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Title: [Completed] LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on May 29, 2006, 08:55:42 pm: In July 2005, the old Zelda Fan Game Central offered a competition to create a game in two weeks. Enter Team Kousou, and three weeks later, we came out with this:

(http://www.kousougames.co.uk/Shared/tfc_sup2.PNG)

In the Legend of Zelda: The Final Challenge, you have a choice of four characters, each with unique puzzles spread out over four seperate dungeons.

Production Team
Atrius - Main Programmer
Master K - Level Design
Mit - Programmer, Level Design, Planning

Screenshots
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/AtriusV/LoZ%20FC/lozFC_talking.png)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/AtriusV/LoZ%20FC/lozFC_slotsel.png)
(http://www.kousougames.co.uk/Shared/paused-yay.PNG)

Video
We got quite a nice reaction to this video when we released it.
Legend of Zelda: The Final Challenge Teaser (http://www.kousougames.co.uk/games/trailers/LoZ_TFC_teaser.zip)

Download it Here (http://www.kousougames.co.uk/data/downloads/counter.php?file=LoZ_TFC)

You have to keep in mind that it was done in quite a small time frame, so its a bit... Unpolished.
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: MaJoRa on May 29, 2006, 09:05:47 pm: I remember this, AMAZING game i must say, loving it all the way!
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: pxl_moon (dotyue) on May 29, 2006, 09:31:53 pm: i remember that... cool ideas... but i think there were problems with the gameplay... nice trailer too, but did you HAVE TO steal the tp trailer music? ^^;;
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on May 29, 2006, 09:48:14 pm: Quote from: yue on May 29, 2006, 09:31:53 pm
i remember that... cool ideas... but i think there were problems with the gameplay... nice trailer too, but did you HAVE TO steal the tp trailer music? ^^;;

Yeah... heh heh, I still remember talking to Mit about how many spikes & fires he put in the levels... People still say theres a lot but it's probably less than 1/3rd of what was originally there, and somehow there are still some glitches in the game that I remembered fixing >:(

As for the music, probably not, but meh ::)
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on May 29, 2006, 09:57:48 pm: Hard to say, its been so long. I like playing as the Deku because of his abilities, but boss fights are hard because he's so weak, where as the Goron has the strongest attack.
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Deku_stick on May 30, 2006, 12:41:50 pm: cool i will download is soon
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: OcarinaBoy on May 30, 2006, 12:55:15 pm: This game is very awesome, You have good graphics and gameplay. But some animations of the characters are less.
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: zero koll on May 30, 2006, 02:06:28 pm: Video,screnshots,cool!

The goron sprites need to be more realistic i think,when he walks he doesent moving the body,only the legs and the hands...!?
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: ???Azkridth??? on May 30, 2006, 02:24:43 pm: Wow, this is Amazing! I think I overlooked it before, because I don't remember reading anything about it. I want to play it, where do I get it from?
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on May 30, 2006, 08:58:14 pm: The link is toward the very bottom of the first post in large, bold letters.

And I kinda agree about the Goron sprites, but we didn't really have the time to fix them.
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: zero koll on June 02, 2006, 12:40:07 pm: Quote from: Atrius on May 30, 2006, 08:58:14 pm
The link is toward the very bottom of the first post in large, bold letters.

And I kinda agree about the Goron sprites, but we didn't really have the time to fix them.

You got al time in the world!

Wy just "fast,fast"al the time!?!

Wy dont continue on this it will be good if you work alitle bit more...!?

:P

-ZERO KOLL
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on June 02, 2006, 08:31:58 pm: Quote from: zero koll on June 02, 2006, 12:40:37 pm
Quote from: Atrius on May 30, 2006, 08:58:14 pm
The link is toward the very bottom of the first post in large, bold letters.

And I kinda agree about the Goron sprites, but we didn't really have the time to fix them.

You got al time in the world!

Wy just "fast,fast"al the time!?!

This was for a contest to see who could make the best Zelda fan game in 3 (2 originally) weeks. This game will remain unchanged from it's original version.
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Hoffy on June 02, 2006, 10:21:04 pm: It was definitely one of the greater games of the competition. The ability to change Link's form was excellent, and you did things very well. An awesome job, I must say.
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: chubbzilla on June 03, 2006, 06:10:00 pm: great great great just great well done 10/10
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Frebby on June 21, 2006, 12:05:25 am: I got an error when I was putting in my name after choosing a character and I had to abort. :(

What was wrong?

Nevermind, all I had to do was press Ignore.

But I'm like, stuck in the second room in that weird temple. o.O I don't know what to do. I must shoot that eye, and there's a block I can move in there too.. Can anyone help? :E

Haha, nevermind again, the guy said "your arrows will bounce on hard stuff" and I tried on the block. :)
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on June 21, 2006, 01:50:50 pm: An error after choosing your character?

What was it?
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: mit on June 21, 2006, 06:33:23 pm: Sometimes it has trouble creating the save file if you haven't extracted the exe file.
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Outrage on June 27, 2006, 09:36:36 am: I think it was absolutly amazing! I didn't play all the way through, but what I saw was incredible...really keep up the good work...

This inspired me to get GameMaker again! It's too cool, lol...
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Megamew on July 16, 2006, 01:50:59 am: That was one of the best Zelda fan games I've seen in a while! :D
B y the way, this is my first time here! :)
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: mit on July 16, 2006, 05:12:31 pm: Glad all you guys still like it :)
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: hotpiebob on September 04, 2006, 11:14:44 pm: do you have a guide for this.... :(
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on September 05, 2006, 12:32:21 am: I think Mit may have been working on one at one point, but I don't think we do.

What do you need help with?
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: mario_zelda_gamer on September 05, 2006, 08:19:21 pm: Hey, I remember this game! _{and all the other comp games!} This is the BEST part:
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n244/ldxmzg/iheartthisgame.png)
hehe, just kidding. This game was one of my three favorites... I just don't remember their names... If only others would post their zfgc game comp games! I've been lookin' for 'em.
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: hawthorneluke on September 05, 2006, 08:40:20 pm: nice camera!
this is quite hard :D
and much better then i would of thought a game would be for it being made in two weeks :O
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on September 05, 2006, 09:55:27 pm: Hey, how did you get there? Is it the old glitch where if you fall down a pit you sometimes end up outside of the room that I thought I had fixed... twice.

Yeah, it is pretty hard, but believe it or not, there used to be a lot more spikes & flames in the dungeons... a LOT more.
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: linkw204 on September 06, 2006, 04:20:05 am: yeah i heard. now who should i send the angry pms to(about all the spikes that werent removed)
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: mario_zelda_gamer on September 06, 2006, 09:38:41 pm: Quote from: Atrius on September 05, 2006, 09:55:27 pm
Hey, how did you get there? Is it the old glitch where if you fall down a pit you sometimes end up outside of the room that I thought I had fixed... twice.

Yeah, it is pretty hard, but believe it or not, there used to be a lot more spikes & flames in the dungeons... a LOT more.
Yep, your right! so, you tried twice to fix it but it just hates you? the spikes keep killing me!! which isn't fun. Any how i still think its a great game!
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on September 06, 2006, 09:45:00 pm: Heh... I'd say you could yell at the main level designer *cough*Mit*cough*, but just so you know, it's chizzeled in gigantic bold, underlined words "Much Less/No Spikes" on our suggestions/ideas for future games. Hmm... *Double Underlines it*

As for the error, I think at one point or more we got an older version of the editable mixed up with the new one, so my fix was lost >_<;
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: King Tetiro on September 15, 2006, 07:50:26 pm: It's so hard, I can't even do level 1, god it's hard!
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on September 15, 2006, 08:18:42 pm: Quote from: Laigonaz on September 15, 2006, 07:50:26 pm
It's so hard, I can't even do level 1, god it's hard!

Yeah... I wonder if anyone has actually beaten it.
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: mit on September 15, 2006, 08:29:23 pm: Many people completed it, remeber we got comments about the rotating-room-puzzle? And the final boss? And the patheticaly crap ending?
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Kevin-1990 on September 15, 2006, 08:33:24 pm: Wow the screenshots looks really great and the trailer is also very sweeet very nice boos :O
o I wanted to play the demo but it didn??t work.. :( to bad

wel nice job
keep going :D
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: mit on September 15, 2006, 08:37:30 pm: Play the demo? It's completed! Didn't work? How so?
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Kevin-1990 on September 15, 2006, 08:55:22 pm: Hold On let me make a shot
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Kevin-1990 on September 15, 2006, 09:02:03 pm: (http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e115/hand-of-blood/Wierd.png)
this is what is says
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on September 15, 2006, 09:17:37 pm: Ah, thats something with the save system I think...

If you go into the program folder and delete the file loz_tfc.sav if it exists, it may work... Of course if you have any saved games thats what you'll be deleting.
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Kevin-1990 on September 15, 2006, 09:19:18 pm: Cool it works..
Love it.. a little bit hard but still very nice.. love the dudes on the horse WOW
sweet!
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on September 15, 2006, 09:31:30 pm: Quote from: mit on September 15, 2006, 08:29:23 pm
Many people completed it, remeber we got comments about the rotating-room-puzzle? And the final boss? And the patheticaly crap ending?
XD, yeah, I just beat it again with the goron. I must say there are so many things in that game that left me thinking "what kind of a dumb idea was that?" Including nearly the entire last dungeon, and boss definitally. >_< When I did finally beat the boss I could only think "My god, thats all they get for beating him?"... Though the music in the credits definitally made me feel better about it, its a nice choice. Was it the LA credit music or something like that?

Anyway... replaying it makes me almost reconsider doing a remake of it... it does beg for a sequal, and could use some fixing up.

Oh well... We've got Just Begining to worry about, so no time for a remake of this. :'(
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: mit on September 15, 2006, 09:37:22 pm: If I remember correctly, it was the music to Tal-Tal heights in LA. Great tune, although slightly over-the-top for just a mountain.

Don't forget my complete waste of time on the dark temples! We should release a debug version that lets you get into them, just for a laugh.
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: LinkDrummer on February 08, 2007, 01:03:32 am: great game I have a error dowloading this game though... :'(
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: Atrius on February 08, 2007, 01:33:25 am: Oh, yes, the links have changed since we re-organized the site. *fixes*
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: LinkDrummer on February 11, 2007, 08:51:42 pm: how do you beat the second boss?
Title: Re: LoZ: The Final Challenge
Post by: mit on February 11, 2007, 09:06:08 pm: Which one's that, the turtle? Climb on his back and attack his neck.