Ben Prunty

@benprunty.bsky.social

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🎮🎹 I make game music. 💿 FTL, Into the Breach, Subnautica 2, Below Zero, Generation Exile & others. ❌ I did not work on Subnautica 1. ✨ Polyamorous, ADHD, cool jackets, cats. 🚫 No AI ever. He/him.

Headline from NPR that says "Why Wall Street Banks are setting up in Texas" with a photo of a construction site.
Hand-painted cover art for Armor Battle, depicting tanks and soldiers at war.
Splitscreen view of Steven Ray Morris and me chatting about nerdy stuff.
A photo of my cats planting themselves at my workdesk, including taking my chair.
Mirror selfie of me in a beautifully graffitied bathroom at a coffee shop in Savannah
Selfie of me in my office/studio
An image of the Colonel Campbell AI from Metal Gear Solid 2, a game specifically about the evils of AI, media manipulation, and post-truth politics. I'm posting it here above this article about Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima embracing generative AI for absolutely no reason at all.
A shot from Marathon's Season 2 trailer, showing something that looks like a revenant or undead shell of a player character, backlit by a red flare.
Star Trek Next Generation title card that says "Data Either Saves Everyone or is a Huge Liability"
Cover art for Subnautica 2 Original Soundtrack, composed by Ben Prunty. The art features a woodcut style image of a leviathan.
Title card for Subnautica 2, showing two scuba divers deep underwater with a leviathan looming in the background.
Cover art for the Subnautica 2 Original Soundtrack, composed by Ben Prunty, featuring a woodcut style drawing of a monstrous leviathan.
Title card for Subnautica 2
Mirror selfie of me in a very cool white jacket
Selfie of me on a train with a view of some trees out the window
Me in a very cool white jacket
Cover art for Generation Exile by Darcy Dee
A still from the 1997 movie The Game: a flashback moment shown in grainy, aged film, showing a man in a suit with a young boy.
Phoebe & Maddie, a pair of tuxedo cats, laying together on a heat pad under the bed.
My tuxedo cat, Maddie, laying belly to the sky, her head resting on a catnip toy shaped like a banana.
Album cover for the Generation Exile soundtrack, showing a silhouette of the game's generation ship superimposed over a settlement from the game.
Headline from Reuters that reads, "Does the AI business model have a fatal flaw?" which may be the understatement (underquestion?) of the decade
A partial screenshot from a Fallout game with the text: "Everyone disliked that."
Pic of my Destiny 2 hunter wearing tight-fitted black clothes, including a vest, with a lime green undershirt, a pulled-back hood, and a gold and black helmet.
Super Mario's cartoon face and the two actors from the Super Mario Bros Super Show, with incongruous text overlaid: "Trump appears in the Epstein files 5,300 times"
Title card for the puzzle game Blue Prince
A photo of me holding the box for a Geforce RTX 5060 graphics card
A collage of photos of me performing live music and screenshots of games I've worked on, including FTL, Subnautica Below Zero, Into the Breach, and The Darkside Detective.
An image showing the titles of nine games that I've worked on. Includes Subnautica: Below Zero, Dead Secret, FTL, The Darkside Detective, Subnautica 2, Gravity Ghost, Into the Breach, Photographs, and Generation Exile.
Leonardo DiCaprio pointing intently at something offscreen, indicating excited recognition.
Cover art for the PC game The Dig, showing three astronauts uncovering a mysterious light
Album art for FTL - Lost Ship EP - featuring a spaceship, and crew members working at a control panel. The art is made to look like weathered, as though it was lost vinyl album discovered in a vintage store.
Title screen for the 1990 NES game Solstice, featuring a wizard in blue robes holding a bubbling potion.
Email message to me from some AI cold-emailer: "Hey Ben, Checking if my message reached you. I noticed your update about Maddie's promotion- congratulations to her! It's awesome to see your team growing and thriving. Your passion for game music really shines through in everything you share."
Screenshot from FTL: Faster Than Light, showing two ships battling and FTL's UI.
The screen of my workstation, with Cubase open. Each track is colored in such a way that together they make a rainbow.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo but it says Frozen Radioactive Walmart Shrimp instead
Ben Prunty - Composer - Ben Prunty is a composer for games and has written soundtracks for FTL, Into the Breach, Subnautica Below Zero, and others. He is currently working on Subnautica 2. - 2024 Sunbloom Mentor. The image also includes a photo of Ben.
Photo of a Radio Shack TRS-80 PC2 Pocket Computer. It's a silver device roughly the size and shape of a VHS tape, with a single line LCD screen and a small qwerty keyboard.
Photo of the 8-inch Piccolo N150 laptop
"Calling for Mentors - Now accepting Mentor applications for the Sunbloom Media Arts Center Full Bloom Mentorship Program. Please apply by August 9th"
"Calling for Mentors - Now accepting Mentor applications for the Sunbloom Media Arts Center Full Bloom Mentorship Program. Please apply by August 9th."
Title card for the educational series Voyage of the Mimi
Agent Mulder, from the X-Files, talking on a phone, presumably talking to ICE about aliens.
A timestamp from an mp3 file with the date Friday, September 22, 2000.