Ben Prunty

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

Biography Prunty grew up in Scarborough, Maine, but now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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". until receiving the opportunity to make the FTL soundtrack.

Works Video games Prunty's first notable work was the soundtrack for the 2012 real-time strategy indie game FTL: Faster Than Light. 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 2018, Dead Secret Circle 2018, Celeste 2018, Photographs 2021, Subnautica: Below Zero 2026, Subnautica 2

Other 2022, Transmissions from a Hidden World