That live musician would be the incredible Andy Lin! With killer support from Zac Zinger on xiao + flutes and Isaac Pérez on violin 🎶
Mark Benis
@markbenis.bsky.social
game dev + composer 💀 AiliA, Wishfarers, Rosewater, Lamplight City, Once Upon a Jester, Everybody Wham Wham linktr.ee/markbenis
Music from games like Elden Ring and Dark Souls with their intricate orchestration, huge sound, surprisingly delicate moments... that's me. Getting to explore that style would be a total dream project. If you're a dev looking for a dark, epic soundtrack -- let's chat!
Little peak at what @clarkaboud.bsky.social and I have been writing for @squiddershins.bsky.social upcoming RPG game Wishfarers!
Making this was harder than writing my whole chiptune album 💀 Album art I commissioned from Ajmal Rizni, animated by myself
Get ROSEWATER and LAMPLIGHT CITY together in the World of Vespuccia Bundle! Two narrative adventures where your choices shape the story set in an alternate 19th century. Both games for less than $20 during the Steam Summer Sale! store.steampowered.com/bundle/50641...
There's an Elden Ring fan game for the Game Boy?! Shoutout to the dev shin for making it, I love pixel art/chiptune aesthetics mixed with recent games and you can tell a lot of heart went into it!
You can hear this and all the rest of Mark’s amazing score in Rosewater, currently 25% off on Steam (and pick up the OST while you’re at it) store.steampowered.com/bundle/51976...
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Sometimes all you need is one fab musician to carry a whole track. For me that's Zac Zinger 🪈
You see them looking at you from the haligtree you best turn around 😶🌫️
Sometimes all you need is one fab musician to carry a whole track. For me that's Zac Zinger 🪈
Sometimes wish I lived in the alternate reality where Elden Ring was made in the 90s
Really cool to see Rosewater win Best Audio, Best Programming, Best Visuals and Best Game(!!) at the 2025 AGS Awards! Big shoutout to @clarkaboud.bsky.social @brookeferdmusic.bsky.social Noah Kellman, Isaac Pérez Riera, and Zac Zinger who played on the soundtrack and to the game’s amazing cast 🤠
AiliA is out! 🪞 So grateful to Jingyu Sui, Andy Lin, Isaac Pérez Riera and Zac Zinger for their incredible musicianship on display in this soundtrack. AiliA is available on Steam and you can find the soundtrack on your usual suspects + Bandcamp! Links in bio 🪞
Very excited to be part of a panel at AdventureX with @jdwasabi.bsky.social, @thomasregin.bsky.social and @paulzmmermann.bsky.social moderated by Seoirse Dunbar! We’ll be talking game audio for adventure games, happening today 4:15pm if you’re around #AdvX25
Super excited to share that @clarkaboud.bsky.social and I are writing music for Wishfarers 💫 Easy to be inspired by what @squiddershins.bsky.social is making and what a perfect game for us to join forces on! Lots more synths/8-bit + guitar on the way
NEW GAME REVEAL - Wishfarers! ⭐ Play explosive RPG battles with destructible environments and streamlined platformer movement. ⭐ Customize characters with 7 classes, over 100 abilities, and many magical socks. ⭐ Explore a whimsical world of falling stars and lost wishes.
Had such a great time chatting with Josh! Covered so many fun topics that we got to really dig into, keep an eye out for part 2
For this week's podcast chat, I spoke with @markbenis.bsky.social about composing music for games, and the best ways for designers to get the most out of hiring a composer for their games and part 2 will be going up in a few days youtu.be/mfK7TopKdhQ #indiegamedev
New haul of Jeff comics! He always has the best expressions 😋😱😬
If you're a fan of adventure games Rosewater should def be on your list! Had the pleasure writing my own take on a Western soundtrack and the world-building here is some of the finest out there
Rosewater, my Wild West adventure game, has been out nearly 4 months and has been very well-received! But I also feel like it’s reached a fraction of its potential audience. If you can spare a repost and help spread the word, it would be greatly appreciated! www.grundislav.games/Rosewater.html
this is me today really taken by the response to my Jeff music, appreciate all the wholesome comments!
As part of writing an original theme song for Jeff the Land Shark, I also wrote some music for my favorite Jeff comic: Jeff the Magnanimous! (music ideas w/ comic panels below)
I wrote a theme song for Jeff the Land Shark 🦈 This is what happens when a musician plays a bit too much Jeff in Marvel Rivals
Across the Frontier was one of my favorite pieces to write for Rosewater by @grundislav.games, here notated out! Kept most of the parts pretty simple to let everything breathe + play off each other, and Zac Zinger absolutely ran with it to make that shakuhachi part sound SO smooth.
Absolute dream to get to record with the FAMES orchestra! Little sneak peek of something I've been working on, coming soon... 🦈
Little snippet from our choir session yesterday! Amazing to be reunited with Angel Mannion for some good ole recording -- we did Down Among the Dead Men together from Lamplight City back in the day with engineer Chris Hobson and some singers even returning (!)
started the day early with a casual 4 am choir session ☀️ had some truly fantastic singers, def made the time difference worth it!