Me and other two friends made a Zelda board game.
It was like an RPG board game but with Zelda items, biomes and monsters, including Zelda’s games main villain, Ganon.
There were four types of biomes, the Hyrule kingdom, the fire lands, the ice lands and the desert. In each biome there were different types of items and different types of monsters. And certain items were good against certain types of monsters. For example a fire sword was better at fighting ice monsters than a normal sword.
There was also a store system, were you could buy items like swords, axes, shields and other things.
Our game had a lot of references to other Zelda games, including the Hyrule sword, Hyrule shield, Guardians, and mentioned earlier, Ganon.
It was a very good experience for us to start understanding more about game design.
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