Ben Prunty
@benprunty.bsky.social
I make game music: FTL, Into the Breach, Subnautica 2, Below Zero, Generation Exile & others. I did not work on Subnautica 1. - Polyamorous, ADHD, love cool jackets and my cats. No AI ever. He/him
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every american is asking "what can we even do" because in 2020 we burned a fucking police station down and couldn't even get justice for the murder of one man. we organized the largest protests in the country's history two months ago and nothing fucking happened. what can we even do
January 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
every american is asking "what can we even do" because in 2020 we burned a fucking police station down and couldn't even get justice for the murder of one man. we organized the largest protests in the country's history two months ago and nothing fucking happened. what can we even do
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The US literally kidnapped Maduro on the anniversary of kidnapping the Panamanian leader in 1990.
I'm seeing some comments saying stuff like "No US President has ever done anything like the kidnapping of Maduro before" and altho I relate to the outrage behind such a comment, I encourage you to look up the history of United States presidents before you post this
January 3, 2026 at 3:17 PM
The US literally kidnapped Maduro on the anniversary of kidnapping the Panamanian leader in 1990.
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Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.
January 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.
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It blows my mind that you can create a startup based on a fucking absurd series of lies and impossible promises, make billions of dollars while companies cut staffing believing the lie, then walk away from the smoldering crater without being guillotined straight to hell
www.ft.com/content/9b1b...
www.ft.com/content/9b1b...
AI ‘world models’ promise to reshape $190bn video games industry
Google DeepMind and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs target gaming with AI-generated 3D environments
www.ft.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It blows my mind that you can create a startup based on a fucking absurd series of lies and impossible promises, make billions of dollars while companies cut staffing believing the lie, then walk away from the smoldering crater without being guillotined straight to hell
www.ft.com/content/9b1b...
www.ft.com/content/9b1b...
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Me logging into this website so that I can “get a sense of what’s going on in the world”
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Me logging into this website so that I can “get a sense of what’s going on in the world”
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This album by @benprunty.bsky.social is literally a perfect album! I'm in love! 🩵✨🌈 open.spotify.com/album/7exzXu...
Transmissions from a Hidden World
open.spotify.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This album by @benprunty.bsky.social is literally a perfect album! I'm in love! 🩵✨🌈 open.spotify.com/album/7exzXu...
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Hell yes
Doom studio id Software unionizes to secure AI protections, benefits: "We see the direction the industry is headed"
aftermath.site/id-software-un...
aftermath.site/id-software-un...
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Hell yes
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NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT 😍
PinKeep is a pinball deckbuilding roguelite – Master the ball and flippers to collect resources and defeat your enemies!
Demo coming in January, wishlist now! 👇
PinKeep is a pinball deckbuilding roguelite – Master the ball and flippers to collect resources and defeat your enemies!
Demo coming in January, wishlist now! 👇
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT 😍
PinKeep is a pinball deckbuilding roguelite – Master the ball and flippers to collect resources and defeat your enemies!
Demo coming in January, wishlist now! 👇
PinKeep is a pinball deckbuilding roguelite – Master the ball and flippers to collect resources and defeat your enemies!
Demo coming in January, wishlist now! 👇
Tech companies aren't really trying to sell you a product. You, the user, are part of a product they are trying to sell to shareholders.
The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Tech companies aren't really trying to sell you a product. You, the user, are part of a product they are trying to sell to shareholders.
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so uh, announcement time?!
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
November 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
so uh, announcement time?!
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
I love these!
My composition masters has asked me to write music for a game set in space with both exploration and battle elements, so what better excuse to pay tribute to one of my biggest musical inspirations, @benprunty.bsky.social ?
soundcloud.com/nickhoad/set...
soundcloud.com/nickhoad/set...
Speedier than Photons
Technically a professional
soundcloud.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I love these!
I was always into both game dev and electronic music. When I was a teenager only 2 colleges offered game dev programs and I couldn't afford them. I could, however, afford a local 2 year communications program that included audio engineering. I thought maybe I could find a game dev job thru audio.
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I was always into both game dev and electronic music. When I was a teenager only 2 colleges offered game dev programs and I couldn't afford them. I could, however, afford a local 2 year communications program that included audio engineering. I thought maybe I could find a game dev job thru audio.
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One of the reasons we need universal basic income plus higher taxes on the rich is to boost the spending power of the bottom 60% and in doing so, reorient our economy around the needs of the majority of people who comprise it. As inequality has increased, our economy has adjusted to meet rich wants.
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
One of the reasons we need universal basic income plus higher taxes on the rich is to boost the spending power of the bottom 60% and in doing so, reorient our economy around the needs of the majority of people who comprise it. As inequality has increased, our economy has adjusted to meet rich wants.
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Games from Vancouver Steam Sale event is on and Generation Exile Sustainability Edition is 48% off!
store.steampowered.com/bundle/60317...
Bundle includes GenExile itself, Supporter DLC and soundtrack, composed by @benprunty.bsky.social (composer of Subnautica: Below Zero, Into the Breach and FTL)
store.steampowered.com/bundle/60317...
Bundle includes GenExile itself, Supporter DLC and soundtrack, composed by @benprunty.bsky.social (composer of Subnautica: Below Zero, Into the Breach and FTL)
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Games from Vancouver Steam Sale event is on and Generation Exile Sustainability Edition is 48% off!
store.steampowered.com/bundle/60317...
Bundle includes GenExile itself, Supporter DLC and soundtrack, composed by @benprunty.bsky.social (composer of Subnautica: Below Zero, Into the Breach and FTL)
store.steampowered.com/bundle/60317...
Bundle includes GenExile itself, Supporter DLC and soundtrack, composed by @benprunty.bsky.social (composer of Subnautica: Below Zero, Into the Breach and FTL)
Guy who's entire presidency is defined by acts of sedition: "getting a lot of sedition vibes from this"
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Guy who's entire presidency is defined by acts of sedition: "getting a lot of sedition vibes from this"
Thanks I hate it
Half Life (1998) is now as old as the first ever arcade game, Computer Space (1971) was when Half Life was released.
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Thanks I hate it
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I *do* think however that it's grotesque to be giving awards to companies that have laid off huge chunks of the workforce that worked on these games that are now getting awards
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I *do* think however that it's grotesque to be giving awards to companies that have laid off huge chunks of the workforce that worked on these games that are now getting awards
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Matt found the original "brainstorming document" for FTL -
Written on a big roll of paper in his apartment in Shanghai over beers.
You can see a lot of the foundational ideas there, but this was before we even pictured having ship-to-ship combat.
Written on a big roll of paper in his apartment in Shanghai over beers.
You can see a lot of the foundational ideas there, but this was before we even pictured having ship-to-ship combat.
August 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Matt found the original "brainstorming document" for FTL -
Written on a big roll of paper in his apartment in Shanghai over beers.
You can see a lot of the foundational ideas there, but this was before we even pictured having ship-to-ship combat.
Written on a big roll of paper in his apartment in Shanghai over beers.
You can see a lot of the foundational ideas there, but this was before we even pictured having ship-to-ship combat.
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
HELL YEAH this is incredible!
Lost Ship is the track that hooked me onto FTL and by extension the rest of your work so I couldn’t resist having a little jam to the new version. Gave me an excuse to practice in G# minor as well
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
HELL YEAH this is incredible!
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I'm booking work for 2026!
If you need a:
🎶 Video game composer
🔊 Sound designer
🎛️ Mix engineer and/or mastering engineer
🎤 Vocalist
… send me an email :)
📩 marinamakes.co/contact
Some examples of my work below 🤍 Shares always appreciated
If you need a:
🎶 Video game composer
🔊 Sound designer
🎛️ Mix engineer and/or mastering engineer
🎤 Vocalist
… send me an email :)
📩 marinamakes.co/contact
Some examples of my work below 🤍 Shares always appreciated
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm booking work for 2026!
If you need a:
🎶 Video game composer
🔊 Sound designer
🎛️ Mix engineer and/or mastering engineer
🎤 Vocalist
… send me an email :)
📩 marinamakes.co/contact
Some examples of my work below 🤍 Shares always appreciated
If you need a:
🎶 Video game composer
🔊 Sound designer
🎛️ Mix engineer and/or mastering engineer
🎤 Vocalist
… send me an email :)
📩 marinamakes.co/contact
Some examples of my work below 🤍 Shares always appreciated
Surprise! I just released FTL - Lost Ship EP, a small collection of never before published FTL music, including live tracks, music that was cut from the game, and an expanded piece I made in 2025 based on one of the originals.
benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl-lo...
benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl-lo...
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Surprise! I just released FTL - Lost Ship EP, a small collection of never before published FTL music, including live tracks, music that was cut from the game, and an expanded piece I made in 2025 based on one of the originals.
benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl-lo...
benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl-lo...
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.