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New DLC: KR Sun and Moon, KR Untamed Desert, atmosphere

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 with tile sets and battle backgrounds!

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

RPG Maker Festival 2023 Starts Today on Steam!



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.

New DLC: Another World Hero Generator! Two New KR Tilesets!

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!

4 New DLC: Icons, Fantasy Dreamland, & MT Tiny Battlers

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!