Ben Edney
Lead Level Designer at Digital Extremes 🌱 🗺️ ✏️ 📐 🎨
Building procedural levels & worlds for Warframe!
- Reposted by Ben EdneyIt’s time to weave a new tale with our next Warframe, Oraxia. Draw weakened prey into your web in Isleweaver, coming June 2025.
- Reposted by Ben EdneyJoin us very soon for an update on Soulframe: Preludes, live from the #PAXEast2025 Main Theatre. The stream begins at 3 p.m. ET: twitch.tv/warframe
- Getting excited for more DooM!!
- Flying Waters in Expedition 33 is wonderful.
- Even on easy difficulty I’m terrible at the dodge and parry timing in Expedition 33. Very frustrating.
- Jumping into the Oblivion remaster blind. I mean, I played the original a whole lot, but I watched maybe 2 mins of the reveal stream today, so I’m not sure what exactly has been changed or updated.
- My Black Mirror S7 ratings. Hit-or-miss as usual, but mostly hits for me this time around
- So many fun and exciting things cooking at DE I wish I could share with the universe. If you want to help, we have job openings, including Sr. Level Designer! 😎 www.digitalextremes.com/careers/list
- Went to go play Death Stranding, realised I don’t have the PS5 upgrade, now I’m just paying Astro Bot instead.
- Hope everyone that can safely make it to GDC has a good time. It’s been 7 or 8 years since I went last, and the world has changed so much since then!
- Watched Heretic this weekend, strong premise and first half but otherwise ended up being just ok. Felt like a lot of it was over explained… should have kept some of the goings on a mystery, or at least up for interpretation.
- Having a good time with Avowed 10 hours or so in. Playing a hunter type character with gun & shield/dual daggers. I can move on to the next map but just having fun clearing side quests n stuff still…
- Think I’ll wait to watch the Minecraft movie until there are some decent community mods available
- March!! Yet not quite sure what year it is
- Lots of content coming soon to @warframe.com shown on stream today, with new levels expanding upon the 1999 set too! The team has been doing amazing things!! 🎉
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- Aw, was hoping to play a bit of Avowed before work this morning but it doesn’t unlock until the afternoon.
- A lot of 3d level design is just advanced bevel design 🤔💭
- Enjoying AC:Mirage but I do wish the combat in these games would go back to the earlier style. The parrying and dodging and locking on… there’s just enough friction and timing required to make it frustrating when you get caught. At least it makes me want to just run away and stealth again!
- Thinking about Driveclub
- Prison Break, House, The Office, Arrested Development… According to Netflix, these are “Retro TV” shows. 👴
- Smiley wall guy seems content.
- Recently got a Steam Deck but haven’t really had a chance to play much yet. Just saw one of the games I had wishlisted for it is on sale, so today’s the day!
- February!
- I drew a happy little UFO guy.
- If Switch 2 joy-cons have standard mouse functionality built in, presumably the console could also support proper mice, maybe keyboards too? 🤔
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- Not really a New Year’s resolution, but I’m just trying to watch/play/read/experience anything that interests me at all, regardless of whether its deemed “bad” or “good” by other people. The backlog rises.
- The UT secret level episode has the maps being created on the fly out of concrete blocks. That was neat.
- Clearly the best Xbox controller 🙂↔️
- About 1.5 hours into Path of Exile 2 and it's pretty great. Also, decidedly not a game I can play well with a podcast/video on in the background, as it turns out.
- They made a PoE2? I wonder if the water is still magnetic at night time
- Twisters might be the most moviest movie of the year
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- I have the urge to make a Counter-Strike 2 map, but I’m not that good at the game, and the last time I properly used Hammer was when TF2 was popping off. Yet somehow those facts make it an even more fun idea.
- Installing Stalker 2 off PC Gamepass just to see how many frames per minute I'm gonna get
- The 20th anniversary updates for HL2 looks great, and they added new developer commentary?? Also... 20 years huh? 👴
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- Three random tips for humans doing #gamedev 1. Get your thing into the game, however rough it is. Context is everything. 2. Communicate often. If you work with other humans, this helps a lot. 3. Double all time estimates. If you work with other humans, this will make sense.
- Sunday morning lounging
- Just watched Mindcage, which is not a great movie by any means. However, it did elicit the most extreme eye roll moment of any movie I've watched this year, so it has that going for it.
- Feels like a good weekend to hunker down and build some parks in Planet Coaster 2.
- I’ve started watching Slow Horses finally and it’s pretty good. Most Apple TV shows I’ve watched have been pretty good. Quality over quantity, it seems.
- I'm one of those weirdos that stays off social media and the internet at large while I'm at work, unless someone sends me something. So I get to browse all of the day's news and discourse at the end of the day, as a little treat. Unfortunately, often that treat doesn't taste very good.
- Damn. I had some fun with the game while it lasted. Always sucks to hear of this kind of outcome.
- There's a lock-picking mini-game in the new Call of Duty campaign. 🗒️✍️
