You progressively open chest after chest, each one giving you a new ability: the ability to use keys, the ability to have a health meter (hearts in the newer version of the game), to talk to NPCs, to solve puzzles. You can only walk in four directions and can only stab forward in those four directions with your sword in a very basic 8-bit Game Boy-looking graphical style. It starts out using Zelda as its vehicle. But the difference here is that this game isn’t trying to steal from Nintendo for the sole purpose of making a dirty profit, but tell the story of the technical advancements of the action-adventure genre (and then–later–the RPG genre) bit by bit. It starts out as a nearly-blatant ripoff of the original Legend of Zelda, moreso, even than Neutopia. The gameplay is where things get interesting. In the newer version of Evoland, however, his look has been revised a bit (likely to avoid copyright issues) to swap the “Link hat” with a bit of headgear, swap the brown hair for blond, and the green tunic for… green shirt and pants. In Evoland Classic (the original version) he was clearly a recreation of Link: the green tunic, the famous hat, the pointed ears… there was no denying who this was meant to look like. Let’s just start off with the main character. So just what is this game and why is it a Zelda clone? He has even said that he is considering a 3DS version. That version has now taken over the name “Evoland” and is available for purchase on Steam. However, the game itself has evolved and became much deeper, bigger, and more detailed.
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This version of the game is now called Evoland Classic and is available to play for free on his website. Out of 1406 entries, his received the highest marks and won first place. The theme in this instance was “evolution” and Nicolas Cannasse took up the challenge and decided to show the evolution of action-adventure video games.
Afterwards, the participants have three weeks to play and rate each other’s games. Ludum Dare is an interesting contest for indie game developers, challenging a single developer to create a video game from scratch in only two days on a specific theme. Originally it started out as an entry for a contest back in August of 2012. So just what is Evoland, and how is it a Zelda clone? Jump on inside to find out!Įvoland has an interesting history.
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