Ben Chandler

Beware the 31st October #ott #offtopictuesday

Just in time for Halloween, a MONSTER Milestone 11 update is now available. Release date info, melee retrospectives, and Musings on The World abound. It is too big for Kickstarter's character limit, so we had to split it into two. Check it out as it was intended on our Patreon!

My YouTube reccommends know what I want to see youtu.be/Al_bfkAG8q0?...

Had two medium sized but very fun ideas for ways to liven up parts of this game while in the shower and bringing my own imagination to life is so *addictive*. It’s so fun building some of my weird ideas into gameplay. store.steampowered.com/app/3979770/...

You cannot imagine how much I was giggling to myself while making this bit of the game.

Just posted the latest Nighthawks patch. We're at the point now where most of the patch changes are things like typos and minor sequence things, so instead of a long list of those, I thought I'd try a moderately sized list of "Did You Try...?" suggestions... store.steampowered.com/news/app/122...

*squeky voiced - Assets?

It's #WishlistWednesday. Wishlisting is free, and it's the single biggest lever I have as an indie dev with no marketing budget. If you love scifi noir games, you know what to do! Wishlist here : enoch.s.gy/HhhrOn

I told you all that I drew asses for this game. 😌

Heya! I'm making an adventure game with witches and a dastardly murder. Wishlist & check out the demo of Tommy Gun Marionettes👇 store.steampowered.com/app/5049150/... #indiegame #gamedev #pointandclick #adventuregame

I don’t spend too much time online these days, but logging in to see things like this is so nice. Nighthawks was a long project, and it’s so rewarding to see people getting a full meal out of it. :)

Some doodles from this night. Pretty happy with this looser approach.

Sung as a call and response lyric in the style of Freddie Mercury.

cheers buddy

Always wet! No Survivors!

At the moment I am having such a good time making Gilt that it feels like a kind of magic. I hope this game turns out to be as good as the vision that exists for it in my mind. store.steampowered.com/app/3979770/...

Why genAI your food signs when you can express the human chaos in your own soul with beautifully janky writing. (Royal Egyptian food truck in Berkeley)

Somehow not a Nighthawks review

Painted the cover art and portraits for this. 😌 store.steampowered.com/app/4462400/...

Also thank you to everybody that has been playing and talking about Nighthawks. This first bedroom scene I painted sums up my aim for the game, trying to capture a particular atmosphere of being awake in a world where most people are asleep. It's been great to see people get that.

In Gilt you play an outcast priest, haunted by a dying God, wielding divine powers in your travels through a strange world. But more importantly, you get to meet this lizard (frog?) guy. store.steampowered.com/app/3979770/...

Launching on 29 October, you don't have long to wait... wishlist it today ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/2431920/...

Hooray!

Also thank you to everybody that has been playing and talking about Nighthawks. This first bedroom scene I painted sums up my aim for the game, trying to capture a particular atmosphere of being awake in a world where most people are asleep. It's been great to see people get that.

I was singing at a quiet Sunday afternoon gig this weekend and some staff from the aged care place my Grandma lives in were there so they snuck a photo of me and now she has this stuck up on her wall haha.

Gilt Devlog 23: Getting back to it! ben304.blogspot.com/2026/10/devl...

Writing dialogue is great because it gives me lots of stuff to delete when I read it back the next day. 😌

Are any point and click adventure game fans at RetroGamesCon? Stop by InfamousQuests at table T9 and learn about Quest for Infamy! Say the secret password (underrated gem) and leave your email address to win a free adventure game! @infamousquests.bsky.social #retrogamescon

Really happy that folks are enjoying Nighthawks. Now that it’s out, I have been focused on getting back to Gilt and trying to make something really special out of it.

Nighthawks has been out for a week! I’m happy people are enjoying it. Here’s a fun behind the scenes look, because sometimes the easiest way to get a good reference is to dress up and pose yourself…

This week I had to explain that Gilt does not have a ‘stuffy’ religious tone. It is varied and unpredictable. Like mythology in general. Look, you can choose to be a stodgy pedant at times. That’s up to you, though, not me.

It is too late, I have already depicted myself as the άνθρωπος ίσχυρός and you as the άνθρωπος παρθένος 🫵

IT'S ALIVE! The new demo for The Tragic Loss of M. Slazak is out now on Steam and at itch.io. Please download, play, enjoy, and share! Steam - store.steampowered.com/app/2798050/... Itch - beyondbooleans.itch.io/the-tragic-l...

I have been the victim of writers for years, this is how I get my revenge on them.

This week I had to explain that Gilt does not have a ‘stuffy’ religious tone. It is varied and unpredictable. Like mythology in general. Look, you can choose to be a stodgy pedant at times. That’s up to you, though, not me.

Wrote this late last night so resharing! Nighthawks is a triumph: a wonderfully compelling piece of interactive fiction that constructs an well-realised little world in your mind and populates it with memorable characters. Funny, tragic, dramatic, emotional, it's everything I hoped it would be.