Temple Maker 64 demo brings N64-style dungeon creation to life

One-man studio Ki3 Games has released a free demo for Temple Maker 64, a tool for creating large, interconnected dungeons or short challenge rooms and a third-person adventure that clearly evokes Ocarina of Time. Super Mario Maker prompted requests for a similar The Legend of Zelda Maker, and while Nintendo hasn't gotten around to it yet, this indie project gets close.

The demo offers two modes: build and explore. Build mode provides a relatively slim selection of toys but very simple controls—creating rooms is as easy as drawing boxes on a map, and you can drag them about to reorganize dungeons quickly—so it doesn't take long to put together functioning puzzles.

Explore mode showcases a growing library of player-made temples, where bombs can clear suspect walls and a boomerang can stun blobby monsters. Some entries reproduce dungeons players will recognize, others remix familiar ideas into new spaces, and one titled 'Remember that one Super Monkey level?' forces traversal along the topside of a very, very narrow fence.

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