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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  • @gibmiserEnglish
    33•10 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.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️English
      19•10 months ago

      None of the assets are “from” Zelda, they’ve all been redrawn, but they sure are quite clearly heavily inspired by A Link to the Past.

    • @ganksyEnglish
      17•10 months ago

      Not sure it bothers me tbh. I really enjoyed Zelda and having a chance to revisit that theme in a new way with novel adventures is welcome to me.

    • HornofBalanceOP
      9•10 months ago

      @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.

      • @gibmiserEnglish
        11•10 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.

        • @ampersandrewEnglish
          5•10 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.

        • aeva
          2•10 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.

      • RhynoplazEnglish
        -2•10 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”.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•10 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