Benja ❤️ Videogames
@benjapenguin.bsky.social
🎮 Lead Designer on Voxile @VoxrayGames
❤️ Husband + Dad
🥘 Cook
🏔️ Mountains
📿 Mindfulness
✈️ FullSail alum
🍂 Making a cozy graveyard game
He/Him
❤️ Husband + Dad
🥘 Cook
🏔️ Mountains
📿 Mindfulness
✈️ FullSail alum
🍂 Making a cozy graveyard game
He/Him
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I've been posting updates for my cozy graveyard game on Twitter, and I've been nervous about switching platforms.
...But now, I'm trying out Buffer to help post across several platforms.
So, expect Guernsey updates on BlueSky starting in just a little while! 👻 #gamedev #indieGameDev
...But now, I'm trying out Buffer to help post across several platforms.
So, expect Guernsey updates on BlueSky starting in just a little while! 👻 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Today's Guernsey: Integrated the cat and the turkeys into the daily animals rotation, all placed and ready to go.
Animals in the game serve mostly as little rewards/points of interest, but I might give the cat something to do...
🦃🐈⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev
Animals in the game serve mostly as little rewards/points of interest, but I might give the cat something to do...
🦃🐈⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev
December 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Today's Guernsey: Integrated the cat and the turkeys into the daily animals rotation, all placed and ready to go.
Animals in the game serve mostly as little rewards/points of interest, but I might give the cat something to do...
🦃🐈⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev
Animals in the game serve mostly as little rewards/points of interest, but I might give the cat something to do...
🦃🐈⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev
Today's Guernsey: On the suggestion of my wife, let my son voice the turkey and my daughter voice the cat.
It's a family affair, now! 🦃🐈⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev
It's a family affair, now! 🦃🐈⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Today's Guernsey: On the suggestion of my wife, let my son voice the turkey and my daughter voice the cat.
It's a family affair, now! 🦃🐈⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev
It's a family affair, now! 🦃🐈⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev
Today's Guernsey: A black cat! He wakes up when poked, but that's... about it for now!
The floating in random air thing is uh temporary! 🐈⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev
The floating in random air thing is uh temporary! 🐈⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Today's Guernsey: A black cat! He wakes up when poked, but that's... about it for now!
The floating in random air thing is uh temporary! 🐈⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev
The floating in random air thing is uh temporary! 🐈⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I imagine the turkeys glaring balefully as they fly away backwards
Today's Guernsey: Turkeys now fly away as a flock when you get near!
I fixed it so they all fly away the right way, but I thought this gif was funny.
🦃 #gamedev #indieGameDev
I fixed it so they all fly away the right way, but I thought this gif was funny.
🦃 #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I imagine the turkeys glaring balefully as they fly away backwards
Today's Guernsey: Turkeys now fly away as a flock when you get near!
I fixed it so they all fly away the right way, but I thought this gif was funny.
🦃 #gamedev #indieGameDev
I fixed it so they all fly away the right way, but I thought this gif was funny.
🦃 #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Today's Guernsey: Turkeys now fly away as a flock when you get near!
I fixed it so they all fly away the right way, but I thought this gif was funny.
🦃 #gamedev #indieGameDev
I fixed it so they all fly away the right way, but I thought this gif was funny.
🦃 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Today's Guernsey: added a new animal for Guernsey to come across in his travels.
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Today's Guernsey: added a new animal for Guernsey to come across in his travels.
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Today's Guernsey: Fixed a couple of trees that weren't properly transparent when Guernsey walks behind them.
Essential for a top-down fixed camera set in a forest! 🌳 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Essential for a top-down fixed camera set in a forest! 🌳 #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Today's Guernsey: Fixed a couple of trees that weren't properly transparent when Guernsey walks behind them.
Essential for a top-down fixed camera set in a forest! 🌳 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Essential for a top-down fixed camera set in a forest! 🌳 #gamedev #indieGameDev
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Happy Thanksgiving from Voxile! 🦃
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAaY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAaY...
Happy Thanksgiving from Voxile!
YouTube video by VoxRay Games
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from Voxile! 🦃
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAaY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAaY...
Today's Guernsey: Just a tiny bit of work updating some of the scripting for Chapter 5. You can now get two beats deeper into the story.
This is uh placeholder dialogue, folks, I promise I'm decent at the writings.
That's all I got for today, folks! #gamedev #indieGameDev
This is uh placeholder dialogue, folks, I promise I'm decent at the writings.
That's all I got for today, folks! #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Today's Guernsey: Just a tiny bit of work updating some of the scripting for Chapter 5. You can now get two beats deeper into the story.
This is uh placeholder dialogue, folks, I promise I'm decent at the writings.
That's all I got for today, folks! #gamedev #indieGameDev
This is uh placeholder dialogue, folks, I promise I'm decent at the writings.
That's all I got for today, folks! #gamedev #indieGameDev
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Apres Slaughter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5_q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5_q...
Apres Slaughter
YouTube video by VoxRay Games
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Apres Slaughter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5_q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5_q...
Today's Guernsey: Pushed forward on Chapter 5!
Some new code, some new scripts set up. Also fixed a bused tree!
#gamedev! #indieGameDev
Some new code, some new scripts set up. Also fixed a bused tree!
#gamedev! #indieGameDev
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Today's Guernsey: Pushed forward on Chapter 5!
Some new code, some new scripts set up. Also fixed a bused tree!
#gamedev! #indieGameDev
Some new code, some new scripts set up. Also fixed a bused tree!
#gamedev! #indieGameDev
Today's Guernsey: More fixing stuff, more optimization.
Unrelated to any of that, this 10-year-old asset store water one day started looking super jittery in editor -- but it still looks great in builds! 🤷🏻♂️
#gamedev #indieGameDev
Unrelated to any of that, this 10-year-old asset store water one day started looking super jittery in editor -- but it still looks great in builds! 🤷🏻♂️
#gamedev #indieGameDev
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Today's Guernsey: More fixing stuff, more optimization.
Unrelated to any of that, this 10-year-old asset store water one day started looking super jittery in editor -- but it still looks great in builds! 🤷🏻♂️
#gamedev #indieGameDev
Unrelated to any of that, this 10-year-old asset store water one day started looking super jittery in editor -- but it still looks great in builds! 🤷🏻♂️
#gamedev #indieGameDev
My daughter, an ACNH fan, wants me to let her play Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
But if I let her play, I'd have to delete my town, Benton.
Now, I haven't played in about ten years.
But... I'm not sure I can delete Benton. 🥹
But if I let her play, I'd have to delete my town, Benton.
Now, I haven't played in about ten years.
But... I'm not sure I can delete Benton. 🥹
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My daughter, an ACNH fan, wants me to let her play Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
But if I let her play, I'd have to delete my town, Benton.
Now, I haven't played in about ten years.
But... I'm not sure I can delete Benton. 🥹
But if I let her play, I'd have to delete my town, Benton.
Now, I haven't played in about ten years.
But... I'm not sure I can delete Benton. 🥹
Today's Guernsey: Went on a rabid optimization jag and stripped a bunch of GameObject.Finds out of random places, including several every-frame methods.
Other tweaks and improvements, too.
Everything seems to work, and the framerate gets smoother! 🧈 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Other tweaks and improvements, too.
Everything seems to work, and the framerate gets smoother! 🧈 #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Today's Guernsey: Went on a rabid optimization jag and stripped a bunch of GameObject.Finds out of random places, including several every-frame methods.
Other tweaks and improvements, too.
Everything seems to work, and the framerate gets smoother! 🧈 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Other tweaks and improvements, too.
Everything seems to work, and the framerate gets smoother! 🧈 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Tonight's Guernsey: A small one, tonight I added support for each Chapters to make the chicken hungry again, so you can feed the chicken anew with each sunrise!
All chickens polled agreed this was a good idea. 🐓 #gamedev #indieGameDev #chickens
All chickens polled agreed this was a good idea. 🐓 #gamedev #indieGameDev #chickens
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Tonight's Guernsey: A small one, tonight I added support for each Chapters to make the chicken hungry again, so you can feed the chicken anew with each sunrise!
All chickens polled agreed this was a good idea. 🐓 #gamedev #indieGameDev #chickens
All chickens polled agreed this was a good idea. 🐓 #gamedev #indieGameDev #chickens
Today's Guernsey: Decided to take a break from optimizing and improve the chicken!
🐓Guernsey throws seed particles properly
🐓Chicken keeps a respectful distance
🐓Chicken stops following Guernsey around after being fed
And that's all for today! #gamedev #indieGameDev #chicken
🐓Guernsey throws seed particles properly
🐓Chicken keeps a respectful distance
🐓Chicken stops following Guernsey around after being fed
And that's all for today! #gamedev #indieGameDev #chicken
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Today's Guernsey: Decided to take a break from optimizing and improve the chicken!
🐓Guernsey throws seed particles properly
🐓Chicken keeps a respectful distance
🐓Chicken stops following Guernsey around after being fed
And that's all for today! #gamedev #indieGameDev #chicken
🐓Guernsey throws seed particles properly
🐓Chicken keeps a respectful distance
🐓Chicken stops following Guernsey around after being fed
And that's all for today! #gamedev #indieGameDev #chicken
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Voxile building hacks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyjm...
Voxile building hacks
YouTube video by VoxRay Games
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Voxile building hacks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyjm...
Today's Guernsey: Switched my efforts from Awake() to GameObject.Find and found a goldmine of unneccessary calls in the chicken script 🫣They're fixed now! But yikes.
🐔 #gamedev #indieGameDev
🐔 #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Today's Guernsey: Switched my efforts from Awake() to GameObject.Find and found a goldmine of unneccessary calls in the chicken script 🫣They're fixed now! But yikes.
🐔 #gamedev #indieGameDev
🐔 #gamedev #indieGameDev
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Today's Guernsey: A few more optimizations. Every dialogue in the game (there are hundreds) was waking up and performing FOUR find operations on start. So hopefully that's better now!
💬 #gamedev #indieGameDev
💬 #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's Guernsey: A few more optimizations. Every dialogue in the game (there are hundreds) was waking up and performing FOUR find operations on start. So hopefully that's better now!
💬 #gamedev #indieGameDev
💬 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Today's Guernsey: More more more optimizations.
Today, I caught a good one: I had been calling, like a GENIUS, a very expensive GameObject.Find() being run EVERY FRAME while interacting with a locked door. 😱
That oughta help some stutters. #gamedev #indieGameDev
Today, I caught a good one: I had been calling, like a GENIUS, a very expensive GameObject.Find() being run EVERY FRAME while interacting with a locked door. 😱
That oughta help some stutters. #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Today's Guernsey: More more more optimizations.
Today, I caught a good one: I had been calling, like a GENIUS, a very expensive GameObject.Find() being run EVERY FRAME while interacting with a locked door. 😱
That oughta help some stutters. #gamedev #indieGameDev
Today, I caught a good one: I had been calling, like a GENIUS, a very expensive GameObject.Find() being run EVERY FRAME while interacting with a locked door. 😱
That oughta help some stutters. #gamedev #indieGameDev
Tonight's Guernsey update... More optimization! The game... feels like it's booting faster and running smoother, and still working fine?
I should probably be Serious and do before-and-after checks on the profiler.
But I am not by nature very Serious. 🤷🏻♂️ #gamedev #indieGameDev
I should probably be Serious and do before-and-after checks on the profiler.
But I am not by nature very Serious. 🤷🏻♂️ #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Tonight's Guernsey update... More optimization! The game... feels like it's booting faster and running smoother, and still working fine?
I should probably be Serious and do before-and-after checks on the profiler.
But I am not by nature very Serious. 🤷🏻♂️ #gamedev #indieGameDev
I should probably be Serious and do before-and-after checks on the profiler.
But I am not by nature very Serious. 🤷🏻♂️ #gamedev #indieGameDev
Tonight's Guernsey: A few more optimizations, removing wasteful Awake()'s and unnecessary GameObjectFind()'s.
Slow and steady. 🐢#gamedev #indieGameDev
Slow and steady. 🐢#gamedev #indieGameDev
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Tonight's Guernsey: A few more optimizations, removing wasteful Awake()'s and unnecessary GameObjectFind()'s.
Slow and steady. 🐢#gamedev #indieGameDev
Slow and steady. 🐢#gamedev #indieGameDev
Today's Guernsey: Optimization!
💾Removed an intense, redundant save system component
😳Removed a few wasteful Awake() calls
🔭Removed some expensive GameObject.Find() calls
Shaking my fist at past Ben for not having more discipline. 😤 #gamedev #indieGameDev
💾Removed an intense, redundant save system component
😳Removed a few wasteful Awake() calls
🔭Removed some expensive GameObject.Find() calls
Shaking my fist at past Ben for not having more discipline. 😤 #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Today's Guernsey: Optimization!
💾Removed an intense, redundant save system component
😳Removed a few wasteful Awake() calls
🔭Removed some expensive GameObject.Find() calls
Shaking my fist at past Ben for not having more discipline. 😤 #gamedev #indieGameDev
💾Removed an intense, redundant save system component
😳Removed a few wasteful Awake() calls
🔭Removed some expensive GameObject.Find() calls
Shaking my fist at past Ben for not having more discipline. 😤 #gamedev #indieGameDev