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Łukasz Mikołajczyk 🦖

@kurasiu.bsky.social

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I like to code things. Especially dinosaurs of cartoon variety. Co-creator, programmer and writer of Zniw Adventure and Zid Journey @zidandzniw.bsky.social 🦖 I like to toy around and fix old hardware too. DOS/Windows 95 era my beloved

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Łukasz Mikołajczyk 🦖 @kurasiu.bsky.social · Jul 2

Guess it's time for a proper introduction here!

I'm the co-creator, programmer and writer of Zid and Zniw Chronicles games. Me and my girlfriend released Zniw Adventure in 2020, now working on Zid Journey!

In other words - if you're looking for cartoon dinosaurs content, we can definitely deliver.

Zid Journey screenshot - Small Bay's docks with the Unescoceratops' boat

Zid Journey screenshot - Magmosia forest during the day

Zid Journey screenshot - mysterious dinosaur settlement at night

Zid Journey screenshot - backpack view with the hatchling

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

"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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🦊 Full-time Fox 🍪 @foxinajacket.bsky.social · Apr 25

🖌️Okami style: Growlithe 🔥

Here's an upcoming Patreon print... ;3c

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#Pokemon #Fanart #PokemonArt

Growlithe the fire Pokemon drew in a style of Okami Amaterasu artworks (Japanese sumi-e paintings inspired)

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Rip Cordman @lachm.page · Apr 21

51.

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Łukasz Mikołajczyk 🦖 @kurasiu.bsky.social · 1d

Ample backpack space to store a dinosaur hatchling or two as well....
Dang, looks mighty fine in 3D!

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Chey @chey-bsky.bsky.social · 1d

lizard!
#b3d

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SandstormerArt @sandstormerart.bsky.social · Aug 25

Tomatee! 🍅
#DiscCreatures #Art

Tomatee - An orange tomato like creature. They have a large smile on its face.

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Richard Moss @mossrc.bsky.social · 21d

The delightful 1980s Mac game Continuum is now playable in a browser. Originally released under a joke "send us beer if you like it" licence after issues with its publisher, it's a Gravitar and Asteroids-inspired black-and-white space game that even John Romero told me was awesome. continuumjs.com

A screenshot of the beginning of the first level of Continuum.

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Amby - Play Dragon March Demo! @ambystoman.neocities.org · Jun 9

Check out Dragon March's first trailer!
Play the new DEMO on Steam out now!
#dragonmarch #steam #indiedev

store.steampowered.com/app/3617120/...

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Łukasz Mikołajczyk 🦖 @kurasiu.bsky.social · 2d

Love all my art friends too, keep up the wonderful work everyone

Łukasz Mikołajczyk 🦖 @kurasiu.bsky.social · 2d

Being friends with absolute gigachad artists making wonderful artworks (even often industry professionals) is absolutely funny to me, as I'm just sitting here like "hi, I make runtime errors and later bang my head against the wall trying to fix them"

MS Paint doodle of Zid telling he makes pagefault errors for a living

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Radiant Rodent @radiantrodent.bsky.social · 2d

Day 7: Streamer Rat

A Rat Plays DOOM...!

[ #rattober #rattober2025 ]

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

Zniw Adventure, but it's 1997, and you just got home from school and decided to check that tape with cartoon dinosaurs.

(a small VCR test, just in time for #TrailerTuesday!)

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 3d

Preview of my latest #paleoart piece: a baby bison flees the deadliest predator of Ice Age Europe. Harrowing, harrowing stuff.

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

She said "hello!"

Zniw the dinosaur, waving at someone. In-game graphic from Zniw Adventure

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

As the ancient saying goes, the more the Zniw, the less the sniff -so here's a bunch of yellow dinosaurs for a happy and productive Monday for you all 🦕

Zniw walking, and looking to the left (pov: right), from Zniw Adventure

Several raw animation frames from Zniw Adventure, with Zniw in different poses

Character study of Zniw, from Zniw Adventure

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Łukasz Mikołajczyk 🦖 @kurasiu.bsky.social · 4d

Cartoon dinosaurs real???

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Tiltro @tiltro.bsky.social · 5d

Spooky season is here!!

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 7d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 5d

#Tyrannosaurus rex was named 120 years ago today (Oct 4, 1905). If you want to know all there is to know about the world's most iconic #dinosaur, the word is that my book "King Tyrant", published a few months back, is a good start. #fossils #paleontology #paleoart press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The cover of the book "King Tyrant: a natural history of Tyrannosaurus rex" covered with gleaming review comments and a load of 5 star (or nearly so) ratings. Do you not have a copy yet? You can get them wherever books are sold. I mean, I'm just an alt text caption so my judgment on this anything beyond image description is limited, but I hear Mark worked incredibly hard on this project and thinks it's the best thing he's ever published. He'd be really happy if you bought a copy, and perhaps additional ones for friends and family so you could have very informed conversations about T. rex and all the dinosaur biology it's revealed to us.

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Marko (Nerd and Jock Comics) @markoraassina.bsky.social · 5d

Hang in there, struggling artists

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Evangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 5d

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 1
Angel Attack
Angel Attack

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 5d

Dinosaur Gaming Real....

I absolutely adore how Zid Journey's resolution is squeezed to 4:3 hahah

Zniw Adventure on a CRT TV, running via an old VCR

Zid Journey on a CRT TV, running via an old VCR

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Zephyrix @zephyrix24.bsky.social · 6d

Do you like dragons and arcade games? We made a free arcade platformer that stands in the tradition of 80s arcade games like Bubble Bobble. Spit fire, burn enemies and destroy the level itself!
You can play it right now on Itch directly in the browser:
100devs.itch.io/dragon-drago...

Dragon Dragon Fire Fire by Godot Collaborative Game Jam community, ASTENRA, Zephyrix

A late 80s styled arcade game with destructible levels.

100devs.itch.io

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Goloso Games @golosogames.bsky.social · 6d

I'm your host for #PointNClickFriday!
I just announced Antenna Dilemma, a comical and epic adventure where fixing your antenna leads to dystopian chaos. ⬜️🔴

store.steampowered.com/app/3853730/...

Like, retweet and share your games in the comments! 👀

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Kate 🍄 @kateammann.bsky.social · 7d

Little pumpkin thief 🎃

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