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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 15m

You're in her DMs, I'm in the main menu about to access my new pack of leaves. We are not the same.

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you: im sasuke, im so edgy and cool he's just like me me: im simon, the most delusional man alive and i havea hamster

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't think I've ever wishlisted a game this fast

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SeverLink - Wishlist NOW! @severlink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

SeverLink crowdfunding campaign is LIVE We have a playable prototype - just grab it at: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... If you long for early 2000s stealth revival and you like what you see in our build - GO FUND US and make it happen! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #y2k

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🧙New Quest Unlocked!⚔️🐉 (gambling addiction)

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

while star wars galactic racer does look pretty promising and i will definitely be picking it up, I still think it's in poor taste to allow baby yoda to be ejected from his car seat during a race

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

what is the earliest console game that lets you pick non-binary and please tell me it's not fucking austin powers for game boy color of all things

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

why did nobody tell me that ninja gaiden 4 has an OST that sounds straight out of the mid-2010s japanese djent/metalcore scene youtu.be/u7l9MGREXjY

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“Raven” (NINJA GAIDEN 4 Soundtrack)

YouTube video by Team NINJA Studio

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Forgot to mention that this is out an all streaming platforms, for those who are interested.

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

forever funny to me that nerf has historically avoided copying real existing guns but because the guns in fortnite are real existing guns with quirky proportions nerf now produces yassified FN SCAR-Ls

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

pokemon cards: this is pikachu! he is a small electric mouse pokemon 🥰 yugioh cards: gagagigo learned to Love

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

kids these days will never know the pain of taping over your vague jackie chan tape because of 9/11

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

agefield has a lot wrong with it but i love that it's all about this whole rock the school thing and the protag owns what appears to be a gibson custom shop guitar (expensive) judging by the inlays in like a 2010s gamer headset color scheme. even the damn tuners, strings, and bridge are red lmao

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

if you struggle with imposter syndrome just know that I've been making games for 18 years, most of which using Visual Studio for code, and didn't know until a few months ago that VS has a back button (I was just manually scrolling back to wherever I previously was)

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Last month I mentioned having to get an operation to have an Odontogenic Myxoma removed. In the anxious and at times manic months leading up to said operation I wrote/recorded this instrumental metal album that I am now releasing for free. Enjoy! youtu.be/EUib__g9Sd0

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Motivate Fortune - Myxoma EP [instrumental djent / thall]

YouTube video by AustinJSchaeffer

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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Motivate Fortune - Myxoma EP [instrumental djent / thall]

YouTube video by AustinJSchaeffer

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

other peoples' dreams: having super powers, impossible spaces my dreams: a friend coming over to my place and insisting that I dig out the sega genesis so that we can play Toki

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

who up fracturing they compound

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

obsessed with the controller for this aliexpress robot dog. the completely solid body mold that was clearly made from an xbox one controller complete with non-functioning shoulder/trigger buttons and face buttons like "Act Cute" and "Urinate" is truly a thing of beauty

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

the hell do you mean the base game doesn't come with the digital game manual lmao

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

just noticed that on the guitar hero 3 key/box art, the character Judy is playing a right-handed guitar as if she were left handed, even though in-game she is right handed and Gibson did produce a left-handed version of the guitar she is using lol

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Found out that the band Death was from central Florida which was surprising and cool. I did an all-layers instrumental cover of like 22 seconds of their song 'Story to Tell' if unfinished covers of 28 year old death metal songs are your thing lol soundcloud.com/theschaeff/d...

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Death - Story to Tell (partial instrumental cover)

A short "full band" instrumental cover of a favorite Death song of mine. Equipment used: some cheap 14 year old ibanez gio, podxt/podfarm, GGD modern and massive 2, GGD nolly bass library, reaper DAW.

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

facebook showing me a post by my relative about their sick dog and asking me if I'm "interested" or "not interested" in the post is peak social media lol💀

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

in a perfect world they would fund a toy story 5 video game tie-in where you play as the discarded potty-training device and they would let me develop it

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

@ompu.co happy birthday my fellow sex day birthday haver 💪

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

been making games in some capacity for nearly 18 years and just now noticed that there's back/forward buttons in visual studio. Well, that certainly makes things easier lmao

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

i have faith in my sources so maybe they're saving this one for the next state of play or the game awards or something

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

the absolute whiplash of getting facebook poked for the first time in 15 years

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

i know dark souls 2 came out like 12 years ago but I just noticed this and sorta feel compelled to share it anyways

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

pretty pleased with how dino movement is coming together. no physics, no IK, no path post-processing. Just simple A* pathfinding, some additive head/tail bend animations, and a looot of carefully tweaked code lol youtu.be/GtXeTjHmBRo

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this is what we in the industry call "crittermaxxing"

YouTube video by AustinJSchaeffer

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Just realized my DMs were set to only mutuals. If you have been trying to reach out, that should be possible again lol oops

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Owned mech platoon on gba as a child for probably over a year before making it past the tutorial. I'd hit the button to build something then hit the next button that popped up (the cancel building button) forever trapping myself in a loop of starting and canceling construction lol

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The only downside to adding the lighting-only debug mode is that every time a chunk of level gets built I can't help myself from toggling it over and over lol

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A (somewhat simplified) look at the light baking in Compound Fracture. All entirely custom, vertex based, and completely separate from Unity's light baking.

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

made an abandoned/overgrown variation of the compound fracture car. i'm at like 130 or so layers in photoshop but we don't have to talk about that

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of my favorite printing errors is on the band Veil of Maya's 2008 release, The Common Man's Collapse. It features classic template labels such as "Spine Window" and "Under Disc". Spine window is especially rough since it can be seen basically at all times lol.

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

made a fiat panda for compound fracture lol

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

had to get a biopsy done on my jaw which sucks but it did compel me to write this song so that's cool I guess lol soundcloud.com/theschaeff/c...

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Corrode (Demo)

Another demo from my upcoming album.

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

will never not be funny that these games are made by the same developer

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Some people held on to/preserved boxed toys or trading cards from the 90s. My family held on to Tyco's The Incredible Crash Dummies... dinnerware.

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

toy designers in 2002 be like "donkey kong... dodge ram... and don't even THINK about painting the details on the front"

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

colgate really knows how to get the consumer excited

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

"why is america so unhealthy" because had i not gotten burger king as a child how would i have ever snagged a dumpy 2005 lcd remake of a 1982 atari 2600 game i had never heard of smh

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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

first thing I did in 2026 was get to be the person to create the discogs page (including scanning all the inserts and the CD) for the soundtrack of the imo greatly misunderstood Koei Tecmo GoW clone, Quantum Theory lmao www.discogs.com/release/3607...

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Riichiro Kuwabara, Hiroaki Takahashi, Shigekiyo Okuda - Quantum Theory Original Soundtrack

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2010 CD release of "Quantum Theory Original Soundtrack" on Discogs.

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