HoverBat

Cave Room

Some ruins in an icy cave.

Trees

Some pixel art tree designs.

Tentacle Enemy

An enemy design with a spherical protective shell that it can shoot tentacles from with great force. It uses the tentacles for climbing and grabbing its prey.

anarkhya's Custom Overworld Graphics

Artist anarkhya(https://www.deviantart.com/anarkhya) made some really nice custom detailed overworld graphics and put them in a Tiled map. I was able to mod it into ZALiA and do a run with them. Video also includes some new player character sprite-sets. Enjoy!

Playing Around with Various Graphics

This is just something I was having fun with one day. It includes a mix of graphics from Zelda II, Castlevania 2, and original works.

Early Development - Scene Idea Work 9

This is the west edge of North Castle Lake. The mountains look great but are straight ripped from Castlevania 2.

Early Development - Scene Idea Work 8

I think this was going to be a cave entrance somewhere on the west edge of North Castle Field. The mountains look awesome but are straight ripped from Castlevania 2.

Early Development - Scene Idea Work 7

This was meant to be a quest along the path on the west side of the Rauru Woods. The bridge is out and you have to drop to caves below to restore it somehow.

Early Development - Scene Idea Work 6

I think this is coming out of North Castle.

Early Development - Scene Idea Work 5

A lot of stuff just mashed on top of each other.

Early Development - Scene Idea Work 4

I think this was meant to be the entrance to a town.

Early Development - Scene Idea Work 3

You don't really see any npcs interacting with each other in Zelda 2. I like the look of two npcs talking to each other or maybe walking with each other.

Early Development - Scene Idea Work 2

Early development scene ideas work.

Early Scene Ideas 1

Early development scene ideas work.

2.5D Scene Mock-up

Very early in development, while planning out scenes, I modified one into a 2.5D style. The up and down arrows, as well as the <-WE-> directions were part of an idea for the game to not have an overworld.

Item Sprites Work

A look at the photoshop file where ZALiA item sprites were designed. A number of these designs were based off of previous Zelda item sprites and some Kid Icarus ones as well. Although I'm proud of my sprite work, you can see I'm not that much of an artist. My process is to just try every possible pixel iteration until something looks good XD

Inventory Design Work

Here's what the photoshop file of my work on designing the inventory looks like.

Fire Animations

Some animated pixel art of fire.

New Version P03 Live

Various different changes and additions. Mostly to the rando. Check out all the details in the news-and-releases channel on the discord! https://discord.gg/QgmbW5pkQB

69 Member Celebration

Checked out the page this morning and noticed there are 69 members! Wooo! That being said, please no one leave and also please no one join... unless you want to. Thank you.

Old Work Compilation

Just some random old work.

A Randomized Vinesauce Thanksgivirnin

So, Vinny Vinesauce streamed ZALiA again and there were 10 THOUSAND people watching! Wowowow. 

Vinny's streams just keep getting more entertaining and this Thanksgiving was no exception. If you haven't watched Vinesauce before, I suggest you spend less time with your life responsibilities and check out them vods.

Version P00 is Live!

Check out all the changes in the discord.
One notable addition is audio sets so you have different tunes to choose from.

Super Secret Cucco Tease

This video was made by https://www.twitch.tv/schmidtty_games right around the beginning of 2023 and was to tease the ZALiA community with a secret super cucco hidden in the game that no one had found yet except him.  

The search for super cucco was sparked when someone suggested it would be cool if Zelda kissed Link in cucco form at the end credits, reminding me the scenario was already possible when you ...

Alternate Music Sets

I'm currently hard at work cleaning out the code getting it ready for release. While doing so, I'm beginning to build community content systems. The first being alternate music options. The system is mostly in place at this point so that I just need the music files. Then, all it takes to listen to them is to change the music set in the options menu.

ZALiA Overworld with 8x8 Tiles

This is 1/4 the image size of the normal map with an 8x8 grid instead of 16x16. Some tile graphics are custom to make sense with the size difference. Don't know why I spent so much time on this.. maybe these tile graphics can be used to fit more overworld on the in-game map.

Enemy Rando and Key Rando are Live!

Also many other changes, fixes, and improvements.

Rando now live with the new version H00!

Here's a link to the discord if you need it: https://discord.gg/engYeRkY

Rando Early Access Testing

Anyone want to test some rando? Comment or PM me your email and I'll share it with you on Google Drive.

Recent Work

Recently I've been polishing up the game and working on a few extra things. I've been streaming most of it at https://www.twitch.tv/hoverbat.
One major thing is rebinding controller buttons. As you can see in the image, casting magic is set to the left trigger button.
A couple other things I've started work on is an item randomization mode and autosplitter support for livesplit.