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!

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!

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 🪞

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)

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.

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 (!)