

Armed with research, he built a new gaming PC from scratch that summer with a powerful i7-8700K CPU engine. “I looked into Cemu and had to realize that my PC was not capable of running this game since it didn’t even reach locked 60 on the easy-to-run League of Legends,” he says.

This open-world mammoth called Breath of the Wild was a whole other beast. Legend of Zelda game data is notorious for being tough to swallow.

Wagner experimented with Breath of the Wild on Cemu, as he didn’t want to risk adversely affecting his console. In 2018, curiosity got the better of him. What if a Zelda game could be played with even more possibilities?

From player to modder: one fan’s love letter to game design And with his primary work on the project done, he continues to experiment with his own Breath of the Wild mods in the meantime. Nonetheless, he is optimistic that the mod will be completed soon. Wagner says that the development of Second Wind has been delayed due to the pandemic’s effects on the personal lives of several modders. While there are still more things his group would like to add to it, players can experience the phenomenon via his Discord server. Shortly before the publication of this story, Wagner said that Second Wind in its entirety was about 60% finished. It’s not open source, but the company encourages hobbyist developers to use its free option to openly share and store Git code like a public backup service. “I also worked together with people I mostly knew, so I had a good connection!”īased in San Francisco, GitHub is an online software platform service used by developers around the world. “We used GitHub to make the process easier to pull the latest commits and then worked with ,” he says. While accustomed to flying solo, Wagner describes working with 50 modders as “a bit different,” but a good experience. Second Wind, a hobbyist project that’s powered by Wagner and over 50 other Zelda fans, is the mother of all Breath of the Wild mods
