Breaking Conventions with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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Breath of the Wild tested interacting objects in a 2D prototype. The later “chemistry” system includes wind and electricity so shared rules can calculate how connected objects change state.
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As you can see, this is a 2D Zelda prototype.a state calculator for all these objects that are connected to one another