Maybe it's time to start tweeting game-art again~

Doing some experimenting with normal editing workflows, along with preparations for a handful of personal projects. #gamedev #indiedev #npr #stylized pic.twitter.com/oWOrpjvXv2

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) March 15, 2024

🌅 A breath between sea & sun 🌅#gameart #shaders #MadeWithUnity #ocean pic.twitter.com/n7gjMH5N0e

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) January 25, 2021

Very happy w/ these Shadows #gameart #shaders #gamedev #GGJ2019 pic.twitter.com/FcR3E3lVCW

— Steve Z 🔜 GDC (@ZappForThat) February 11, 2019

Syrupy math?
Viscosity vectors?#gamedev #gameart #indiedev pic.twitter.com/UY1K0v1zyt

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) August 13, 2021

Made some cute grass knights & other fun stuff for our #LDJAM38

Little Ruins: 1-8 players https://t.co/B5eBFVtnUV#gameart #gamedev pic.twitter.com/XeUIrqAtrD

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) April 26, 2017

The exact moment Cauldron-Frog came to life ♥️

🔊👂🏻#gamedev #gameart #indiedev #animation pic.twitter.com/SCyshOZ8yi

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) November 29, 2020

Very arbitrary experiment with reflections and symmetry pic.twitter.com/IW7OKXvhkF

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) July 19, 2020

~~~WIGGLE LIKE YOU MEAN IT~~~#Gamedev #Gameart #Indiedev pic.twitter.com/GGfxdUuVhN

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) April 28, 2019

Some days you just gotta make a cool dragon~✨#indiedev #gameart #gamedev #art #animation #MadeWithUnity #amplify #b3d #blender3d #shaders #screenshotsaturday #unity3d #motiongraphics #3drender #3d #digitalart #render #gif #motion #3dart pic.twitter.com/g7XKjSZObj

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) June 22, 2019

╚╔╩╚╬╠═╚╩ ╠╩
the stars are wrong
╩╬╠╩╔╚═╬╠═╚╚#gamedev #gameart #shaders #madewithunity pic.twitter.com/vlyowcv7r1

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) September 19, 2018

Working on this halftone style & I'm really happy with this light behavior! 😍 For the @SocietyOfPlay Cartridge Jam!

⚫🔴⚪🔵⚫🔴⚪🔵⚫🔴⚪🔵⚫🔴⚪🔵#gameart #gamedev #ShaderDev @madewithunity pic.twitter.com/8NrDJeLD5w

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) August 27, 2018

Back on my BS ✨

Thanks to @flogelz & @AlanZucconi for their caustics tutorials!#gamedev #gameart #shader #madewithunity pic.twitter.com/7FjNoSWrJt

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) September 6, 2020

// A beacon for the living,
// Atonement yet to be,
// All adrift in this troubled sea.
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All animation done in shader~~~
.#indiedev #gameart #gamedev #art #animation #MadeWithUnity #amplify #DeepSea #MarineLife #b3d #blender3d #shaders #screenshotsaturday #unity3d pic.twitter.com/LGs5l69fYi

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) June 2, 2019

🍃 What a lovely breeze 🍃

2 Textures, 1 Quad, Triplanar/World-aligned projection, Scalable Wind, Static geo.
All generated on-the-fly from 1 poorly painted leaf alpha

🌿 🍃🍂#Gameart #Indiedev #Amplify #MadeWIthUnity pic.twitter.com/RtqDMdoOJc

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) August 17, 2018

I borrowed a projector and now I don't know how I'll live without it. Help ✌️✨😭
Also, I got flocking working & tackled that gimbal-lock bug 😊
I think I'm a programmer now.

Will post more, better forage later#gamedev #gameart #madewithunity #blender #b3d #shader #animation pic.twitter.com/XIckDxjgj1

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) July 25, 2019

Can't share recent work b/c end-of-game spoilers, but I can upload some experimental junk at least :V #gamedev #gameart pic.twitter.com/n3Ha9KQFPg

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) March 30, 2017

My first real attempt at making FX for games. @PolyKnightGames #gamedev #madewithunity #lowpoly pic.twitter.com/V0hIpYlviG

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) June 8, 2016

▒ ▒ Glitchy Backlog ▒ ▒#gameart #indiedev #gamedev pic.twitter.com/T4xmg0CQZW

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) July 12, 2018

// Out of the blue,
// just as old
// and as new

All animation done in shader#gamedev #gameart #MadeWithUnity #amplifyshader #shaders #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/VpovBJK5Kk

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) May 11, 2019

🌱🌱🌱 And here's the actual motion I was going for! 🌱🌱🌱

There's still a little regularity, and the motion itself is not particularly interesting just yet, but groundwork is all there 😉 pic.twitter.com/wve9XSZhwl

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) July 13, 2018

✨Eventually we got there & it turned into something I'm really proud of✨
I should really do a breakdown of this...

"What you attempt has been attempted before, but you drive on... If by chance you do succeed, will you remember us?"#gamedev #Gameart #indiedev @InnerSpaceGame pic.twitter.com/a6fUdpR5tU

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) May 21, 2018

|| Animated || #gamedev #gameart #lowpoly pic.twitter.com/DpxIailbOT

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) February 16, 2017

🎶 I Wanna hold you HAAaaAaaAnd! 🎶 makin' the @PolyKnightGames world feel more alive #gamedev #lowPoly pic.twitter.com/d5IbVBzoH4

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) April 4, 2016

Have been spending some time exploring personal projects & chasing a few ideas. Pretty different from what I normally post, but that's what exploration is for #gamedev #gameart #surreal #indiedev pic.twitter.com/KvVZixTobW

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) April 9, 2018

Cut to ribbons & peeled away

I'm eally wanting to dive into particle systems. Can't wait to update to 5.5 ✨🎆🎉🌧️⛈️#gamedev #lowpoly #FX pic.twitter.com/FpBP3cKv0S

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) December 11, 2016

What is proper Twitter etiquette for re-uploading media?
Here's a simple, but old thing I'm really proud of#gamedev #gameart #indiedev pic.twitter.com/1ZkgxvVH4c

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) April 10, 2017

@ZappForThat oops, forgot to actually attach the fixed version :x pic.twitter.com/xdwBpjdqV1

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) March 31, 2016

Just finished putting new coat of paint on maybe the oldest creature in @InnerSpaceGame

Will post progress shots below #gamedev #gameart pic.twitter.com/WdShPeUPF8

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) June 30, 2017

Working on a revamp of the 'ol portfolio site & I keep finding cool stuff I forgot I made 😅#Gamedev #Gameart #Indiedev pic.twitter.com/WbIHzmMNhU

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) May 18, 2018

...Huh, rad 🤔 pic.twitter.com/4pMbEzoQb8

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) February 13, 2018

Dancing broken things. so pretty :3 #gamedev #lowpoly pic.twitter.com/9PXk0AKK8t

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) July 27, 2016

This wasn't planned 😂@StormVoxel @boxheadpixelart pic.twitter.com/jRCuuBsohp

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) September 20, 2017

I'm 24 😲

have been working on IS since 21😨

The freshmen of my senior year are now seniors 😱

Maybe one is about to launch a Kickstarter for their first game, too? 🌱

Time flies 😓

Goals:
• 2 more games by 30
• get a cat 🐈

Be good, 2018. Please be good.
I miss Obama. pic.twitter.com/M7MyCUsJ3X

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) January 6, 2018

Guys...

◉_◉ 29 days until my game comes out ◉_◉

Here's some stuff I made for it ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ and a new trailer https://t.co/MRTlgzbXwa

guys, it's happening ✨✨#gamedev #gameart #indiedev @PolyKnightGames pic.twitter.com/fHXvZVd5mC

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) December 18, 2017

HUUUGE thanks to @__hwilliams for her fantastic documentation on Gerstner Waves https://t.co/eUeFfE0I8r it helped a ton!#gamedev #gameart pic.twitter.com/LbVEMtOze8

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) August 11, 2017

Was always proud of this shader, but more so now b/c of optimizations from a few months ago :) #gamedev #indiedev #InnerSpaceGame #madewithunity pic.twitter.com/tBNOaOMp7B

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) January 8, 2018

Here's another throwback piece I made for @InnerSpaceGame
This was a really fun experiment in directional, geo-based light rays#gamedev #gameart pic.twitter.com/fDF59JmyCm

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) December 19, 2017

So I kinda broke it, but it's OK cuz it's kinda cool looking XD #gamedev pic.twitter.com/uDExKQvN1X

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) March 30, 2016

polish... polish, shine, optimize... *looks at time is left*

...polish, shine, optimize, polish...#Gamedev #gameart #indiedev pic.twitter.com/dfIPefs5jh

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) July 23, 2017

Surreal

More water adventures. Tune in next time for continued iteration on this sisyphean water THAT I KEEP TWEAKING. #gamedev #gameart pic.twitter.com/sseMCrNoZ6

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) August 3, 2017

Really pleased w/ how this water is shaping up 😊 Waves, flow distortion, & a better sense of scale
🌊🌊🏖️🌊🌊#gameart #gamedev @InnerSpaceGame pic.twitter.com/yhhbxewHlH

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) August 11, 2017

Here's another angle. I'm not an animator/FX guy, & I don't know how others do these, but this is how I did it 😋👍 Hope it helps #gameart pic.twitter.com/ymaoHJFHD1

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) June 18, 2017

#TBThursday Beautifully broken sarcophagi

Accident, but created flower petal artifacts. Still thinking abt a use for it#gameart #gamedev pic.twitter.com/pClue8e9ip

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) April 27, 2017

Rough motion to check the creep factor & transparency behaviors 😵😵

Dunno how I feel about it yet. It's cool, but is it spooky, ya know? #GameDev #GameArt pic.twitter.com/EIuu3XUqPd

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) March 15, 2018

Experimenting w/ a hologram shader let to some sick noise effects. #gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/6kNlhKXFA0

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) July 18, 2016

One of my favorite @InnerSpaceGame shader experiments

These things are so simple, but watching them is so satisfying. I wanna eat one :3#gameart #indiedev #tbt pic.twitter.com/cws3AjZ7AH

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) December 29, 2017

Swapping 'real' cloth sims for these. Motion via shader + static batching, so mega performance bonus #gamedev #gameart @PolyKnightGames pic.twitter.com/1Aat2WsJzc

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) August 25, 2017

#Tbt These are still some of my favorite assets from IS. Simple, but pretty effective#gamedev #Gameart #indiedev pic.twitter.com/iwH4S1hFh8

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) April 20, 2017

"This garden a crystalline refuge and child of the Ancients' misdoings. Where they failed, how will you fair better... ?"

Updated my site y'all! Still need to add some newer content—like this guy—but I wanted to share it https://t.co/iPjclrM3Y8#Gamedev #Gameart #Indiedev pic.twitter.com/ghoBK6OQJi

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) May 21, 2018

Random Character Generation + Sketchy Shader! #LDJAM #LD33 pic.twitter.com/i5X2TSsu59

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) August 24, 2015

WIP. Inspired by the work of Zdzisław Beksiński. vid link: https://t.co/tNNeiZ5CV7 #gamedev @SocietyOfPlay #indiedev pic.twitter.com/cnnH90LkHB

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) December 14, 2015

@PolyKnightGames So progress is going well XD #gamedev pic.twitter.com/Gbs7dgTyyo

— Steve Z (@ZappForThat) January 7, 2016