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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Version 0.43.3 of DeadOS is now live! Added the ability to load and edit generated cities. store.steampowered.com/news/app/159...

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DeadOS - Version 0.43.3 is now live! - Steam News

Loading and Editing Saved Cities Update

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jug-hooting yokel @limusrex.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

the rest of my life is gonna be every month or 2 getting a text or pm like "hey i saw your old tweet on ____ and it had a bunch of updoots and imbeciles arguing in the comments"

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

....So VR kind of died on the vine again huh

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Version 0.43.2 of DeadOS is now live! Fixed a lot of bugs this week: store.steampowered.com/news/app/159...

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DeadOS - Version 0.43.2 is now live! - Steam News

Bug Fix Update!

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Version 0.43.1 of DeadOS is now live! Military now take over parks to make little bases of operations: store.steampowered.com/news/app/159...

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DeadOS - Version 0.43.1 is now live! - Steam News

Military squads take over parks

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Version 0.43.0 of DeadOS is now live! Overhauled the police station and cop AI! store.steampowered.com/news/app/159...

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DeadOS - Version 0.43.0 is now live! - Steam News

Police Station / Cop AI Update!

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

OK last one I need to stop playing with shaders and actually make the game

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Dark Souls is looking a little sunny today, I miss the rainy green algae vibe

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Library funding is tied to usage.

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Version 0.42.1 of DeadOS is now live! Added new city generating slider options for river/park variety! store.steampowered.com/news/app/159...

store.steampowered.com

DeadOS - Version 0.42.1 is now live! - Steam News

City Generating Options Update!

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Version 0.42.0 of DeadOS is now live! Added Hospitals + Doctors! store.steampowered.com/news/app/159...

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DeadOS - Version 0.42.0 is now live! - Steam News

Hospital Update!

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Designed, hand-crafted artificial intelligence is a thing of beauty. Efficient, interesting, emergent, an exercise in design and creativity. The words "AI" have been ruined by the creation of brute forced, environmentally disastrous, copyright infringement driven, completely uncreative grifter slop.

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm probably going to end up on a list if I go on about this too much but I love thinking about these kinds of problems! I want to see more game AI that deals with the larger scale decision making process. Not THAT AI, you know what I mean. Gods do I hate that I have to make that distinction now.

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The main factor I'm going with is body bags. If a dead body is in a body bag, it's a symbol that it's "under control", that someone is dealing with it. Unless the body bag gets up and moves of course.

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Working on hospitals / doctors / paramedics for the next update and it's making me redefine how people react to dead bodies. It's interesting the things I have to think about in this kind of work. When do you call the cops? When do you ignore a dead body? When do you realise it's a zombie?

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I think I'm going to have to come back to this to also mention the music. Hans Zimmer is great and all but I got a craving for some more Éric Serra. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMP...

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Eric Serra - Five Millenia Later

YouTube video by Eric Serra

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I probably wouldn't mind it if you didn't have to eat and drink far more frequently than you have to in real life! When you need to chug a water every 10 mins in a game it drives me mad.

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I should probably go to Develop one of these years...

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Waiting for the current visual trends of Sci-fi to end so that we can have Fifth Element style Sci-fi visuals once again

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Mathieu Kassovitz's Iconic Dance in Fifth Element

ALT: Mathieu Kassovitz's Iconic Dance in Fifth Element

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I know it's not very cool to try to define Art but I'm going to give it a shot anyway. To me, Art at it's simplest level is merely humans trying to communicate with one another. A banana taped to the wall becomes Art when the human that did it intended to communicate something with us.

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Version 0.41.1 of DeadOS is now live! Added river and bridge editing to the City Editor! store.steampowered.com/news/app/159...

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DeadOS - Version 0.41.1 is now live! - Steam News

City Editor Update Part 2

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Aww I'm so sorry Claire. I lost my fur baby nearly three years ago and it's still raw 🫂

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Benn Powell @bennpowell.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

May 2026 Sales Report! The last two months have been better than the 10 months before that combined.

DeadOS Sales Report, May 2026. Copies Sold: 238. Net Sales: $2705. Dev Revenue: $1894. Platform Cut: $811

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 30/06/2026

I feel like she, specifically, should know better

Artificial intelligence
66 Is AI an exoskeleton for the mind?
Technology that helps people do things they couldn't otherwise achieve can also lead to atrophy
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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Here's a fun read for the weekend. I spoke to @bennpowell.bsky.social about his zombie outbreak simulator DeadOS, and it turns out the best way to survive a zombie apocalypse is to be a massive coward with a gun. www.pcgamer.com/games/horror...