Ben Chandler

@threeohfour.bsky.social

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I make games! Known for Old Skies, Expelled!, Nighthawks, Unavowed, Technobabylon, Blackwell Epiphany, Shardlight, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator and more. :)

A green sketchbook with two metal clips on top of it.
Mrs Elton from Emma talking WAY TOO MUCH.
Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
Ballpoint pen sketches of Frank Churchill, Emma Woodhouse and Mr Woodhouse from Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’.
A lovestruck Mr. Elton declaring that he must travel to London immediately for a haircut, while a scornful Emma remarks that there is an air of foppery and nonsense in this, of which she cannot approve.
Nic asking me about Alien Logic above a copy of Alien Logic in the box.
A stock Adobe Express Happy Holidays card with Caius Cosades from Morrowind where the photo should be.
Two Fender Telecasters. One is red and very beautiful. One is white and very beautiful.
Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds
An OpenLoco screenshot, showing trains, planes, trucks and trams servicing various towns and industries.
A screenshot of Age of Empires, the mouse over text for a whale reads “Fish - whale”
To use an attribute to show that attributes are not attributes is not as good as using a nonattribute to show that attributes are not attributes. To use a horse to show that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse,? Heaven and earth are one attribute; the ten thousand things are one horse.
Me wearing a brown corduroy jacket and waistcoat, holding a guitar in coloured lights, making a stupid face.
Four characters in a temple. The first summons an orb of energy, the second turns to look at him. The third points and talks angrily and the fourth flips through pages of a holy book.
Product image of a machine with the text “Automatic slicing and bagging line - With automatic bags closing - Up to 40/42 bags per minute”
A charmingly hand drawn screenshot of a role playing game, in which a rhino, a reptile(?), a strange blobbly thing and a duck attack an angry mouse with a sword and a pink skivvy.
A screenshot from Gilt, a point and click adventure game. A wraith among many stone idols. It says “The fabric is unsettled here”.
Two notebooks. The top one has its bookmark ribbon only 20 pages into the book. The bottom one has its bookmark ribbon nearly at the end of the book.
Clue: Famous scientist not off after amphibian Answer: Newton
A desk showing the text adventure Enchanter, with manual, notebook and snacks.
A screenshot from Abe’s Oddysee.
A nice hardback notebook with handwritten notes, border designs and sketches in the gaps. The notes are for a game of Age of Wonders 4.
Screenshot of an adventure game. A man stands in the clearing of a mushroom forest, looking at a pomegranate.
A bass player and guitarist standing next to each other on stage in smoke and coloured light.
PC game boxes: Baldur’s Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer Rollercoaster Tycoon Pharaoh Jagged Alliance 2 C&C Tiberian Sun Planescape: Torment Discworld Noir Age of Wonders European Air War Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri The Longest Journey Might & Magic VII: For Blood and Honor Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings SimCity 3000
An International 976 Turbo tractor with a fresh coat of red paint. I was asked to repaint the ‘Turbo’ logo in the same lettering as the original logo.
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy, Lives of Bitter Rain - Adrian Tchaikovsky, Heaven’s Vault III: The Flood - Jon Ingold, Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson, The Book of Love - Kelly Link, The Epic of Gilgamesh - some old Sumerian scribe I guess, On the Road - Jack Kerouac, A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett, Etidorhpa - John Uri Lloyd, The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories - Arthur Machen
‘Really, Dyson, I am very glad to hear it. Of course, I oppose your argument, whatever it may be; but if you would be good enough to tell me of your adventure, I should be delighted.’
Me playing guitar with long curly hair and a black tank top.
Box cover of the Infocom adventure Plundered Hearts.
I gently pet a bobtail lizard with my finger while it tastes the air with its tongue.
A colourful alien world features a cracked moon in a cloudy sky, which leads down to a valley where an old bearded man, a pilgrim with a pack and bedroll on his back and a small, stout lizard fellow are hanging out together near large glowing fungi, a raggedy tent, and a small cooking pot over a fire.
A man in traveller’s clothing and a small, stout lizard man in a waistcoat stand on the overgrown ruins of a train platform on an alien planet. The following dialogue options are visible on screen: 1. You shouldn’t say “could of”. It’s supposed to be “could’ve”. It’s a contraction - short for “could have”. 2. (It doesn’t bother you that much - let the mistake slide) 3. (It bothers you very much but you only just met him and you don’t want to be one of THOSE people)
An open notebook, two bottles of ink and three fountain pens sit nearby. The left page has notes from an ongoing Age of Wonders 4 game, the right page has notes from an ongoing Farthest Frontier game. There are various illustrations and border decorations in the margins.
A notebook with a frog on it, three pens, and two bottles of ink.
A notebook with a frog on it, three pens, and two bottles of ink.
Nekron the Risen, an evil skull-faced overlord in Age of Wonders 4 saying “I usually consider others pawns, to be used as I see fit. But you, Starsmith Fangir, mar well be more than that.”
A note that says “Dawnwatch will burn for their insolence! Save Imperium to recruit Pantheon hero”
A giant, eldritch lost wizard unit from Age of Wonders 4, with its morale listed as ‘very low’
A windows 11 folder with the title “I am going insane”
A sandwich, thermos of coffee, and segmented grapefruit sitting next to a canvas backpack on a lichen-covered granite rock in the middle of a scrubby clearing.
A picnic blanket under the shade of a tree by a creek. On the blanket is a pencil case and sketchbook, a copy of the novel The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, a vacuum flask with a cup of coffee, a grapefruit sliced into six wedges, and an extra large piece of fruitcake (I deserve it, I walked 14km today).
An adventure game screen with a giant animal skull that leads to a cave. The top half is the sketch, the bottom half is the finished backdrop paint.
A close up photo of budding leaves. They are spiky and hairy, almost like alien limbs in appearance.
A science fiction LEGO ice mobile, with many bright, translucent orange parts all over it.
A man stands in a cave full of fungus, holding his arm out to a device connected to a glowing bridge of a translucent orange material.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Two small figures in a mushroom forest
A bobtail lizard sleeping on the pavement in the sunlight.
A picture of a knight fighting a snail, which is a thumbnail for a video called “The Middle Ages Obsession With Fighting Snails…”