Ben Kane

Ben Kane

@ben-kane.bsky.social

Gamedev, runner ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ’จ ๐ŸŽฎ: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, DLC Quest, Loot Box Quest, Lair of the Evildoer, Zombie Accountant Remember XBLIG? Good times.

549 Followers 455 Following 119 Posts Joined Oct 2024
2 months ago
A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

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2 months ago

whoa, this is a cool opportunity!

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3 months ago
Godot Engine funding page, showing I just subscribed to support development of the engine.

Happy to have signed up to support the development of @godotengine.org!

I went to check out the latest dev snapshot to see what cool features were coming up and it clicked how important this engine is to me. Contributing was overdue honestly!

#godot #gamedev

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3 months ago

:O Congrats to both of you!!!! โ™ฅโ™ฅโ™ฅ

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3 months ago

Found through the last post about tweens -> this game is great!

(devs: if you have a Steam release in your plans, get a page up and start collecting those wishlists! This game is already super strong!)

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3 months ago

super cool!

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3 months ago
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hacked together some gamepad controls so I can bring along prototype

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3 months ago

TONIGHT!

I am so looking forward to this!

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3 months ago
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4 months ago
XP-Pen 16 Pro Gen 2, a digital drawing tablet with a screen

I picked up a drawing tablet a couple weeks back and I am having a BLAST. I last had an old Wacom about 20 years ago that was the size of a business card.

The tech has uhh improved considerably. Not high end by any means, but 16" 2.5K display, plus a nifty little shortcut remote. For like $500!

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4 months ago

if there's a matching faceplate, then so say we all

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4 months ago

I currently use a pretty janky setup with a Steam Deck and a dock as my living room machine. Can't wait to get one of these cubes AND find/make a custom faceplate.

It's like the 360 all over again! Hopefully just the faceplate part though and not the RROD part.

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4 months ago

aw heck yes!

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4 months ago

๐Ÿ™

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4 months ago

wait hold up

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4 months ago

Baseball game good

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4 months ago
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I've been noodling away at a turn-based tower defense deckbuilder prototype. Each battle, you play cards to build your tower or directly attack the battlefield. Then there's a round of auto-battling as your tower goes to work and the enemies take their actions.

#gamedev #prototype #solodev

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4 months ago
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Today, Rift Riffโ€ฆ
- got a major free update on Steam!
- released on iOS and Android!
- is 30% off as part of a Steam Daily Deal!

i'm so proud, and exhausted. please buy & enjoy the game, repost this, leave a review, โˆž ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ

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6 months ago
Petition e-6695 - Petitions

Fellow Canadians! ๐Ÿ

Here's a way to voice support for govt intervention into the MasterCard/VISA censorship that has already affected Steam and itch.

It's an official House of Commons petition, currently the second largest one open. Read & please consider signing

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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6 months ago
The Dirty Rectangles crew playing the game jam version of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

That's when you hit em with this

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6 months ago

We first released Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, on Gear VR, over 10(!!) years ago ๐Ÿ˜ณ

The big launch was on PC/Rift, which will turn 10 early next month. Should probably get a cake or something.

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6 months ago

My second mod? Thanks for asking. I pulled around some vertices on the GMan model to give him a big gut, a ponytail, and a frown. Then I cranked up his health & damage, and made it a juggernaut-style 1 vs Everyone game. Whoever managed to take down Steven Seagal become the new Steven Seagal.

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6 months ago

When I was maybe 14 years old, I made my first mod for Half-Life. You could throw a grenade, which released snarks when it hit the ground. They would run around doing their thing, attacking other players and other spawned snarks.

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6 months ago
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This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

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6 months ago

๐Ÿ‘€

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7 months ago

The what ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

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7 months ago

Sometimes a heat lamp and a nice flat rock are all that you can fit in the budget

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7 months ago
Hotel sign saying "26ยฐC is the ideal temperature for a comfortable night"

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7 months ago

Love this concept, love the ambition and creativity to just go for it. Why not try a different approach like this?

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