Benn Powell

The annoying thing is, the people who that would work on are the exact type of people they are looking for.

DeadOS sales report, June 2025. Copies sold: 28. Net Sales: $310. Dev Revenue: $217. Platform Cut: $93

June 2025 Sales Report

Screenshot of DeadOS. The new Cop Overlay is displayed.

Version 0.32.3 of DeadOS is now live! UI rearrangements for the Cop Overlay and the ability to hot-swap between automatic cop dispatch vs manual mid-sim!

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It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you.

Sign up at yourparty.uk.

Meme image, the header says "The myth of artistic freedom". There is a couple saying "I want to draw it" and "I want to see it" and on the side the Mastercard and Visa logo saying "I DON'T!". Underneath the image - "Isn't there some random payment processor you forgot to ask?"

Version 0.32.2 of DeadOS is now live!

Added the ability for the user to create blockade zones for cops:

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Alternatively give me a beat-em-up MMO where groups merge to and fro between instances. I'd like to make MMO-like games myself but the infrastructure needed is not very indie-friendly ¬__¬

Random idea - Streets of Rage 99. Work with other players in small groups that get merged as people die until only one remains. Getting kills + participation earn upgrades that help you make it to the end.

Screenshot: r/technology I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using ai, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that chatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realize that they should not use it as a primary source.

Teaching AI literacy.

(GenAI is wrong A LOT. And even though people tend to think it saves time, we now have randomized controlled trials that show situations where it takes *more* time even when participants self-report it's saving them time.)

We already exist in a world where we have so many deadlines for bills, rent, food, responsibilities and our own free time. Why add another deadline to yourself just for the sake of a game? You deserve better.

A few months ago I tried a game that slowly plays out over weeks where you have to log in every couple of hours to check what has happened and plan your strategies, etc, thinking it will be fun. And it was! But after 4 days I was too mentally exhausted to continue. It gives you a unhealthy mindset.

When I hear someone saying "I need to play game X today because my battle pass is going to expire" or "I need to grind gems because I can only get X character this week" - that's a big red flag to me that people are being exploited, if not for their money, then for their time.

I dislike the growing trend in games that attempt to force players into needing to make time for a game via time contraints. Games to me are something that people choose to play in their spare time, at their own pace.

DeadOS - Version 0.32.1 is now live! - Steam News Hi everyone! I'm still working on the new Cop override systems but I have some small changes for you in the meantime: I've added a small tutorial box to the police station screen that explains the opt...

Version 0.32.1 of DeadOS is now live!

Added new tutorial segments and a new slider that allows users to set the % of cops that are manning police stations as part of the current Cop AI rework:

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DeadOS sales report May 2025. 25 copies sold. Net sales $278. Dev revenue $194. Platform Cut $84

May 2025 :>

Just realised there will be a generation of people who have never encountered txt speech. Is this what it means to get old? c u l8r l0l

Visual effect in Unreal engine. The shadows have been isolated into a mask that has been changed to a checkerboard texture.

Been trying to isolate shadows in Unreal for NPR effects for a while so I'm pleased to finally get something decent today.

DeadOS - Version 0.32.0 is now live! - Steam News Hi everyone! This week's update is the first step in a series of updates that aim to give players more control over what they can do during simulations, and I'm starting with Cops. In the menu where y...

Version 0.32.0 of DeadOS is now live! Added the ability to turn off the Cop Dispatch AI so that players can try and deal with the outbreak themselves manually if they so wish:

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#screenshotsaturday

Save 50% on Operator Overload on Steam Operator Overload is a new puzzle game by indie game creator Benn Powell. Solve your way through over a hundred levels of complex combinatoric conundrums using your logical deduction and problem solvi...

Did you know I released a game on Steam back in 2017?

It's 50% off in the Summer Sale:

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As someone who was pushed and cajoled by friends to eventually finish IWBTG back in the day...I had fun! ^__^

Screenshot from DeadOS showing the new Melee Chance addition to the Zombie Stats.

Version 0.31.5 of DeadOS is now live! Added melee hit chance stats for the zombies and fixed a lot of bugs with the melee weapons update:

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IMO a game doesn't have to be fair, it has to be fun. When people complain about fairness, what they are really saying is "I'm not having fun right now".

One thing I have noticed is that they don't butter the toast. BUTTER IS IMPORTANT

Version 0.31.4 of DeadOS is now live! Civilians now fight back against hostile military that are trying to purge them

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The more I learn about the universe the more I think there is no single solid definable unit of...anything. It's always an approximation that we humans use to help us mentally deal with the world. Even our binary computer systems are derived from interpreting analogue voltages down a wire.

In case you were wondering why it takes me so long to make video games, it's because my brain acts like this when I'm just trying to study some Japanese before work.

The computer I'm using is mostly paid for by friends who gathered the money to help me out. There are so many people who I owe the ability to make this game to and if we keep focusing on this cult of personality where a single person is the cause of all greatness we undermine the power of community.

Even though I'd say DeadOS is 99% solo built (I did the code, music, SFX, UI, trailers, patch notes, Steam assets, shaders, "PR", design docs, source control, 3D & 2D assets) I used free sounds and fonts. I used a (mostly) free engine. I live with my family and together we pay the bills to fund it.