ben driscoll
@daisyowl.com
I'm Ben Driscoll, I make games and stuff
🚀 Cobalt Core bit.ly/CobaltCoreSteam
🛠️ Sunshine Heavy Industries tinyurl.com/n88fsmee
🌼 Daisy Owl daisyowl.com
🚀 Cobalt Core bit.ly/CobaltCoreSteam
🛠️ Sunshine Heavy Industries tinyurl.com/n88fsmee
🌼 Daisy Owl daisyowl.com
People say that music and sound in games can be “invisible” to players. But imo that’s also an opportunity to make them feel feelings without realizing why?
January 9, 2026 at 5:06 PM
People say that music and sound in games can be “invisible” to players. But imo that’s also an opportunity to make them feel feelings without realizing why?
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so the winds have shifted once again and i believe i will, in fact, be open sourcing my rust game dev framework. i wasn’t going to but i got some help and think if i can get one or two more additional core people to help manage it by the end of next year, that would be ideal
December 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
so the winds have shifted once again and i believe i will, in fact, be open sourcing my rust game dev framework. i wasn’t going to but i got some help and think if i can get one or two more additional core people to help manage it by the end of next year, that would be ideal
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This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
Ladies and gentlemen: we got him.
December 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ladies and gentlemen: we got him.
7 minutes into a 10 minute snarky puppy song and the camera can still cut to guys like this that you haven't even seen yet
December 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
7 minutes into a 10 minute snarky puppy song and the camera can still cut to guys like this that you haven't even seen yet
two messages from john, two hours apart
December 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
two messages from john, two hours apart
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Cobalt Core is a part of IGN’s Award Nominations Humble Bundle, along with other amazing titles like
Chicory and I was a Teenage Exocolonist (some of our Vancouver indie friends)
You can get an awesome discount while supporting a great cause with @takethis.org
www.humblebundle.com/games/award-...
Chicory and I was a Teenage Exocolonist (some of our Vancouver indie friends)
You can get an awesome discount while supporting a great cause with @takethis.org
www.humblebundle.com/games/award-...
December 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Cobalt Core is a part of IGN’s Award Nominations Humble Bundle, along with other amazing titles like
Chicory and I was a Teenage Exocolonist (some of our Vancouver indie friends)
You can get an awesome discount while supporting a great cause with @takethis.org
www.humblebundle.com/games/award-...
Chicory and I was a Teenage Exocolonist (some of our Vancouver indie friends)
You can get an awesome discount while supporting a great cause with @takethis.org
www.humblebundle.com/games/award-...
why does my cat look like he’s about to advise me that it is better for an emperor to be feared than to be loved???
December 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
why does my cat look like he’s about to advise me that it is better for an emperor to be feared than to be loved???
the part of my brain that likes learning new programming languages is perpetually at war with the fact that C# is basically the perfect language for making the kind of games I make
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
the part of my brain that likes learning new programming languages is perpetually at war with the fact that C# is basically the perfect language for making the kind of games I make
maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
starting an hourly service where a 30 year old guy in a flannel shirt will follow you around and "yes and" all your bits
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
starting an hourly service where a 30 year old guy in a flannel shirt will follow you around and "yes and" all your bits
Did ancient people in the BC years know what they were counting down towards or nah?
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Did ancient people in the BC years know what they were counting down towards or nah?
imo sending someone an email or message written by an llm is a hostile act
November 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
imo sending someone an email or message written by an llm is a hostile act
you know what? *entombs you in the orb*
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 AM
you know what? *entombs you in the orb*
i wouldn't call it impostor syndrome exactly but i do feel like the seed idea of cobalt core was a shiny diamond we found after 10000 hours in the game ideation mines, and i yearn to find another
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
i wouldn't call it impostor syndrome exactly but i do feel like the seed idea of cobalt core was a shiny diamond we found after 10000 hours in the game ideation mines, and i yearn to find another
All the fonts in cobalt core and sunshine are by Chevy
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
All the fonts in cobalt core and sunshine are by Chevy
It is objectively good for people to be able to mod your game easily. I was concerned if we were gonna be moddable but the community cracked the game open like a big juicy coconut before we even launched
This is why for any desktop release I do in the future I want to continue to use the normal C# binaries - even though C# now supports compiling to native binaries (great for Consoles) I want it to be easy to decompile the game.
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It is objectively good for people to be able to mod your game easily. I was concerned if we were gonna be moddable but the community cracked the game open like a big juicy coconut before we even launched
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October 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM