Ben Prunty
Ben Prunty | |
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| Origin | Scarborough, Maine, U.S. |
| Genres | Electronic |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Website | benpruntymusic |
Ben Prunty is an American composer, best known for his work on the 2012 video game FTL: Faster Than Light.[1]
Biography
[edit]Prunty grew up in Scarborough, Maine, but now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.[2][3] He played in his high school band, and was always interested in composing music using computers. He attended the New England School of Communications for audio engineering before composing the FTL soundtrack. He also grew up playing video games and recalls thinking making music for them would be the "coolest job ever".[1]
He later moved to California in hopes of getting into the video game industry, but found work at Google as a datacenter technician and other jobs[4] until receiving the opportunity to make the FTL soundtrack.[5]
Works
[edit]Video games
[edit]Prunty's first notable work was the soundtrack for the 2012 real-time strategy indie game FTL: Faster Than Light.[2]
These are his game soundtrack projects in order:[6]
- 2012, FTL: Faster Than Light
- 2015, Gravity Ghost
- 2015, Dead Secret
- 2017, StarCrawlers
- 2017, The Darkside Detective (season one)
- 2017, All Walls Must Fall (one track: "Synaesthetic")
- 2018, Into the Breach[7]
- 2018, Dead Secret Circle
- 2018, Celeste[8]
- 2018, Photographs
- 2021, Subnautica: Below Zero
- 2026, Subnautica 2
Other
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 Prunty, Ben (3 March 2014). "the most important advice i can give to an aspiring game musician". Retrieved 7 July 2014.
- 1 2 Wilde, Tyler (21 January 2013). "The music of FTL: Faster Than Light - an interview with composer Ben Prunty". Pc Gamer.
- ↑ Hajdasz, Alex (28 August 2014). "REVIEW: BEN PRUNTY ALBUMS". Celjaded. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ↑ @benprunty (June 12, 2018). "I've worked at Google as a datacenter tech, and as a teenager I did some janitorial-esque work at a resort hotel" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ↑ Huxtable, Pierce (22 January 2015). "Top Score: Composer Ben Prunty and Faster Than Light". ClassicalMPR. Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ↑ "My Projects". Ben Prunty. Retrieved 2025-04-01.
- ↑ Prunty, Ben (2018-02-23). "How I made Into the Breach's soundtrack". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
- ↑ "Celeste B-Sides". Retrieved 8 July 2017.
External links
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