anymore to celebrate the launch, so I wrote many words about these incredible people to celebrate them.
🖤 shorturl.at/MpMra
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The wait is over. Today, you meet Luca & Rhem.
Heart Machine & Devolver Digital are proud to present: Possessor(s).
PC + PS5. Available now. 😈
store.steampowered.com/app/2132890/...
Heart Machine & Devolver Digital are proud to present: Possessor(s).
PC + PS5. Available now. 😈
store.steampowered.com/app/2132890/...
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The wait is over. Today, you meet Luca & Rhem.
Heart Machine & Devolver Digital are proud to present: Possessor(s).
PC + PS5. Available now. 😈
store.steampowered.com/app/2132890/...
Heart Machine & Devolver Digital are proud to present: Possessor(s).
PC + PS5. Available now. 😈
store.steampowered.com/app/2132890/...
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look I think we can all agree the important thing is as long as most money on earth consistently keeps flowing to about fifty people who are all friends and they don't have to do anything because it's earned by profiting off everyone else's work then whatever happens to anyone else is irrelevant
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has defended AI following Eurogamer's 2/5 Arc Raiders review, which criticised the game's use use of AI voice generation. "AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming," Sweeney said.
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
Epic's Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI row
"This technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer multiples"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
look I think we can all agree the important thing is as long as most money on earth consistently keeps flowing to about fifty people who are all friends and they don't have to do anything because it's earned by profiting off everyone else's work then whatever happens to anyone else is irrelevant
I had this one! It actually had a neat dynamic music element, where melodies were randomly generated by the floating notes you had to hit.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I had this one! It actually had a neat dynamic music element, where melodies were randomly generated by the floating notes you had to hit.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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Men like this can't imagine a world where their wealth won't automatically buy them access, influence, and power.
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Men like this can't imagine a world where their wealth won't automatically buy them access, influence, and power.
PC Gamer wrote a very generous article about our game Generation Exile:
Don't sleep on the new solarpunk colony sim from devs behind Firewatch, Mini Motorways, Gone Home and more
Generation Exile has been swallowed up by the storm of end-of-year releases on Steam.
www.pcgamer.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
PC Gamer wrote a very generous article about our game Generation Exile: