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Ben Naulls

@noweekend

[He/Him] Game Dev Programmer, Teacher, Mentor, Prolific prototyper. Monopoly is a great game. (@ me)

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So flights are obviously still screwed. We are still waiting to be able to get a refund from the airline. It does mean we will have to rebook and fly through Singapore.
It will take a lot longer and be a lot more expensive. But as long as we are safe and get there, that's all that matters.

03.03.2026 13:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

These look great!

03.03.2026 12:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Meeting with @luisvsm.bsky.social today and started development on the build and hosting server for #projectmammut

While it's early days, the basics are done!

#indiedev #gamedev #narritivegames

03.03.2026 08:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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With Beta 2 of #ProjectMammut around the corner, I wanted to share a bunch of new quality of life features for all #narrativeGames developers.

#indiegames #visualNovel #writing

www.projectmammut.com

Feature 3:
Broken links can be auto built into new nodes

01.03.2026 23:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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With Beta 2 of #ProjectMammut around the corner, I wanted to share a bunch of new quality of life features for all #narrativeGames developers.

#indiegames #visualNovel #writing

www.projectmammut.com

Feature 2:
Nodes can be created by dragging from other nodes now for quick planning

01.03.2026 23:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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With Beta 2 of #ProjectMammut around the corner, I wanted to share a bunch of new quality of life features for all #narrativeGames developers.

#indiegames #visualNovel #writing

www.projectmammut.com

Feature 1:
Information about when node links are broken

01.03.2026 23:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

12 days till we leave. But it turns out our flight is scheduled to go through Abu Dhabi so it's a bit up in the air with what's going to happen there.
But of course it's nothing compared to what's actually happening to everyone being affected.
Everyone, stay safe and respond only in love.

01.03.2026 11:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BIBDU: An Irish Mythology Video Game. All hand painted. Coming Soon!

#indiedev #handdrawn #gamedev #solodev #noai #bibdu

28.02.2026 15:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 40 ๐Ÿ” 18 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!

27.02.2026 22:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What are we we all working on today?
Show me your game babies!!!!

#gamedev #indiegames #gameEditor #showandtell

27.02.2026 22:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looking great!

27.02.2026 08:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reworking the game engine with OPSF is going well.
Lots of UI items updated.

I also had a big chat with someone who will be working on the online build and hosting pipeline for me, so that is exciting.

progress!!!

#gamedev #indiegames #visualnovel #narrative #gameengine

27.02.2026 07:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 31 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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First build from my game engine..

Yes it's very broken, audio doesn't work, sprites aren't loading, fonts aren't.... fonting.

But it's building!

#indiegame #gamedev #narritivegames #visualnovel #projectmammut

26.02.2026 23:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Meet my engine's Mascot:
Mangomo Kenaga

Work continues today with work on the build system to get games out of the editor.
There will still be a long way to go, but progress is happening at a good pace.
If you want to help test the engine, let me know!
#gamedev #indiegaming #visualnovel #animegirl

26.02.2026 20:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lots of progress today,

File manager is in, and the audio manager are in, they look good and only have a lot of errors!

#projectmammut #gamedev #indiegames #visualnovels

26.02.2026 09:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 35 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Are you they type of person who writes 'Test1' 'Test2' 'Test3' when testing, or someone who mashes the keyboard

Por quรฉ no los dos?

#gameDev #projectmammut

26.02.2026 06:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Learning how OPFS works in modern browsers so that Project Mammut can save and manage entire project folders and files.

It's a big learning curve about what browsers can and can't do these days, but overall I am happy with how it is looking.

#projectmammut #visualnovels #gameDev

26.02.2026 04:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In just over 2 weeks I will be moving my entire life over to Dublin, This change is huge and I hostly don't know what to expect, but it should be fun.

If anyone here lives there and wants to show me around, please sing out!

#ireland #dublin

25.02.2026 00:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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There are new features going in every day.
Today I am focusing on the logic inside of the narrative flows, allowing for conditional statements and variables

#projectmammut #gamedev #twine #visualvovels

25.02.2026 00:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Project Mammut An HTML5 Visual Story & Motion Graphic Game Engine

So I've started building my own HTML5 game engine. Focusing on visual novel games and such.
I would love feedback from anyone making a native game.

www.projectmammut.com
#visualnovels #gamedev

24.02.2026 19:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I made a comic, go read it!

19.06.2025 11:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I spent the last 3 week putting together a comic in my own personal style and flow just to see if I could. I wanted to set up an interesting world similar to comic I read growing up.

I want to continue and hear what you think.

Read the rest here:

www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/th...

19.06.2025 11:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Another gesture drawing.
15mins total.

#digitalart #gesture

02.05.2025 12:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Doing some gesture drawings to improve my skills.

#gesture #digitalart

02.05.2025 12:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

During 2020 I started teaching myself how to paint.
I put all these up on Instagram and got thousands of followers.

Then they changed their policy on nudity and deleted my account.

I've just started getting back into it.

Please follow if you're interested (very NSFW).

bsky.app/profile/week...

03.04.2025 23:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Adding a bit of "Culture" into the world

05.01.2025 22:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Game one of this year is well underway.
I have decided to make all the art myself, which is talking a while, but it is coming along well.
More details soon

04.01.2025 04:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm thinking of making a game a month next year.
All small, all based around a small concept.
Working out if I should do the art myself, or find someone to join me in this adventure.

#gameamonth

17.12.2024 12:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Every 1 bit 4x4 sprite by Powerdive Games You've seen packs with many assets, but what about one with every asset?

Some Malad made an icon pack of EVERY possible 4x4 1 bit sprite.
And then named each and every one..

All 65,536 of them.

powerdive.itch.io/every-1-bit-...

17.12.2024 11:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just watched The Witcher 4 trailer. I didn't see Gwent in it, is he ok?

#witcher4 #gwent

13.12.2024 04:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0