Austin Carter is one of the main characters in the game Nitrome Must Die. He is the character controlled by player one. He also appears in Go Pogo and makes a cameo appearance in Super Stock Take.
Appearance[]
Austin is a young male who with short navy blue hair that covers one of his eyes. He wears a black t-shirt with a white skull on it. Austin's sprite's hair moves up and down whenever he runs.
His trousers are light blue coloured, a darker shade than Justin's. When shown in detail, his head is round and when he is not close up his head is a rounded rectangle. Though he is a human being, he is depicted without a nose and neck. Unlike Justin, Austin does not wear shoes.
Game information[]
Nitrome Must Die[]
History[]
Austin is seen chatting with his friend Justin about how they lost the latest Nitrome game and declare that they are going to obliterate Nitrome once and for all.
They ride their bikes to the Nitrome headquarters. Austin stops near the entrance, but Justin lands in the trash cans, knocking them over and finding two experimental guns inside.
With the guns, both of them navigate through the 99 floors of Nitrome Towers, defeating both their employees and the other entities they created, based off characters from other Nitrome games, using the company's many experimental weapons.
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| At the top awaits the boss of the company, and battles against them. After being considerably weakened by them, he retreats into a big mechanic armor based off Nitrome's mascot. The battle is taken to the rooftops of the skyscraper. Through much dodging, the bang gun is dropped. It is fired and causes the collapse of the building and the demise of the boss's machine.
Both Austin and Justin, through navigating down the falling rubble, attempt to kill the boss in his last resort machine - his escape pod. Successfully, they obliterate his Pod which forces him on to the floor. He is then crushed by the letter O in the NITROME sign. Super rich, Austin plans on starting up a new gaming company. |
In game[]
Austin serves as player one. When reviving player two, Austin will kick Justin until he gets up (four bars). Austin is armed with a gun, and the player is able to control him by using 
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, and shoot using . In the elevator, Austin cannot be controlled and instead remains idle, performing action such as sleeping, listening to music with his headphones, yawning or drinking and littering the cup he uses to drink.
Super Stock Take[]
Austin Carter appears behind bars in a block on level 21; he is also mentioned in the speech bubble for that level.
Go Pogo[]
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Austin appears as a playable character in Go Pogo and can be purchased for 60 coins.
 Austin as he appears in Go Pogo |
Personality[]
Little is known about Austin's personality. It's possible that he loves music, as he can be seen listening to music on his iPod. He also gets tired when bored, and will doze off when in the elevator. He is shown to drink juice as well, when inside the elevator.
Facebook comments[]
Austin Carter's Facebook profile had been put up a short time before Nitrome revealed their 100th game. Below are the comments he made on various Nitrome Facebook posts:
| Date | Comment |
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| 1 November 2011 | why over 50000 likes?? their games arent even that good[1] |
| 1 November 2011 | whats the deal with nitrome?? their games sux[2] |
| 1 November 2011 | 100 games. YAWN!!![3] |
| 2 November 2011 | Don't bother playing Nitrome games. Play something decent instead like Halo or gears of war.[4] |
| 3 November 2011 | Nitrome is SOOO rubbish they can't even do 3D games.[5] |
| 3 November 2011 | Why can you only heart games and not hate them. Cos they all suck![6] |
| 3 November 2011 | Why do you all want sequels? They need to make a good game first.[7] |
| 3 November 2011 | Click like if you HATE Nitrome[8] |
| 3 November 2011 | Rubble Trouble is such an Angry Birds RIPOFF!!![9] |
| 3 November 2011 | Right THATS IT i've had enough of all this Nitrome rubbish. Sign my petition against Nitrome. Check out the link below.
nitromemustdie.com[10] |
| 4 November 2011 | Yeah, Whatever dudes![11] |
| 7 November 2011 | Yeh, don't worry about it... riiiight... Well I think there are nearly 500 people that would beg to differ! nitromemustdie.com[12] |
| 7 November 2011 | 60,000 likes big deal... How long did it take you guys to get that though? Our campaign only started and we got nearly 500 already and its not like we are even a big corporate company or anything! nitromemustdie.com if you agree![13] |
| 7 November 2011 | Woohoo! more promotion for us... [14] |
Other appearances[]
- 100th Game - Austin Carter appears with Justin Bennet, both of them firing their guns, and running away from a hoard of enemies in the skin.
- Icebreaker Now has Achievements!- Austin is seen on a "Wanted" poster and in another part being taken away by a Boss and an Executive.
- Game comments preview - Long prior to the release of accounts, at the right side of the game page would be an image of what the comments bar for a page would be, Austin replying to Cuboy 2's saying "LAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!".
- Nitrome accounts coming next week - Austin appears in the trailer and makes several comments. He says "What's this? Christmas?" to the words "Nitrome has a gift for you" on the screen. In reading the words "Nitrome accounts" he says "This is going to be another long wait...", letting out a sigh, only to reply "I have to admit this time I'm quite impressed!" to the presence of the words "Coming next week".
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Austin owns a Pear computer, which is a parody to the Apple computers.
- Austin walks barefooted, unlike Justin who actually wears shoes.
- Sometimes when the game freezes for a second (or so), the hair that is covering one of Austin's eyes will lift up, except that his eye is not visible.
- Both Austin Carter and Justin Bennet have six letters in their first name, and six letters in their last name. This might be a reference to the popular web comic "Homestuck", suggesting that both Austin and Justin are internet trolls.
- Austin's clothes may be based off the stereotype that gothic kids (in England) prefer navy blue.
- Some of his death cries in Nitrome Must Die are the same as the young Norse warrior's and Norman Noggin's.
References[]
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [1]: Comment on Nitrome's post about 50,000 likes, 1 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [2]: Comment on Nitrome's post, 1 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [3]: Comment on Nitrome's post, 1 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [4]: Comment on Nitrome's post, 2 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [5]: Comment on Nitrome's post, 3 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [6]: Comment on Nitrome's post, 3 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [7]: Comment on Nitrome's post, 3 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [8]: Comment on Nitrome's post, 3 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [9]: Comment on Nitrome's post, 3 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [10]: Comment on Nitrome's post, 3 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [11]: Comment on Nitrome's post, 4 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [12]: Comment on Nitrome's Friday Update post, 7 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [13]: Comment on Nitrome's post about 60,000 Facebook fans, 7 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Austin Carter on Facebook: [14]: Comment on Nitrome's post about support against Nitrome Must Die, 7 November 2011, retrieved 25 May 2019.
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