It's interesting that Aonuma describes this negatively. It's taking out a middle step of kill enemy -> rupees -> shop/arrows -> kill enemy? Instead the enemies can drop arrows directly. While it's not always good to remove friction from a loop, I don't know how fun traveling to a shop really is.
![People in quote:
- Jin Fujisawa, Yuji Horii's successor as head of Dragon Quest.
- Eiji Aonuma, age 54. Shigeru Miyamoto's successor as head of Zelda.
Quote: "Fujisawa: Eventually, the rupees are useless [in past Zelda titles]. Even in dungeons, the player can use the arrows that are hidden inside the dungeons.
Aonuma: We feel bad if the player has to leave the dungeon in the middle, because they did not buy any arrows on the way, so we had to place some in the dungeon. As a result, the player who did not buy arrows never had to buy them. We were unintentionally destroying the cycle of ‘acquiring rupees by fighting off the enemies with weapons, and buying a weapon with the rupees to fight off the enemies’ because we were obsessed with convenience for the player."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreibtblopgle7xgkxgdrp6rcglqlywkymypwfokd4cqlet74ynts35e@jpeg)
Sounds awesome! Is the book more nuts and bolts "how to put a level together" tutorial, or is it also higher level theory stuff?
Editor: You get those photos of Elliott Gould and Grover? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what
😭rip - at least there's some comfort that a pop isn't coming soon. Maybe?I assume a bubble can only pop once? Lol who knows with economic metaphors I've been intentionally working without funding myself, but I want to play more indies! fund them, economy!
A while ago, I was experimenting with foggy depth effects in 2D. I'm pretty happy with where it landed, but it does require a lot of bespoke, gradient-covered tiles.
Cool observations about how indies push the industry forward! But I think this shows me I don't know what a bubble is, or what it is to burst 😂 Is it that low interest rates meant funding, but now it's stopping because of high rates? I should probably understand this better, as an indie dev lol 😬
Some screenshots from my game Ocean's Heart. The new game, Tombwater, has been a lot of brown dusty landscape so far, I'm getting impatient to add in more diverse landscapes like Ocean's Heart has.
I'm Max, I'm currently working on a Wild West / Eldritch Horror game. It's like Bloodborne but yee-haw but Zelda too!
Thanks! 🥰