Civ 7 UI audio programmer, formerly @ EA. I geek out over music, synths, weather, retrocomputing, sportsball, and genre fiction. Opinions are mine alone.
Joined March 2009
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Ian Schmidt retweeted
May 15
💾😂 It’s actually wild that Gen Z has never experienced the pure serotonin of watching MS-DOS DEFRAG do its little block dance.
Your 4GB 386 is choking on life? Just run DEFRAG and stare at it like it’s 1993 Netflix.
Don’t fight the hypnosis… become one with the pixels.😵💫
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Ian Schmidt retweeted
Feb 14
Hideki Sato, the hardware designer behind all #SEGA consoles, has passed away on February 13. A modest man, he said of Dreamcast's demise:
“The most important thing is the attractiveness of the contents we will supply. Game hardware is just a box to deliver those contents.”
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Feb 3
This update completes the touch support rework I've mentioned with previous updates: pinch-to-zoom and two-finger rotate now work on the Steam Deck! I didn't do the engineering on this one (had my head down learning @solid_js), but it completes a feature I advocated for.
Update 1.3.2 lands today in #Civ7, introducing...
⬢ Gilgamesh - free for all players!
⬢ Nested Tooltips
⬢ New Appeal Lens
⬢ ...and more!
Full notes - 2kgam.es/Civ7Updates
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Jan 27
This looks like CPU thermal paste.
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Ian Schmidt retweeted
Jan 23
There are over 1,000 billionaires in the United States and none of them are funding an Airwolf reboot.
Disgusting.
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Ian Schmidt retweeted
Jan 12
←The best YM2203 music ever made.
→The best YM2151 music ever made.
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9 Dec 2025
1.3.1 also has more touchscreen goodies! A long press now shows tooltips on anything where a mouse hover would. And I completely rewrote the native Linux (Steam Deck) touch support to bring it up to par minus pinch and rotate gestures (those hopefully in the next patch).
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Ian Schmidt retweeted
5 Dec 2025
Holiday reminder: if you’re gifting a PS5, Xbox, or Switch to a younger player, carefully unbox it, get it online, install updates, preload a game or two, then rebox it.
It spares them from spending their big moment staring at a progress bar.
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Ian Schmidt retweeted
18 Nov 2025
RIP @burgerbecky Rebecca Heineman and thanks for all the wonderful games 😢
ALT Burger Becky
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Ian Schmidt retweeted
6 Nov 2025
Whoever designed this, has a reserved spot in hell.
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Ian Schmidt retweeted
21 Oct 2025
Hi, I’m Eugene. I finished my first game, Katanaut. It hit 52k wishlists in 10 months… and I released it between Silksong and Hades 2.
Average peak players: 11.
AMA.
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30 Sep 2025
Not mentioned in the update notes, but I added full support for multitouch on Windows, including pinch and rotate gestures. Go wild on your Surface or ROG Ally!
30 Sep 2025
Update 1.2.5 is here, and releasing now in Civilization VII.
Read the full update notes - 2kgam.es/Civ7Updates
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23 Sep 2025
It's PC upgrade time for the next 5 years! AMD 9950X3D, MSI X870E Carbon WiFi, 64 GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB, cooled by a Thermalright Frozen Prism 360 (CPU stays 78C or below on all stress tests I've run). My new favorite build I've ever done.
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Ian Schmidt retweeted
1 Jan 2025
2025 starts with the most iconic 15 seconds in gaming history. Happy New Year! 🎉
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Ian Schmidt retweeted
31 Dec 2024
Don't talk to me or my son ever again
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13 Dec 2024
One of the underrated perks of working on @CivGame is getting to enjoy amazing new @christophertin tracks months before everyone else. But now everyone can enjoy his latest! youtube.com/watch?v=jOF9v-W6…
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25 Nov 2024
Why are processors reviewed almost solely on PC gaming perf now? Zen 5 and Lunar Lake were proclaimed "trash" by the Internet, but @Phoronix numbers show they're the fastest chips for non-gaming tasks, and gaming perf is actually quite good if you aren't e-sportsing at 144 Hz.
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Ian Schmidt retweeted
30 Aug 2024
After 27 years of providing in-depth coverage of the amazing world of PC and mobile hardware, AnandTech is saying farewell. We want to thank everyone from the AnandTech community for their support and passion for what we’ve done over the years
anandtech.com/show/21542/end…
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