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threeohfour.bsky.social
Ben Chandler
@threeohfour.bsky.social
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I make games! Known for Old Skies, Expelled!, Nighthawks, Unavowed, Technobabylon, Blackwell Epiphany, Shardlight, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator and more. :)
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inkle.co
We don't know. What we do know is the wiring diagram works. We built it, virtually, in @godotengine.org. We fed it scans of the books we found.

And the books are very, very strange. The "game" that resulted is also strange.

We're hoping people can make sense of it for us.
TR-49 on Steam
Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Heaven’s Vault, Overboard! and A Highland Song.
store.steampowered.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
threeohfour.bsky.social
The project I have been working on now has a name and a Steam page. :)
November 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Reposted by Ben Chandler
ricardojuchem.com
WE OPENED THE DINER!

The Diner at the End of the Galaxy, the game we've been working on for the last 3 years, has been released in Steam Early Access.

It costs less than a Big Mac Meal!

$8.99

store.steampowered.com/app/2577420/...
Save 10% on The Diner at the End of the Galaxy on Steam
Influence the fate of the Nusa star system through your clientele’s stomachs. Grow exotic ingredients, create a menu that appeals to intergalactic palates, and discover treasures in the outer worlds. ...
store.steampowered.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Reposted by Ben Chandler
lindasejic.bsky.social
Sunstone Artbook is LIVE!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/top...
stjepansejic.bsky.social Stjepan Sejic @stjepansejic.bsky.social · 13d
sunstone artbook assembly progressing nicely. my favorite section is the part where i take a bunch of earliest pieces and do a remake. both versions will be shown as a tribute to the artistic journey i took with this comic over the last 14 years
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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dosnostalgic.bsky.social
No one can convince me that a thing I already like is bad, and I shouldn't like it. I may actually already agree that the thing is indeed bad. Me liking things doesn't magically make them good and infallible. Sometimes I even like something *for* being bad. But I can't unlike a thing, sorry.
November 15, 2025 at 2:57 AM
threeohfour.bsky.social
I don’t know what alignment Dan represents, but boy is he representing it in full today. :’D
pebby.net Dan Gerstein @pebby.net · 11d
“Irregardless of your literal mistake you supposably made, this correction is likely irreverent. Anyways, I could care less!”
(sorry)
November 15, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Reposted by Ben Chandler
threeohfour.bsky.social
Are you prepared to make Important Choices?
A man in traveller’s clothing and a small, stout lizard man in a waistcoat stand on the overgrown ruins of a train platform on an alien planet. The following dialogue options are visible on screen: 1. You shouldn’t say “could of”. It’s supposed to be “could’ve”. It’s a contraction - short for “could have”. 2. (It doesn’t bother you that much - let the mistake slide) 3. (It bothers you very much but you only just met him and you don’t want to be one of THOSE people)
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
threeohfour.bsky.social
I fully expect that most of you will be option 3 people, but I am willing to accomodate all!
arborlands.com 🌲Arborlands🌳 @arborlands.com · 12d
Third choice, but feeling it! 😖
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
threeohfour.bsky.social
Are you prepared to make Important Choices?
A man in traveller’s clothing and a small, stout lizard man in a waistcoat stand on the overgrown ruins of a train platform on an alien planet. The following dialogue options are visible on screen: 1. You shouldn’t say “could of”. It’s supposed to be “could’ve”. It’s a contraction - short for “could have”. 2. (It doesn’t bother you that much - let the mistake slide) 3. (It bothers you very much but you only just met him and you don’t want to be one of THOSE people)
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Reposted by Ben Chandler
reki.gay
"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
threeohfour.bsky.social
I know that this is Too Much but I had to wind down from a very intense Age of Wonders 4 session and how else but doodling in the margins?
An open notebook, two bottles of ink and three fountain pens sit nearby. The left page has notes from an ongoing Age of Wonders 4 game, the right page has notes from an ongoing Farthest Frontier game. There are various illustrations and border decorations in the margins.
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
threeohfour.bsky.social
Reinstalled Caves of Qud. Picked a Star-Eyed Vesper. My pet(?)s(?) either/or quickly turned into a pool of sugary, molten wax that I could sell & sent a canvas folding chair running around town, then later infected the giant amoeba that I’d proselytised so it randomly teleports.
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
threeohfour.bsky.social
I had too many notes for games that I am playing on my desk, so a while ago I ordered this frog notebook. Now all of these notes go in the frog notebook.
A notebook with a frog on it, three pens, and two bottles of ink. On the left page are notes for a game of Age of Wonders 4, on the right page are notes for two different Sniper Elite: Resistance missions.
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
threeohfour.bsky.social
I had too many notes for games that I am playing on my desk, so I while ago I ordered this frog notebook. Now all of these notes go in the frog notebook.
A notebook with a frog on it, three pens, and two bottles of ink. On the left page are notes for a game of Age of Wonders 4, on the right page are notes for two different Sniper Elite: Resistance missions.
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
threeohfour.bsky.social
Nekron the Risen was just being kinda cute today 🥰

(Guess how many times I’ve accidentally read Fangir’s name as “Fangirl”)
Nekron the Risen, an evil skull-faced overlord in Age of Wonders 4 saying “I usually consider others pawns, to be used as I see fit. But you, Starsmith Fangir, mar well be more than that.” Nekron the Risen has declared a friendship with me. <3
October 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
threeohfour.bsky.social
All I’m gonna say is that if this big fella can have low morale then I don’t feel so bad about having a rough day now and then.
A giant, eldritch lost wizard unit from Age of Wonders 4, with its morale listed as ‘very low’
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
threeohfour.bsky.social
Happy that Dave likes my project but also it’s gotten even weirder in the past week, and I haven’t even put in the real weird stuff yet.
wadjeteyegames.bsky.social Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social · Oct 11
Been playing a build of the game @threeohfour.bsky.social is putting together.

He's only been in production for about 3 months and I'm already blown away.

This is shaping up to be one of the most delightfully weird games Wadjet Eye has ever made.
October 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
threeohfour.bsky.social
Devlog 20: Interesting challenges I’ve found in completing the first chapter of the game. ben304.blogspot.com/2025/10/devl...
A windows 11 folder with the title “I am going insane”
October 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Reposted by Ben Chandler
rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
threeohfour.bsky.social
When I was small I did not daydream about jetpacks, flying cars or space travel. I daydreamed about crop circles, arcane alphabets, secret places, Gods hidden in nature. I think that's why I'm making an adventure game.
October 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Reposted by Ben Chandler
blindcoyote.com
Honestly, the best way to make an artist’s day is by being very specific about what you like about a piece. Geek out a lil. Gush over how they use line, color, texture. Every mark is layed down by the artist, so if you can connect with those little moments, it helps the artist feel seen.
September 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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robcap.bsky.social
Got a NEW VIDEO for y'all!

Gradius Advance/Galaxies/Generation may not be the first entry you think of, but it not only is a great way to blast Bacterions on the go, but also wants to help you be a better Vic Viper pilot!

#retrogaming #gba #gameboyadvance #gradius

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntrj...
Gradius Advance (GBA): Mastering the Art of Blasting Bacterions - Beyond The Scanlines #127
YouTube video by Beyond The Scanlines
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September 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
threeohfour.bsky.social
Another perfect spring day! I ended up walking 35km this weekend. I have missed the sun, and I can feel myself recharged by it. Now I spring to life like a thorny weed in the garden - unexpected and strange, and full of vigour.
A sandwich, thermos of coffee, and segmented grapefruit sitting next to a canvas backpack on a lichen-covered granite rock in the middle of a scrubby clearing. An ornate dragon, very well camouflaged among the granite rock. A pink lace variety of honey-myrtle, with brush shaped pale pink blossoms among thin, green leaves. (commonly called 'melaleuca' around here) A cluster of tadpoles in a shallow rockpool, churning the water into mud as they feed.
September 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
threeohfour.bsky.social
If today is the best day I get all to myself this spring, at least I know I did not squander it.
A picnic blanket under the shade of a tree by a creek. On the blanket is a pencil case and sketchbook, a copy of the novel The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, a vacuum flask with a cup of coffee, a grapefruit sliced into six wedges, and an extra large piece of fruitcake (I deserve it, I walked 14km today). A telescope and chair set up by the light of a sunset. Beneath the telescope there is an oil lantern, a water bottle, and a container full of eyepieces and assorted accessories for the telescope. Purple viper's-bugloss flowers stand above yellow cape dandelion flowers in a thick patch of foliage next to a field of wheat. Two lumps of granite sit stacked atop a large granite outcrop, all of which is covered here and there in patches of pale, blueish lichen and black moss.
September 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
threeohfour.bsky.social
Devlog 19: Building gameplay. ben304.blogspot.com/2025/09/devl...
An adventure game screen with a giant animal skull that leads to a cave. The top half is the sketch, the bottom half is the finished backdrop paint.
September 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM