Ben Prunty is an American composer, best known for his work on the 2012 video game, '' FTL: Faster Than Light''.

Personal life

Prunty grew up in

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, but now lives in the

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. He played in his high school band, and was always interested in composing music using computers, but lacked musical expertise until preparing to compose the FTL soundtrack. He also grew up playing video games and recalls thinking making music for them would be the "coolest job ever". He attended the

New England School of Communications The New England School of Communications (NESCom) is a private, liberal arts college located in Bangor, Maine. The school focuses exclusively on undergraduate education in communications. The school has an admissions rate of 66%. It has been lo ...

for audio engineering and picked up some skills he would put to use later. He later moved to California in hopes of getting into the

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, but found work at

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as a datacenter technician until receiving the opportunity to make the FTL soundtrack.

Works

Prunty's first notable work was the

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for the 2012 real-time strategy

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'' FTL: Faster Than Light''. He has also provided music for the following projects: * '' Gravity Ghost'' * '' StarCrawlers'' * ''Scale'' * ''FranknJohn'' * ''

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'' (season one) * ''All Walls Must Fall'' (one track: "Synaesthetic") * ''

Into the Breach ''Into the Breach'' is a turn-based strategy video game developed and published by indie studio Subset Games, consisting of Justin Ma and Matthew Davis. ''Into the Breach'' is their second game, following '' FTL: Faster Than Light''. It feature ...

'' * ''

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'' * '' Photographs'' * '' Subnautica: Below Zero''

References

External links

Official website
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