PrologueA long, long time ago…
Evil spirits appeared in the land of Hyrule and just when the world was on the verge of being swallowed by shadow...
The tiny Picori appeared from the heavens, bringing the hero of men a sword and a golden light.
With wisdom and courage the hero drove out the darkness.
When peace had been restored, the people enshrined that blade with care.
Hyrule was left undisturbed for many years, and because of this it prospered. But it was to be that it would not be like this forever.
Terrible disasters occurred. Villages burned, Death Mountain erupted, and the land of Hyrule was on the edge.
Just as the people prayed to the goddesses to save them, a mysterious stranger appeared. He said he could help them, and offered to calm the turmoil and destruction, in return for being the Keeper of the Four Sword.
The people hailed him as a hero, like the Hero of Light of old times. They rallied behind him, and supported him with his cause.
The royal family, with nowhere else to turn, unwillingly accepted his proposition. The stranger then by mysterious power calmed the disasters, and Hyrule was at peace once again.
The people rejoiced, and began restoring the former glory of their land.
The strange man was satisfied. He returned to the castle to retrieve his prize. When he arrived, the royal family denied ever making such a deal with a complete stranger.
Angered, the man used his dark powers to turn the King and his soldiers to stone, and continued to pursue the sword.
When he arrived at the chamber where the Four Sword was hidden, he walked to the sword and pulled it from its pedestal.
No sooner did he realise his mistake…
The sword, sensing an evil being, destroyed it in the only way it could. It absorbed the man, and by absorbing his evil, changed shape in the progress.
The great disasters outside could now not be stopped, and the castle and town sunk beneath the land, never to be seen again.
As for the sword, it was shattered, the pieces flying over the land of Hyrule. It all became legend, and neither the sword nor the man was ever seen again.
Extract from the first chapter[spoiler=Extract - May contain spoilers]Link is sleeping. Suddenly, the house shakes, and wakes Link from his sleep. He goes downstairs and wakes his father, a farmer who tells him not to worry, and to go back to sleep.
The next morning, Link and his father go to investigate the disturbance, and find that the only way out of the valley they live in has been blocked by a deep chasm that has opened up from the night’s earthquake. Annoyed, and slightly worried, Link’s father sends him to cut wood in the small forest across the paddock at the back of their house, so they can build a bridge, while he will fetch some rope.
Link completes this task, and returns to the chasm. His father then remembers that they need his blueprint folder, which he has left in the barn after making some fences around a field.
Link fetches the book, and gives it to his father, who goes about showing Link how to build a small bridge using the plans. They complete the bridge, and he and his father make their way to the nearby village, Seshripe Village, where they would report their findings to the mayor.
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Screenshotsvery unexciting at the moment... Mapping isn't a priority right now
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Demos4/8/08 -
Layer demo - a little test of the layer engine I spent a couple of hours coding. Currently has support for 5 layers above and 5 below, but to change that I only need change a couple of variables.
9/8/08 -
Layer demo update - Changed the way the game changes layers and added a test for changing the layers with side movement. Could not recreate the glitch in post
http://www.zfgc.com/forum/index.php?topic=30159.msg335738#msg335738History4/8/08 - Started topic, uploaded layer test demo.
9/8/08 - Updated the layer test demo with a new way for changing the layer, posted game in the site's WIP section.
20/8/08 - Day/night/lighting engine almost complete, confirmed that the game will be using the ZFGC-API.
CreditsGoodnight - for his movement engine. Thanks mate, never would have been able to do it otherwise, I'm terrible at coding complex movement
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