"Tears of the Kingdom: Overcoming Chaos in Development"

Nintendo's developers revealed the challenges faced in creating the physics-driven world of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom at GDC, explaining how they overcame issues by making everything physics-driven and creating a system that allows for spontaneous and unique interactions. The game's complex systems extend to vehicle creation and sound design, with voxel information used to create a 3D terrain and a physics engine for sound. Despite the challenges, Tears of the Kingdom was awarded IGN's Best Game of 2023.