Welcome! — My name is Benjamin Allen.
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Hi, I’m Ben — creator of sounds, worlds, and the occasional suspiciously good sandwich. I make music, design games, and spend my days turning ideas into things you can hear, play, or experience.
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This site helps me keep that creative loop running: make music → make games → make/eat food → sleep → repeat. Your support here goes toward the tools and time I need to bring more projects to life — without having to sell my soul to some beige boardroom. I can be my own evil CEO, so no thanks to that.
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Thanks for being here, for listening, and for helping me keep the weird and wonderful alive.
Game development
While I love music, I have mostly been inspired by game music and video games complete my passion for experiences and sensory stimulation!
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I often play odd-ball games, sometimes not as popular games, sometimes really crap games that make me laugh at the bugs and learn from, but they are games I like. You may also catch me making music or working on my game development projects here on my Twitch channel. I'm a bit shy though so it's not a habit. Or a rabbit. Or a hobbit. More of a hidden rabid hobby.
I'm currently working on a space shooter. It is in Alpha development, has a very large space to play in, and is a bit of a large scale Asteroids like with a variety of encounters with ships, monsters, bosses, and more.
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I'm currently fleshing out the last mechanics of ships, monsters, and bosses, but also making a resource/barter/nanite based economy so that may take some time unless I go all eureka on it's ass. Either way I'm seeing it to the end and will have something I can be proud of. And if you and enough of our race enjoy it I can maybe get psyched about and do more of this on a bigger level.
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You can try it for free or donate/pay whatever you think it's worth to help fund the project. Head to my itch.io site where I will be keeping most of my updates and devlogs.
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Devlog and Alpha available at:
https://gemini-squish-games.itch.io/quantum-drifter
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I rebranded for the Alpha version of my little space game as Quantum Drifter. You can get to it by clicking here.
The latest version of the prototype, Is there. Rather the last version as it's in Alpha for the current release. I will update that as soon as possible for each stable release I have.