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Hero's Realm: Heroic Edition
I always wanted to publish a game based on everything I enjoyed as a kid. This will be the end result.



Lead four heroes and their teams against the evil forces of Mephistocles, the Lord of Demons in this retro-RPG adventure. Switch between the four heroes as you explore dungeons, ascend towers, spelunk caves, save villages and defeat the forces of evil! Reminiscent of classic NES/SNES-era RPGs, Hero's Realm is a fun romp in old-school RPG nostalgia.


  • Play as 4 powerful Heroes and their customizable party throughout a four chapter story, each with their own skillset & battle commands!
  • Come together in the final fifth to adventure with all four parties - switching between them anytime, even in boss battles!
  • Customize your heroes' party by selecting from 21 unique character classes split between the mage, warrior, and rogue specialties, including unlockable elite and master classes!



  • 25 character classes (12 base classes, 4 hero classes, 6 elite classes, 3 master classes)
  • Over 30 hours of game content and sidequests
  • Classic NES-era and SNES-era RPG gameplay
  • Multi-party switching system
  • Multi-party tactical battles
  • Expansive world map





If you like what I do and have done to date, consider being my patron so that I can continue doing it. A remastered game is just the start!
https://www.patreon.com/kentona

Hero's Realm has a TVTropes page.Check it out.
Alternatively, you can donate directly to my PayPal.



Latest Blog

Ice Ice Baby

I am in love with the ice palette I built from the palette Avee provided for me.

Still working towards creating animations, but my work has slowed down a bit this past month. Kids' activities have mostly wrapped up and so I don't have that quick hour multiple times a week to work on the game while they are swimming/waterpoloing/soccering/etc. Yardwork is also ramping up (we are reseeding the lawn and building a patio), and WORK is ramping up. This cuts down on the time I dedicate to this remaster, as it is a lower priority in my life (relatively). Sorry, heroes!


I am unreasonably proud of this ice sheet (geddit? "ice" sheet? It works on so many levels (two)!)


One of the first things I worked on after the last blog was a puff/explosion animation. This took WAY too much time for me to do.



But it will look pretty cool both on it's own, and coming out of the fissure. Also, I realized that if I rotated it sideways and recoloured, I had a decent "breath" attack.


Coming in oranges, purples, and greens flavours soon!


I made a quick mini-skull. I guess it's like, a skull bomb? idk.



On the "darkness" kick, I also made some little ghosties. I have plans for other dark/ethereal magics, but haven't gotten to them yet.



I know I have to make some item animations, I tried my hand at a few scroll designs.



I tried making another ice boulder, too.


an ice boulder the size of a large boulder (actual size vs. zoomed in)


Anyway, back to the palette.



I recoloured the awesome ice animations that visitorsfromdreams made for me in the new ice palette.

Anyway, that the whole of what I accomplished this month (pretty much).

Posts

Oh, I get it. The overhead tiles that can be walked on too, they've been turned to Same As Hero instead of Above Hero, blocking progress.
author=Liberty
Oh, I get it. The overhead tiles that can be walked on too, they've been turned to Same As Hero instead of Above Hero, blocking progress.


Yeah, I saw that you can reset the switch by walking into the INN, so I told Hadriex and it works.
author=Liberty
Oh, I get it. The overhead tiles that can be walked on too, they've been turned to Same As Hero instead of Above Hero, blocking progress.


Yeah, I saw that you can reset the switch by walking into the INN, so I told Hadriex and it works.
Oh that bug. It is on my TODO list.
A Hero's Realm remaster SoundCloud is now a thing (for ease of sharing on Twitter)

I have posted 11 tracks there from pianotm and zDS.
Cave and the Town song are my personal favorites of my own work so far.
author=kentona
Thanks guys for the input on the keyboard issue. I didn't know about those potential fixes.

As for the Joker not being able to advance into a Daredevil - yes, that is a bug in my code that would prevent that from happening. It'll take me a bit to fix though and I have to get to work. (It's been a long time since I've looked at the code). I'll make the changes to the Temple of Class Change maps and upload it when I am done, but it won't be until late in the day. I'll post here when it's uploaded.

It's uploaded. Sorry it took so long. (it was a pain to fix, in the end, and a bigger pain to test!)

This bugfix will allow Jokers to change class to a Daredevil at level 20 like they were supposed to be able to.

Get the fix here:
https://rpgmaker.net/games/82/downloads/9271/

Paste the map file into the main folder for Hero's Realm and overwrite the existing file.
author=kentona
author=kentona
Thanks guys for the input on the keyboard issue. I didn't know about those potential fixes.

As for the Joker not being able to advance into a Daredevil - yes, that is a bug in my code that would prevent that from happening. It'll take me a bit to fix though and I have to get to work. (It's been a long time since I've looked at the code). I'll make the changes to the Temple of Class Change maps and upload it when I am done, but it won't be until late in the day. I'll post here when it's uploaded.
It's uploaded. Sorry it took so long. (it was a pain to fix, in the end, and a bigger pain to test!)

This bugfix will allow Jokers to change class to a Daredevil at level 20 like they were supposed to be able to.

Get the fix here:
https://rpgmaker.net/games/82/downloads/9271/

Paste the map file into the main folder for Hero's Realm and overwrite the existing file.


Thanks.


I posed a question to my patrons recently about what they might want from me specifically for their patronage. They responded and now I am opening it up to any one else who potentially would be interested. The biggest reward idea being Bigwig's tentative offer to allow patrons to design a monster concept for an in-game enemy.

If this, or things like a custom hand drawn world map from me, is something that excites you, please respond to the poll!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-are-you-for-13636232
The Font is slimy and I can barely read it. . . How can I fix it?
author=Notnosyknowsy
The Font is slimy and I can barely read it. . . How can I fix it?

https://rpgmaker.net/engines/rt2k3/utilities/1/
Install the fonts that you can download in that link. >.<)b

The Child of Light and the four heroes
Does the story change any except for some name changes?
author=Notnosyknowsy
Does the story change any except for some name changes?

Not really.


...except that the evil guy is now Lex Luthor, it is set in 1890 Texas but in one where aliens from the future handed Genghis Khan advanced tech, and a large race of subterranean intelligent super spiders are attempting to take over the world using cats.
Notoh
*Deeply Thinking*
1863
author=kentona
author=Notnosyknowsy
Does the story change any except for some name changes?
Not really.


...except that the evil guy is now Lex Luthor, it is set in 1890 Texas but in one where aliens from the future handed Genghis Khan advanced tech, and a large race of subterranean intelligent super spiders are attempting to take over the world using cats.


Oh yes.
You're remaking this?!? I'm thrilled! I came back to download a few old favorites and find this here. I will be back to see how this is coming!
author=SilverSoul
You're remaking this?!? I'm thrilled! I came back to download a few old favorites and find this here. I will be back to see how this is coming!

Well I can't disappoint you, now that you said this. I guess I should get on finishing it then!
It's funny that your latest post mentions taekwondo with your kids...when I first played this game, I was in college, I think? And now I also have kids, one of whom is doing taekwondo. So I totally sympathize in being pressed to find time to work on this. If you can, I'm gonna be very excited :-)

It is tough working on this in 12 minute spurts, sporadically late at night, early in the morning, and secretly while at work, with weeks-long hiatuses.