Ben Monroe

Gamer, level designer, caffeine addict

[Ben Monroe @BenMonroe14]

@emersontung I dunno if these are megastructures, but there's some megaCRUSHERS in here---short level segment I built, lit, scripted, did the combat and audio for.

(Doom 3, turn up your brightness.)

https://t.co/nY1wUPW2pB

[Ben Monroe @BenMonroe14]

@VijayKu94617363 Cool coding project, but no, most studios don't pay 'teams of artists for months to make a scene like this', because this scene could be made by a single junior artist with 3 months knowledge of Blender, in a single day, during lunch break, no AI involved. I'm not exaggerating.

[Ben Monroe @BenMonroe14]

@dayumitsskai Good work, man!😎💪

[Ben Monroe @BenMonroe14]

@ohle_mathiebe I've been working on games for free nearly every day for over 17 years now, and at this point I believe I'll be doing it till I'm either dead or physically incapable---even if I never get my dream job.

It's that rewarding. It's that fulfilling. It's that exciting.

[Skai Chow @dayumitsskai]

Hit my 2-year anniversary at id Software yesterday! Super grateful to be working at the studio behind one of my favorite game franchises.

Here's to 2 incredible years of "Ripping and Tearing", and hopefully many more 🤘🔥

#DOOM #DOOMTheDarkAges #idSoftware

[Ben Monroe @BenMonroe14]

@dayumitsskai @DOOM @idSoftware Congtats man! The new trailer looks sick! We gonna be seeing you at Quakecon 2026?

[id Software @idSoftware]

The whole team’s been hard at work and we’re so excited for fans to jump into Revelations!

[Map-Center @Q2MapCenter]

We're celebrating @Quake 's 30th anniversary early with a brand-new release containing a hub, 28 maps and a new take on fighting Shub! Get hyped by @QcChum 's trailer and come celebrate Quake with us! What do you think @romero ? https://t.co/hsIE19r1To

[John Romero 🤘🏽 @romero]

Guess who's coming to QuakeCon? 👀👀👀👀 Check out Hugo & Josh's announcement: https://t.co/1xTbIJmeq5

[QuakeCon @QuakeCon]

Psst... id Software founders John Romero, John Carmack, Tom Hall and Adrian Carmack will be joining us in celebrating 30 years of QuakeCon and 35 years of id!
Stay tuned for more details!
General Admission Tickets still available:
https://t.co/AyOhWPJVrm

[Ben Monroe @BenMonroe14]

@JustySilverman @METALSLUG_EN FLAMESHOT

[Stephen Kick @pripyatbeast]

Always loved the games @RavenSoftware developed. They were the Medieval version of Id software in my mind. Congrats to Brian on an amazing career, hope @NightdiveStudio can continue to preserve their games for all to enjoy.

[DeathStalker @DeathStalker131]

The Beauty of #DOOMTheDarkAges

Music by @fnshing_move

@DOOM @idSoftware @NVIDIAGeForce

Full Video: https://t.co/1Dh88SPBYc #RTXOn

[Kruge @Kruge_Gaming]

Hey all. Here's my newest video.
@DOOM: The Dark Ages - 'Welcome To Hell'

Put in quite a bit of effort on this one, but it was absolutely worth it! Rip and Tear! 👿💪
https://t.co/tZ0oC7UpNd

[Ben Monroe @BenMonroe14]

@dayumitsskai Great work! I think it bears mentioning that whenever I think about the Hell Priest in TDA, I think of his skeletal wrists doing the wavy gesture animations you see here. 😄

[Ben Monroe @BenMonroe14]

@JNavok Why do you think middle and senior level designers will get cut out? I'm a FPS modder/level designer who's been trying to crack into the industry for several years, and the repeated trend I see in postings is 'at least 1 shipped AAA title, x years of experience etc'

[Ben Monroe @BenMonroe14]

@TukiFromKL 'then botted billions of streams on his own tracks'

Not surprising at all. I'm fully convinced bots are responsible for a sizeable chunk of the comments and likes on AI slop YT videos.

[DOOM @DOOM]

happy 6 years of DOOM Eternal!

[Hato @Hatovenant]

DOOM: The Dark Ages DLC news this week:

- Hugo is still playtesting the DLC a lot at the moment
- The DLC needs more time in the oven, still getting some polish, but it feels really good to play according to Hugo
- The higher skill ceiling in the DLC is emphasized once again
- The DLC stays true to the "monster truck" gameplay of the Slayer in TDA
- New Ripatorium maps will come with the DLC 🔥
- New skins will be coming as well in the future 🔥

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.

Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.

Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.

He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.

The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.

A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.

That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.