RPG Maker

RPG Maker, known in Japan as RPG Tsukūru (RPGツクール, sometimes romanized as RPG Tkool), is the name of a series of programs for the development of role-playing games (RPGs) first created by the Japanese group ASCII, then succeeded by Enterbrain. The Japanese name, Tsukūru, is a pun mixing the Japanese word tsukuru (作る), which means "make" or "create", with tsūru (ツール), the Japanese transcription of the English word "tool".

The RPG Maker series has been released primarily in Japan, with later versions also released in East Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia.

PC versions

RPG Maker is a program that allows users to create their own role-playing video games. Most versions include a tile set based map editor (tilesets are called chipsets in pre-XP versions), a simple scripting language for scripting events, and a battle editor. All versions include initial premade tilesets, characters, and events which can be used in creating new games. One feature of the PC Versions of RPG Maker programs is that a user can create new tilesets and characters, and add any new graphics the user wants.

RPG Maker 95

RPG Maker 95 RPG Tsukūru 95 (RPGツクール95, Ārupījī Tsukūru Kyūjūgo) is the first RPG Maker series title for Microsoft Windows. The game is also the first in the series to receive an unauthorized English translation and release

Features

RPG Maker 95 games run in 640×480 resolution and incorporates a 2D tile engine, that involve separate graphics files for characters, tile sets, backgrounds, and battle animations. The battle style of RPG Maker 95 is turn-based and in first-person perspective. The music featured in RPG Maker consists of MIDI and wav files.

Create game specifications

Party specifications

Player's party can consists of up to 8 members, with maximum of first 4 members entering combat at a time.

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This version includes following changes:

The first 2000 releases in Japan were accompanied with a soundtrack CD album "ZONDERLAND" of RPG themed music based on RPG Maker. Music was composed by the U.K. band INTELLIGENTSIA, who also created the RPG MAKER in game FX.

RPG Maker 2003

RPG Maker 2003 (RPGツクール 2003) is the third in the series of programs for the development of role-playing games, developed by Kadokawa Games. It features a database of pre-made backgrounds, music, animations, weapons and characters.

On April 24, 2015, RPG Maker 2003 received an official English translation, and was released into the Steam platform.

RPG Maker 2003 was superseded by RPG Maker XP.

Features

Graphics

All graphics within RPG Maker 2003 are in 2D like its predecessor, RPG Maker 2000, and makes use of the same graphical resources with a few minor changes in resolution (though some tilesets, while similar in style to those included in RPG Maker 2000, include redrawn resources). In addition, Battle Character and System2 sets are used to go with RPG Maker 2003's new battle system.

Sprites

The majority of all graphics within the game are achieved with sprites, or single images that has a composition of frames in a specific orientation so that the graphics rendering software of RM2k3 can give the impression of movement.