{"id":121337,"date":"2020-11-29T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/random_amateur_dev_releases_reimagined_remakes_of_the_1993_zelda_cd-i_games"},"modified":"2020-11-29T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T03:45:00","slug":"random-amateur-dev-releases-reimagined-remakes-of-the-1993-zelda-cd-i-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/29\/random-amateur-dev-releases-reimagined-remakes-of-the-1993-zelda-cd-i-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Amateur Dev Releases Reimagined Remakes Of The 1993 Zelda CD-i Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f69e19ad5bf93\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f69e19ad5bf93\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Zelda\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f69e19ad5bf93\/zelda.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f69e19ad5bf93\/zelda.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Zelda\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>An amateur video game developer known as <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thedopster\/status\/1332345549429886979\">Dopply on Twitter<\/a> has released reimagined remakes of the 1993 Phillips CD-i action-adventure games <strong>Link: The Faces of Evil<\/strong> and <strong>Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The games were created in Game Maker over four years and feature the original assets. Here&#8217;s a bit more insight:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I developed these over the course of 4 years in Game Maker as an exercise to teach myself game development and fulfill an in-joke between friends. As an amateur effort, the programming got a little rough, but hey, it works, and I learned a ton in the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Check out this wild *full remake* of the weird as heck CD-I Zelda games, made with original assets in game maker! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SLSArJgrE2\">https:\/\/t.co\/SLSArJgrE2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ika9JKWrA2\">pic.twitter.com\/ika9JKWrA2<\/a><\/span>\u2014 brandon sheffield (@necrosofty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/necrosofty\/status\/1332505936225656834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>While these are &#8220;not 1:1 remakes&#8221;, Dopply believes they &#8220;capture the spirit&#8221; of the original games. There are also some modern features &#8211; like widescreen mode, remastered mode (for less frustrating play), subtitles, improved sprites, unlockables, and apparently more.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the &#8220;nature&#8221; of these games, this is the final version and there are no plans to release future updates. In related news, Zelda fans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/random_hyrule_warriors_age_of_calamity_might_include_a_popular_zelda_cd-i_reference\">think they might have spotted a Link CD-i reference<\/a> in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/hyrule_warriors_age_of_calamity\">Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amateur video game developer known as Dopply on Twitter has released reimagined remakes of the 1993 Phillips CD-i action-adventure games Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. The games were created in Game Maker over four years and feature the original assets. Here&#8217;s a bit more insight: &#8220;I developed these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}