Ben Prunty's Blog

Last October I wrote about how I had a plan to eventually do a live performance, a kind of funk/electronic hybrid thing. So far I’ve put in 135 hours of guitar practice and bought and played around with the Electribe groovebox. I haven’t written an update in a while simply because there hasn’t been much to say. Practicing an instrument is a slow, often tedious process. Still, I have learned some things along the way. 30 minutes a day is […]

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I find myself with lots of little pieces of advice that aren’t big or complex enough to warrant writing a whole article. Here are thirty of them. See if you can make it to the end. 1. Use filters to shape your sound before resorting to EQ. 2. Velocity is the key to natural-sounding MIDI notes. Listen carefully to drum parts and melodies that you enjoy and try to recreate their velocities in your own work. Eventually you’ll start to […]

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Gravity Ghost has been out a few months now, and the response to the game has been phenomenal. I’m stunned by the surprisingly poetic and emotional reviews. The game and its story resonate with people in a way that I didn’t anticipate. Because of this, what was originally going to be a simple analysis of musical motifs has become a bit deeper, exploring art and interpretation, which may give you insight as to how and why I write music. Of […]

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I may play lots of games and and work in game development, but books were my first passion. Nothing grabs a hold of my mind like a well-written story, and some of my fondest memories are of reading Lord of the Rings or Michael Crichton as an early teenager. I wrote some other recommendations a while back, and I can’t seem to stop myself from abusing my power as a well-read blogger to tell you about stuff I like. In what’s sure […]

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A couple months ago I started an account on Ask.fm, a site where people can anonymously ask you questions on any subject. Very quickly, I got far more questions than I was expecting, and most of them were great. I thought I would reprint some of the really useful answers (with a few edits for clarity) here on the blog, so that they have a permanent spot for my readers. If you’d like to ask me something, just go to […]

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