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Custom Legend of Zelda Board Game

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DRest806
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Hey everyone! Hopefully I'm posting this in the right forum. Last summer I spent about 4 months and lots of money making a Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past board game. I had so much fun making it and me and some buddies play it occasionally. I just wanted to get your opinions on it. I based it off an old board game called Key to the Kingdom. I designed the board in photoshop, copying and pasting carefully all the SNES sprites from the game. and then I printed the sheets and put them on poster board. Of course this is more of a prototype but its still fun to play. I made the treasures, equipment and monster cards and got them laminated to have a glossy look. The link pieces were made from someone i found on etsy.com.

Like I said I loved making this and probably would make more in the future based off other video games. Its basically my goal to become a boardgame designer or something along those lines...Anyway, here are some pics:

The pics are of the Link playing pieces, the light world side of the board and then it opens up into the darkworld side just like key to the kingdom did. The item and moster cards plus the equipment sheets.

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/793508/my-custom-legend-of-zelda-board-g...

DRest806
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Hey everyone! Someone

Hey everyone! Someone recently made me aware that there is a video on youtube where someone mentions the Zelda game! Very nice of them to let me know and its so cool to actually be mentioned like that. You can see it here but skip to about the 2:33 mark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kjjRH-KIEuo

avalaunch
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Looks cool. Very well

Looks cool. Very well done.

It sounds like you tried but had no success approaching Nintendo to actually license it...

Have you considered trying to sell the game to companies that already have pre-existing licensing relationships with Nintendo?

There's a list here:
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/licensees_brand.jsp

DRest806
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Wow! Thanks alot! I just

Wow! Thanks alot! I just emailed everyone on that list! lol we will see what happens...not holding my breath though.

avalaunch
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You're welcome. Good luck!

You're welcome. Good luck! I hope it works out for you.

BubbleChucks
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If that fails you could

If that fails you could always look at distancing yourself from a direct Zelda product. As far as I'm aware 'parodies' are still permitted under copyright - providing the work effectively parodies the target and the values it represents

The Legend of Zelder, Join Doe (John Do) as a character - Spy Glass Mountain instead of Spectacle Rock and so on.

You can find a huge amount of similar artwork by typing 'rpg mapmaker tile sets' into google. It shouldnt be too hard to find something suitable, similar but different enough to establish a degree of difference.

However, please be aware that many of these are ripped from games and couldnt be used commercially - and shouldnt really be used at all.

In relation to the original tilesets you would have to contact the creators and ask for their permission.

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