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Thank you Danvzare and Blondbraid!

A little bit of announcements shall appear here soon ...or at least I hope, so for now please enjoy some more cuts and line tests from the FMV animations. Man, these large cartoons will definitely be the death of us...

Ah, gotta love backgrounds involving bright neons, blinking lights and hologram displays. A great job as usual, man!

Aw yeah, congratulations on yet another excellent release, Blondbraid! Really looking forward to give it a go as soon as I can!

I just saw the post on my twitter dash, oh my god. I'm still in shock...
Rest in peace, friend. You will be greatly missed...

Thank you Hobo! We're really glad you like it.

Anyway, if you might (or might not) know, Zniw Adventure got to the finals of Digital Dragons 2018 Indie Showcase, which was held in 21-22 May, Cracow. You can watch some of the photos from the event here. We even met two fellow AGS users during the event!

We also now have a dedicated Discord server! If you'd like to hang out with us, watch some poorly drawn programmer placeholders, and have a good time, feel free to join!

Alright, in other news - Twarda started working on the intro/outro FMV cutscene, and regrets it already.


And s'more of the in-game moving pictures for you:

Thank you, glad you like it! And yes, she has all 8 angles!



That was one of the first challenges for us, way back in 2015 - animating all walking and idle views (for all 3 backpacks) took a good half-a-month of our time...
(also AGS slows down to (almost) a crawl when I open this view... I'm afraid the enigne's gonna break down any second I do anything on a view like this!)

Thank you for the kind words, everyone!

The squiggly pixel outlines on the characters? Do you draw the animations without them and then just randomly add/remove some pixels from each frame to achieve this effect? Or do you just draw the outlines for each frame (not concerned w/ consistency) and let them workout naturally that way?

We actually used both methods, but it's mostly a redraw effect you described - that's why some of the more action-oriented animations took that much time to create. For smaller objects/characters we just add/remove several random pixels, but cleverly disguise them as redrawn frames. We tried to tone down the effect as much as possible (so that it looks nice, but isn't that irritating), glad you like our efforts.

Man, I definitely should post more often... (definitely not 56K friendly)

The gang's (almost) here. Some of the larger dinos didn't quite fit in.










In other news, Zniw Adventure was qualified for the Indie Showcase finals at Digital Dragons 2018 event. Since it's in the dreaded last 5% polish stage, we'll show much more than the last year's events (including yet another location, much more completed encyclopedia and unlockable bonuses)

The amount of time and effort that is going in to this game is just amazing and it's certainly worth it.

Haha, let's hope so... I wish we wouldn't have to do our normal, daily jobs and fully devote our time to ZA - surely the game would've been long completed by now. But hey, thanks for the kind words! Thanks to Creamy, Captain and Blondbraid as well!

Anyway, more missing animations (and a bonus rough line sketch). And a dangerous mud pit.





Also a new thumbnail, as the old one was... old. A few tweaks, and most likely it'll stay as the final one.

Too bad I couldn't stay and watch the entire ceremony, so I'm extra glad you uploaded the thing on YT so quickly.

Congratulations to all winners and nominees for their awesome games! And a huge thanks to the orgs for such an excellent awards ceremony!

Wow, this is great! I love seeing such scrolling backgrounds in adventure games! Gotta love all of the smaller details as well.

Thank you, Riaise!

Mostly boring/unimpressive stuff today, dealing with some cutscenes:

Oh, and almost all of the hi-res items artworks for the encyclopedia are done!

The master of water animation strikes back! Lovely screenshot, Anas.

Man, this is beyond excellent! Can't wait to play this!

I like how you managed to combine cartoony visuals with dark and creepy atmosphere. Definitely looks interesting, good luck with the release!

I'll certainly keep my eye on this one, looks very promising, with great visuals. Best of luck with the production!

Thanks, guys!

Anyway, some new screenshots, woo. You might recognize some of them, if you have seen the updated ZA AGS database page:







And also the absolute bane of our existence - the FMV cutscenes.
The more complicated ones are absolutely the worst. Like this little landing segment from one of the cutscenes - it took around two weeks of carefully planning, studying the anatomy, several line tests, and even creating clay models, in order to capture the movement and anatomy correctly.

A fanmade C64 port of Monkey Island 2?

Oh my. I'd actually really like to see that!

Anyway, lorenzo got it right, it's the skeleton enemy from the first Wizardry.



Your turn, lorenzo!

Aw yeah. I played the game shortly after release, although it barely ran on my crappy PC.

Severance: Blade of Darkness?