The Making of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Video – The Beginning

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The opening episode of Nintendo's making-of video series for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Members of the development team talk about how the game was started and the thinking behind its design.

HN points to the series for insight into how Nintendo prototyped, including the claim that mechanics were tried in a 2D version of the game before the team committed to building it in 3D.

“There is an interesting video series by Nintendo on the making of Breath of The Wild.”
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@brandonjm2018 · in “Why I’m Using the Cerny Method of Game Development”
There is an interesting video series by Nintendo on the making of Breath of The Wild. In one of them [1] they talk about how most of the game mechanics were implemented in a 2D version of the game to see how enjoyable and effective they were before they spent the money to make the 3D version. [1] ▶ this video
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@flgr2017 · in “The Making of the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Video”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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