Maurycy Zarzycki

Game developer, programmer and lead of Evidently Cube who released a Puzzle-Tactic game Monstro: Battle Tactics on Steam

Contact via: [email protected]

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

Trans Neuronica is out in Early Access! A puzzle that subverts expectations, is beginner friendly and has lore.

Buy or Wishlist, your choice!

https://t.co/zBsufFOGjZ

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

@ZelaznyShannon Is it possible to reach you via email (mine is in my bio) or something along these lines? I wanted to ask for a permission to make more tham vague references to one of Roger Zelazny's stories in a game I am working on.

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

@KrolMichal @UntoldTalesHQ @HYPERSTRANGE Polecam, dobra gra! :D

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

So this little puzzle game I've been working for a while called Trans Neuronica? It leaves Early Access in two days!

I am so excited for this my organism decided it's the best time to catch a cold so... Wishlist and buy to help me heal?

Get it on Steam: https://t.co/zBsufFOGjZ

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

@RozenDJ Thanks! I had the hunch this might be the case by looking things up in Music Brainz but it still used my brain as a free real estate.

I love Dungeons & Dodongos and Shadows of Hyrule, thanks for making awesome music!

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

@RozenDJ Strange question, but I am trying to make sense of things - is it just YT Music combining you with a Polish group of the same name, or are you secretly also a Polish band?

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

@WStrangeMusic Just wanted to say I discovered your SotN arrangements a while back and fell in love with them, and both those and Dungeons and Dodongos are in my "Writing" playlist. And I often just listen to them when I feel like it. Great stuff.

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

@ElectronDance make sure you avoid Void Stranger by @System_erasure because it's an amazing puzzle game that took over my life and I don't want to play anything else until I uncover all of its secrets

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

@KOOPMode thanks for making Goodbye Volcano High, I loved every second of it. The last time I felt this connection with the story in a video game was probably Night in the Woods and I wasn't sure I'd ever get to experience that again.

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

@JumboDS64 It's been too long, I don't really remember the details of the deal

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

@JumboDS64 It is the same Engine and I am a ghost writer of that game.

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

Also I only now noticed this weird visual bug during the blink's fade out, curious!

(And I knew about state machines before, I just somehow was not using them and let me tell you I was making things difficult for myself)

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

Now that there is level selection in Trans Neuronica it's time for some kind of level unlocking effect. I am glad I rediscovered state machines, they make everything simpler!

Wishlist or buy in Early Access: https://t.co/IyDdTmRBQ2

#transneuronica #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

2/ And by time I mean - yes, that's exactly what's going on here. I feel like even if I ultimately don't want to make the main game have branching levels, it's going to be a cool addition for custom levelsets. Also the linear editor I had earlier was super unwieldy.

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

1/ While the map rendering is almost done now, I still need some kind of usable map editor for the first update of #TransNeuronica

Am I hinting branching paths here...? Only time will tell!

https://t.co/zBsufFOGjZ Wishlist now!

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #puzzle #indiegame

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

4/ I dunno. What I know is I am not going to place icons on a level selection screen in a square!

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

1/ As I am continuing work on Level Selection, one thing I realized is how sometimes less is more. On the left there are the tutorial-level icons that animate in the same direction and speed. On the right the animation is randomized. #gamedev #PuzzleGame #gamedesign

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

3/ I am staring at these two and trying to understand why, though. Is it because of the neat grid that's used inside the icon, that itself is a pattern and the pattern of animation complements it? Or maybe it's visually busy and the order relieves it a little?

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

@ESAdevlog In the meantime I am cursing past me for doing so many things half-assed and having to rework them properly now D:

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

3/3 Map will be customizable in the editor when that ships, but for now I am just trying to home on a design that feels fitting. Quite possible whatever gets released in the first update will evolve and improve by the time the full game is out.

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

Hard at work making a level selector screen for #TransNeuronica. It's still work in progress as the background is a bit too blank and it would be nice to have a name for each module cluster.

Read on for level selector trivia!

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #puzzle @HYPERSTRANGE

[Maurycy Zarzycki @EvidentlyCube]

2/3 EA feedback! With 60 levels to click through it's tiring if you want to check something from the early game later. Some people also like the option to just, you know, take a look at the whole thing they worked.