Ben Kelly

@beeseekay

Just a lil guy making lil games Co-founder of @capscollective.com, based in Australia Letterboxd: boxd.it/2tZXZ

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Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Jun 24

I held a very friendly snake recently 🐍

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Jun 17

The first single from the interactive album I worked on is out, the full playable release is coming soon! open.spotify.com/track/2TTstB... #unreal #indiedev #gamedev #art

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Jun 16

I got a surprise delivery all the way from Switzerland of the first edition of the Smile Baby vinyl! I worked on the interactive music videos for this project, so it’s so cool to see my name printed on the inside cover 🪩

The front cover of the album with some included postcards

The vinyl and backside with the track listing

The inside art with credits and special thanks

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Jun 16

Game of Shrooms 2026 was a great time! I got to meet so many great artists and enjoy giving away my creations in a hunt around a park! I’ve already started planning to make even more next year 🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫

Some woodcarved mushrooms arranged in a fairy circle around a sign

Polymer clay mushrooms with eyes hidden in a garden patch

Me and my partner holding some fluffy mushrooms we found

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· May 29

The mutations have begun

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· May 28

Obsessed with this keyboard layout from the first Iron Man

A touchpad keyboard with a series of cryptic icons in two curved layouts

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· May 23

I made some babies from the off cut pieces of wood, soon I’ll have enough for a full fairy circle

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· May 21

They’re multiplying…

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· May 20

Some progress pics

Wood block with the bottom half cut out to make a stem

The same block carved into the shape of a mushroom

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· May 20

I carved this cute wooden mushroom yesterday 🍄‍🟫

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· May 9

I've been having a lot of fun playing with Unreal's Fracture tools to make these light reactive statue for an interactive music video project I've been working on

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· May 8

Well I’ll be

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Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Apr 18

Today I had a trip on the ferry from Circular Quay to Parramatta with a group of game devs for the Alt Games Festival, and made a game during the trip! It was a great time, and a great games festival, which is on tomorrow if you missed it! capscollective.itch.io/ferry-game-jam-simulator

The group of developers at Parramatta Wharf

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Feb 20

Watching Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie in theatre was one of the most charged cinema crowds I’ve ever been apart of, Matt Johnson doesn’t miss not miss.

Poster for the Australian theatre run of Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie with the screening locations, and a sticker that reads ‘I saw Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie and all I got was this sticker’

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Feb 16

I was tidying today and was reminded of one of my favourite books in my library: The Communist Manifesto (But Tony Hawk Can Keep His Stuff) Truely the canon way to read economic literature

Book Cover for ‘The Communist Manifesto But Tony Hawk Can Keep His Stuff’ by Dick Cody Heese, with Karl Marx in a half pipe riding a skateboard with Tony Hawk doing a sick trick in the background.

The first page, an excerpt reads:

1. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers to be itself a Power.
2. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.
3. The aforementioned Manifesto should allow skateboarding legend Tony Hawk to retain his private property in honor of the totally gnarly air he has grabbed throughout his career.

An excerpt reads “It has agglomerated production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. However, it's arguably OK for Tony Hawk to have some of this property given that he landed the first ever 900 and because he seems like a standup guy.”

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Feb 13

Got a bit carried away doing some concept art for a terrarium for the collectable bugs in our game, and have subsequently gotten really excited about the idea

A round glass bottle containing a terrarium with pink sand, orange rocks, red cactus with green needles, and filled with blue flies

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Feb 9

Lookin’ at you Chants of Sennaar and Seance of Blake Manor

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Feb 9

Prayer to designers, please stop killing the pace of your great narrative puzzle game by randomly adding block sliding puzzle for no reason. I played Gridlocked a ton as a kid, I never need to play it again.

The board game GridLocked, featuring coloured cars on a grid, and cards showing different arrangements

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Jan 29

Finally got some proper NPC character models working, with some AI smart objects for them to sit and check out the market stalls

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Jan 2

In my latest attempt in wood carving, I made this sweet little crabbie for a belated Friendsmas Secret Santa 🦀

A small model of a crab carved from wood, with black eyes made from polymer clay, in a shiny acrylic coating

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Dec 9

Y...yeah, I know. That's what your tool is for

One of the slides in the recap reads "Your top activity?" "Strategy planning"

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Dec 8

Look, I get that if you're a software engineer and data nerd like me working at Miro or Discord or YouTube or wherever, you don't want Spotify having all the fun, but this trend has to stop.

An email I recieved asking me to check out my Miro 2025 Recap.
Decorations up top including emojs and tags that read 'Miro AI', 'Prototype', 'Timeline' and 'You'.

"your miro Recap 25"
"Unwrap your year on the Canvas"
"The ideas. The teamwork. The brainstorms that led to breakthroughs. We wrapped it all up so you can see how you got great done in 2025. Ready to see your year in review?"

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Nov 27

In my final day of preparation for the Big Sand live show. Everything’s coming together exactly when it always would, the last minute.

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Nov 26

One of the cool parts of this show is that the Unreal project is controlled with Open Sound Control, so all of the show cues are technically midi notes that can be triggered through the rest of our audio setup.

An Unreal datatable of show cues, with a number and corresponding midi note

The OSC (Open Sound Control) plugin enabled in the unreal project

The blueprint showing the creation of the OSC listener and the start of the event for receiving and processing midi notes

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Nov 25

The Big Sand desert party is happening this Saturday at the Red Rattler in Sydney, I'm super excited to show off what we've been working on 🏜️ events.humanitix.com/big-sand-des...

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Nov 11

Decided to use a free day to complete my Flinders St Station model. I had some spare pieces from another kit to fix the flag

A complete Flinders St Station Nanoblocks model, with the flag displaying up top replaced with the Australian Aboriginal Flag

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Oct 30

Great work as usual, Google AI

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Oct 23

In Sydney end of November? The virtual band Big Sand is performing live! I’ve been helping out with some of the tech behind the scenes, and I’m really excited for people to check it out! Tickets: events.humanitix.com/big-sand-des...

Poster for the Big Sand Desert Rave, at Red Rattler in Marrickville on November the 29th

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Oct 14

Waypoint Constellations this year was something special. It’s at that sweet spot where they’re able to find talented speakers from across the state, but keep the energy tight knit and the talks uniquely weird. Last night wasn’t just a night about games, it was truly about the people making them ✨

Ben Kelly@beeseekay· Oct 11

Well at least this evacuation really shows just how big PAX has gotten