Zanzlanz

@zanzlanz.com

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Indie #gamedev! This year, I'm making monthly GameDev videos on YouTube. Also I'm making "Mine Blocks" and a bunch of music!

I copy a vector scribble from Figma to the clipboard as an SVG. Then I open a commandline terminal to run a python script. Then I'm able to paste my clipboard into an After Effects path layer.
A gif showing the stages of creation and refinement of the pixel art piece described at the start of the thread.
Pixel art of a 6 legged alien dragon-like creature (also known as the Thanator from Avatar 1) meeting a normal panther, set in a lush and detailed jungle.
A screenshot of YouTube creator dashboard showing my video "How hackers reverse Math.random()" with 250000 views (240.6k more than usual).
A very squishy loop travels across a bridge, using softbody physics.
A grid of 10 physics simulation videos labeled "level 1" through 10, each demonstrating a different simulation problem/technique to conquer. The 10th one is not visible and is replaced with "???". So mysterious!
Two versions of an algorithm that generates a combined signal from a Left and Right audio signal, which are both 1-bit waveforms (the output is either 1 or -1). The first version is titled: "Take the average". The second version is titled: Alternate RNG. The "take the average" approach averages the bits to combine the signals. It is apparent that it is no longer 1-bit. If the Left speaker has a signal of -1, and the Right speaker has a signal of 1, they cancel out. The Alternate RNG approach combined the signals by zippering them together - choosing the bit from the Left signal first, then the Right signal, and so on. No averaging takes place, so the final wave form is 1-bit as well.
A screenshot of a post from a player, with a Discord screenshot attached. The post by Strufel's says "I just found out that Zanz created Scavenger Hunt with me in mind because I'm better at speedrunning than him. I almost cried." Translated from Spanish. The screenshot is a public Discord message from Zanzlanz: "Strufel is absolutely better than me at speedrunning. I basically made the gamemode with him in mind for real"
A demonstration of the "Grumbler" VST, which produces bitcrushed tones and noise. It presents the a wide range of outputs via adjusting parameters.
A music making program with a flat and rectangular design. Notes are placed, and the instrument is sampled. The instrument is then adjusted to sound more like bitcrushed white noise.
Chiptune video game music inspired by Super Hexagon's soundtrack by Chipzel. "Hexagon and On, by Zanzlanz - an 8 minute chiptune track! (full version: zanz.net/hexagon)"
The three iterations of a VST music instrument called "Grumbler." The quality of the UI visually improves with each version.
A seamless looping video of a flight over green voxel blocks and water. The terrain is constantly morphing, similar to a timelapse.
A seamlessly looping video of a rather pink scene, where the camera is bobbing straight through an endless field of voxel tower mirrors. Below is some rippling water.
2D platformer where a bird collects seeds on scattered floating blocks. At the end, the player fails to make an unfair jump and lands where they started.
An input field with a pixel font that is slowly rotating to-and-fro, while the user types, edits, and navigates in the text.
On the main menu of "Mine Blocks", the player is intending to delete a save game. The confirmation dialog features a chicken icon. When clicked, it bawks and eventually lays an egg that falls to the bottom of the screen. The egg proceeds to hatch and the player feeds the chicken from a dispenser in the settings menu. It grows up and lays more eggs, progressing the cycle. The bottom of the screen becomes full of chickens. The last chicken is a larger golden one that, when clicked, causes the rest of the chickens to hop up in a wave formation.
Footage of a 2D platformer, where the player travels far upwards using gun recoil, into a secret room containing a guy standing there, saying "*meow*" at regular intervals. Also, player shoots feathers at a 45 degree corner, and they ricochet around the room endlessly.
A simple scene of a cube with a debug texture and a rectangle, spinning about the middle of the screen. The rectangle is a perfect mirror, reflecting the cube. The mirror's background isn't reset each frame, leading to a trail of where the cube was in the scene as the mirror rotates.
A video presenting 4 phone mockups, each playing a different electronic music track paired with its respective animated music video behind the Spotify interface.
A pure black 3D scene, where simple neon shapes react to the electronic music. In the center of the scene is a purely reflective pyramid, and various abstract objects around it appear with their associated instruments.
29 task items that start with "Updated", "Fixed", and "Tweaked"
Grids of red-orange noise caused by corruption of the light buffer.
A top-down game showing the player entering a lighthouse-like structure, turning into a beam of light, and teleporting to another island. The islands are made of water, perfectly reflecting the sky. The area around the islands is a parallaxing star field.
2D mountain with lines cutting through the edges every 8 rows, as tiles are swapped from chunks higher up.
Sidescroller sandbox videogame, when player enters their bed, the camera gently pans over to the night sky as night rapidly passes.