RPG Maker MZ News

15 New Male Characters! A New Egyptian Tiles! A New RE-D Music Pack! All out now for RPG Maker.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2333620/RPG_Maker_MZ__Fantasy_Character_Pack/

Create new friends and foes with the Fantasy Character Pack! Gee-kun-soft’s latest pack brings you 15 new male characters to add to your game, each with unique outfits and designs to make them stand out compared to regular NPCs. Fill your game with armored samurai, powerful beastmen, and well-dressed men often found in fantasy worlds like kings and vampires! Each character comes with sprites, facesets, enemy images, SV battlers, and waist-up busts, so you can easily use them as important NPCs, loyal teammates, or tricky villains depending on how your story goes. Each enemy comes in multiple color variations along with effect versions with powerful magic swirling around them to warn your players just how dangerous the fight will be!

Team up with an eagle beastman, a green-scaled dragon knight, and a prince-like lion to take on an overbearing mammoth warrior and gray werewolf bent on taking over the world, or play as one of them to defeat the crowned human king and his heavily armored lancer and hoplite knights. Or have your players play as the villain by controlling a horned demon dressed in a loose kimono who can summon demonic eyes to strengthen his attacks, and battle against armored samurai for control of the country!

As a bonus, this pack also includes high-res full body versions of each character that you can use in status menus or resize for important cutscenes. Give your game’s guys some cool new looks with the help of the Fantasy Character Pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2333600/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Sprit_of_Egypt_Tileset/

Explore sandstone tombs and deserts protected by statues of deities with the KR Spirit of Egypt Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is here with another desert-themed tileset, this time focusing on tiles that can build gilded pyramid interiors and the simple towns that sprung up around those impressive dungeons. Make varied ground for your heroes to walk on to keep from having to look at the same sand tile over and over with different colors of sand, packed earth, rocks that were uncovered by warm wind, and even man-made stone paths. Rubble and scruffy grass autotiles can turn a town into an abandoned location, or block certain areas of the map with the stone fence autotile. And a full B sheet of desert plants is perfect for adding subtle signs of life to an otherwise lonely wasteland, or use them to mark the way to a royal pyramid.

This pack includes a huge stone sphinx that can draw the eye to the center of a village or act as the entrance to a deep underground dungeon, that is equal parts beautiful and deadly. Golden statues of animal-headed gods are ready to line the hallways of the tomb, where bottomless pits and spikes stabbing up from the floor are the least of the dangers. Let your heroes wander past carved wall art and under archways as they search for the throne room filled with skeletons and treasure chests, or have them take a break in the shadows of a grand pyramid before their adventure continues. Pick up the KR Spirit of Egypt Tileset and create new desert maps for your players to enjoy!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2333610/RPG_Maker_MZ__RED_MUSIC_PACK_5/

Prepare for combat on the high seas or far in the starry skies with RE-D MUSIC PACK 5! Gee-kun-soft is back with another set of excellent orchestral tracks, bringing you 10 new BGMs to choose from. Strings, horns, and drums build off each other to create tunes that leave you feeling small compared to the vastness of the world around you, as if it’s just your hero and their crew in the middle of an ocean or the darkness of space. Let your heroes forge ahead with blaring horns urging them forward, or warn them that time is limited with quick, insistent violins punctuated with heavy drums.

Keep the energy up with the rat-a-tat of drums and choral chanting as your heroes fight off an attack from a powerful foe, or have it playing in the background while they race to escape their floundering ship after a surprise attack blows a hole in the hull! And when there’s nothing they can do to win, let one of this pack’s slower tracks play as your heroes are forced to watch the villain succeed in sinking their ship or taking over the kingdom’s castle. But not all is lost! Let your heroes use that loss to strengthen their resolve and work hard to gather new companions while powerful drums and horns play in the background, and win the last battle to the sounds of spirited trumpets!

Each track comes in multiple audio formats, making it easy to add these to your current project no matter the engine. So if you’ve been searching for some music to fill your ship’s corridors and add some dramatic orchestral tunes to cutscenes, check out RE-D MUSIC PACK 5!

This week, we have two new tilesets from Kokoro Reflections, and a brand new soundtrack from ayato sound create!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2297910/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Untamed_Desert_Tileset/

Give your players sun-touched deserts to explore that are more than just the same sand tile over and over with the KR Untamed Desert Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is here with a pack filled with desert-themed tiles to turn boring flat wastelands into unique locations to explore. Have your heroes follow a trickle of water through yellow sand until it reveals a lush hidden oasis where an energetic trading town has sprung up from the ground, with wooden stalls and cooling awnings standing between stone and stucco buildings. If the desert is simply an area for your heroes to train while they search for the next story beat, then create an inn where they can rest and recover in small rooms decorated with shelves and potted cacti.

Make the wilderness more interesting to explore with a full B sheet of plants and cacti, marking the way towards an oasis with patches of grasses and reeds slowly turning into small groves of palm trees. Or show your players just how far they’ve wandered into a dangerous area by only having dead logs and shriveled bushes spread among cold stones and skeletons. This pack also includes animated sprites for fire and doors. Make sure your heroes can see while wandering the market built deep into a mountain by lighting the way with small flames, and let them enter town shops through wooden doors decorated with lattice glass windows. Create parched plains, relaxing oases, and busy towns carved into stone with the KR Untamed Desert Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2297920/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Sun_and_Moon_Tileset/

Harness the power of Sol and Luna with the KR Sun and Moon Tileset! Kokoro Reflections looked to the sky for inspiration in this pack, creating beautiful tiles to help you make magical castles. A1, A2, A4, A5, and B tiles are ready for you to build exteriors and interiors of your palaces and dungeons, letting your players explore bush-filled gardens before wandering into a guest bedroom for a nap while they wait for their turn to meet with the kingdom’s ruler. Multiple stained glass windows, colorful mosaic floorings, and carved statues of the sun and moon can turn any empty room into a gorgeous temple, and simpler details like teacups, filled bookcases, and portraits give rooms a more lived-in feeling.

Both the moon and sun tiles are placed in the same spots of each set, making it easy to create a unique dungeon! Have the dungeon change depending on the time of day, or have your players trigger the change to help solve puzzles to reach the throne room. This pack also includes 10 sprites to add some animated events to your maps! Light the way with orange flames for the sun palace and blue flames for the moon palace, and cover open doors with curtains that can be whisked open. Flowing fountains are perfect for adding some details to the palace gardens and sleek treasure chests can reward your players for searching the entire dungeon. Create palaces for dueling kingdoms and gorgeous dungeons with the KR Sun and Moon Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2297940/RPG_Maker_MZ__atmosphere/

Bring subtle sounds and music to your game with atmosphere! ayato sound create is back with another music pack, this time offering up 12 BGM tracks that focus on atmospheric sounds over bombastic beats and orchestral overtures. Let your players explore your game world as water burbles in the background and birds tweet cheerfully in the trees above their heads, or have wind chimes jingle in the background while they piece together important clues at the latest crime scene.

Not every map or cutscene needs blasting music for its audio, and this pack knows that. Mixing together simple instrumentals melodies with natural background noises, these songs create the perfect tracks for setting the mood without the need to add in extra BGS files. Let a slow piano piece play while rain patters in the background and the creaks of nearby neighbors pop in here and there to remind your hero that they’re not alone no matter how gloomy they feel in the moment, or have the crunch of footsteps and bird songs play as your players wander a not-quite-empty park early in the morning. Set your players off-balance with an eerie electronic tune playing over the thump of feet and muffled calls of children playing during a cutscene where your hero recalls the first time they met the villain, and have the woosh of cars driving by and calmer music ground them in the present once they step back outside into the sunlight. Each track comes in multiple file formats, so it’s simple to add right into your current project. Add in the right ambience to your cutscenes and maps with the atmosphere music pack!

Four new official DLC releases this week!


"SERIALGAMES Living Good City Tileset" is a collection of materials that expresses the "Japanese town you want to live in" and allows you to create shopping malls, station fronts, parks, and residential areas in modern Japan with a single tile set.
It includes three time-based patterns of daytime, evening, and nighttime scenes, so you can create your own maps with your favorite situations.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2286653/RPG_Maker_MZ__SERIALGAMES_Living_Good_City_Tileset/


"Cozy Cottage Pack" is a collection of materials that includes walking graphics and SV graphics of unique pointy-eared characters, as well as a tile set inspired by a cottage in nature. The tiles are easy to use in combination with the default materials included in the editor.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2286650/RPG_Maker_MZ__Cozy_Cottage_Pack/


"Amusement park! Tile set" is a collection of tile sets that allow you to design a gorgeous amusement park with a merry-go-round, romantic Ferris wheel, spinning coffee cups, and more. Perfect for when you're creating a story set in the present day!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2286651/RPG_Maker_MZ__Amusement_park_Tile_set/


"PIXELLEN BATTLE BACKGROUNDS PACK" is a collection of old-fashioned battle backgrounds. It contains 12 types of battle backgrounds suitable for retro-style works.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2286652/RPG_Maker_MZ__PIXELLEN_BATTLE_BACKGROUNDS_PACK/


Also, RPG Maker Festival 2023 is going on right now!
Various DLCs are also available at discounted prices, so if there's a DLC you're interested in, this is the perfect time to check it out!


https://store.steampowered.com/sale/rpgmaker_festival_2023

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!