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Zid & Zniw Chronicles

@zidandzniw.bsky.social

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Home of the adventuring dinosaurs! Pointing & Clicking with your favourite dino buddies from the Late Cretaceous! 🦖 💛 ➡️ http://bit.ly/zniwAdventure 💛 ➡️ http://bit.ly/zidJourney

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · Oct 20

We never imagined we'd get SO much new followers this quickly.. Time to reintroduce ourselves!

We're making hand-drawn/animated dinosaur point 'n click adventures set in a prehistoric world! Released Zniw Adventure in 2020, now working on Zid Journey! 💛

🦕 bit.ly/zniwAdventure
🦖 bit.ly/zidJourney

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 16m

Me trying to make sense of my often loosely written notes and comments, while finalizing things in Zid Journey:

Zid looking at a piece of paper. Animation frame from Zid Journey

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · Apr 21

✨If you see this, QR with your yellow art 🌟

Finally.... our time to shine! 🦕💛

Zid character study sketches, from Zid Journey

Zniw holding an apple, from Zniw Adventure

Corythosaurus encyclopedia artwork, from Zid Journey

Zniw character study sketches (coloured), from Zniw Adventure

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · Jul 3

Anyway, yeah, Dinosaur Gaming™

Zid Journey promo artwork with Zid and Kidd

Zniw Adventure cropped boxart, with Zniw, Wajapulka sign and ceratopsians in the background

Four screens from Zniw Adventure (Wajapulka, Fungilla), and Zid Journey (mysterious forest settlement, forge)

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · Sep 9

It might not be very obvious (or visible) at first, but @twarda.bsky.social puts a lot of care, effort, and research to bring you the most accurate and believable cartoon dinosaurs possible 🦕

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 2d

Aw dang, such a wonderful comment.... Thank you! These dinosaurs will always believe in you, keep up the great work! 🦕💛

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 1d

👋🦕

Zniw (waving at player), Tra, Albert and Agu, from Zniw Adventure

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 3d

"To Apple or not to Apple..."

...in terms of Late Cretaceous, what even IS an apple?

Zniw holding an apple, and being quite confused by it. Promo artwork from Zniw Adventure

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 2d

Yes sir 🦕

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 3d

Fun thing - back when we were developing Zniw Adventure, there was only two of us for all code and art, so we didn't really need any sort of official ref sheets.

But now that we have additional help with Zid Journey, we had to do them... and decided Zniw should get one as well 🦕

Zniw official character/animation reference sheet, done retroactively for Zniw Adventure

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 2d

Chomp Launcher is always such a good choice.....

Haha always love to see this one popping up on my timeline! 💛

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Radiant Rodent @radiantrodent.bsky.social · 2d

Zid Journey... But DOOM two...! I mean too!

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 2d

Aw dang, such a wonderful comment.... Thank you! These dinosaurs will always believe in you, keep up the great work! 🦕💛

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 2d

Yes sir 🦕

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, officially it follows the Polish spelling of Z-niff (or Zneev), given the origin of the character, though we personally don't really mind other pronunciations if it's too tricky to say 😉

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · Aug 11

"You mean THIS account just posted a sketch of me...?"

A sketch of Zid looking at something in the upper left corner. From Zid Journey

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 3d

"To Apple or not to Apple..."

...in terms of Late Cretaceous, what even IS an apple?

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 4d

Pff hahah oh nooo we would never

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · Feb 27

After looking at that demo logo for so long, it feels both weird and awesome to finally replace it with the final animation......

#zidjourney #indiedev