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Seedling is a new flash based game for your browser that is strongly influenced by Zelda: Link To The Past. In fact, it’s so similar its about as close as you will get to the real thing. Seedling isn’t a remake though, it is an entirely new adventure and it is totally free. Check out the video below to see some gameplay footage.
Created by Connor Ullmann, who is just 19 years of age, Seedling is an action adventure game that is heavily influenced by the early Zelda games with sound and graphics reminiscent of the NES era. Players control a very small boy in a massive open world ripe with sprawling over-world areas, dungeons, weapons, enemies and items.
Ullmann says that it took him 4-6 months to complete the game and to prove a point. That point being that flash games aren’t just for small, casual games. He is entering his sophomore year at Michigan University and says that he wants to make games for Steam and Xbox Live moving forward.

In an email conversation with Kotaku, Ullmann said, “I’d just started college, and I’d made a lot of really smart and talented friends, so I wanted to make a game while I was there to show them what I meant when I said ‘I make video games’”. Ullman continued by saying, “They thought that since most Flash games are pretty small in scope and most of my games had been small that it meant I wasn’t really capable of taking on a big project. This unspoken challenge, combined with winter break boredom and relatively easy second-semester entry-level programming classes, led to the stirrings of a large project.”
Referring to the influence A Link To The Past had on his design choices for Seedling, Connor said, “What I really wanted to reflect in Seedling from [Link to the Past] was that feeling of openness and possibility. The world was huge, the obstacles endless, and the dungeons dark and interesting.” He continued by saying he was extremely influenced by the way items and weapons impacted the game world in Link To The Past.
Seedling is available right now for free on NewGrounds.com.
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