The Kickstarter Campaign has begun!
You Are Not The Hero Kickstarter
You Are Not The Hero is a new action platform RPG for the PC, inspired by all the people the heroes always ended up screwing over. We ditch the battle system to focus on richer RPG gameplay elements. Instead of playing a traditional hero that saves the world, you're instead playing a bystander swept into the affairs of the heroes and villains alike.
You play as Petula, an unemployed, emotionally charged, ill-tempered, otherwise average young woman. With the royal army hot on their heels, the heroes have made their way to your village where they resume scavenging for supplies in everyone's homes. After confronting them for stealing your pendant, they rush off to continue their quest, giving you a quest of your own to retrieve it.
From now until November 12th 2013 we will be raising funds to complete You Are Not The Hero. As a backer of the project, you'll be able to influence varying styles of gameplay to be added and refined in the game. Rewards are anywhere from getting a digital copy of the game, a digital soundtrack and artbook, joining the game as an NPC with a custom bust and sprite, all the way up to designing your own town, becoming the mayor and creating your own specific quests and adventures, with up to 10 other people you specify!
As an RPG Maker game, we can show the world that the engine isn't just for half-baked games with little production value, but a powerful game creation tool that should command more respect than it has. Thank you all for your support! If you can spare a second, please share the Kickstarter link to your family and friends, or to other forums and communities that you frequent. Any and all support is greatly appreciated!
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Sounds interesting.
''As an RPG Maker game, we can show the world that the engine isn't just for half-baked games with little production value, but a powerful game creation tool that should command more respect than it has.''
During the RPG maker 2000/2003 era there were great games that put alot of the big commercial RPGs to shame, but for every one of them there were hundreds of bad ones. Things didn't change much from what I see with the current generation of the engine. But at least it's good that you accept that a lot of people are biased against RPG maker games.
Nice Shadow! Another person suggested "You are (not) the Hero" - a nod to the new Evangelion movies haha.
I remember that era conscript, there were so many amazing games and a lot of the things they've done, I'm still confused on how they managed to accomplish it without a scripting system. Regardless, I hope we'll be able to make this work out!
Am I the only person that has played this waaaay before it was kickstarted? I beat the whole game. It was on a RPG Maker website.