Speaking

Benja believes in helping potential game makers find their way into the industry, and often spoke about roles in game development as part of Avalanche's community outreach program.

During the summer of 2017, he gave a talk on "The Four Basics of Open World Storytelling" at Avalanche Studios in NYC.  This talk was adapted into a featured blog post on Gamasutra.

Stupid Little Games

On this episode of Stupid Little Games, Jess chats with Benjamin Jaekle -  narrative and game designer, indie game dev, and culinary hobbyist - about voluptuous pixels, the difficulty of writing jokes for video games, and working on your own game every day, even when life happens...

​Then they play a Stupid Little Game about cooking mechanics that Benja is way too good at.

Press

Benja has had the joy and honor of sharing games with players and press in New York City, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Mexico City.

Interviews

Games Radar - "How Just Cause 4 tries to separate Rico Rodriguez from more Nathan Drake types"

mxdwn - "Interview With Hamish Young, Lead Mechanics Designer & Ben Jaekle, Narrative Designer Of Just Cause 4"

ShackNews - "Just Cause 4 developer interview discusses tornadoes, vehicles, secondary fire, and crazy stunts"