RPG Maker MZ News

The RPG Maker Festival is an annual Steam Sale Event that saw its first occurring in February 2022. It is dedicated to the RPG Maker series, a non-coding engine series well loved by many indie and hobbyist developers from around the globe.
Not only will the engines be discounted greatly, the 2023 event will also be joined by over 450 RPG Maker-made game titles created by its enthusiastic and eager fan community, including worldly-acclaimed titles such as The Witch's House MV and LISA: The Painful!

RPG Maker Festival 2023 Steam Event Page
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/rpgmaker_festival_2023

RPG Maker Festival 2023 Event Duration
Pacific Standard Time: Feb 13, 2023 10:00 AM to Feb 20, 2023 10:00 AM
Japan Standard Time: Feb 14, 2023 03:00 AM to Feb 21, 2023 03:00 AM


45% OFF on RPG Maker MZ, and 85% OFF on RPG Maker MV！
The most current RPG Maker title, RPG Maker MZ, will be discounted up to 45% OFF in the 2023 event - the deepest discount to date.
Meanwhile, RPG Maker MV, will be discounted up to 85％ OFF.
For users who already own other RPG Maker titles, there will also be special bundles available too.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/30532/2023_MZ_Festival_SPECIAL/

Release of the 3D Character Converter Tool on Steam!
The 3D Character Converter is a convenient mini-app that can quickly convert humanoid-shaped VRM models into 2D character sprite assets compatible with RPG Maker series. Users can either import custom-made or commercially available VRM models into the converter for conversion. The app can output a total of 5 types of map walker sprites, 18 types of side-view battle character (aka SV-Battler) sprites, and the model’s faces for use as character portraits in dialogue boxes common in RPGs.

Although the 3D Character Converter app was originally designed for the currently in development RPG Maker Unite, there are also options that would allow the converter to output 2D assets compatible with RPG Maker MV and RPG Maker MZ. The developers hope that the early release of this app can provide RPG Maker users a different means of creating game assets for their games.

(What is VRM: A platform-independent file format designed for use with 3D characters and avatars in the VR era. (Please refer to the VRM Consortium for detail))

RPG Maker 3D Character Converter Product Spec
※Steam Account and Steam client app required.

■MSRP：$9.99（incl. tax）
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2218350/


（The app will come bundled with 8 default VRM models. The above is one example.）


（Users can also import VRM models using most VRM generation apps）

PiXel ScaLer Coming to Steam for Free too! PiXel ScaLer is a simple but powerful tool that can enlarge and convert pixel arts into higher resolution illustrations. Already released on RPG Maker Unite’s official site, it will now also be available for download on Steam for simpler app management. The tool supports many resolutions which makes it suitable to use with RPG Maker MZ and MV, as well as the RPG Maker Unite currently in development.　

※PiXel ScaLer is a product developed by Nononotyaya-san - who has granted Gotcha Gotcha Games the rights to distribute it as an official tool of RPG Maker series.
※(The previous PiXel ScaLer will continue to be available for download at the author’s sites. Users of the previous version of PiXel ScaLer can also continue to use it without concerns)

Supported Output Resolution:
Map Walker Sprites: 48 x 48, 64 x 64, 128 x 128, 256 x 256, and 98 x 146 (RPG Maker Unite’s default asset spec)
SV Battler Sprites: 64 x 64, 320 x 320, 512 x 512, and 194 x 194 (RPG Maker Unite’s default asset spec)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2306930/



Releasing the "ARPG Plug-in Set" Free DLC！
To celebrate the RPG Maker Festival 2023, Gotcha Gotcha Games is also delighted to announce the release of the Free ARPG Plug-in Set, which includes an RPG Maker MZ compatible plugin, and a set of graphical assets useful for creating ARPGs.
The pack also includes a sample project with examples to introduce to users what sort of actions can be implemented. Users are free to use this as they are, or as a reference to develop their own versions.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287820/

RPG Maker Festival 2023 Twitter Campaign！
Gotcha Gotcha Games will also be hosting a Twitter Campaign in celebration of the RPG Maker Festival 2023. Below are the campaign details:

● Have a chance to win a $40 worth of US Amazon Gift Card. A total of 5 winners will be drawn! Below are the steps to participate in:
①Follow @RPGMakerSeries
②Retweet our RPG Maker Festival 2023 campaign tweet
③Winners will be contacted by GGG staff via DM

※The Amazon Gift Cards issued are for use in the US Amazon .com store only.

This week we have something you've all been asking for: A male hero generator pack! Plus 2 new KR Tilesets, and a Heroine Generator pack for MV!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2297900/RPG_Maker_MZ__Another_World_Hero_Generator_for_MZ/

Game devs, your requests have been heard: male heroes will be able to have their own glamorous makeovers with Another World Hero Generator for MZ! Gee-kun-soft is here with 40 awesome male generator parts for MZ to give your heroes head-to-toe updates.Get ready to make buff demon lords, long-haired elf mages, armored barbarians, and more with this pack!

20 Clothing options cover all sorts of styles for heroes, from a simple shirt and pants pairing perfect for villagers and long, layered, robes to heavy paladin armor and a cloth samurai-inspired outfit. Dress your barbarian party member in a fur-lined breastplate and loincloth so they have full mobility while they swing their ax at enemies, or create a noble’s son who still wears the kingdom’s red and black school uniform long after the school was destroyed by invading monsters. Give your bard a skintight top (or no shirt at all!) to help distract his opponents, while the tank of the group wears a simple shirt over a stocky body. Other outfits with varying amounts of armor are perfect for creating NPCs, or let your heroes change clothes every once in a while. The Eyes, Front Hair, and Rear Hair sections each get 5 new pieces, letting you make a man with crazy eyes partly covered in bangs, a youthful elf who wears his green hair long and loose, and even a kind healer with downturned eyes and short hair that sticks out in a few spots.

Finish off your hero’s look with 1 Accessory 1, 2 Accessory 2s, and 2 horn options as Beast Ears! Give your demon prince some onyx bull horns and a simple eyepatch, while your prince-turned-hero wears a tiny gold crown to remind people of his status. So don’t wait, give your guys a new look with Another World Hero Generator for MZ!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2297890/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Alien_Worlds_Tileset/

Explore crystalline caverns and long-abandoned alien labs with the KR Alien Worlds Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is here with another MV/MZ tileset pack, this time focusing on two alien locations: purple-tinted wilderness and ancient alien laboratories lit with glowing amber. Have your spacefaring heroes crashland on a mysterious planet where they must survive until their friends can rescue them, or send your heroes on a research mission to explore strange dungeons full of forgotten machines and technology.

A1, A2, A4, A5, and 4 B sheets are filled with all you need to make detailed alien maps. Grow an alien forest where normal leafy trees are replaced with bioluminescent jellyfish trees and purple pods pop out of the ground protected with brown bark. Or let your players feel a little familiar with the alien plants by picking some of the tiles that appear almost like an Earth plant that was coated in bright purple paint, like a flowering yucca or short bushes. Bluish grass and brown dirt ground tiles are perfect for letting the plants themselves stand out, and purple waters could lead your heroes to a cave where hundreds of huge crystals line the walls and sprout from the ground!

Or have your heroes stumble across a strange brown building where amber screens show that power is still somehow flowing through the machines. Duck under metal arms and squeeze past large generators to reach the center of the lab, where a teleporter stands surrounded by alien runes. Create technology-heavy dungeons and exotic forests on distant planets with the KR Alien Worlds Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2297860/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Ultimate_SciFi_Frontiers_Tileset/

Build an incredible city on a planet far from Earth with the KR Ultimate Sci-Fi Frontiers Tileset! Kokoro Reflections has created a tileset for MV/MZ that brings all the little details you need to create a home and busy sci-fi city on a space station, on an alien planet, or even on Earth in the far future. Give your hero a comfy apartment to relax in, a convenience store to grab snacks from, and a manicured park to take a break after spending all morning holed up in the company lab. Neon blue lights keep everything bright no matter the time of day, and electrified fences form an obvious barrier between explorable areas and places only there for decoration. 24 A4 walls offer up a wide selection of options, from simple gray brick walls to high-tech circuit board ones, and panels of exterior sky shots are ready for your heroes to stare at while they chat with friends. Smaller tiles like microscopes, waste baskets, and exit signs can turn any room into a sci-fi company office, while cash registers, soda machines, and stocked shelves could make it a corner shop.

This pack also includes animated doors and swirling portals to help your players get around your maps. Have your heroes quickly reach distant cities with purple and blue portals, or let them keep their feet on the ground by entering buildings through large bay doors. Glowing signs make it easy for your players to find the closest restaurant or armory, or just use arrows to point them in the right direction! And if you want to make a cutscene play while your heroes are flying to a new location, have this pack’s flying car/plane sprite float across the screen. Give your sci-fi heroes a place to call home with the KR Ultimate Sci-Fi Frontiers Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2297832/RPG_Maker_MV__Another_World_Heroine_Generator_3/

MV users, it’s time for you to enjoy the Another World Heroine Generator 3 pack! Gee-kun-soft has remade 41 generator pieces to match MV’s generator and help you make your heroines look exactly how you imagine them. Give your knight a long ponytail, your mage a floppy black hat, and your martial artist an asymmetrical robe with this pack! 5 options for Eyes, Front Hair, and Rear Hair are perfect for giving your heroines a makeover. Choose the right sparkly eyes for your main character, and then give her some bangs and hair. Long and loose bangs could show that she’s too busy to stop for a haircut, while straight across bangs could fit her studious nature. 4 ponytail choices can reveal even more about personality, with the party’s kind healer wearing a low ponytail while the energetic archer sticks with twintails. And for the warrior woman who can’t stand long hair? Let her keep it loose and shoulder-length.

20 Clothing pieces along with 2 Accessory 2s, 3 Beast Ears, and 1 pair of Wings are perfect for giving each party member her own style. Let the tiny-horned succubus mage wear a lightweight robe so she can easily dodge while casting spells, and have your isekai’d heroine wear a modern jacket that stands out compared to all the fantastical outfits of the game world. Or just let your players choose their favorite outfit to wear while they relax and farm in a quiet village. No matter what genre your game is, update your MV heroines’ looks with new hairstyles and interesting outfits thanks to Another World Heroine Generator 3!

For our first release day of February, we bring you more MT Tiny Tales Battlers! More Fantasy Dreamland! And some Big Icons!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2297810/RPG_Maker_MZ__Big_Icons_Vol_1__Magic_and_Skills/

Level up your skill descriptions with Big Icons Vol 1 - Magic and Skills! Bis is here with 34 cartoony icons to help your menus stand out. With icons for elements, weapons, and interesting magical attacks, your party’s battle skills can stand out compared to the common default icons! Upgrade elemental attacks with new icons: a huge wave for water, a spinning tornado for wind, and a bright flame for fire to name a few. Each element icon stands out with unique colors and shapes, so even if your player is racing through the menu to get their next attack in, they're sure to easily recognize which elemental magic they’re using. For more powerful skills, make use of the swirling cosmic icon to mess with gravity or use a skill whose icon is a burning chunk of rock and hope for the best when meteors fall from the sky!

What about your non-magic-user party members? Then give them the weapon icons and ambiguous skill icons that fit! Swordsmen can make use of the sword and powerup icons, bards will love to use the music and charm icons, and even a shapeshifting rogue can find some icons to love, like the transformation and claw attack ones.

This pack includes multiple sizes of the icons so it’s simple to use in your favorite engine! Grab the 24x24 icons for Ace, the 32x32 for MV/MZ, or use the original size of 1024x1024 to resize the icons to perfectly fit your game’s menus or use them as pictures during cutscenes. So if you’ve been looking for some icons that fit your unique skills or just want to get away from the default icon designs, check out Big Icons Vol 1 - Magic and Skills!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2297780/RPG_Maker_MZ__Fantasy_Dreamland_Extra_Pack/

Send your heroes into a confounding world of sleep or into a spooky haunted town with the Fantasy Dreamland Extra Pack! Elv Games’ latest pack offers up some interesting extras in their adorable pixel art style to add in even more locations to your game. Give your towns a spoopy makeover in October with a B sheet of Halloween tiles, or create a unique dungeon for your heroes to challenge every time they fall asleep with an A1, A5, and 2 B sheets! Decorate houses with strings of bats, spiders, and ghosts, line paths with jack-o-lanterns, and fill the town graveyard with a bunch of new gravestones. Or turn the local woods into a haunted forest with spooky faces carved into dead trees! Grab the dream-themed tiles to build a maze built into puffy clouds or a nightmare dungeon where the wrong move could send your heroes falling through the purple floor to their doom! This pack also includes A1 and A2 autotiles to help you find the perfect water or grass for your maps. Give your prairies long, lush grasses while the swamps are filled with noxious green ponds.

Tiles aren’t all you’ll find in this pack though, it also includes 10 new human and 6 boss monster sprites as well as flames, spikes, and dreamland doorways. Each human and monster sprite includes a matching SV Battler, so your pumpkin-headed heroes are ready to face off against a grim reaper ghost to save their town from an eternity of Halloween! Give your heroes some dangerous new foes to defeat and a mysterious dreamworld to explore with the Fantasy Dreamland Extra Pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2297770/RPG_Maker_MZ__MT_Tiny_Tales_Battlers__Faith_and_Evil/

Turn your battle screens into epic battles against evil with MT Tiny Tales Battlers - Faith and Evil! Mega Tiles is back with another sprite and battler pack in their awesome pixel art Tiny Tales style, with 19 humans and monsters to battle against (or play as!). This pack’s 8 human characters are based around warriors from a church, offering up healers, warriors, and mages dressed in brightly decorated robes. Play as a helmet-wearing paladin accompanied by a sister wielding a magical staff, or battle against a corrupt church’s ancient and bearded archmage who is guarded by swordmasters and zealots.

If your heroes prefer to fight monsters, then choose from 11 creepy foes that can be found in deep, dark dungeons or stalking their prey in the middle of the night! Battle against skeletons, cloaked wraiths, and floating ghost skulls in graveyards, until your heroes finally find the cause of all the undead: a powerful scythe-wielding lich! Or have them challenge animalistic werebeasts deep in a forest. Perhaps the local wolves were cursed and now can stand on their hind legs or the people of a village turned to dark magic to give themselves the power to change into wereboars and werewolves, and your heroes need to stop them before it’s too late!

And if all those options weren’t enough, each character also comes in 4 color variations, meaning there are a total of 76 characters to choose from! Each battler and sprite comes in 3 sizes (original, 2x, and 3x) so you can easily pick a size that fits your game’s resolution. Battle against ghosts and ghouls or play as a monster fighting scary humans with the MT Tiny Tales Battlers - Faith and Evil pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2297760/RPG_Maker_MZ__MT_Tiny_Tales_Battlers__Magitek_Dynasty/

Fill your game with more human friends and foes with the MT Tiny Tales Battlers - Magitek Dynasty pack! Mega Tiles has focused their pixel art style on humans this time, bringing us 19 character battlers and sprites from two very different backgrounds. Meet soldiers from a technology-loving empire who often wear a uniform of heavy armor and helmets, or focus on the dynasty warriors, with their brightly colored and decorated armor inspired by samurai armor. Use this pack to create a world where skilled spearmen face off against powerful wrench-wielding soldiers, and let your players be the deciding factor in which side wins!

This pack’s 9 dynasty characters and 10 empire characters cover a range of battle styles, from sword wielders to long-range snipers! Have long-haired gunners and archers offer support to a team of spearmen on the dynasty side, and surprise your players with an attack from sai-wielding assassins if they sneak into the dynasty castle. Or battle the empire’s heavily armored general and a troop of soldiers armed with swords and shields.

4 color variations for each character means there are 76 total battlers and sprites to choose from, so it’s simple to populate towns with different people or fight against foes with color-coded weaknesses! 3 sizes (original, 2x, and 3x) for each character also makes it easier to choose the right size for your game. Let your players choose whether they want to support the empire or dynasty in your game, or create a vast world with mixed factions with MT Tiny Tales Battlers - Magitek Dynasty!

Many of us making games are trying to build our fantasy dreamland, and Elv Games is here to help with their Fantasy Dreamland series of pixel tilesets!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2235970/RPG_Maker_MZ__Fantasy_Dreamland__Starter_Pack/

Give your RPG the perfect pixelated makeover with the Fantasy Dreamland - Starter Pack! Elv Games is here with an incredible pack filled with tiles, sprites, and more to help make your dream game world a reality. This pack’s 44 tilesets (including A1, A2, A5, and a variety of B sheets) cover important locations for your beginner hero; with tiles devoted to villages, grasslands, caves, and deserts you know that your player won’t get bored exploring! Create hot cactus-filled deserts, cheerful grasslands overflowing with flowers, welcoming villages, and curious caves filled with minerals and maybe even a secret blacksmith with this pack’s tilesets.

An incredible world to explore is useless without anyone living in it, which is why this pack also includes a bunch of humanoid and monster sprites! 40 humanoid sprites (including goblins/elves and beastmen) are ready to wander your villages or offer items to your heroes while they search for new dungeons. Or use them to create an all-powerful adventuring party! Monster sprites for slimes, mushrooms and plant critters, and fire elementals can add some movement to a map or act as on-map enemies, and each monster has a damaged version for when they’ve been defeated or are taking a nap. Each humanoid and monster sprite also comes with a matching SV battler, so you’re ready to take your battle screen to the next level!

Also included are a bunch of icons to really help sell the retro feel of your game. Fill your menus with icons for weapons, armor, items, and dungeon keys, or use them in messages to help get your point across! This pack comes ready to use in both Vx/Ace and MV/MZ sizes, so you can enjoy these tiles even if you prefer the older engines. So if you’ve been searching for an adorable pixel art style or want a wider variety of monster sprites, pick up the Fantasy Dreamland - Starter Pack today!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2236010/RPG_Maker_MZ__Fantasy_Dreamland_Adventurer_Pack/

Love the Fantasy Dreamland style, but wish there were even more options? Then check out the Fantasy Dreamland Adventure Pack! Elv Games has tiles and sprites for two new locations to explore: lush forests and lava-filled mountains! Create verdant maps full of trees and flowering grasses where your heroes can hunt for resources, or choose more mystical blue, purple, and red-leafed trees to turn a simple forest into dark woods or the entrance to a fairy village. A wide selection of long grasses, flowers, and mushrooms are perfect for keeping the ground from looking too boring, or use them to mark fairy rings or buried treasures! Or send your heroes up a mountainside with three different ground colors and a selection of stones, from pebbles to boulders, to decorate the barren location. Use the pack’s carved tablets along the mountain paths to cheer your heroes forward, or leave them as warning of a deadly foe ahead! Of course, you could always mix and match to create a tree-covered volcano or a suspicious quarry in the middle of an otherwise pleasant forest.

Tiles aren’t the only thing you’ll find in this pack! Sprites for treasure chests, glowing flowers, and moving puddles of lava in stones are perfect for adding some little details, and 30 enemy sprites ready to add some life to your maps. Get ready to deal with living rocks, insect-like critters, and gooey blobs ready to swallow up unsuspecting adventurers!

Each enemy also comes with a damaged sprite, perfect for once you’ve beaten them or as a surprise for your players, and an animated SV battler, so you could face them on the battlefield or turn them into a helpful friend! And if that wasn’t enough, this pack comes presized for both VX/Ace and MV/MZ, so you can just drop the files into your project and get started building your world. Send your adventurers to fantastical forests and monstrous mountains with the Fantasy Dreamland Adventure Pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2271690/RPG_Maker_MZ__Fantasy_Dreamland_Casual_Pack/

Let your heroes visit a modern metropolis and a snowy, cabin-filled town with the Fantasy Dreamland Casual Pack! Elv Games is back with another pack filled to the brim of adorable pixel art, this time focusing on two drastically different places: steel-filled cities and snow-covered villages. Build a concrete jungle for your heroes to explore as they try their best to run a small shop, and send your fantasy heroes to a winter wonderland where frosted trees stand near warm log cabins. 20 sheets of tiles, covering A1, A2, A5, and B sheets give you ample choices for ground and building colors. Build dark gray skyscrapers next to waterways while red-roofed shops line the street near a park filled with swings and teeter-totters, or create a quiet mountain retreat nestled between snowy rocks and trees. Fill your cities with helpful signs pointing the way and add some pops of color and nature with trees and flowers placed in planters. Or create a calm village where footprints in the snow are the only sign of people living there.

This pack also includes 40 unique human characters, perfect for populating your cities and padding out your party! Each person comes with a SV Battler, so they’re ready to fight at any time. There are also animated doors and treasure chests, so your heroes can search snow-covered barrels or rush through a glass door to heal at a hotel. Meet new NPCs in shining cities and chilly villages with the Fantasy Dreamland Casual Pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2271700/RPG_Maker_MZ__Fantasy_Dreamland_Explorer_Pack/

Send your players deep into deadly dungeons and squelching through damp marshes with the Fantasy Dreamland Explorer Pack! Elv Games’ cute pixel art style is here to help you create some spookier locations, with tiles to make underground dungeons and swamplands for your heroes to explore! 13 tileset sheets offer up dangerous and dark tiles that are perfect for making a challenging dungeon. Have your heroes get lost in a swamp where dark green grass and shallow water turns into a rocky region where dead trees are the only sign of plant life, or let them escape a castle dungeon only to find themselves lost in a forgotten kingdom’s underground maze where chains on the wall and diagonal walls dropping into bottomless pits hint at a dark history. Variations in ground tiles make it easy to keep a map from feeling one-note, and smaller tiles like ruined furniture, stepping stones, and tree stumps are perfect details for helping your players keep track of where they’ve been while exploring.

Just so you don’t accidentally leave your dungeons and swamps empty, this pack also includes 5 large monsters that can act as bosses, each with 4 color variations. Battle against (or with) stacked shrooms and bloodstained floating eyeballs thanks to matching SV Battlers, and let your players see the proof of their win with a downed sprite for every monster! Give your players options when it comes to exploring dungeons by letting them fight a diamond-headed golem or solve a puzzle to get past trap spikes and locked doors, or challenge them to do both for extra rewards! Battle against fearsome monsters and solve ancient puzzles in underground tombs with the Fantasy Dreamland Explorer Pack!

[h2]Update: Another World Heroine Generator for MZ[/h2]

Two files in the Another World Heroine Generator for MZ have been fixed:

SV > Female Folder

• SV_FrontHair_P84003
  
• SV_FrontHair_P84003_c
  

If you purchased this pack on Steam, you will find these files automatically updated to your DLC folder. Be sure to update the files in your project with these updated files.

Gotcha Gotcha Games(GGG) is looking for creators who can create official DLC for the Maker series.
Have you ever felt any of the following? If yes, come and join us!

〇 I’d like to see the graphic/music that I’ve created to be used all over the world!
〇 I find it difficult to create a full game, but I can create graphics and music!
〇 I want to make income from selling assets

You can focus on creating your materials, and GGG will provide…

● Advice on how to turn them into products
● A platform to sell the product
● After-sales service

Please check the eligibility requirements and other information below. We are looking forward to hearing from you!

For more information, please visit the following URL
https://rpgmakerofficial.com/en/application/official_dlc/

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