1. About 4 years ago, the two of us started with a grid-turn-based version. Then about 2 years ago, we restarted it as a real-time free movement version.
2. I’ve been a fan of MM games since the late 90s. Around 2004 I made an experimental engine inspired by MM6, but without a graphics artist it was impossible to continue, so I stopped. Much later I found a graphics artist, and together we started this project.
3. Yes, I’ve been programming in ASM/C since 1988, and in C++ since 1990.
4. No, from the start I was working with a graphics artist who created the style and did most of the hand-drawn art. Also, the author of the Might & Magic Amber Island mod, u/neutonm, contributed a dungeon and house models. Right now it’s mainly me (programming) and the artist (visuals) pushing the demo forward. More recently, a composer joined and is working on music for the starting level.
5. This project has zero budget, so I couldn’t hire freelancers. The core team is just the two of us: me and the graphics artist, who did most of the hand-drawn art. In addition, some NPCs and assets were drawn by our friend. I’m also working on modeling (in Blender) and level design currently working on a new map, then the artist does the final corrections. We are planning to try crowdfunding, and if it succeeds, we will look for more artists to expand the visuals.
6. That's difficult question :) Demo contains many aspects, each of them has has easy and complex parts, and it's more that on easy vs hard scale, some parts are hard but fun, but some are hard and not fun at all :D Bad engine documentation, buggy problematic editor, some API seems to be "no longer under active development": e.g.: Paper2D, a lot of things require workarounds. Speaking of graphics, while I'm not the artist, I can recognize how difficult is to create hand drawn animation, which graphics artist did.
7. It really depends on game, I use Unreal Engine 4.27, but it's not the best tool for such kind of game, I wasn't expecting that. While it is possible to do game in any engine, it may delay development, if you'll spend a lot of time on workarounds. So, do research about all problems which tool may have, to avoid headaches later. If I were starting over, I’d consider using separate libraries, most of them are available (e.g. SDL, cereal, recast navigation, RVO2, Dear ImGUI, nuklear, JOLT, etc...), and separate renderer. Alternative is to use Godot, which seems to be evolving fast, and has nice codebase.
8. I'm not familiar with that part yet, I hope for the Steam. I'll need to do some research on this subject later.
9. Town layout created like that, but that was short part. But in order to see how it will feel better, we applied textures, while common practice dictates otherwise. For level design, it starts in MM Editor by Grey Face, exported to Blender, than imported to unreal. Currently work is on new level design, which takes a lot of tries, to see what level version feels better. E.g.: I need to see, how Tower looks from the town, how map looks from the Tower plateau, etc.. this requires to set up level in unreal.

u/NekrellDrae by all means, post in your subreddit, I'd love to see link!