Did you guys spends a lot of money to hire composers? We are pretty much broke. I feel jelly :D We are just creating prototype maps with shitty as prototype tiles and prototype monsters. True! You guys have made so much progress. The two together are like the best living textbook on level design. There should probably be a book that JUST discusses level design theory that you can extract from Link to the Past and Super Metroid. Super Metroid allows the player feel lost and without aids, while simaltaneously guiding them from backstage the whole time. It is also very much funneling you back toward areas which you could not access before, once you get the new tools. There are times when it feels like you can go anywhere, and sort of feel lost, but in reality, the level design has actually trapped you into a space which you can't leave with your current tools, in order to narrow down your choices for you. Super Metroid does a lot in terms of level design to guide the player. We are using Unity engine too and there are me and my brother working it :D This project looks super interesting would love to test your game. Im trying to shove puzzles and side quest and all other thing in environments instead of towns or dungeons. So my game will have just 1 dungeon like place and the rest are just environment with a lots of variety and imagination. Sometimes you backtrack to access new areas and sometimes paths are just hidden. You are guiding player without him knowing it. For me personally pure Super metroid design is that world itself act as big dungeon. Im trying to itself mimic the Super metroid level design in my game but Im trying to avoid Zelda influence 100%. Maybe we could change the title a bit to give a better impression of the spirit of the work. It isn't really a description we are married to of course- you could use a different collection of terms to describe the material and it would still be effective. We chose that term because in one word it quickly explains the gameplay strcture to a casual listener. We are sort of choosing to really draw out the gameplay progression in the style of metroidvanias: there will be lots of points of progress where you may have to return with new tools in order to progress your character will feel noticeable growth over the play through the world is pretty open from the outset, but the player is also locked out form accessing some spaces due to being unequipped. what make this game a zeldavania? Should you call it a Zelda like? Many folks aren't aware that The Legend of Zelda on NES was the first metroidvania, so the two formats have a lot in common between them. If this game has Zelda like dungeon progression and overworld. Im happy that you are inspired by star tropic that game is hidden gem. Im working on Top down 2D action game too and this game looks Super good.

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