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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

In case anyone stumbles across this profile in future, I've paused posting to Bluesky just to reduce the number of socials I'm posting on.

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

So it took about 1 hour to get all the building data of the UK, so the world should be fun. Still, very impressed with tools that are out there to get a whole bunch of mapping data

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Small recap of where we were last month

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Happy New Year Y'all! Last month was the holidays so surely there's not too much we could've done right? Right? #gaming #gamedev #zombie youtu.be/WfSbs5ZXQ9g

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I'm Making A Real Life Zombie Game - 90 DAYS LATER

YouTube video by Benji Blackstone

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Just finished recording December's video, so hopefully we'll be able to get the editing done by early Jan

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Real-Life Zombie Game - Multiplayer Test Number 2 #gaming #gamedev

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Got slightly further with trying to figure out how to create my own maptile server. Honestly the first step is just getting this new map library working, if it does then the next would be getting the tiles

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Trying to finish this before GTA VI, just for the bants

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

We've reached Day 60 in our quest to make a real-life zombie game! Still a long ways to go but November was a pretty packed month! Looking forward to the holidays 😅 youtu.be/4tm-ups_dwk #gaming #gamedev #zombie

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I'm Making A Real Life Zombie Game - 60 DAYS LATER

YouTube video by Benji Blackstone

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

This has been a pretty productive month in terms of development progress for the real-life zombie game, now i just gotta edit the full video together by next week 😅 #gaming #gamedev #zombie

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This is the most un-spoilery photo I can post about what happened today, but I was able to test a new mode for the zombie game in the most unexpected of circumstances. Really excited for the new video in few weeks!

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Oh that's quite inspiring, great job! Your videos are awesome!

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Testing out multiplayer took some time the past month, but I really don't see this game without it. #gaming #gamedev #indiedev

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Congrats! Those are some cool looking sprites by the way 😎. How'd you put them together?

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

At a weird crossroads, so many routes to explore and they all seem like the correct ones.

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I'm Making a Real Life Zombie Game - 28 Days Later, got a new video filled with updates and plans and other such stuff! I'm quite excited to see where this challenge leads 😅 #gaming #gamedev

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Speaking of Multiplayer we did get this far, so far #gaming #gamedev #zombie

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The person I was meant to test multiplayer with today unfortunately couldn't make it, but thankfully I came up with a 'creative' solution

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Honestly, didn't even know if I was meant to be walking down here, but at least the game still seemed to work this far out

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

This might take a few months 😅 #gaming #gamedev . Fun challenge tho

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I swear if these changes suddenly make multiplayer performance actually performant that'd be so cool.

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Wow, that looked like a lovely location! Thanks for sharing this. I've not been to Vienna, but is that just how most large buildings there are 😅? I definitely relate to the nervs of having people playing/trying something you're working on. But good job on getting out there!

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Got it working on IOS so that's fun, next goal is to see if I can host the mapping data in my own servers.

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

A fair amount of work ahead, but fingers crossed it's actually super easy and I get to go to bed early more often 😂

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I'm gonna actually try and turn one of my prototypes into a real thing! The journey is gonna be quite tricky, but this video marks the first step. Have a beautiful day y'all! #gaming #gamedev youtu.be/BTRBh7nD4Sk

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I'm Making A Real-Life Zombie Sim

YouTube video by Benji Blackstone

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Heya, I have some fun news! (which I should probably post on my main feed) youtu.be/BTRBh7nD4Sk But I'm gonna try and see if I can make that zombie app real 👍🏿, it'll probably take me awhile but this video covers the first step.

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I'm Making A Real-Life Zombie Sim

YouTube video by Benji Blackstone

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Currently planning out the architecture for the next project. Seems a bit crazy for me to achieve, but I think the hardest part is just gonna be picking the one chocolate out of a number of different giant boxes and sending it.

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Just had a look at the Playstore/Apple store processes to get something released and it does not seem easy...

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The Multiplayer Battle Royale Prototype is real! - www.youtube.com/@BenjiBlackstone

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It's interesting, when I started YouTube a year ago I never thought that I'd be making real-life game prototypes. I thought I'd just be making funny videos 😅 So I don't really know what's coming next 😂 But I'll keep the idea of improving the safety of the zombie game in mind 👍🏿

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Small update on the real-life multiplayer battle royale prototype #gaming #gamedev

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Although, I can also suggest this app Zombies Run, if you haven't heard of it. It's want inspired RLZombie, though it's much more novel-ish than interactive game. But that makes it waaaaay safer than my prototype since you don't have to look at the screen. play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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ZRX: Zombies Run + Marvel Move – Apps on Google Play

Epic Fitness Adventures

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Hello! And thanks for the compliments! Apologies if I misled you, most of my projects are prototypes and things I was trying out for fun. Unfortunately because of the dangers (kids hit by cars), which I haven't figured out yet, I'd hadn't planned to release these ones publicly.

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Ok, I've been afk awhile. But the whole next episode has been filmed! All that's left it a bit of scripting and editing the video together.

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Dang multiplayer games are really difficult, I may have to do another mini-video.

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I kinda wonder what a frag montage would look like with this #gaming #gamedev

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

So I'm looking at different articles about mobile multiplayer and stumbled across this one. What I found interesting is that in their implementation they only updated the server with player health and position, not the bullets. The clients seem to handle those. supabase.com/blog/flutter...

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How to build a real-time multiplayer game with Flutter Flame

Build a real-time multiplayer game using Flutter, Flame, and Supabase realtime.

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It's looking like I'm gonna have to go back to using websockets for the multiplayer. It's gonna be really weird trying to get this working, but I'm hoping I can take some of the experience from last time.

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Oh I see! Ok, now I understand, this is even more impressive! Since you're using this to try to make a chat app, do you think it could even be used to like do a chess/checkers game across phones, but without needing a server? That would be pretty interesting.

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Oh that seems interesting! As someone who understands nothing about this, is this the normal way of trying to create a chat app? Or, is the way you're doing it quite different? If so, is it more for the challenge or is there a specific reason you wanted to do it this way?

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Yea that's a good point. I've been trying to tone down on the 'rushing to get things out within x time', which does unfortunately reduce the number of things I can post. But ultimately me running out of motivation to do anything would reduce what I can post to 0 😅

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Now to try and stalk some multiplayer devs so I can try and begin to get a basic understanding of how to actually do something like that.

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

This time round, we actually got it working! Full video out now! #gaming #gamedev -> Channel link: www.youtube.com/@BenjiBlacks...

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Benji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Ok ok i lied, i lied 😅. It's gonna be tomorrow.

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