Austinato

Austinato (also known as Community Manager Austinato) is the founder of the Treasures Opened collaboration on Scratch. He was previously the Leader, but now he is active as a Community Manager. He originally created the forum post for Scratcher Kart a day prior to the development's start. (Him and Xelophelt were the first collaborators on the first day of the collaboration.)

Games directed (lead)

 * Scratcher Kart (Winter 2014) - Creator, programmer
 * Scratcher Kart [Sequel] (20??) - Planning on being creator and programmer if not able to
 * Life Force (2015-16) - WIP, Co-Creator, programmer

Positions

 * Leader (September 27, 2014-May 12, 2016)
 * Inactive October 2014
 * Inactive March through early June 2015
 * Inactive September 2015 through May 2016
 * Community Manager (May 12, 2016-)

History
On September 27th, 2014, Austinato officially announced plans for Scratcher Kart. The plans included cloud data for multiplayer accessibility, a member system similar to that of Nintendo Network, and a racing engine. According to Austinato, the member and multiplayer systems were cancelled for Scratcher Kart and was planned for Scratcher Kart "2". On September 28th, 2014, he officially announced the beginning of development for Scratcher Kart.

In October, Austinato was inactive for almost the whole month due to his computer burning out, rendering him not being able to contribute for 2 weeks. He hired 2 Scratchers, Xelophelt and Icey29, to temporarily replace his job until his return in November.

Later in December 2014, him and Xelophelt worked on the final release of Scratcher Kart which got tons of love-its and fave-its by the time January came.

Late April 2015, Austinato announced a second inactivity period due to private issues and stated he might become active again during June of 2015. Like the October incident, Xelophelt was anointed leader, but unlike before, Icey was not..

During Summer 2015, Austinato resumed his leadership in Treasures Opened, helping the collaboration resume development on Life Force while he focused on other projects.

On September 5, 2015, Austinato started a long, 8-month inactivity streak. This incident required Treasures Opened to promote a backup leader while Austinato was absent. Xelophelt was eventually chosen as the leader until the return of Austinato. On May 12, 2016, Austinato returned to the collaboration, breaking his longest streak of inactivity. He then decided to downgrade to Community Manager, as a method of reintroduction to the collaboration and it's works.

Trivia

 * Scratcher Kart's anti-gravity proposal was originally by him, but later proposed by many other Scratchers. All of his other proposals were scrapped due to time constraints.
 * Scratcher Kart was originally set to be released a month before the actual official release.