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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Guava?? I barely know 'a! ...🤔

Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Ok hang on snowflakes can actually look like that?? Like to the naked eye?? Genuinely never seen them like this in the wild before

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Another clip from that upcoming #Hauntii video: making odd, ghostly bird sounds with frequency shifting. The woodpecker at the end was such a happy accident #sounddesign #gameaudio #indiedev

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Video coming soon about dynamic ambience design in #Hauntii. Here's a lil animation I made about using dot product similarity for ambience regions #gameaudio #sounddesign #gamedev

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Happy Christmas here's festive Mochi (puppy mode)

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Working on putting together a video on dynamic ambience and having way too much fun making animations for it

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

One of my favorite pieces on this whole soundtrack by @michaelkirbyward.bsky.social is this gorgeous track at the end of Eternia. It's easy to miss in-game because it only plays in this room *after* you've done what you need to do here, but what a treat if you stay a while #gameaudio #vgm

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I drew my dog looking forlorn out the train window

Ink and watercolor sketch of a tricolor corgi resting his head on my shoulder and looking out the window

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Chicago thunderstorms hit different (Marked as graphic just cause flashing lights)

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This apple is honestly one of my favorite pieces I've ever made

Pixel art made to resemble a watercolor painting of a green apple

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Yeah it caught me off guard too. Some crazy images of walls of dust in other parts of the state 😬

Tweet from the NWS Chicago Twitter account. Images show clouds of dust covering a neighborhood. Text reads: "For reference here is what the Dust Storm moving through the Bloomington, IL area looks like. This dust storm is heading towards southern Ford and Iroquois counties! Use caution if traveling! #ILwx #INwx"

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Haven't in a while, but I used to record my corgi a lot, especially as a puppy. Got him playing with a doorstop once

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Arrived at the version on the left within an hour or two, and then spent double that time with little tweaks and experiments to try and lean more into the watercolor aspect. Still can't decide which version I like best, I change my mind every time I look at them!

A bunch of slightly different versions of the above pixel art

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Feeling incredibly fortunate after an amazing GDC. We were absolutely floored by the response to Hauntii—it was such a joy and honor to talk to everyone who came by our booth, and meet so many wonderful people. Coming away with an IGF and a GANG award was beyond my wildest dreams. I'm so grateful 💚

The flabbergasted Hauntii team celebrating our IGF win by gesturing in amazement at our award. Present here are Ki, Michael, Ben, and Myriaha.

Holding our GANG award. It reads:

G.A.N.G.
23rd ANNUAL AWARDS - 2025
BEST NEW ORIGINAL IP AUDIO
Hauntii

Celebrating with the team with a bottle of sake. Cheers!

Showing Hauntii at the booth in the IGF pavillion.

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Love the look of this game in development by @saminton.bsky.social so I took some clips and put a lil sound design to 'em! I could sit in this vibe endlessly—absolutely love the style here. #indiedev #gameaudio #sounddesign

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I'll be there! This vid of my dog is NOT relevant but I'm putting it here anyway

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

That little rainbow caterpillar is so good for clacky noises! I've got the same one in my foley collection

Zoom-in crop from Matthew's picture of some toys piled up in the back, including a rainbow segmented caterpillar toy

The same caterpillar toy, but this one's mine

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Extremely honored to see Hauntii among the nominees for the Game Audio Network Guild Awards. Hauntii was my first time in charge of sound on a full-size project, so I was learning a lot for the first time... To have that work recognized among such amazing company is so deeply validating 💚 #gameaudio

Best New Original IP Audio
“Hauntii” (2024) (Firestoke Games, Moonloop Games)

“The Star Named EOS” (2024) (PLAYISM, Silver Lining Studio)

“Mullet Madjack” (2024) (HAMMER95, Epopeia Games)

“1000xRESIST” (2024) (Fellow Traveller, Sunset Visitor)

“EcoGnomix” (2024) (Untold Tales, Irox Games)

“Reverse: 1999” (2024) (Bluepoch Games Co., Ltd.)

Best Audio for an Indie Game
“Mullet Madjack” (2024) (HAMMER95, Epopeia Games)

“Tales of Kenzera: ZAU” (2024) (EA Originals, Surgent Studios)

“Sorelle” (2024) (USC Games, Team Sorelle)

“The Outlast Trials” (2024) (Red Barrels)

“Alone in the Dark” (2024) (THQ Nordic, Pieces Interactive)

“Hauntii” (2024) (Firestoke Games, Moonloop Games

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Here's a quick and dirty breakdown of the stretching sound in FMOD. The event starts when you haunt the creature, and stops when you unhaunt. Normalized height and speed parameters control pitch, volume, scatterer instrument spawn rate, and everything else.

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Hauntii is full of interactive hauntable objects, like this stretchy guy that adjusts the roller coaster track. The game is basically a huge collection of little toys to play with like this, so a lot of the audio design was about the little details in these kinds of interactions #indiedev #gameaudio

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Hauntii's been out for a while now and I wanna start sharing more of the sound design work I did on it. I'll start with this collection of shattering crystals and chains—turns out there's a lot of em! #gameaudio #indiedev

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Here's a fun sound mockup I did a while back! This is Lightspeed Lina, in development by CornflowerBlue on Twitter (I don't think they're on here atm). Not official audio, just a redesign I did using WIP footage from their Twitter. Lots of stuff I'm proud of in this one! #gameaudio #sounddesign

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

One of the really fun parts of making this game is reimagining how classic platformer mechanics work if you're allowed to stick to any surface. For example, conveyor belts don't just push you left or right, but rather clockwise or counter-clockwise! #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I've been fascinated with the idea of ceiling movement in platformers ever since Ikiki's Nikujin in 2006. Nearly 20 years later and I still think this is fairly unexplored territory!

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

You can do this at different angles, for shallow horizontal jumps or tall vertical jumps, depending on what you need!

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Ben Seavello @benseavello.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My game explores movement on all surfaces of platforms, undersides included. One of the more powerful movement options is the ceiling corner jump, which lets you maneuver around the bottoms of platforms even when there are spikes on the wall. #gamemaker #gamedev #indiedev

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