Adam Schaefers - Devops Artiste

• Latest Work: @LandOfEnchantment
• Email: adam.schaefers@icloud.com
• LinkedIn: in/adam-schaefers
• Github: a-schaefers

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Devops artiste with a track record in automating infrastructure, scaling systems, and keeping production boring.

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In Q4 2025 after a 9 month sabbatical, I chose to pivot toward more creatively demanding domains - most notably game development.

This shift lets me carry forward what I do best:

• Systems thinking
• Tooling and automation
• Performance, stability, and scalability
• Shipping real things, not demos

All of this may still apply in the new context, the client and server-side of the game instead of some web framework, but should still be solid.

…while moving into areas that challenge me both creatively and technically:

• English story composition
• Music / Sound effects composition
• Graphics / Sprite design and 3d modeling
• New, low-level programming languages

I’m interested in building games worth playing, with messages worth hearing, without predatory mechanics or disposable design.

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Out of my own pocket, I’m taking what I call my first retirement and stepping away from traditional employment to work full-time as a self-employed creator.

This effort is focused on the creation of a new indie studio:

Land of Enchantment Games

https://enchant.games

The goal over the coming years is to grow this into a positive force within the indie game movement - ideally more than a solo venture, and grounded in strong values:

Land of Enchantment Games is an indie gamedev spaceship studio proudly based in New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, USA.