Legend of Zelda inspires new engineering course at University of Maryland

With nearly 20 million copies sold since May, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom isn't just the fastest-selling Nintendo game of all time. As the basis for a new engineering course at the University of Maryland, the video game could be at the forefront of a new movement in higher education.

Players of the open-world action-adventure game–the latest in a popular 27-year-old franchise–control protagonist Link as he and the eponymous Princess Zelda navigate the world of Hyrule and contend with an unknown evil presence. Some of Link's explorations, which include a subterranean realm and a series of floating sky islands, rely on the creation of gliders, rockets and other machines.

When UMD Associate Professor Ryan D. Sochol realized how important the players' design of these gadgets is to completing the game's quest, he devised a course that incorporates the game in place of traditional computer-aided design (CAD) and engineering software...

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