Ben Droste 🎮 @bendroste.bsky.social

100 Stones now has an account over at the other place. (direct link in reply). I will continue to post here for some time yet, but will begin cross posting other there as well until Twitter finally implodes once and for all.

The Memory's Reach demo has been updated to the latest version shown at PAX Aus this year. Featuring graphical improvements, new hidden pickups, and other changes. Check it out on Steam! (link in reply)

A NEW WRITER APPEARS @Valkian24 killed it with his first article - a recap of the indies that appeared at @PAXAus he felt everyone should check out. Go show the article some love <3 mobpopculture.com/post/return-to…

One thing that blew my mind is how Metroid Prime's re-master credits have over 300 people and take six times as long as the original credits that only had 60 people. Even a re-master has giant teams from around the world. That's the cost of asset production in games now.

I understand that a lot of the criticism is about Bezos overriding the editorial independence if the newspaper, which in itself is hugely problematic. But it doesn't change the fact that a newspaper explicitly undermining their journalistic integrity is really weird thing to do.

My feed has a lot of people criticizing this, but I've always found it weird how American news outlets endorse political candidates. I don't see how you could trust any reporting - about either candidate - after an endorsement.

@its_miracle_au @StormiePlaysYT @100Stonesgames It is that guy I am!

@StormiePlaysYT @100Stonesgames Hey @BenDroste it's that guy you are

Explore a long-lost alien planet in the upcoming game "Memory's Reach" by @100Stonesgames ✨️ Full interview below 👇🏽

Video interview with @tuesdayreviewau from PAX. I had a lot of fun doing this and showing them the new area. Check it out! (And try to spot the parts of the footage where I'm using cheats to skip them ahead to the end of the level 😆)

@dan_vogt Pitch meeting: what about instead of aliens, 4WDs, and exotic locations, we make about dull political drivel set in boring grey offices? Oh, and get rid of Halo man's iconic armour as soon as possible to, that shit's expensive.

I watched most of this essay about the Thrones-ification of modern television. youtu.be/ei1QhjvNnVM?si… The series about 4wd’s, spaceships and shooting aliens is somehow endless political and bureaucratic bullshit?

I’m watching season 2 of Halo with friends and no drinking game could possibly make fun for me… 😩

@Busalonium @zanderhulme Have you considered adding great big rewind arrows?

Updated my respawn effect to look like a VCR rewinding because 90's With thanks to @zanderhulme for working out a rewind audio effect in fmod

@Busalonium @zanderhulme This is great!

Also I'm genuinely glad that most people cannot correctly guess the engine just by looking at the game, it says that the art has had enough work put into it that it doesn't look like out-of-the-box Unity or Unreal.

One again this PAX when people asked what engine I'm using I asked them instead to guess. The results: Unreal: 19 Unity: 6 Custom: 1 I don't know if this is more positive for Unreal or Unity, but I do appreciate the vote of confidence from the person who said I made my own 😄

Breaking down the demo data from PAX Aus this past weekend. Similar results to previous shows (as expected), but some surprises where changes to the demo were made.

Every year the only thing I look forward to more than games week is the end of games week.

Metroid x Doom Artist: @OlivierSilven

PAX third and final day is underway! Come check out Memory's Reach in the indie section 😁 🛸 #pax #paxaus #paxaus2024 #indiegames

Arrived and setup for PAX mere seconds before the doors opened because the Melbourne marathon cut off all traffic from the southside to the conversation centre, turning my 15min drive into a 1hr 15min drive 😩

I'd forgotten how slow the coffee service at the exhibition centre is.

@TheScarecrow121 Free pretzel with every game purchase. I think we're onto a winner.

The German sausage stall at Prahan markets has run out of pretzels, this is a crisis!