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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Jun 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    BIG NEWS!

    Not only does today mark the release of the final Undersea Odyssey update, it's also the one year anniversary of Alien Cow Farm! You can...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Jun 3, 2019
    • 3 min

    Now What?

    "So Zak, now that Alien Cow Farm is available on Steam, what are you going to do now?" "Uh...pray that it sells?" Even from the very begi...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • May 31, 2019
    • 4 min

    Postmortem

    We're mere hours from launch now, so I thought I'd take the time to reflect on the Alien Cow Farm project as a whole, and record some of ...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • May 28, 2019
    • 1 min

    All Systems Are Go!

    Sorry for the recent radio silence; it's been pretty uneventful here. My Steam store page was approved about two weeks ago, and with bet...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • May 19, 2019
    • 4 min

    Steam (Part II)

    If you're seriously looking to add Steam to your Unity game, then let me start by saying I cannot recommend in Principle's YouTube tutori...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • May 16, 2019
    • 3 min

    Steam (Part I)

    I've been very upfront about my goals for this game since the very beginning: the endgame is to get it onto Steam, and I'm now just about...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • May 12, 2019
    • 1 min

    Final Trailer + Release Date!

    The ACF Zeta Build is complete! The Zeta Build is an unofficial "final" build that's got everything in it except for Steam functionality...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • May 9, 2019
    • 5 min

    Audio Quirks

    As of yesterday, all the music and sound effects for ACF are complete and in-game. Sound is another aspect that I previously knew very l...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Apr 29, 2019
    • 4 min

    Unity Lighting

    Another aspect of my previous 3D games that I was always more than happy to push onto someone else, lighting and I have always shared a s...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Apr 24, 2019
    • 4 min

    Glimmer Ridge Art Gallery

    Time for another sneak peek at my fabulous artwork. The fourth map was just going to be a rather boring forest, until I had the idea to ...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Apr 8, 2019
    • 4 min

    V(ulcanix)FX (Part III)

    To wrap up my series on Vulcanix, there's one last thing I want to talk about: the cows. Ever since I first dreamed up this planet, I ha...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Apr 5, 2019
    • 4 min

    V(ulcanix)FX (Part II)

    Today I'm going to talk about particle effects. Much like shaders, and really anything in Unity, you can achieve some really cool stuff ...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Apr 2, 2019
    • 2 min

    V(ulcanix)FX (Part I)

    If you haven't heard anything from me in a while, just go ahead and assume that I'm working on artwork again. My third map, Vulcanix, is...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Mar 18, 2019
    • 3 min

    Adding Achievements

    Ever since beta dropped (and yes, the camera clipping fix did make it in, thanks for asking), I've been working exclusively on achievemen...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Mar 7, 2019
    • 1 min

    Beta is Live!

    ACF's Beta build did indeed release on Monday, but I was waiting until I had the fancy launch trailer ready to go before making the publi...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Feb 27, 2019
    • 2 min

    Beta Coming 3/4/19!

    With the completion of my second map, I feel ready to make my next (and last for real this time) public game release. My Trello board ha...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Feb 20, 2019
    • 2 min

    Announcing ZWOLYA GAMES!

    Ladies and gentlemen, the announcement you've all been waiting for: I am now officially the sole proprietor of my own company, ZWOLYA GAM...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Feb 18, 2019
    • 2 min

    Urbanopolis Art Gallery

    I'm still waiting on some confirmations before I can make my big mystery announcement, but in the meantime I thought you might enjoy seei...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Feb 8, 2019
    • 4 min

    COM UFOs: AI (Part II)

    I covered my cow AI last time, and for a while that was all my game had in it. Alien Cow Farm was always meant to shine as a local-multi...

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    Zak Olyarnik
    • Feb 5, 2019
    • 4 min

    A* and the Space Cows: AI (Part I)

    I cleverly avoided doing anything AI-related on my senior project, and before that, the most complex thing I had tackled was the wanderin...

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