RPG Maker MZ News

Four official DLCs are available this week, including a classroom reproduction tileset, icons, and Enemy materials!

"NATHUHARUCA Fantasy RPG Monster Pack 2" is the second pack of 742 monsters that appear in fantasy RPG battles. It also includes 7 patterns of battle backgrounds that could be used for events.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2401670/RPG_Maker_MZ__NATHUHARUCA_Fantasy_RPG_Monster_Pack_2/


"Armor Icon Set" contains 64 icons based on armor and clothing motifs. An enlarged tileset-sized version is also included.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2401673/RPG_Maker_MZ__Armor_Icon_set/


"Potions Icon Set" contains 50 icons based on potions and items. This set also includes an enlarged tileset-sized version.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2401673/RPG_Maker_MZ__Armor_Icon_set/


"Specialized Classroom Tiles" contains a wide variety of classroom materials. It includes a science lab, art room, home economics room, gymnasium, infirmary, and general classrooms.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2401671/RPG_Maker_MZ__Specialized_Classroom_Tiles/

This week, we have 4 compatible tilesets all from one artist to build an entire game around! So let's head out on a rogue adventure!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2408520/RPG_Maker_MZ__Rogue_Adventure__Graveyard_Tileset/

Seek out ancient treasures that were buried with their owners with the Rogue Adventure - Graveyard Tileset! ELV Games is back with another pixel art pack, focusing on dark and gloomy colors for your more serious games. Create spooky graveyards and damaged crypts with 2 A5 and 6 B sheets filled with stone walls, dark ground, fences, and marble above ground crypts! Choose from two different stone color options, pale gray marble for newer or well-maintained graveyards and muddy green stone for ancient crypts or areas taken over by evil spirits. Or mix them together on one map to show just how long a city has been using the same graveyard! Broken versions of tombstones could tell your players that the area was abandoned years ago, or let them help repair a village’s graveyard through sidequests and replace the broken tombstones with repaired ones as time passes.

Light up your maps with animated flames and candles with this pack’s characters. Keep your players on track when deep underground in stone crypts with lit candles nestled in alcoves and draw their attention to a message carved into stone with flickering flames. Or add some extra evilness to a dungeon with a fountain of blood! This pack also includes a BGM track with powerful drums and tip-toeing piano and strings to remind your players that they could come across some dangerous situations while exploring the crypts. Build creepy crypts and dangerous tombstone-covered hills with the Rogue Adventure - Graveyard Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2408510/RPG_Maker_MZ__Rogue_Adventure__Jungle_Tileset/

Explore trap-filled temples and the wild wilderness with the Rogue Adventure - Jungle Tileset! ELV Games is here with another awesome pixel art pack, bringing to life lush forests and ancient stone temples for your heroes to find. 2 A5 and 10 B sheets are ready to make forests full of flowers and grasses, and pink and pale yellow stone temples that lead into vast underground labyrinths. Climb rough rock steps to reach meadows in the middle of the woods, or pause your explorations of the temple to rest inside rooms that from the look of it used to be bedrooms filled with cabinets and closets. Or reward your players with stat boosts from magical stones if they follow the trail of blue-leafed trees deep into the dangerous jungle.

Add some extra movement to your maps with animated flowers and grasses, and light up the area with stone pillars topped with flames. Help your players find healing plants by having the plant’s yellow or green flowers slowly sway, or let them know the area is breezy with tufts of grass blowing in the breeze. Animated traps can challenge your player’s skills if they choose to avoid battles in a dungeon, with three main traps to choose from: spikes shooting up from the floor, trapdoors that blend into the floor, and stone pillars that slam down from the ceiling! This pack also includes 1 BGM track with energetic strings to motivate your heroes to reach the final room in the forest temple. Create an important dungeon deep in the mystical grove with the Rogue Adventure - Jungle Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2408500/RPG_Maker_MZ__Rogue_Adventure__Village_Tileset/

Let your heroes take a break in a small town with the Rogue Adventure - Village Tileset! ELV Games has made yet another pixel art pack, this time giving you options to make a relaxed village full of thatched-roof homes and shops stocked with just what your heroes need to conquer the next dungeon. 10 B sheets (5 interior and 5 exterior) come with pre-built buildings that you can mix and match to create towns full of unique wooden homes. Decorate them with windows, chimneys, and signs and place wooden benches and stone wells in an open area to give the small village its own town square. Fill NPC homes with beds, bookshelves, and cupboards so they can have comfortable lives, and give the town’s adventurer guild many tables and scattered papers for wannabe heroes to gather around while they plan out their next quest. Or create a locked treasure room filled with gold and jewels to tempt your players into using their thief’s burglary skills (just don’t get caught)!

3 sheets of animated objects are ready to reward your players for exploring and light their way when they reach the village in the middle of the night. Place treasure chests and boxes strategically inside and around homes to reward explorers, and let your players enter houses through simple wooden doors. Wooden torches and bowls of flames swinging from posts are perfect for marking important paths and buildings, or use the campfire to mark where your players can set up their tents and rest for the night. Don’t worry about your villages being too quiet, since this pack also comes with 1 BGM track that can lift the spirits of your heroes and the villagers while they wander the village. Give your heroes a place to rest and restock after they defeat monsters and clear dungeons with the Rogue Adventure - Village Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2408490/RPG_Maker_MZ__Rogue_Adventure__Wastelands_Tileset/

Trudge through murky swamps and solve puzzles deep underground with the Rogue Adventure - Wastelands Tileset! ELV Games has created another pixel art pack for your retro-inspired games, offering up new tiles to help you make creepy badlands above and below ground. 2 A5 and 10 B sheets are here to turn empty maps into muddy and hilly wastelands where only scrub grass and mushrooms grow, and where your heroes can stumble across an entrance to a cavern filled with carved glyphs overflowing with magical power! Have your heroes explore areas where dead trees loom overhead and pools of blood can be found next to stone altars, or let them cross wooden bridges to reach treasure chests left high up on the top of a hill. 3 different stone colors can help make each of your region’s caves stand out, letting you use rich brown dirt for that sinkhole that opened up near the village’s farms and light gray stones for caves that your heroes can find while climbing mountains. Or use different colored stones to show that someone must have brought the rocks into the cave just to set up an important puzzle that guards a powerful treasure!

13 character sheets offer up a variety of animated objects to help take your maps to the next level. Flames can help light up caves, and glowing blue glyphs can reward your heroes with stat boosts, healing, or even just by guiding them onto the correct path to reach a gilded treasure chest. Or add some swaying weeds to your swamp maps to show that only the toughest things can survive there! 1 string-heavy BGM track is also included in this pack, ready to inspire your players with upbeat twangs and powerful drums while they try to solve challenging puzzles. Pick up the Rogue Adventure - Wastelands Tileset and add some new swamps and cave dungeons to your games!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2379140/RPG_Maker_MZ__Megans_Despair/

Bring tears to your players’ eyes with Megan’s Despair! Richard John S’ latest music pack offers 20 beautifully haunting BGM tracks. All together this pack’s music hugs at your heartstrings and tells the story of a young woman’s struggle with loss and depression, creating a set of tracks that can help you tell a sorrowful sidestory throughout your game. Tie a knot in your players’ chests with violins that play worrisome chords when your hero is left along with their dark thoughts, or when they stumble upon the horrific end results of the villain’s plans. Soft piano tracks can brighten the darkest scenes with their clear notes, bringing a much-needed lightness to emotional scenes. Or use them to lull your players into a sense of security, before hitting them with a tear-inducing loss of a beloved party member all while violins wail in the background.

Certain tracks offer up choral singing alongside the soft orchestral notes, creating an ethereal experience when your hero returns to their hometown and visits their family’s graves to tell them about all of their adventures. Or use them when your hero finally lets go of a past mistake and does their best to move forward. Each track comes in multiple file formats, making it easy to add into your current project that needs an extra touch of heartfelt sorrow. Pick up Megan’s Despair today and fill your game’s saddest and most difficult scenes with melancholic pianos and violins to bring your hero’s desperate emotions to a crescendo.

Four official DLCs are released this week, including retro BGM, useful background graphics, icons, and more!

"Emotions of Battle - Retro BGM" is a collection of retro-style battle theme music inspired by old-fashioned JRPGs. It creates an emotional battle scene!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2383010/RPG_Maker_MZ__Emotions_of_Battle__Retro_BGM/

"Food Icon Set" contains 50 icons featuring cuisine from around the world. An enlarged tileset-sized version is also included.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2383011/RPG_Maker_MZ__Food_Icon_Set/

Edo period background CG materials "Minikle's Background CG Material Collection EDO part01 A・B" is a collection of backgrounds from the Edo period in Japan. It is recommended for period dramas, time slips, and Japanese-style world views.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2383012/RPG_Maker_MZ__Minikles_Background_CG_Material_Collection_EDO_part01_A/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2383013/RPG_Maker_MZ__Minikles_Background_CG_Material_Collection_EDO_part01_B/

Weird alien landscapes, and cool 80s synth tracks await you in this week's new packs!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2379130/RPG_Maker_MZ__Rinobers_Futuristic_Outlands/

Step out of the safety of the city and wade into alien environments with Rinobers Futuristic Outlands! Rinober is back with another tileset in his incredible painted style that brings familiar and foreign nature to life. 29 tilesets covering A1, A2, A4, A5, and B sheets offer up a huge variety of details to make each world unique and memorable as your heroes journey across the galaxy. Explore crystalline mountains in the hopes of finding rare minerals, venture to lands where a mix of low gravity and element-rich atmosphere forms floating rings instead of clouds, and interact with gooey aliens who live in fungal forests with this pack!

With recolors of pretty much every tile, you can easily make sister planets stand out by having purple mushrooms instead of brown, or add some variation to the ground and water depending on if it’s safe to walk on or if it can leak poison right through armored boots! Let your Earthlings rest while surrounded by familiar pine trees and flowers or mess with their minds by having familiar plants be taller than they’re used to, such as towering venus fly traps and gnarled thorny vines as thick as their torsos. This pack also includes character sprites for animals such as birds and stalk-eyed aliens, objects like bubbles and statues, and 16 unique humans alongside more than 100 human character sheet variations, enough to populate an entire planet!

And if that wasn’t enough, each character and tileset comes in two versions: one with black outlines and one with colored outlines! So choose which aesthetic perfectly fits your game or mix-and-match to get your maps looking just how you imagined them. Explore wild alien planets and learn why so many people stick to the sci-fi cities with Rinobers Futuristic Outlands!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2379120/RPG_Maker_MZ__Time_Machine__The_Analog_Age_Music_Pack/

Give your 80s inspired game some fresh tracks with Time Machine - The Analog Age Music Pack! Joel Steudler is here with another excellent music pack, this time offering up 20 tracks that focus on the fun you can have with synths. Let your players jam out to electronic guitar riffs as they fight the Man, or have slow waveforms lull your heroes to sleep when they finally find a safe place to rest in the busy city. Dungeons, battles, towns, and general themes each get 5 tracks dedicated to them, so you can switch out songs before they get too repetitive or make sure each location has its own unique track.

Introduce your players to their party with the upbeat and quirky Childhood Memory or throw them straight into the action with the fast-paced beats of Mode Nine. Up the creepiness of an underground dungeon with the haunting whines and deep reverberations of Basement Door, or use it to scare your hero when he was a child and alone in the house at night! Time Machine’s strong beats could make for a great theme for the entire game, especially if certain cutscenes involve traveling through time and space. Or keep the game contained to a single city, where this pack’s 5 town tracks can help separate the busy business section from the seedy underbelly.

Each track comes in .m4a and looping .ogg file formats, making it easy to add new background tunes to your favorite game. Give your players some fitting music to listen to while they explore abandoned sci-fi factories or battle against punk biker gangs with Time Machine - The Analog Age Music Pack!

[h2]Pack EULA Updates[/h2]
Additionally, the following packs from PVGames have had their EULAs changed to allow use in all Engines.

• Medieval: Interiors
  
• Medieval: Town and Country