You could make basically anything in Unity or Unreal Engine, and you can certainly make a JRPG in Gamemaker.īut the bigger and less specialized the software and engine, the more complicated. In 2020, the options for free, low cost, simpler, or more flexible game creation packages are pretty numerous. “Why RPG Maker?” is a completely valid question.
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It’s a game engine, a dev kit, and a huge catalog of art and sound assets that are all free to use in RPG Maker projects (even in commercial works-yes, you can get paid for your homemade JRPG) just for buying the software. RPG Maker MZ is the latest in the 27 year history of RPG Makers developed by KADOKAWA and published by Degica, who also make a Visual Novel Maker (that is a perfectly usable alternative for people who want to make one of those without dealing with RenPy). If you have MV and are familiar with how it works and what it’s capable of, then you know enough to look at the feature list and make a coherent decision based on what you need an RPGM to do.īut if you’ve never heard of RPG Maker or have been too shy or confused about all the versions still readily available (and quite usable) with no idea where to start, I’ve got you. If you’re already an RPG Maker user, this review probably isn’t for you. A lot has changed in 15 years, but at its core this is still the RPG Maker both loved, reviled, and sometimes ignored by the gaming world at large. The first official English release of RPG Maker was XP in 2005. RPG Maker was born, and it eventually came to America. And the rest of my friends decided to fuck off to the land of Doom WADs and Warcraft mods.īut then something happened. I fell in love with HyperCard and made some really bad adventure games in the mode of ShadowGate. And there were no resources for even where to begin such an undertaking at the time. In the end, we mostly packed up those dreams and moved on. Certainly nothing even close to the complexity of a game as minimal and held together with bailing wire and prayers as Final Fantasy. In a way, we were building our own dev team, one that would just never come together to really make much of anything.
Others tried teaching themselves C to varying degrees of success. Some of us learned piano and picked up cheap synthesizers, writing bad MIDI battle jams. I had a friend in middle school who devoted three of his five subject notebook to just drawing motherfucking swords and axes (dude, they were sick). We filled Trapper Keepers and spiral notebooks with drawings (some OCs, some just bad copies of Yoshitaka Amano’s designs). But we made maps, and wrote out lengthy campaigns, crafted heroes and villains, and milled our Monstrous Compendiums and countless splatbooks for inspiration and stat blocks.
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