{"author_name":"dcolgan","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[{"author_name":"vincepascoe","time":"July 24, 2013 1:59 pm","epoch":1374692340,"text":"I thought about a squad based zelda game also … your idea where you still control one might be the ticket. Also since this is my first game I was trying to keep it simple…","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1374659940,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"42312","p_author":"dcolgan","p_authorkey":"2293","p_urlkey":"77936","p_title":"Zelda + RTS = Idea","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1374659940","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2293","us_name":"dcolgan","us_username":"dcolgan","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"

I’ve always liked action adventures over turn-based adventures, and so I like Zelda games more than Final Fantasy, at least in terms of gameplay. \u00a0So I thought, why couldn’t you have an RPG that was more Zelda-like? \u00a0Perhaps sort of like Final Fantasy Legend 2 for Gameboy. \u00a0And then I thought, you always have a party of 4 or so in an RPG, but could that be made, how you say, REAL TIME? \u00a0And such was born the idea for the Zelda RTS.<\/p>\n

You have your party of 4 characters or so, and you control one of them like in a normal Zelda game, but control the others more like RTS units. \u00a0You press a key and time freezes, sort of like in Mass Effect’s menu thingy, and you can give commands to your units (or maybe time doesn’t freeze, or maybe that could be a difficulty level setting), such as telling the mage to cast heal, or the archer to target a guy. \u00a0And then you the swordsman can battle like in any 2D Zelda game.<\/p>\n

This is what I’m shooting for this week. \u00a0Yesterday I accomplished:<\/p>\n