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Horn of Balance - an indie 2D zelda-like

I'm developing 'Horn of Balance', a 2D zelda-like featuring 12 non-linear dungeons, 2 interconnected worlds and a TON of secrets.

Right now, the project is live on Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hornofbalance/horn-of-balance) and we've almost hit the funding goal with just 24 hours left!

There's also a free demo on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2738140/Horn_of_Balance/) and Itch.

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have!

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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Think you need to work on your assets, it looks too identical to Zelda. I don't know that I could play that without constantly thinking about how every asset is just from Zelda.

@gibmiser
Fair enough if that's how you feel, but the assets are actually all different. Literally. It's just your mind playing tricks on you I'm afraid.

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Like I said, they are so similar that it feels like a knock-off. Why play a clone of an awesome game?

I'm not saying your game isn't good, I have no idea. But it does not look different enough to grab my attention.

Just my hot take.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

You'd play it because you liked the other one, wanted more of it, but there isn't really more of it to play.

[-] Splatterphace@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago

He's 100% right. You gonna get slapped with a CnD for assets that similar.

[-] aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place 2 points 7 months ago

@Splatterphace @HornofBalance naw it's probably fine. "Zelda Online" got a cease and desist back in the day, but they were able to keep going after doing a paint over on all their sprites and tile sets and renaming the game to "Graal Online". It was still very obviously a Link To The Past clone after the paint over, but they never got shut down for it. Horn of Balance's art is much more divergent.

[-] Splatterphace@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

...which is why we're suggesting altering the assets

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

They don't need to if the assets are just similar instead of straight-up copies

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago

Uh huh. That's what Palworld said. You got a good lawyer?

Seriously, tracing over A Link to the Past is not "hand drawn".

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Uh huh. That's what Palworld said.

And Nintendo still hasn't filed a lawsuit against them, despite years of development time, millions of copues downloaded, and millions made in profit

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