The Legend of Zelda: The Shadowgazer website – Download Demo Watch the following trailer, and judge it for yourself… One of the fan games that springs to mind, and perhaps the most notable and famous of all Zelda fan games, is The Legend of Zelda: The Shadowgazer. And honestly, some of the Zelda fan games around the internet are nothing short of mind-blowing, capable of rivalling even Nintendo’s ideas and efforts. But crazy people happen to create some truly amazing work. Having passion to create is one thing, but who’s got that kind of time and expertise to create something truly remarkable? And in complete knowledge that the end-project will indefinitely be unprofitable? No one would want to bother with fan games! That’s just crazy! The alternative in this case is the completion of a less-than-average fan game, which exist in extraordinary numbers across the world wide internets, offering little enjoyment and serving no purpose apart from ultimately granting fan games with their poor status in the creative world. The most common scenario follows the young, hopeful game developer who envisions the perfect Zelda game, downloads a game-developing application, such as Blender or Game Maker, fiddles around to their heart’s content and composes something entirely unprofessional, only to abandon the project within the next few months.

Having the ability to utilise one’s skills in programming, mapping, spriting, modelling, audio composition and project planning in the context of your favourite video game is an exciting prospect for some fans, and even with extremely limited resources, team members, time, budget and future profit, a number of aspiring game developers strive to the very end to keep their fan projects alive.Īlbeit, many of these independent game developers also fail miserably. Whether you’ve looked or not, rest assured, the existence of Zelda fan games is as real as the development of other fan projects related to other franchises such as Metroid and Mario. Anyone who’s ever spent a considerable amount of their time scouring the internet for good quality fan-made work related to The Legend of Zelda series – gorgeous fan art and video tributes – would surely have occasionally pondered and even searched out the other end of the spectrum… something a little more ambitious, and a lot harder to find.

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