BLIND'S PROFILE

author=Ashes of Emerald
HOW IN HELL DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS PROJECT! Subbed! Looks excellent <3

Thanks, friend!

Been following your work for many years too, and Giznads pointed me toward your new project. More broadly speaking, I'm glad that there's such a sudden resurgence of interest in 2k3 projects.

Not sure why this game hasn't been noticed yet! Has quite a lot of polish and charm for a Zelda fangame. Any idea when the development might restart?

author=dethmetal
Just for fun - I tried to make one of the battle themes from my game sound like it's from a SNES title. This won't be in the actual game because I only plan on using .midi files, so I'm not going to waste too much time making it sound perfect.

https://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/658/locker/ExileEncounterSNES.mp3

I respect your choice to go old-school-RPGMaker and use pure MIDI, but I really liked that rendition above! Maybe you could offer an MP3 version using more sophisticated soundfonts? It could theoretically be more consistent with the 16-bit visual approach.

author=Luthan
Early access or stuff like that ... on steam ... would be nice. Or being able to support/pre-order via paypal. Doesn't need all the tiers available on kickstarter. Since don't have much money (but still like to pay for good games and advocate for more rpg makers games selling in steam instead of releasing for free) and about 20 Euros would be my maximum. 9 dollar goal seemed nice for me. Finished game could definitely be higher - if it is good. (There is a lot of competition and a lot of people don't seem to recognize good games. Worse stuff selling higher and better stuff struggling. But there still are steam sales, groupees/humble bundle - for later. And the option of a discount when it is new to get attention.)

The company that made Echoes of Aetheria and Skyborne have them at 14,99 at steam atm. Definitely looking a bit more forward to your game.

Wow, thanks for the advice. :D I can't thank you enough for following the game's progress across so many years, and through its various iterations.

Yeah, I'm definitely curious enough to look into "late backing" or some type of bonus pre-order deal, but I'd want to make sure there's enough fan interest to actually justify it, now that the Kickstarter succeeded. I'm working on a personalized project website and a Steam page as we speak.

As for the pricing for the final game, I'm open to suggestions! I priced the campaign copies at $9 because that seemed reasonable. I think Ara Fell was $10, and most SNES games we resold by Nintendo at 9.99, so that's a fairly decent frame of reference for the style of content and scope.

As for the old KS, yeah, the poster above basically addressed that. Unfortunately, you have to consider a vastly different scope of budget if you're just funding some animations / fan artwork, vs funding the assets for a fully completed game.

Rockin' the classic refmap I see. Nice mapping!