iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The joys of living in Ireland.

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Waiting on my board games to arrive... oh and all my other stuff

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

As fonts are so important in visual novels, I have added a font downloader and browser to the game engine. You can now download and manage fonts directly in your project, and also just add your own. #gamedev #indiegames #visualnovel #narrative #gameengine #indiegames #vn #vndev

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Beta 3 of #ProjectMammut is just around the corner, This is a big one, you will be able to make scenes using a scene editor, and build a playable project at the end. #gamedev #indiegames #visualnovel #narrative #gameengine #indiegames #vn #vndev

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

After months of work I am finally tackling Mammut's build pipeline. Making a game engine is one thing, but have it spit out a working program at the other end another. Just working through the errors one at a time. #gamedev #indiegames #visualnovel #narrative #gameengine #indiegames #vn #vndev

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

You now have the ability to import your old twine (.twee) files into Mammut.. This should make porting projects much easier. #gamedev #indiegames #visualnovel #narrative #gameengine #indiegames #vn #vndev

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

New update, A HIGE over hall to the windows and file system, now you can open multiple widows of the same type up. and you can open multiple chapters at once. This make things a lot more flexible when you are working. Characters are now created as files now, so you can manage them easier too.

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

More core systems are in, this time dialog and warning systems. Not as exiting but still important. If you or someone you know is making a visual novel game, I would love to hear from you and ask some questions. #gamedev #indiegames #visualnovel #narrative #gameengine #indiegames #vn #vndev

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Reworking of some core systems that lay at the heart of #projectMammut such as notifications and context menus. While not the most exciting, making things modular helps with developing the exiting things later! #gamedev #indiegames #visualnovel #narrative #gameengine

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Beta 2 of #ProjectMammut is out for testing, New file management, New launcher, fixes, and updates to the programming language and more. Come help out with development at www.projectmammut.com #gamedev #indiegames #visualnovel #narrative #gameengine

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

First night in Seoul, it's got a nice vibe.

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Last day in Melbourne. What a journey.

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Spending the last few nights in Melbourne at the Grand hotel. It's going to be weird saying goodbye to the city I've lived in half my life.

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The most liminal hotel I've ever been in. Spending my last few days in Melbourne in the grand hotel.

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Meeting with @luisvsm.bsky.social today and started development on the build and hosting server for #projectmammut While it's early days, the basics are done! #indiedev #gamedev #narritivegames

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

With Beta 2 of #ProjectMammut around the corner, I wanted to share a bunch of new quality of life features for all #narrativeGames developers. #indiegames #visualNovel #writing www.projectmammut.com Feature 3: Broken links can be auto built into new nodes

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

What are we we all working on today? Show me your game babies!!!! #gamedev #indiegames #gameEditor #showandtell

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Reworking the game engine with OPSF is going well. Lots of UI items updated. I also had a big chat with someone who will be working on the online build and hosting pipeline for me, so that is exciting. progress!!! #gamedev #indiegames #visualnovel #narrative #gameengine

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

First build from my game engine.. Yes it's very broken, audio doesn't work, sprites aren't loading, fonts aren't.... fonting. But it's building! #indiegame #gamedev #narritivegames #visualnovel #projectmammut

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Meet my engine's Mascot: Mangomo Kenaga Work continues today with work on the build system to get games out of the editor. There will still be a long way to go, but progress is happening at a good pace. If you want to help test the engine, let me know! #gamedev #indiegaming #visualnovel #animegirl

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Lots of progress today, File manager is in, and the audio manager are in, they look good and only have a lot of errors! #projectmammut #gamedev #indiegames #visualnovels

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Are you they type of person who writes 'Test1' 'Test2' 'Test3' when testing, or someone who mashes the keyboard Por qué no los dos? #gameDev #projectmammut

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Learning how OPFS works in modern browsers so that Project Mammut can save and manage entire project folders and files. It's a big learning curve about what browsers can and can't do these days, but overall I am happy with how it is looking. #projectmammut #visualnovels #gameDev

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

There are new features going in every day. Today I am focusing on the logic inside of the narrative flows, allowing for conditional statements and variables #projectmammut #gamedev #twine #visualvovels

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Doing some gesture drawings to improve my skills. #gesture #digitalart

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Adding a bit of "Culture" into the world

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Game one of this year is well underway. I have decided to make all the art myself, which is talking a while, but it is coming along well. More details soon

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Ben Naulls @noweekend.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

As I seemed to have gained hundreds of followers over the past 24 hours, I thought I would introduce myself. My name is Ben, I specialise in education through play and have worked on a number of games for many clients. I also teach, mentor, and work in and around the Australian game dev scene.