I am Ben Piety.

I'm fascinated by time, memory and software, and BITMAPX is the library where I keep everything I make.

I've never stayed in one medium for long. I spent eighteen years in film and music video production. I wrote Advent of the Roar, the first book of The Land Old, Untouched, a fantasy series with big ambitions and a slow rollout. Since 2020 I've chosen a new photograph at the onset of each season for Seasonals, and over the years it has become a kind of photographic record of a life.

These days I work at a bakery, and video games are my passion. I'm building a puzzle game called Particle Rivers, with smaller experiments like Magick and Grid Remnant along the way. I also make Slowthroughs: HUD-free, immersive journeys through open worlds and cinematic stories, shaped by my own play. They aren't what most people come to a playthrough for, and that's the point. They're an experiment in storytelling, where the game, the narrative, the world and the player collide into something original.

That same idea is why some friends and I started HABEEZ, a collective webmag that, when the energy collides, shows off the art we make when there's nothing left to do.

If there's a thread through all of it, it's this: art can come from anywhere and be anything. A photo chosen for a season. A game played slowly. A hobby finally shared. Make the thing, then make the next one.

Thanks for looking through my work.

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