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xiruo @xiruo.bsky.social · 1d

HELLO 🧍📦
Deadstock 1.2.0 is live and the main update is the extras section with a gallery and music room! Hooray!!
(And also typo fixes)

play the game?! 🥹🥹🥹🥹
no-xiruo.itch.io/dead-stock
📦📦📦
#DeadstockVN #indievn #SpooktoberVNJam

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xiruo @xiruo.bsky.social · 5d

play deadstock 🕺📦📦📦
no-xiruo.itch.io/dead-stock

[AKAGE meme]
#SpooktoberVNJam #DeadstockVN

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nacreousDreams @nacreousdreams.bsky.social · 6d

Salem makes really cool art that promotes femme trans boy representation, a category of trans masc rep that doesn't get enough love or respect. Also, he's just a cool dude. If you can, please give him your support.

𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾🔞🏳️‍⚧️ @w0lfertinger666.bsky.social · 6d

god, I'm running low on money after helping my family so fucking much and I hate asking for help like this, but if you wanna help keep me afloat, my Kofi is here:

ko-fi.com/salembunner445

Support salembunner445

ko-fi.com

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Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 7d

I did the music for this! It was a lot of fun working hard on this, especially since was my first game jam. It's currently a demo, but there's a lot more to come!

killjoyconstruct.itch.io/bent-wires

#SpooktoberVNJam
#visualnovel
#indie
#games

Bent Wires by KilljoyConstruct

Oh, come on. We both know if I cut you open there would be no blood.

killjoyconstruct.itch.io

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xiruo @xiruo.bsky.social · 8d

hello blue sky, are you ready for a game with no blue skies?

Download Dead Stock for [Free] and save up to 50% or MORE if you qualify as [Dead]!
Work through random mazes to gather supplies, earn money, and get those SWEET [Gains]!!
no-xiruo.itch.io/dead-stock

📦📦📦
#SpooktoberVNJam #indievn #vndev

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Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 9d

AND on Deezer, apparently. For anyone looking at this who is French, I guess you can stream it there? I'm vaguely perplexed by all of this.

Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 14d

Don't know how, but Corrosin is now on iHeart? Huh.

www.iheart.com/artist/alex-...

#music
#ambient
#electronic

Alex Schmidt - Corrosin | iHeart

Corrosin

www.iheart.com

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Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 16d

I've updated my website! A variety of my music can be found here, as well as a video of a live performance for one of my pieces!

atsch.carrd.co

#music
#composers
#composition
#gaming
#film

alexschmidtcomposer

A brief bio and a list of music projects that Alex Schmidt has been involved with.

atsch.carrd.co

Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 19d

Cute!!

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photoBlur @photoblur.bsky.social · 19d

drawing the latest Blorbo... i think im ready to get back to drawing regularly again tho

#tbhx #tbhxnice #nice

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Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 19d

I love this drawing! This bug person looks fantastic. Good work!

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Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 21d

So far, no necromorph has snuck up on me yet. Probably will happen soon. They are so QUIET in this version.

#gaming
#horror

Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 21d

Been playing the Dead Space Remake as a form of relaxation after work days. (Ironic, all things considered.)

I'm in love with the environmental storytelling. The game REALLY benefits from the graphical updates. I love reading every computer screen and blood stains on the wall.

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Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 22d

yep

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Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 24d

Corrosin is live! Buy it on bandcamp for a dollar or more, or go to various streaming services to listen to it!

alexanderschmidt.bandcamp.com/track/corrosin

#dark
#ambient
#electronic
#music

Corrosin, by Alexander Schmidt

track by Alexander Schmidt

alexanderschmidt.bandcamp.com

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Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 25d

Just 8 more hours until full release!

Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 29d

Check out the preview for Corrosin, my dark ambient piece on iTunes! The full thing will be be released on all services 09/14/2025!

music.apple.com/us/album/cor...

#music
#electronic
#ambient
#dark

Corrosin - Single by Alex Schmidt on Apple Music

Album · 2025 · 1 Song

music.apple.com

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nacreousDreams @nacreousdreams.bsky.social · 26d

Symphony of the Soul - Asher's Private Logs
Date: 2017, September 4th

This is the start of a series I'm doing called "Symphony of the Soul", which will have a more formal release alongside informal side-works. This is one such side work.

I hope you enjoy. This is the start of something big.

So today, I was pacing around the band room and working on composing a piece for the upcoming spring concert at my high school, right? And when I do that, you know, I tend to verbalize the music in my head. So if I'm tinging on the cymbal, I go *tss*tss*tss*. If I'm imagining a snare hit, I go Chh chh. Bass drum? Doom doom. Or maybe a Buuuuuu if it's, like, a really hard hit. Put that together and it sounds like:

doom *tss*ch doom-ch *tss*ch
doom *tss*ch doom-ch *tss*ch

Pretty straight forward, right? But I decided to try and do it in the band room, and a student caught me doing it and asked me what I was doing. (I forget her name, I just know she was wearing this flower top, and I've seen her around the band room from time to time.)

Now, I tend not to do this around other people, cause I'm worried they'll think I'm weird. Hey, surprise! She said she thought it was weird! But I explained it to her and she didn't get it. She just asked me why I didn't keep it in my head. But even when I told her that saying it out loud helps me think, she just kept getting on me about it.

It reminds me of that time I was playing as a kid, and some other kid asked me to stop making sound effects while we were playing. Like, at least she was honest about it.

Ugh... what a pain. It put me into an annoying daydream, and before you know it, I'm in Phantasia with a demon on my shoulder (to use an antiquated expression). A land of imagination is a great place to compose music, fantastic even! I've always got my head in the clouds, y'know? But if you lose a fight in there, your mental state is wrecked for the afternoon! Yeah, no, I'd like to not be shoved in the mind prison today, if that's quite alright.

People already make fun of me as it is. I know they do, Naomi told me once. And you know what? I don't really mind. I'm weird, I know it. My dad's called me eccentric since I was a kid (lovingly, of course). Those people aren't the type of people I'd want to be friends with anyway.

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Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 25d

I can't wait to see where this goes : D!!

Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 28d

The Mole Maiden soundtrack is one of the catchiest and most memorable pieces of music I've heard in a little bit. The Sand Highway City especially is stellar!

TNH Nebula @tnhnebula.bsky.social · Apr 15

Now is a good time to spread this If you'd like your Indie Game/Fangame/Project done by an Award-Winning Composer.
>Original Music: $120 Per Minute of Music
>REMIXES:
>>Solar: $60/min
>>Eclipse:$35/min
>>Lunar: $25/min
View Info Here: tnhnebula.com

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TNH Nebula @tnhnebula.bsky.social · Apr 15

Now is a good time to spread this If you'd like your Indie Game/Fangame/Project done by an Award-Winning Composer.
>Original Music: $120 Per Minute of Music
>REMIXES:
>>Solar: $60/min
>>Eclipse:$35/min
>>Lunar: $25/min
View Info Here: tnhnebula.com

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Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · 29d

Check out the preview for Corrosin, my dark ambient piece on iTunes! The full thing will be be released on all services 09/14/2025!

music.apple.com/us/album/cor...

#music
#electronic
#ambient
#dark

Corrosin - Single by Alex Schmidt on Apple Music

Album · 2025 · 1 Song

music.apple.com

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · Sep 6

I know it’s Silksong weekend, but my friend A.J. also released his awesome drilling action game Mole Maiden, which you should buy now! Get it at store.steampowered.com/app/2000780/...

Mole Maiden on Steam

Mole Maiden is a quirky 2D Action Adventure, featuring 360-degree drilling fun! Dig into the colorful world of R&D Mine as Penny faces her sister to become the next Burrow League Champion.

store.steampowered.com

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Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · Sep 8

Been participating in a game jam recently, and it's really been boosting my compositional confidence. Turns out I CAN make pretty nice pieces of music in a little under an hour. I don't prefer it, though, but it's nice to know that I can.

#spooktober
#music
#games
#gamejam

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nacreousDreams @nacreousdreams.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Explorer, from my in-works projects.

Made with alcohol markers and colored pencil.

#ink #coloredpencil #ohuhu #alcoholmarkers #microns #cartoon #thehuesoflife #symphonyofthesoul

A lanky cartoon figure dressed in pale purple and vivid blue, leaping in the air in front of clouds shaded with colored pencil. The character, named "The Explorer", has bright golden hair (that I'll probably revise to be blue in the future), and wears a long silver scarf like a stratus cloud. Afront their hand is a blue orb, held almost telekinetically in place just before their raised right palm.

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Alexander Schmidt @serpent453.bsky.social · Sep 7

Corrosin

Dark ambient electronic piece

Coming 09/14/2025 on various streaming services

Be prepared

#electronic
#ambient
#music
#dark
#composition
#static
#minimal

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