The protagonist of the discussion this time is the fan porting project extended by the circle of “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess”. The person in charge, SrLinguicaVIVE, said that the PC and mobile native versions of “Twilight Princess” have entered the preparation stage and plan to launch soon. What’s even more exaggerated is that the target platform is not just Windows, but all the way to Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
The full version will be launched simultaneously, and the code base will be open sourced to players and modders!
The name of the project is “Project Dusk”. The external statement is that all versions will be released together at once, and the code base will be open source for players and modders to view and use. This approach is tantamount to making it clear that they want to make it a community project that can be extended in the long term, rather than simply throwing away an executable file and disappearing.
It also involves another derivative work
The article also mentioned that the “Project Dusk” line is related to “Courage Reborn”, another mobile remake of “Twilight Princess”, but the two parties have different concepts of “transplantation process and ultimate goal”; the team also emphasized that they respect each other’s efforts. To put it simply: the same theme is growing into different branches. On one side, the original work is moved to multiple platforms, while on the other side, a version that is more like a remake is made.
Fan projects can be very popular, but the biggest variable is always copyright.
For players, seeing “Twilight Princess” moved to PC or even mobile phones is unexplainably attractive; but how far such projects can go is often not a technical issue, but a copyright risk. The more high-profile it is, the wider its platform coverage, and the closer it is to a formal product presentation, the easier it is to attract attention. What we can do now is to first look at its actual release form, whether it requires original resources, and whether there will be any unpredictable changes in the future.