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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Today's Guernsey: Optimization! My hunt today concerned tracking down wasteful usages of Awake() to cut down on the amount of time it takes to run the game.
Seems making 100 rooms of an open world in a single scene wasn't such a great idea. 🧐 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Seems making 100 rooms of an open world in a single scene wasn't such a great idea. 🧐 #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Today's Guernsey: Optimization! My hunt today concerned tracking down wasteful usages of Awake() to cut down on the amount of time it takes to run the game.
Seems making 100 rooms of an open world in a single scene wasn't such a great idea. 🧐 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Seems making 100 rooms of an open world in a single scene wasn't such a great idea. 🧐 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Today's Guernsey: Going further into optimization, I learned more about Unity's profiler and went through code, removing most of my debug logs.
Gonna keep at this for a bit, interesting challenge. Makes for terrible screenshots, though! 😅 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Gonna keep at this for a bit, interesting challenge. Makes for terrible screenshots, though! 😅 #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Today's Guernsey: Going further into optimization, I learned more about Unity's profiler and went through code, removing most of my debug logs.
Gonna keep at this for a bit, interesting challenge. Makes for terrible screenshots, though! 😅 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Gonna keep at this for a bit, interesting challenge. Makes for terrible screenshots, though! 😅 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Today's Guernsey: In search of optimizations and better frame rates, I spent time learning about the Unity profiler and making a bunch of objects in the scene static.
More tomorrow! 👨🏻💻#gamedev #indieGameDev
More tomorrow! 👨🏻💻#gamedev #indieGameDev
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Today's Guernsey: In search of optimizations and better frame rates, I spent time learning about the Unity profiler and making a bunch of objects in the scene static.
More tomorrow! 👨🏻💻#gamedev #indieGameDev
More tomorrow! 👨🏻💻#gamedev #indieGameDev
Today's Guernsey Update: Another wall section, bit tricky 'cause it's in a narrow walkway behind a hill. But added in a nice little peek of a powerup, even hinted by a collectible.
This will be a "How to Level Design" screenshot during my GDC talk. 🙂↕️ #gamedev #indieGameDev
This will be a "How to Level Design" screenshot during my GDC talk. 🙂↕️ #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Today's Guernsey Update: Another wall section, bit tricky 'cause it's in a narrow walkway behind a hill. But added in a nice little peek of a powerup, even hinted by a collectible.
This will be a "How to Level Design" screenshot during my GDC talk. 🙂↕️ #gamedev #indieGameDev
This will be a "How to Level Design" screenshot during my GDC talk. 🙂↕️ #gamedev #indieGameDev
Todays' Guernsey: A semi-successful attempt to recreate the shading I've been doing on trees to leaf piles, and a more successful attempt to get smoother UI for quest items working, so they now pop up after the chapter start text!
🙌🏻 #gamedev #indieGameDev
🙌🏻 #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Todays' Guernsey: A semi-successful attempt to recreate the shading I've been doing on trees to leaf piles, and a more successful attempt to get smoother UI for quest items working, so they now pop up after the chapter start text!
🙌🏻 #gamedev #indieGameDev
🙌🏻 #gamedev #indieGameDev
Tonight's Guernsey: Built a nice wall of trees that offers a brief but tantalizing glimpse at the railroad tracks and abandoned rail car beyond -- but how can you get there, dear player!?
#gamedev #indieGameDev
#gamedev #indieGameDev
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Tonight's Guernsey: Built a nice wall of trees that offers a brief but tantalizing glimpse at the railroad tracks and abandoned rail car beyond -- but how can you get there, dear player!?
#gamedev #indieGameDev
#gamedev #indieGameDev
Today's Guernsey: Another slight update, but today:
🌲 Cypress leaves no longer look lit on one side in a weird way
🐞 Fixed an issue with train tunnel bliners
And that's it. #gamedev #indieGameDev
🌲 Cypress leaves no longer look lit on one side in a weird way
🐞 Fixed an issue with train tunnel bliners
And that's it. #gamedev #indieGameDev
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today's Guernsey: Another slight update, but today:
🌲 Cypress leaves no longer look lit on one side in a weird way
🐞 Fixed an issue with train tunnel bliners
And that's it. #gamedev #indieGameDev
🌲 Cypress leaves no longer look lit on one side in a weird way
🐞 Fixed an issue with train tunnel bliners
And that's it. #gamedev #indieGameDev