Progress is being made, albeit slowly.

Avee has been diligently working on custom NPCs. You can see a sample of his work above. I have compiled a list of the music submissions so far, but have not kickstarted the process to make further progress on the soundtrack. I plan on doing this soon. As I have lost all contact with BigWig, I have tentatively worked out an agreement with someone else to make monster sprites. Once I have solidified details I will reveal more. At that time, I will also release the work that I paid for and received from Bigwig completely, for you guys to check out (and maybe use in your games with my permission? I haven't thought too hard on that yet).

I have completed the bug fixes for all of the bugs I currently know about in Hero's Realm - compiled from all of my old notes and reports from the umpteen pages of messages, emails, and posts from among the 35,000+ people who played the original game. I am currently working on implementing a few minor enhancements, afterwhich I will begin my personal (re)play through of the entire game. Once that is complete and I am satisfied with it, I will reach out for playtesters to play the game. If this is something you are interested in, please reach out to me now and I will compile a list of people to contact. The more, the better.

At this snail's pace of progress, I do not anticipate a release for this game until the latter half of 2018.

Thank you for your ongoing support. You are a hero.