Ben Prunty is an American composer, best known for his work on the 2012 video game, FTL: Faster Than Light.
[1] Prunty grew up in Scarborough, Maine, but now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He also grew up playing video games and recalls thinking making music for them would be the "coolest job ever".
He later moved to California in hopes of getting into the video game industry, but found work at Google as a datacenter technician[4] until receiving the opportunity to make the FTL soundtrack.
[5] Prunty's first notable work was the soundtrack for the 2012 real-time strategy indie game FTL: Faster Than Light.