RPG Maker MZ News

We are planning a creator-focused horror event, called the RPG Maker Horror Festival, that is open to all Steam games that fall within the horror genre!

Submissions for the event are now open! Other than the basic requirements listed below, the event is open to all games!
And of course we’re hoping many submissions will be looking to use Steam’s Broadcast function too!
If this sounds like the kind of event for your game, please complete the submission form linked below.

■Eligibility Requirements
・The game qualifies as a horror game in theme/tone.
・The game is currently available for sale or distribution on Steam. (Unreleased titles are also allowed if already completed registration with Steam)
※Games that were not made with a Maker series engine such as RPG Maker or Pixel Game Maker MV are allowed.


■Submission Form
Please complete one of the following forms to submit your game(s) for consideration.
※The form requires a Google account.

･For Japanese Domestic Participants
https://forms.gle/fNZGiuiDduRdxGTA6


･For International Participants
https://forms.gle/6a3MpUZoCRKCGXMq8


･For Traditional Chinese participants
https://forms.gle/mkoLDQvr9vLbfM8U8


■Submission Deadline
・Japan Time：August 22, 2024 (Thurs.) 23:59 (11:59 PM)
・Pacific Time：August 22, 2024 (Thurs.) 06:59 (6:59 AM)
※If many submissions for use of Steam Broadcast are received, Gotcha Gotcha Games will make a decision as necessary.

We hope everyone with a horror game will decide to participate and help make this event a big success!

This week, two tile sets for fantasy with different atmospheres, an Enemy Material Collection, and three music DLCs are available!

"Dark Castle Assets Top View Ver" is a collection of tiles and character assets inspired by medieval castles. It also includes walking graphics and is useful for creating exploratory adventure games.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119090/RPG_Maker_MZ__Dark_Castle__Assets_Top_View_Ver/


"EX Graphic Village Expansion" includes unique tiles that can be used to represent small boats, blacksmiths, and more. It can also be combined with the separately sold "EX Graphic Basic Set" to further expand the range of expression!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119110/RPG_Maker_MZ__EX_Graphic_Village_Expansion/


"NATHUHARUCA MEGA MONSTER PACK" is a collection of Enemy assetls featuring colorful monsters.It is a large collection of materials containing 30 monster types (total 786 monsters including color differences + different sizes).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119070/RPG_Maker_MZ__NATHUHARUCA_MEGA_MONSTER_PACK/


"Retro Game Console Sound BGM SET 2" is the second volume of a BGM collection using sound sources from actual retro game hardware from the good old days. It contains 26 tracks, mainly up-tempo songs that can be used in action games.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119080/RPG_Maker_MZ__Retro_Game_Console_Sound_BGM_SET_2/
https://youtu.be/SW59tluJDUY


"Piano Battle and Fantasy Music Pack" is a collection of battle and fantasy themed piano music. It contains 12 songs with a quiet and atmospheric tone.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119100/RPG_Maker_MZ__Piano_Battle_and_Fantasy_Music_Pack/
https://youtu.be/ls3FUK5zJ_U


"PearFinch’s Cybernetic Battle BGM" is a science fiction-themed music collection featuring 23 science fiction-specific songs for battle scenes.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119120/RPG_Maker_MZ__PearFinchs_Cybernetic_Battle_BGM/
https://youtu.be/fJePW1dDw2g

Two new packs, one for creating your perfect feline cafe, and one for designing an amazing 8-bit retro style game are here!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3115680/RPG_Maker_MZ__Cat_Cafe/

We’ve got the purr-fect pack for lovers of both cats and coffee today, with the Cat Cafe pack! Yeaka is here with a tileset and character combo pack to create a massive pack that can help you make as many pleasant cat-filled coffee shops and stores as your game could possibly need! A2, A3, A4, A5, and 14 B sheets offer up a variety of wood, carpet, furniture, and cat supplies to fill a full city with a different cat cafe on every corner.

Build a cozy cafe with wooden floors decorated with scattered cat paws and put up some coffee-themed wallpaper to surround tables and chairs where heroes and townsfolk can sit and enjoy cute cats. Keep the kitties healthy with clean litter, fresh water, and bowls and bowls of catfood, and have your players choose which cat toys and collars they’ll give their cats when they adopt them. And if you need a more serious place to meet for coffee, then use the simpler white or black furniture and coffee signs with just a few potted plants as pops of color.

This pack also contains 150 character sheets of cats with various patterns, ears, and tails so that you can give your cat dad a distinct family of kitties. Add some Scottish folds, calicos, hairless Sphynx, and even robotic cats for your allergic heroes to cuddle! And if that wasn’t enough, there are also cat-themed icons, a cat paw faceset, windowskins, and PSD files for the cats so you can make your own perfect cat. If your game has been lacking a cute cafe filled with cat-related art, or you just need more options for cats in your game, then pick up the Cat Cafe pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3115630/RPG_Maker_MZ__LoBit_RPG_Pixel_Art_Asset_Pack/

Give your retro-inspired game a fresh coat of 8-bit paint with the Lo-Bit RPG Pixel Art Asset Pack! Finalbossblue is back with a brand new style, focusing on 8x8 tiles mixed and matched in a limited palette to create a gorgeous tileset to help you build villages, forests, castles, caves, and more! A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, and a B sheet are ready to create every map you need to tell your story of heroes saving the day.

Craft a quilt of grass and dirt surrounded by water to give your heroes a world map to wander around, and dot it with small houses, castles, and temples to give your heroes more places to visit between exploring dungeons. Make a rock-filled mining town where the NPCs are waiting for enemy bats to be chased off from the nearby caverns and snowy regions where snow-covered trees surround shops that sell incredible healing potions. Send your heroes to visit the king in his extravagant castle before heading deep into the forest to stop the villainous living armor that has set up its base in a trap-filled stone temple.

This pack also includes 2 windowskins that match the look of the tiles as well as 11 character sheets to populate your game! Have jesters dance and guards pace in place to add more movement to your maps with 64 idle characters (each with a color variation), and let your heroes walk between flickering torches to open treasure chests and battle enemies that stalk around the map. Give your game an old-school look to enhance your story with the Lo-Bit RPG Pixel Art Asset Pack!

Kokoro Reflections are here with two new tilesets perfect for a cozy game!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3011760/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Country_Cottage_Tileset/

Build your heroes a cozy home to return to after years of battle with the KR Country Cottage Tileset! Kokoro Reflections has crafted a soft set of interior and exterior tiles to let you make colorful fields of flowers, meandering paths in a garden, and thatched roof houses for kind witches and cheerful families to live in! A1, A2, and A4 tiles along with 4 B sheets offer up all you need to make houses into homes with cozy furniture and all sorts of decorations to tell players about who lives there without any words. Give a grouchy old man who lives in the small cottage made from wicker and plaster a garden full of potted plants and a large wooden workstation with empty pots and small shovels to show that he has a soft spot for flowers, and give the local witch a home filled with bright and cheery sunflowers.

Build a base for your heroes to recover with fully furnished bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens filled with fresh produce to make some stat-boosting food, or use the sets of wildflowers to add more colors and textures to your outdoor maps. This pack also includes flames to light up the fireplace and wooden doors to give your heroes access to relaxing interiors. So if you’ve been wanting to create a cute little village or need a comfy house in a field of wildflowers, pick up the KR Country Cottage Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3062900/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Flower_Forest_Tileset/

Add even more bursts of colors and sweet scents to your maps with the KR Flower Forest Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is back with a set of exterior tiles to make your heroes sneeze. Filled with larger-than-life flowers and marble pillars and fences, this pack can make magical forests, relaxing parks, a giant’s garden, and more!

A1, A2, A4, and A5 tiles as well as 5 B sheets are ready to turn any outdoors map into a fantastical garden or plant-filled dungeon where beauty hides danger. Show your players how much magic is in the area with grasses that come in greens, yellows, blues, pinks, and white, and scatter mushrooms in the shadows of trees and tall lush hedges. White moonflowers, blue roses, yellow sunflowers, and pink tulips come in multiple angles and sizes so that you can let your heroes wander under towering flowers or walk beside normal-sized flowers growing in beds. Let them walk under arches decorated with the different flowers and explore stone paths around small flowers. And when they’ve had enough of the pretty flowerbeds, have them follow scattered petals that grow in size until they’ve entered a mystical forest where marble fences trap them in pollen-filled fields!

This pack also includes spraying water fountains to add more movement to your garden maps along with a white marble box that can hold all sorts of goodies for your heroes to find. Pick up the KR Flower Forest Tileset and create gorgeous gardens created with magic or dungeons where your heroes shrink down to the size of bugs!

Two new tilesets out now for RPG Maker!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3062880/RPG_Maker_MZ__CyberCity_Central_Security_Tiles/

Alert, alert! New tiles to increase the military presence in your game are here thanks to the CyberCity Central Security pack! PVGames is back with another pack in their CyberCity series, this time focusing on cold concrete and metal to create a harsh technology-filled world for your heroes to fight for or against. More than 1,800 tiles are ready to help you build long hallways where your heroes need to avoid cameras and barricades, jail cells where your heroes may make unlikely connections, barracks for the city’s soldiers, and more!

Perfect for parallax mapping, each object in this pack comes in 8 different directions so you can set up your maps exactly how you imagine them. Create war rooms with monitors lining every wall so your villains can keep a close eye on the entire city, or fill your hero’s base with hastily gathered crates and sandbags so they can survive without getting caught by security. Add sentry guns to the tops of buildings to tell your players that they shouldn’t just wander into those places without a plan, and make prisons with sturdy watchtowers and concrete walls that your heroes will need to escape if they are unlucky enough to be caught while searching for info!

Need some buildings to fill out your city or some warehouse interior maps for a short cutscene? Then make sure to use this pack’s 17 pre-built buildings and warehouse space that you can fill with enemy weapons or equipment for your heroes to use! If your game needs some dangerous military bases to sneak into or you want to show just how deadly the corrupt city’s soldiers are, check out the CyberCity Central Security pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3062870/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Desert_Kingdom_Tileset/

Build stone cities for your heroes to rest in while exploring sandy dungeons with the KR Desert Kingdom Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is back with another set of tiles to create a full town found in the hot and dry deserts of your game’s world. A1, A2, A4, and A5 tiles along with 5 B sheets offer up a bunch of stone and clay to create your town’s solid base, and then decorate it with tile entryways and draped canopies to help keep the sun off the townsfolk when they’re out shopping and gossiping. Let your heroes recover from battles by resting on comfy large cushions, and have them go shopping to find new curved swords, cooling fruits, and cloth armor that protects them from heat.

Need to make an abandoned building for your heroes to explore, or destroy a town after the final boss releases a deadly plague? Then grab the crack autotiles and the destroyed versions of some of the B tiles to turn a cozy home into a ruined shell! Torn papers, busted vases, and ripped fabric make interiors unlivable while crumbling arches and pillars and cracked domes make building exteriors feel dangerous to enter. This pack also includes carved arched doors to help keep the hot air out of bedrooms as well as a floating magic carpet that your heroes could use to quickly traverse the empty desert dunes! Pick up the KR Desert Kingdom Tileset and create sandy marketplaces, oasis inns, and ransacked castles in your desert areas!