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Benjamin Rivers 🇨🇦
@benjaminrivers.bsky.social
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🎮 Game developer + co-founder of Toronto #indiegame studio BancyCo.
👉 BancyCo Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bancyco.bsky.social
🚑 #NeoHarborRescueSquad OUT NOW for PS5, PS4, Steam
🔀 https://linktr.ee/BenjaminRivers
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When you have no concept of personal space.

#cats #caturday #catsofbluesky
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#MIGS is doooone! 🙌 And now I hibernate until the next full moon.
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Since Neo Harbor Rescue Squad borrows so much from Trauma Centre and Wario Ware, we think it'll find a nice home on the #NintendoSwitch.
A paramedic badly performs a defibrillation technique, resulting in a humorous electrocution effect. Taken from the indie paramedic action game Neo Harbor Rescue Squad.
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Wow, it's officially been one year since our newest game, Neo Harbor Rescue Squad, launched on PlayStation and Steam. 🚑🥳 Where did the time go?

The Switch version is still en route for early 2026; just hang in there!

#indiegame #gaming
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The #MIGS adventure begins! Getting the full Montreal experience; had to clean about six inches of snow off my car this morning. ❄️
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Oh SHIT yeah it was all worth it!

#MIGS #MIGS2025 #poutine
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Finally (24 years late) watching the Canadian "classic" Jason X...

This is @superpac.bsky.social's fault!
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Bread-baking day. I think these two loaves came out well.

#cats #caturday #catsofbluesky
A black-and-white cat and a black cat cuddle next to each other on top of a grey cat tower. They're facing in opposite directions, and while squished together, they look like two loaves of bread in a pan.
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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It's Bandcamp Friday, and that means you can directly support composers of wonderful, original, video game music. 🎵

🐬 @robbyduguay.com's Neo Harbor Rescue Squad OST: robbyduguay.bandcamp.com/album/neo-ha...

🚀 Ivor Stines' Alone With You OST: 8digital.bandcamp.com/album/alone-...
Cover art for Neo Harbor Rescue Squad's original soundtrack. Features the Rescue Squad's floating headquarters at night. Cover art for the Alone With You game soundtrack, featuring the game's spacesuit-wearing protagonist.
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This week marked the 11th anniversary of our first #horror game, Home, launching on the beloved PlayStation Vita. 💖

It's surreal to see the physical Vita edition of the game going for silly prices sometimes!
The indie horror game Home is shown running on an original model PlayStation Vita portable gaming system. The player is holding it in front of a backlit set of metal stairs.
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The Montreal International Games Summit is a week away and we'll be there! We're meeting with partners and publishers about our new #horror game.

Find us on Meet To Match if you're going. 👋

@xpgaminginc.bsky.social #MIGS #gamedev
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Daylight savings time is the worst

#cats #catsofbluesky
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I love #Halloween. 😋
October 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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😭
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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@gamemaker.io Yaaaaaaaaay there are event descriptions in the Code Editor 2 drop-down now! This is going to be massively helpful. 🙏
A screenshot of the GameMaker code editor 2, showing a drop down of object events that also includes the user-written event descriptions.
October 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Instant fatality upon landing from a jump — still got it. 🥶 👌

#MKLK #MortalKombat
October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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It's heeeeeere! Happy Mortal Thursday! 🐉

#MKLK #MortalKombat
Title screen for the Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection game. Gameplay screen for Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection. It features the ninja character Sub-Zero performing a fatality.
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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My constant bad habit of mixing cases when creating variables is why I don't have friends

#gamedev #indiegame
October 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Our two story-rich #horror games are deeply discounted in the #Steam Scream sale! 🔪

Make choices, uncover dark mysteries, and scare yourself silly with these indie classics:

😱 Home: go.bancy.co/homeSteam
💀 Worse Than Death: go.bancy.co/wtdSteam

#indiegame #gaming
Steam Scream IV Sale key art featuring the art for indie horror game Home. Steam Scream IV Sale key art featuring the art for indie horror game Worse Than Death.
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Eleven years ago today, our surprise-hit 2D #horror adventure game Home launched on PS4. Did you know it was the first GameMaker game on PlayStation?

Both @gamemaker.io and @playstation.com were incredibly supportive. It has done very well on Sony's console.

#indiegame #gamedev #gaming
The title screen for the 2D indie game Home is shown on a PS4 console demo station inside of an EB Games retail store in Toronto, Canada. A demo station of a PS4 console displays a carousel of games, which includes the 2D indie horror game Home.
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Fun random Monday #gamedev tip: someone made a great tool for @gamemaker.io devs to visually test blend modes out with your assets: dragonite.itch.io/blend-mode-p...

Extremely helpful!

#gamemaker #indiedev
October 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Special thanks to EGM (and especially @superpac.bsky.social !) for keeping that PS2 coverage going leading up to the console's launch. It was such a fun time.
October 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Oh wow, it's the 26th anniversary of the North American launch of the PS2!

I've never been more excited for a piece of consumer electronics before or since. The phat PS2 and its cobalt blue box will live in my brain forever.

#gaming #retrogaming
October 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Some pre-Halloween game hunting led me to find a mint, complete, Japanese copy of Silent Hill on PS1. 😲

Looks gorgeous on the game room CRT; just as I remember it. 😌

#retrogaming #gaming
Front cover for the Konami horror adventure game Silent Hill on the PlayStation one. It's the original Japanese release. Back cover for the Konami horror adventure game Silent Hill on the PlayStation one. It's the original Japanese release. Opened jewel case for the Konami horror adventure game Silent Hill on the PlayStation one. You can even see the mint condition spine card!
October 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM