A few months ago it was decided to drop the King of Thieves CP and allow it to become a team project, because no one was working on it anymore. And thus the it became another failed Community Project. A reason for failure was the endless discussions about the story and how some gameplay elements worked. The lack of decision making eventually killed the project, because everyone moved on and went about with their own games.
Then a number of new and old members to ZFGC asked about a community project and also as an attempt to bring some activity to the forum. A vote was held to decide what to to do make an original zelda or remake one of the older zelda games. The vote landed on remaking Link's Awakening. Reason given for a remake was that a lot of design decisions were already made with gameplay, story and mapping. It therefore seemed to be the most successful to at least reach the first dungeon.
It was decided that the style would be minish cap, because it was the newest and the most fresh of 2d styles. It was also decided that the basis of the engine (MC style) would be coded by a select team, so we had a solid foundation to work with. 4Sword even had a topic where people could solicitate for a position. The engine would still be a lot of work, so the rest was put on a lower simmer. Eventually it was agreed to open up a board to get the resources like graphics and sound for the game together, but the request was that we would gather our own ZFGC resources and not just ripped it all from TSR, because they contain flaws. This coincided with Mamoruanime's topic to rip 2d graphics from the 2d Zelda's.
This is where it all halted once more. Not many people are ripping graphics now. To me it seems that everyone is happy to put puzzle pieces together, but not to get them.
In my opinion lets stick with the LA remake and start getting MC graphics once more. Because if this ends in a failure, I have little hope for an original game.
As far as coding is concerned, I don't think I'd be helpful considering I barely know C++ and haven't even touched GM. I think what I could probably offer is promotional graphics/character designs. I think it would be interesting if we had some drawings to go along with the actual game. I'm pretty useless now with UI considering...it's a revamp of a game so UI is already pretty much decided.
Because it isn't an original game it doesn't mean it can't use art work. Original LA is a lot different than MC. It wouldn't hurt to make some in MC style for the NCFC.