Ben Chandler

@threeohfour

I make games! Known for Old Skies, Expelled!, Nighthawks, Unavowed, Technobabylon, Blackwell Epiphany, Shardlight, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator and more. :)

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Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 12d

A sketchbook page in green ballpoint pen, with the text “Thursday July 30, My last page for a couple of days, as I am having a break from art while going camping”, with sketches of heads, tents, and some Arabesque style border doodles. A multicolour pen that’s nearly out of green ink is visible.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 13d

Techy UI experiment sketches in green ballpoint pen.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 13d

A sketchbook page of lizards in green ballpoint pen, with some unrelated commentary on Aristotle’s concept of gods - one suggesting that “A human being on their own, outside of society, would not be human, they would be a beast or a God” and one suggesting that “God is pure, active thought thinking itself”.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 13d

Ballpoint pen sketch of a cartoon owl saying ‘hoot’, the top of the page says ‘I feel like most owls (not all) would opt for a typeface with serifs’ and the bottom of the page says ‘If owls typically hoot, most other birds seem to holler’.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 13d

A sketchbook page of aviator sunglasses drawn in green ballpoint pen.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 14d

A green ballpoint sketch of a lady surrounded by arcane lines. The text says “I drew this while waiting for the water for my cup of tea to boil. I am writing this note while the tea is steeping. It is still raining”

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 14d

Simple portrait sketches done in green ballpoint pen.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 14d

A page of zombie sketches in green ballpoint pen.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 15d

A sketch of Brendan Fraser’s character from The Mummy in green ballpoint pen with the text “Still thinking about this film after rewatching it a week ago, sketched this in my afternoon tea break.”

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 15d

I keep reminding myself it’s okay if it looks crap, it’s a sketchbook, sketch.

Various portraits sketched in green ballpoint pen.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 15d

A sketchbook page of elves in green ballpoint pen.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 15d

A sketchbook page of unfriendly looking men done in green ballpoint pen.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 16d

A double sketchbook page of witch heads in green ink, with a nearly empty ballpoint green pen in the middle.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 16d

A double page sketchbook spread of orcs, goblins & trolls.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 16d

Sketchy figures of Morte, The Nameless One, Annah, Dak’kon and Nodrom from Planescape: Torment.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· 28d

I like the green colour of this sketchbook. I thought I might fill it entirely with green sketches. I hoped this pen would have enough ink, but after a couple of weeks that seems unlikely.

A green sketchbook with two metal clips on top of it.

A sketchbook page with a tractor, a helicopter, and a tugboat. Next to it is a 4 colour ballpoint pen in which only 1/4 of the green ink remains.

A closeup of a sketchbook which is 2/3 filled, and a pen with only 1/4 of its green ink remaining.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Jun 23

Okay I drew this idiot.

Mrs Elton from Emma talking WAY TOO MUCH.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Jun 23

Volume II of Emma ends with such a belter of a line that Austen must have sat back in her chair with the biggest of smirks after having written it.

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Jun 23

I added Mr Woodhouse to my page of Emma sketches, I love this old clown.

Ballpoint pen sketches of Frank Churchill, Emma Woodhouse and Mr Woodhouse from Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Jun 22

I’ve been reading Jane Austen’s Emma.

A lovestruck Mr. Elton declaring that he must travel to London immediately for a haircut, while a scornful Emma remarks that there is an air of foppery and nonsense in this, of which she cannot approve.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Jun 10

lmao @nictringali.bsky.social

Nic asking me about Alien Logic above a copy of Alien Logic in the box.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Jun 10

A stock Adobe Express Happy Holidays card with Caius Cosades from Morrowind where the photo should be.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Jun 4

ha thanks to you and @unormal.bsky.social I log in here for a quick break from work only to see two projects I worked on right at the top of my feed, okay I get the hint I’m going back to work now

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Jun 1

Happy June, in May I drew lots of pictures, made good soups, played old games, bought a second Fender Telecaster. You can see it next to the one I already had. It is much redder. I have only played two gigs with it so far but there will be many more. Have a great month!! 🥰

Two Fender Telecasters. One is red and very beautiful. One is white and very beautiful.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· May 4

Hi everyone my Star Wars opinion is that this game should have been called Age of Empires Strikes Back.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Apr 28

An update for anybody wondering whether I still hang out with spiders and play old games…

Jagged Alliance 2 being played on a computer screen while a hunstman spider sits on the screen, just off to the left, one leg blocking part of the minimap.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Apr 25

I’ve been having such a nice time with OpenLoco lately. I loved Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion back when it came out, and this is a very fine open source implementaiton of it. It’s still so satisfying to watch my charming little transport empire operating.

An OpenLoco screenshot, showing trains, planes, trucks and trams servicing various towns and industries.

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Apr 25

I love that Cryo saw his Riverworld series of novels and how you can just have any historical figures interact in it and went “Oh shit that’s just Civilization” and went and made a bad 3D strategy game based on it. 🫡

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Apr 24

Sorry, science, but Age of Empires proves that Herman Melville was right.

A screenshot of Age of Empires, the mouse over text for a whale reads “Fish - whale”

Text from Moby-Dick: “grounds upon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: "On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, their movable eyelids, their hollow ears, penem intrantem feminam mammis lactantem," and finally,"ex lege naturae jure meritoque, "I submitted all this to my friends Simeon Macey and Charley Coffin of Nantucket, both messmates of mine in a certain voyage, and they united in the opinion that the reason set forth were altogether insufficient. Charley profanely hinted they were humbug.
Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.”

Ben Chandler@threeohfour· Apr 22

Trying to understand old functions I’ve coded: