Ben McKenzie

@benmckenzie.com.au

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He/him performer, writer, educator, game designer and ginger on Wurundjeri Country (aka Melbourne, Australia). I make the book club podcast Pratchat, time travel radio comedy Night Terrace, games and more. The doco about cryptocurrency was the other guy.

A screenshot of part of the Steam store page for Dead Static Drive, taken via the mobile Steam App. Cropped to highlight the Planned Release Date of 5 November 2025, under which is the note: “This game plans to unlock in approximately 2 hours”
A man wearing glasses, an N95 mask and a dark blue hoodie with a Superman T-shirt visible underneath stands in front of two large banners for the Superman film flanking the shot tower inside Melbourne Central. He’s giving the camera a thumbs up. The shot is angled so you can see all he way to the top of the tower.
A photo of a man standing outside wearing an N95 mask, glasses, a bright blue woollen beanie and a navy hoodie. He is winking while pulling the hoodie open to reveal a T-shirt with the Superman symbol.
A photo of a man wearing an N95 mask mostly out of frame, pointing at a digital poster of himself with the text “DUNGEON TIME WITH BEN MCKENZIE” The text continues in all caps: “Join Ben McKenzie for a fun workshop mixing drawing, storytelling and game design to create your own easy roleplaying game.” And today’s date and time.
Photo of a large mural in a mostly empty car park. It depicts a smug looking Elon Musk pointing at the dog from the doge meme on a green background. There are several dark spots on Musk’s face, and a speech balloon has been added in white paint which has Musk saying “IM GETTING REMOVED” with a further word painted over with white love hearts. More white love hearts cover a further painted message below the speech balloon.
A photo of a mostly empty car park in Brunswick with a large mural of a smug looking Elon Musk pointing a finger at the dog from the doge meme. Elon’s face has flecks of dark paint around the mouth and under the right eye.
A screenshot of a spam text message sent from the number +63 962 235 1908. It was sent to another number, as well as mine. The text reads: Hello, sorry to bother you! I'm Freya from CareerOne. your CV has been recommended by several online recruitment agencies, so we'd like to offer you a remote job where you can earn A$150-300 per day, working 60 - 90 minutes per day at a time and place of your choosing (paid on the same day). Paid annual leave 5 to 15 days. But please note: (you must be at least 20+). If you are eligible and want more information, please reply with a 'YES' or 'NO'.
A graphic of my board game for 2024 from the app BG Stats: Plays: 85 H-index: 4 Games: 30 New: 15 Players: 19 Locations: 6 Hours: 78 Days: 40 Paperback Adventures: 3 Arcs: 3 Sleeping Gods: 4 Magic: The Gathering: 10 Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West: 5 Daybreak: 3 Exit: The Game – Advent Calendar: The Missing Hollywood Star: 24 Guards! Guards! A Discworld Boardgame: 1 Pandemic Legacy: Season 1: 2 39 designers: Matt Leacock: 13% Darrell Louder: 6% David Brashaw: 6% Leonard Boyd: 6% Matthew O'Malley: 6%
A scorecard image for the game Real Bird Fake Bird. In black on orange it features an illustration of an anthropomorphic cartoon bird in a beret drawing on an easel. Above the bird at the top is the text “#007 / MON 16 DEC / arts” to denote which game was played, and under that the score: in white, “bellissimo!”, then “you got 6/7” and the theme: “DOGS IN LITERATURE”.
Jack Quaid as Brad Boimler in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #265,854, Ben McKenzie ‪@benmckenzie.com.au‬, joined on Jul 7, 2023"
A photo of the left breast of a navy jacket. On the lapel are two enamel pins: a purple scroll with “he/him” pronouns and a twenty-sided dice, and a blue and purple mechanical bird. Tucked into the breast pocket of the jacket is a 3M Aura N95 facemask.
A photo from above of the card game Paperback Adventures, featuring two plastic trays with metal trackers for health and other values, and cards representing items, abilities and letters for spelling out words. The assassin princess Damsel has been defeated by a Viking-like Bandit King; the last word spelled is “IN?H”, with unused H, V and I cards nearby.
A photo of the board game Daybreak at the end of a winning game, laid out on a dining room table with Christmas tablecloths and ornaments.