SLASH'S PROFILE

I just goaded a couple of my friends into playing it so that we'd all be in the Undertale phase together and could all ramble incessantly about it!

I'm also still listening to the soundtrack and now all the wonderful remixes people have been putting out there.

Hero's Realm is totally the kind of thing you could Kickstart - it's got a fairly big fanbase and you're hitting all the right nostalgia buttons. Still, you gotta weigh stuff like "How much money do I need for art? Music? Can I set a reliable deadline for myself? Should I stop working while I make this, and if I do how much more will I need?", etc. Kickstarting, media presence, advertising; it's a whole 'nother bag of potatoes that you gotta deal with (I'm totally inexperienced with that stuff myself!)

What Craze said is good advice though - maybe ask some people who have started (completed?) successful KS projects, and definitely get your Game Make confidence and drive back before you commit yourself to a big undertaking like Hero's Realm+. It has the potential to be a very cool, big thing, but I dunno if signing up for a big crazy challenge is a wise idea if you're in a slump!

Kentona! Your fatalism is scaring the children!

author=LockeZ
I have personally moved away from "this monster is weak to ICE DAMAGE and this other one is weak to LIGHTNING DAMAGE" and towards "this monster is neutralized by BEING KILLED FIRST and this other one is neutralized by AREA ATTACKS" because I think that's more interesting. However there's no real reason why that's any more interesting. The end result is honestly pretty similar. I just find it easier to add more depth to the battle this way. The types of combos and complexities I'm good at adding to combat are built around combining and countering those kinds of strategies instead of elemental strategies. But your mileage may vary.

I agree, I prefer that sort of decision-making as well over elemental weaknesses. I think my reason is this: elemental weaknesses are almost always explicit, while general strategy is obscured and can only be inferred. Like I mentioned before, when dealing with elemental weaknesses, either the enemies have obvious visual traits (Fire Lion is weak to water) or you can Scan them, or you just ping them with every element you have available to see which does double damage (not too exciting, IMO). Meanwhile, there's a feeling of discovery and triumph for the player when they figure out that they should to use AoE on a boss that summons lots of weak adds, or to Stun a caster right before they finish winding up their big spell. It's never outright spoken, it's just implied, and there's more of a reward when the player figures that out.

Maybe it's just because I've played a lot of RPGs, however, and the discovery aspect of Water > Fire is not new to me in particular. I'm almost positive it was really exciting back when I played Pokemon Red the first time, and it's still pretty fun for people who are less experienced with the genre. It's definitely not a bad system, just a simple one. It is pretty impressive how enjoyable and deep elemental triangles can be, even with their simplicity.

WRT to Unity's system, assuming a slightly-more-experienced RPG player, there might be some fun in using the mental theme of your elemental system. Maybe there are monsters that you can provoke with dialogue in battle, for example, and afterwards they become temporarily susceptible to Rage attacks. Or, after you get an enemy past a certain HP %, their armor breaks and they become cowardly, making them weak to Terror. Using a certain item might remind an enemy of their horrible past, making them weak to Sorrow. With a little creativity you could probably come up with something that's a little more tricky than the normal element system, but deep and fulfilling. But, that'd probably be a lot bigger, scope-wise ;^^

Yea, but who has ColoCao?? (I love ColoCao.)

EDIT: I've also never had Nutella...