Ben Cloward
Ben Cloward is a Game Development YouTube channel with 84K subscribers. As of October 2026, it has published 337 videos with 6.4M total views (~3.2K per video), and a 5.3% engagement rate — top 18% of Game Development educators. It covers Unreal Engine and uploads on a bi-weekly basis.
Shader creation and other game dev tips and tricks in Unity and Unreal. My opinions are my own and do not represent the positions of my employer. Ben Cloward has been a game dev for over 20 years and has been creating shaders since 2003. He was a co-creator of ShaderFX, a plugin (originally for 3ds Max) that allows artists to create real-time shaders using a node-based interface. ShaderFX is now built in to Max and Maya as the main way that real-time shaders are created. Ben was the original
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Ben Cloward (@bencloward) is a game development YouTube channel with 84K subscribers. With 337 videos and 6.4M total views, the channel averages 3.2K views per video. Ben Cloward has an engagement rate of 5.3%, placing it in the top 18% of game development educators on the platform. The channel uploads on a bi-weekly basis, making it a very active creator in the developer education space. Ben Cloward covers technologies including Unreal Engine.