Maurycy Zarzycki

Evidently Cube
Date of foundation:	Skell Zoft: 2003 Mauft: 2006 Retrocade: 2011 Evidently Cube: 2018
Date of closure:	Skell Zoft: 2005 Mauft: 2011 Retrocade: 2017 Evidently Cube: Still operating
Owner(s):	Maurycy Zarzycki

Maurycy Zarzycki (previously known as Bicyk, Bocet, Skell Zoft, Skell, Mauft, and Retrocade, now known as Evidently Cube) is Michał Gdaniec's younger brother, and the developer behind Mario Forever Flash, the Squario duology, and the Kulkis series. He's mostly known for contributing Mario Forever by being the beta tester of the game before its public release and had a major role during Buziol Games' era, alongside making Flash ports of Caravel Games' Deadly Rooms Of Death. As of right now, Maurycy has managed to enter the gaming industry by releasing some games on both Steam, and itch.io.

History

Maurycy's Early Days (1990-2001):

Maurycy Zarzycki was born on August 1st, 1990, eight years after his brother Michał Gdaniec was born. Using Michal's Amiga 1200 Backbone, he managed to make small Amiga games on it when he was eight to eleven years old, one of which was a platformer that took Alien's graphics. Those Amiga games had the same fate as Michał's games, lost.

When Maurycy was eleven or twelve years old, he and Michał got a Windows 98 operating system and therefore stopped using the Backbone and switched to Clickteam's Klik & Play.

Maurycy's Role on Buziol Games and the Start of Skell Zoft (2002-2005):

During Buziol Games' first years, Maurycy helped Michał on Myster Muszel by beta testing it and creating some levels in it. Maurycy would do the same thing to Michał's next games like Stargrade, Madloc Future and Urbagility.

In 2003, Maurycy, under the name Bocet released Przygody Wesołego Ludzika (Adventures of Happy Man), his first and only Klik & Play game. After that, he switched to Multimedia Fusion 1.5, rebranded to Skell Zoft and released both Kulkis and Diamentowa Przygoda (Diamond Adventure) in RPGMaker, both of which were helped by Michał and advertised on Buziol Games.

In the same year, Maurycy made a small game called Kanonier and would beta test Mario Forever back in 2003, before the game's official release in 2004.

In 2005, before switching to Mauft, Maurycy wanted to make a sequel of PWL that would improve and add new mechanics to it. However, it never began development and was cancelled shortly after.

Rebranding to Mauft and the Sequel of Kulkis (2006-2007):

In 2006, Maurycy rebranded the name Skell Zoft to Mauft, and would then make his own website. His first serious game after the rebranding was Kulkis 2 on GameMaker, which was clunky due to the bugs it had. His second game on GameMaker was Logical Pack 1, which was released before 2007.

In 2007, he planned to release his first Adobe Flash game called Evader and Rotflix, plus Kulkis 3, in which were unfinished and cancelled. His only games that were released in 2007 were Qualifier, Happy Runner 1, and finally Linx. He also released Lovesmas and Kartka Urodzinowa as parts of two GM Clan Liga 24 challenges. Lovesmas won with 17 out of 20 votes while Kartka Urodzinowa received 5th place.

Squario and Maurycy's way to Adobe Flash games (2008-2010):

Before Flash's popularity started rising in 2008, Maurycy planned to remake the Multimedia Fusion version of Kulkis, which resulted him in making Kulkis Saga I: The Shadowy Prologue, which was gonna include five Kulkis games that would depict five phases of Kulkises' history. Unfortunately it was later cancelled after 5% of progress due to losing interest on it. The same thing would happen with Outerplanet and Poing Ressurection, both which were planned to be made in Blitzmax

When the Flash era began to rise, Maurycy wanted to abandon GameMaker by releasing his final game on it, Happy Runner 2, and develop games on Adobe Flash. Using Pure ActionScript 3, he managed to make Minigames: Trapdoorer, Galagian, and the infamous Squario game, all of which would be released in his site and Newgrounds.

In 2009, Michał Gdaniec, now known as Softendo partnered up again with Maurycy and made one of his popular Flash games; Mario Forever Flash, with Softendo being the publisher of it. He later released a nerfed version of the game that made the game easier after it's criticism of its tough difficulty levels. After the success of MFF, Maurycy returned to making his own games and released Trapdoorer, Cyberix, and Scribbland and a set of tiny games called Pixelagne. He didn't however finish Johny Longshaft, which had its development abandoned.

Finally in 2010, before leaving the name Mauft, he released Asteroidase, Platformeye, Deepness, Sketcher 1 and 2, Mazor, and Mario Icy Tower. In the same year, a mobile company by the name Mominis collabed with Maurycy to release the Android version of Trapdoorer, Kulkis, and a new game, Beast Out in 2011. He was also gonna release the sequel to Mazor and Scribbland plus a new Kulkis game called Kulkis Raster and DyROD, but they weren't announced and therefore cancelled.

Rebranding to Retrocade and the First Game to Steam (2011-2015):

Maurycy chose the name Retrocade as Mauft's successor, in which then he sold his old Flash games' licenses for real money. They were separated to three offers:

• A game's source file
• A game's levels
• A game's source file and its levels

Many people didn't buy any of it due to their prices, and some did. However, Squario and Scribbland were sold to Minijuegos, and the latter to Bubblebox. Platogo also accquired the license of Cyber Kulkis after the game's release in 2012.

During 2011, Maurycy released the Flash versions of Kulkis and Linx, which were both different to their original Multimedia Fusion version. then he made Slimower, Squario 2, Linx: Easy Set, Linx: Hard Set, Kulkis: Hard Edition, Sketcher 3, Rock Rush, Kulkis 1.5, Rock Rush: Undervaults, Cloudie, Galaxus, Rock Rush: Classic I, Rock Rush: Classic II, and Rock Rush: Classic III. Retrocade was also featured and listed on TIME's fifty best websites of 2011 in the same year, for adopting ''an old-school aesthetic that's infinitely more charming than that of a gory, modern first-person shooter''. He also started developing Submuncher, which was gonna be his biggest game.

In June 2011, Maurycy sent to Mike, the owner of Deadly Rooms Of Death a proof of concept that shows Flash is capable of pulling and making a port of the game, which was approved and the port began developing.

In 2012, Weirdtris was released, and King Dugan's Dungeon ep.1 was released, which was a small Flash port of the original King Dugan's Dungeon by Caravel Games. In the same year, he would start releasing Cyber Kulkis: Casual, Cyber Kulkis: CPU, Cyber Kulkis: Inca, Cyber Kulkis: Blob, Cyber Kulkis: Medieval, and Cyber Kulkis: Moon. And finally King Dugan's Dungeon ep.2 and King Dugan's Dungeon ep.3. He then made a mobile version of Linx, which at first got a lite version and then a full version a month later on December.

In 2013, Maurycy would release his only game on this year, that being Tactic DROD, which was created as an April Fools joke for Caravel Games forums.

In 2014, Maurycy made his first purchasable game called Monstro: Battle Tactics and shared it to Steam. Later on, he would release King Dugan's Dungeon ep.4, the fourth part of Flash DROD.

In 2015, Maurycy made a new game with a whole team called Machine at the Heart of the World, and released the penultimate King Dugan's Dungeon ep.5, the fifth part of Flash DROD. In the same year, he started development in Kage Jittain but was shortly cancelled, with Submuncher getting abandoned in 2016.

Evidently Cube, the name after a lot of deliberation (2017-present):

The year was 2017, and after six years of having the name Retrocade, Maurycy decided to rebrand as Evidently Cube. He released archives of his old Retrocade games, including their source codes and assets. He also announced a new game called Trans Neuronica, which was an evolution of his previous game Linx and would be coded on Javascript rather than Flash, due to Adobe's announcement of ending Flash's support. In 2018, he released the Windows version of Kulkis on itch.io that was made in Adobe Flash AIR, and after four years he released Introspection Idle, an idle game.

In 2023, Maurycy released Trans Neuronica Prelude, a demo of Trans Neuronica that won second place during the gamedev competition on Revision 2023 in the website pouet. He also released its Early Access version to Steam. On October 2024, the full version of the game was released on both Steam and GOG.

Right now, Maurycy is focused on balancing his life and developing games Given how busy he is alongside his brother Michał, it's a mystery in what game will he make next, or if he will work with his brother again.

List of games Maurycy Zarzycki made

Bocet/Bicyk:

• Przygody Wesołego Ludzika (Adventures of Happy Man) (2003; First game Maurycy has ever made in Klik & Play)

Skell Zoft:

• Kulkis (Multimedia Fusion's version) (2003; with Buziol Games. First game made in Multimedia Fusion)

• Diamentowa Przygoda (Diamond Adventure) (2003; with Buziol Games. Only game made in RPGMaker)
• Kanonier (2003; Last game made in Multimedia Fusion)

Mauft:

• Kulkis 2 (2006; First game made in GameMaker)

• Logical Pack 1 (2006)
• Qualifier (2007)

• Happy Runner (2007)
• Linx (2007)

• Happy Runner 2 (2008; Last game made in GameMaker)

• Minigames: Trapdoorer (2008; Maurycy's first game made in Flash)

• Galagian (2008)

• Squario (2008)

• Mario Forever Flash (2009; with Softendo)

• Trapdoorer (2009)

• Cyberix (2009)

• Scribbland (2009)

• Asteroidase (2010)

• Platformeye (2010)

• Deepness (2010)

• Sketcher (2010)

• Mazor (2010)

• Sketcher 2 (2010)
• Mario Icy Tower (2010; also known as Super Mario Ice Tower, with Softendo)
• Trapdoorer (Android version; collabed with Mominis; 2010)
• Kulkis (Android version; collabed with Mominis; 2010)

Retrocade:

• Beast Out (Collabed with Mominis; 2011)

• Kulkis (2011; Flash version)

• Linx (2011; Flash version)

• Slimower (2011)

• Squario 2 (2011)

• Linx: Easy Set (2011)

• Linx: Hard Set (2011)
• Kulkis: Hard Edition (2011)

• Sketcher 3 (2011)

• Rock Rush (2011)

• Kulkis 1.5 (2011)

• Rock Rush: Undervaults (2011)

• Cloudie (2011)

• Galaxus (2011)

• Rock Rush: Classic I (2011)
• Rock Rush: Classic II (2011)
• Rock Rush: Classic III (2011)

• Weirdtris (2012)

• King Dugan's Dungeon ep.1 (2012)

• Cyber Kulkis: Casual (2012)

• King Dugan's Dungeon ep.2 (2012)
• King Dugan's Dungeon ep.3 (2012)

• Cyber Kulkis: CPU (2012)
• Cyber Kulkis: Blob (2012)

• Cyber Kulkis Inca (2012)
• Cyber Kulkis: Medieval (2012)
• Cyber Kulkis: Moon (2012)
• Linx (Mobile version; 2012)
• Tactic DROD (2013)
• Monstro: Battle Tactics (2014)

• King Dugan's Dungeon ep.4 (2014)
• Machine at the Heart of the World (2015; First game made in MonoGame)
• King Dugan's Dungeon ep.5 (2015; Last game made in Flash)

Evidently Cube:

• Kulkis (Windows version; 2018. Made in Adobe Flash AIR)

• Introspection Idle (2022)

• Trans Neuronica Prelude (2023)

• Trans Neuronica (2024)
• King Dugan's Dungeon ep.6 (TBA)

Cancelled/Abandoned games:

• Przygody Wesołego Ludzika 2 (2005?; cancelled)
• Doomed Roads of Skellhood (also known as Deadly Rooms of Skell-hat) (2005)
• Metroid Recreation (2006; unfinished)
• Minigames Pack (Crimbol ; 2006. Mouse Runner ; 2007, Shootboy ; 2007, Squarbley ; 2007; abandoned)
• Lovesmas (2007; was made for GameMaker Clan's Liga 24 challenge)
• Kartka Urodzinowa (Birthday Card ; was made for GameMaker Clan's Liga 24 challenge, 2007)
• Evader (2007; alpha)
• Rotflix (2007; unfinished)
• Kulkis 3 (2007?-2008?; cancelled)
• Poing Ressurection (2008; unfinished)
• Kulkis Saga I: The Shadowy Prologue (2008; cancelled)
• OuterPlanet (2008; unfinished)
• Pixelagne (2009)
• Johny Long Shaft (2009; unfinished)
• Kulkis Raster (2010; unfinished)
• DyROD (2010; unfinished)
• Scribbland 2 (2011; unfinished)
• Mazor 2 (2011; never announced, cancelled)
• Submuncher (2011-2016; abandoned)
• Kage Jittain (Shadow Substance) (2015; cancelled)

Gallery

Logos:

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  Skell Zoft's logo, which was Maurycy Zarzycki's earliest name. Was used only in the Multimedia Fusion version of Kulkis.

External Links

Maurycy's Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/mauft-com (INACTIVE)

Evidently Cube's website: https://www.evidentlycube.com/

Maurycy's Newgrounds: https://skellus.newgrounds.com/ (INACTIVE)

Evidently Cube's itch.io: https://itch.io/profile/evidentlycube