To everyone who ever played, built, or shared a quest,
In April 1999, Phantom Menace and I were each building our own Zelda clone. We decided to merge our efforts, and the result became Zelda Classic. I never could have imagined where that would go.
No single individual made it last. Dark Nation picked it up when it looked finished, and the developers who came after him kept it going. Eckels built a beautiful revision of our early web site with a quest database. And thousands of you made quests I never could have dreamed up. Somewhere along the way it stopped being a clone. It became a place where people learned to make sprite art, music, or more, and where more than a few found lifelong friends, myself included.
Armageddon Games and Zelda Classic have been a huge part of my life, and I'm proud of what we built here together. They say nothing lasts forever, and that is definitely true.
In recent years, this project was taken from the home that raised it. I didn’t agree with how it happened, and in the end, there was only so much I could do. Making peace with that has been its own kind of work.
People move and make decisions for reasons we may never fully understand. We all have a story we tell ourselves about the choices we make. Myself included.
You learn that caring about something doesn’t always mean you’re meant to carry it forever. My time here mattered. So did the all of the other people and everything we built together.
It’s time for me to step away. ZeldaClassic.com is closing. This page is what remains of a chapter I’ll always carry with me.
To everyone who was part of this: thank you. Thank you for the quests, the conventions, the contests, the arguments, and ALL the late nights. It was never really mine. It was always ours.
It's dangerous to go alone and I'm glad none of us had to do that. ❤️
Jarrod "War Lord" Woerner Co-founder, Zelda ClassicFounder, Armageddon Games
