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BWDev (Ben)

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Musician and Game Developer, I also do YouTube sometimes Currently working on Lumbermill ๐ŸŒฒ steampowered.com/app/1151300

435 Followers  |  244 Following  |  20 Posts  |  Joined: 20.11.2023  |  1.6402

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10.08.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Huge Lumbermill blog post below (first reply) ๐Ÿ‘‡ For anyone wondering where I've been / what's been happening to the game make sure to check it out ๐ŸŒฒ

10.08.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm writing up a huge blog post of all the stuff I've been working on. Will share it on here / discord / youtube when it's ready - keep an eye out :)

06.08.2025 11:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ehh Iโ€™d say thatโ€™s an oversimplification. User experience extends far beyond gameplay and certain โ€œtediousโ€ things are entirely necessary in a finished product. Itโ€™s case-by-case.

31.07.2025 13:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Never underestimate the time youโ€™ll spend as a solo dev doing endless specific, unpredictable tasks like making nice linear volume sliders. I just want to make forest game but the extra QOL stuff adds up ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

31.07.2025 12:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, looking to improve on this as a basic design. Needs to remain recognisable but more professional / polished

17.07.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Real ๐Ÿ‘

17.07.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looking to hire a designer to improve Lumbermillโ€™s logo - anyone interested / got any recommendations?

17.07.2025 12:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 37    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just discovered 4 finished tracks I wrote years ago for the Lumbermill OST I'd completely forgotten about - today's a good day ๐Ÿ˜Ž

06.07.2025 10:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks Saul! But water you doing writing puns like that ๐Ÿ™„

11.06.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I try to playtest personally whenever I can, recently every few days. Makes it so much easier to spot where stuff is missing / unintuitive. Hoping to get it into a few people's hands once I've finished the tech tree work - the core systems will hopefully, finally mesh well. We'll see!

10.06.2025 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks Rob! Very nearly there - on feature lock currently and refining the existing systems. Just the research / tech tree thatโ€™s due an iteration now.

10.06.2025 07:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lumbermill on Steam Build, Manage and Maintain a Lumber Mill deep in the Forest!

You can wishlist the game here (will be updating the steam page soon!)

store.steampowered.com/app/1151300/...

09.06.2025 20:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lumbermill's latest addition - Water Wheels! They provide a small amount of power for your early game factories (before unlocking Steam Power).

#indie #gamedev #pixelart

09.06.2025 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Been working on a wholesale market for Lumbermill, and decided to upgrade the money counter at the same time. Trying to make earning money (aka amber) as satisfying as possible...

21.04.2025 18:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great to see this project out at last, congrats Ben ๐ŸŽ‰

08.04.2025 09:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations ๐Ÿฅณ

22.03.2025 09:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Returning to game dev is going really well :D

21.03.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This big gap on GitHub had been looming over me - finally feeling well enough to get back into game dev projects. Long may it last and hopefully Iโ€™ll have some updates to share in the near future ๐Ÿคž

20.03.2025 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

First post here, gonna be posting mostly as I did on X - updates on my projects, game dev stuff etc ๐ŸŒฒ

12.12.2024 12:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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