#zelda maker

I think a lot of the fun with Mario Maker is how objects interact with each other, and one of the complaints leveled against Mario Maker 2 is that a lot of the new stuff, especially the Super Mario 3D World style, doesn’t feel like it integrates very well as a new set of tools. I’ve heard all the new stuff feels very isolated and limited in frustrating ways.

And I feel like that’s a lot of what Zelda hinges on. You have dungeons themed around using one specific item and all the puzzles are tailor-built around that. There’s not a lot of general-purpose kind of stuff, but that’s not to say it would be impossible. If you took a slightly more Breath of the Wild approach, which was more about objects and states interacting with each other across a wide range of situations, then it might work out.

Like I imagine setting tiles for thorns and having to figure out a way to generate fire to burn the thorns away so you could progress. Having to find the titan’s glove to move heavy objects (and by that I mean more than just big boulders). The hookshot to grab and pull things at different distances.

I guess the problem is even considering that, you’d have a pretty limited pool of resources to build dungeons around. Things would get old quickly.

Maybe you could introduce some elements of randomization; Binding of Isaac is close enough to a Zelda game in some ways that maybe you could place chests that give the player random buffs. As a dungeon creator you could limit which items could spawn from chests out of a pool of different items, maybe? Focus on letting players half-design custom floors of a roguelike Zelda. Maybe that’s too haphazard. 

I dunno. I can’t envision this with top-down pixel art graphics, because I feel like you really do need to go fully Breath of the Wild here with 3D dungeons with object physics, just so you’d widen the scope of the kinds of interactions you could design for, but that makes the map editor a lot harder to program and work with.

Maybe it’s just not possible to do a Zelda Maker and have it be as easy and as robust as Mario Maker is. Zelda is just too puzzle-focused, whereas Mario can be a lot of different things. Same reason why a Metroid Maker would be tough, too.

Time for another one of my Nintendo Wishes.

I want a “Zelda Maker” on the Switch.

I’m absolutely not alone in wanting Zelda Maker, as soon as Mario Maker Launched it seemed like everyone and their mother was wondering about the possibility of a Zelda maker.  There is Zelda Classic, but it’s hardly the intuitive user friendly tool that Mario Maker is.

I imagine that making your own full Zelda games with stories, several dungeons connected by an overworld, would be very much impossible.  So my vision for it is that you could only make single, semi-linear levels, similar in design to how the levels in Four Swords Adventures progressed. 

Much like the different level types and themes in Mario Maker, I’d imagine the same thing for Zelda.  You could build an outdoor level, a cave level, a dungeon level, and a castle level. 

And while Zelda does have quite an array of 2D Zelda games to choose from with their own mechanics and art styles, I feel like they would most likely go with Zelda 1, A Link to the Past, Link’s Awakening, and A Link Between Worlds.

Cria a tua própria aventura com Zelda Maker

Zelda Maker deixou de ser uma lenda pois este projecto da Dream Mix chegou recentemente à sua versão Alpha.

A ideia de Zelda Maker é simples, na mesma linha de pensamento de Mario Maker, este novo programa permite ao utilizador criar as suas próprias aventuras no mundo de Hyrule. No entanto, Zelda Makertrata-se de um projecto não oficial pelo que está sujeito à possibilidade de ser terminado a…