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Zanzlanz
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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!
Player solved Riemann hypothesis on accident:

"I was just trying to figure out what was behind the locked door in Duangle's Latest Game; I had no idea it was a $1mil unsolved problem...

"But yeah behind the door was a really silly gif!"
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I feel like MourningMist's logic has been simply "I'll beat that" with no further qualifications, haha!

It's kind of inspirational
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The current world record speedrun is by MourningMist16 (on Twitch)!

29.34 seconds!??
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Just an idea:
Still render the text all at once. But separately, draw the grid colors to a small image that you stretch over everything and multiply with the text using a blend mode.
Composite over a second stretched image for the background colors?
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Thanks so much for watching, and saying so! o/
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
It's too true!!

For almost the entire time, I was resolving interactions per object rather than per collision, and I was losing my mind to stuff just randomly exploding because of that simple mistake.

And yeah I don't even need an edge case for rigidbodies to rocket to space. They prefer that mode
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Check out the full YouTube video below! #gamedev
It's my best one yet, according to stats & comments :D

youtu.be/nXrEX6j-Mws
Coding a Physics Engine from scratch!
YouTube video by Zanzlanz
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November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I made my physics engine in 7 days, using only past experience, trial-and-error, and a whole lot of dot products 😅

5 of those days were spent struggling with rigidbody physics, haha
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
As I was growing up, I thought I wanted to be many things:

An inventor
A magician
An artist
A musician
An animator
A writer

Turns out, I didn't have to pick! I could be ALL of it. Gamedev is every bit of my dreams and so much more. I love this career!
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I hadn't thought about that! Would you pick them the round before your turn, so you have to predict what your opponent will choose first?

I considered letting the opponent control shuffles by pressing swap presets. But it would be hard to both shuffle AND pay attention to what's under each cup haha
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I animated these little emoji guys for the video! #aftereffects #2danimation

They represent "autonomy", "competence", and "relatedness" in Psychology.

They're kind of why we do what we do. Say hi:
September 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
To create the maze visualizations in my new video (see previous post in 🧵), I created a little physics solver with a bunch of animation controls! #haxe #gamedev

Here was an early test of it:
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Tada! The weird thing about the game is:
It's a PowerPoint game made of 1046 slides, created by hand. #gamedev

Check it out:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmYD...
Making the most complicated PowerPoint game!
YouTube video by Zanzlanz
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August 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
My first code was... kind of a bop!
Written in AppleScript in 2006. #programming #gamedev
July 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM