Hero's Song is a 2D fantasy RPG with permadeath.
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Pixelmage’s Hero’s Song fantasy role-playing game hits early backers in November (update)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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John Smedley, former head of Sony Online Entertainment, is getting ready to ship another game. But this new game, Hero’s Song, is different because it’s coming from his year-old startup Pixelmage Games. Starting in November, the fantasy role-playing game will be available to early backers on Indiegogo.

Hero’s Song doesn’t have a specific launch date yet, but the team is putting the finishing touches on it, Smedley said in an interview with GamesBeat. The title is a 2D pixel art fantasy game where the player can customize the world and populate it with all sorts of gods and characters.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.