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…I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but as soon as I saw this come up on steam, I quickly logged in and voted yes.

DragonHeartMan is my hero. He started out with rpgmaker and slowly used the experience he gained from this hobbie
of his to eventually pursue something more. This is who rpgmaker is made for.

It’s really crazy to see how far you’ve come DHM, simply because you’ve stuck to your passions.

Rock On Dude! ❤ I can't wait to see what you do next.

(I want to jump in here quickly.) Kaempfer, this is excellent. Thank You. ♥

GamingW's History is always going to be hard to talk about and I wanted to present both sides in a fair and equal way.

It was never easy to be on that site frankly, so I'm glad you had the courage to say it.

It's why I frankly never really participated in GamingW outside of a handful of interactions. So, thank You!

author=Kaempfer
GW fucking sucked for years before it died.

Take off your nostalgia goggles.

Kaempfer,

I think everyone on RMN knows how much GamingW sucked, we've made several posts about it throughout the years (...It's why most of us moved here from GamingW):

https://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/1022/?post=14373#post14373

https://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/1012/?post=14107#post14107

...But what you just wrote, doesn't really tell me anything. It's incredibly dismissive and unnecessarily negative.

tell us why it sucked, how it sucked, when it sucked. Who made it suck for you.

I mentioned your name throughout this thread, cause you wrote this really great summary about GGZ! (♥)

I was hoping you would write something similar.
If you're going to say how much GamingW sucks, could you at least tell us why?
Like, I was really looking forward to what your thoughts would be on GamingW, because your summary on GGZ was so good.

I thought you would be the expert, what's going on here?

author=pianotm
Frankly, that comment, "I really did mean to take everything I enjoyed about RPGs I played as a kid and make my own game out of it," is something that would make me buy. In fact, I'd specifically put that in promotion.

Play up on this^

Avoid saying stuff like "inspired by rpgs like chrono trigger", because people are going to take one look at it and know it's not the game it's inspired off of - (this is the same reason why I didn't buy Zeboyd's, "Cthulhu Savves the World" or "Breath of Death VII" - I love Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy; but these games don't look or play the part.)

Also avoid using Nostalgia as a gimmick, because once people hear what it is, they're going to know it's not for them.

Take the Alternative route, say something like :

"authentically recreates some of the best SNES RPGS of the 90s and the 16-bit era." just something that refers, to it's rich heritage, but make it enticing.

Look at how Lucas Arts, resold Monkey Island: 2 Special Edition.

Think about how the industry advertises old films. When Cineplex was advertising their showing of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear View Window, they never said it was "old" all they did was refer to it's history and how it built upon the thriller genre - that this was a movie that you HAD to see.

So yeah, just mention stuff that focuses on Hero's Realm's heritage.

I think during the Shinan interview done years ago, around the 7:00 - 9:00 mark, it's mentioned that Hero's Realm:

-Started out as a simple pen and paper RPG.

-Finished during dayjob, While also managing a kid! (people are going to love that, because It sounds similar to how Daisuke Amaya finished Cave Story over the course of 5 years while working at his day job)

There's a story there that's humbling and incredibly endearing.

But also mention stuff like:

Hero's Realm was mentioned on Neo-Gaf.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=505570 "OldSchool to the Bone!" - NeoGaf

Hero's Realm is so good, someone tried to steal it:

https://rpgmaker.net/games/82/blog/10740/

Hero's Realm was featured in hyper magazine:

https://rpgmaker.net/games/82/blog/3206/

Hero's Realm is featured in numerous youtube rpgmaker top ten lists.

Focus on it's Download History:

https://rpgmaker.net/games/82/blog/1656/

Focus on it's Distribution:

https://rpgmaker.net/games/82/distribution/

(Focus on how it mysteriously showed up on softwarepedia that one time - because an annoymous fan thought it was so good, the rest of the world should see it)
https://rpgmaker.net/games/82/blog/1279/

Focus on it's Customization.

The Classes

The Medals

The Numerous Quests.

Part of the reason why most of us have turned to rpgmaker is because, we want more of the games that we love. Focus on that, focus on how much content there is in this game. That unlike games we grew up with, Hero's Realm is an RPG that never ends.

Like, this is not just some random kick-starter rpgmaker game.

Hero's Realm is an RPGMaker Game with a lot of history in the rpgmaker community. This is a story about how one Canadian guy, loved RPGs so much, that in-between his dayjob and taking his kid to hockey practice, he was able to create one with rpgmaker.(...and manage an rpgmaker community as well!) - This is how you should sell Hero's Realm.

People fell in love with that, because they can identify with that - like, you grow up, get a job and start a family, but in-between all that, you just long for the days, where you can just play video games again. Like, you've been doing this for years Kentona, this should be easy.

Advertise it in such a way that people will see this an an opportunity to finally give back to you, for not only making such a great game, but for also investing so much in the rpgmaker community for years - so that people who don't know about Hero's Realm will want to know about it.

Like, If you've ever seen the movie: The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters, you're kind of like, the Steve Wiebe of RPGMaker:

You're a Canadian indie game developer whose actually a pretty okay guy, just doing what he loves.

Focus on that, because people are gonna want to know all that stuff when buying Hero's Realm - it's not just another retro-16bit-jrpg that's desperately trying to cash in on nostalgia for a kickstarter that will never deliver.

It's a finished rpgmaker game that comes from a place with a lot of heart.

EDIT: (...Maybe even throw in DLC, where after completing the game, you show a picture of you and your son at hockey practice in RPGMAKER or even a video of him scoring the winning goal. And then on New Game+ all the classes/armor change to resemble NHL hockey jerseys?...I dunno)