ALTEREGO'S PROFILE

Yeah, with some tweaks this is definitively article material. Maybe you could expand a little each step, or maybe combine some of them for simplicity's sake. I don't really have an issue with the way you have them here, though, I'm just saying...

Anyway, I find it amazing that you actually sketch your dungeons on paper, take notes and such. I never find time for that kind of thing, I prefer to do my 'sketching' directly on the maker, and hey, if I can't remember something on my own it probably wasn't worth to write it down in the first place. Heh; ...I guess my process relays more on the "Improvisation" aspect, but eh, I manage. xP

Heh; If you don't mind me interfering... Anyone who is interested probably already follows your off-site blog, specially considering the frequency in that you make these announcements. Anyone who is not interested don't really have a reason to be because all they see is the exact same blog over and over. But it doesn't matter if people is interested or not, it's not about them. It's about your responsibility to put out thoughtful content. Just a line of text and a link doesn't cut it, that's basically spam.

I dunno, it may be a gamble... How well known is your game? (I just found about it ^^;) That right there may be your biggest obstacle. You'll probably need to pay for some publicity in order to get it noticed, and that of course will be another expense that you have to be certain it'll pay back... The game looks really nice, though, I was looking at the screens just now and there's lots of interesting stuff on it. Also, people from outside RM communities don't really care about the RTP, so you may have a good chance...

If I were you, though, and after coming all this way, I'd just release the game for free and maybe ask for donations. (Donation buttons in game profiles may be a reality someday) You can always make your next project commercial; Putting into practice all you've learned from the first game and taking advantage of the fact that people already know the quality of your work.

Doesn't sound too bad, but I'd be good to listen to some other examples. Right now it sounds like you just added some extra steeps to the old-fashioned 'stumbling upon a bunch of money' which may or may not be a good thing. ...If said pickaxe were a part of your inventory, useful in battle or to solve certain puzzles, and on the plus side you could use it to dig in some places and get money, it would be a mechanic more ingrained into the gameplay of your game, and thus more fun.

Well, this is rather sad news. I'm not much of a fan of fan-games, but it was still nice to see FF5 getting some love for a change.

But you know what they say, "never say never". Maybe someday you can pick this up again, or maybe doing something better...

Either way, best of lucks to you, man. =)