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With this week's releases, we have everything you need to take to the air with the KR Steampunk Airship Tileset, and something to stay grounded in the roots of your past with the Retro RPG SFX Pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2097310/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Steampunk_Airship_Tileset/

Gather your sense of adventure and leave your fear of heights behind with the KR - Steampunk Airship Tileset! Kokoro Reflections latest addition to the steampunk style offers up all the tiles you need to send rustic airships around the world! Have your heroes plan their next move while they sit in leather seats on a passenger ship, or give them their own airship where they can store their gear and fight off pirates with cannons!

5 different balloon sizes gives you options when it comes to airships such as longer trips requiring bigger balloons meaning your heroes will need to upgrade their ships as the game progresses, or use those different sizes to show airships floating by in the distance. Give airships small pre-built cabins when a cutscene calls for it or create your own hanging ship that your heroes can explore, full of crates, ropes, and barrels. Interior maps can contain the necessities for airship travel, with bunk beds and a hammock for sleep, chairs and tables for mealtimes, and even globes and maps to make sure your heroes don’t get lost!

Alongside all these tiles, this pack also includes animated sail wings and propellers! Make sure your heroes are never stuck mid-trip because the winds died down! And if that wasn’t enough, this pack also has 4 parallax images of different skies so that your heroes can fly so high in the sky that they can’t even see the ground. Take your stories to the skies with the KR - Steampunk Airship Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2097320/RPG_Maker_MZ__Retro_RPG_SFX_Pack/

Are you tired of your retro game’s menus sounding like every other game? Then it’s time to check out the Retro RPG SFX Pack! Daydream Sound is here with a pack stuffed full of chiptune SEs ready to upgrade your game’s sounds. Ditch the defaults and add an extra layer of polish to your retro game with new SEs for your menus, battle animations, and cutscenes!

With over 200 SEs to choose from, this pack covers all your SFX needs! There are multiple options for menu movement and confirmation sounds so you can find the perfect one for your game. Beyond the menus, tracks for finding items, jumping around the map, and short jingles to help sell the mood. Did your hero fail to solve a puzzle? Then play a sad negative jingle. Just make sure to play them a cheerful positive jingle when they finally succeed! Your battles can also get an upgrade, with SEs for damage, defeats, physical attacks, and magical powers ready to be added to animations and skills. Blow your enemies sky high with fire magic and explosion sounds, or buff your party members with a chipper ‘w-w-woop’!

Each track also includes a version with an echo effect, giving you even more options! Use the echo version of an explosion SE to make an upgraded attack feel even more powerful, or give your menu a more sci-fi feel with beeps that sound like they’re bouncing off metal walls. The pack includes multiple file formats, so it’s easy to add these SEs to your favorite game engine. Give your retro game some new beeps and boops with the Retro RPG SFX Pack!

It's Thursday again, and that means new releases! And this week, we have 3 fantastic new packs for you, a new tileset from Kokoro Reflections, a new character pack, and a brand new set of tracks!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2090270/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Concert_Hall_Tileset/

Grab your tickets and glowsticks, it’s time to rock out with the KR - Concert Hall Tileset! Kokoro Reflections has created a set of modern tiles focusing on the rooms and equipment needed to build stages. Get ready to create maps where your heroes can dance the night away in neon clubs, lobbies with ticket windows where they can meet up for a first date, and even backstage rooms where your heroes can meet their heroes and see how they make that amazing music!

Concrete and metal grate floors make for easy cleanup after parties, and use neon light borders to help show paths when the room goes dark. Line the stage walls with speakers and large screens so the people in the back can enjoy the show too. Don’t forget the rows and rows of seating, and metal scaffolding that all the lights hang off of! Or skip the show entirely and have your game take place in the lobby and outside the building, where large signs tell people just what can be found inside. Add instruments like guitars, drums, and pianos to your backstage maps to show that those rooms are used for more than just naps, or set up an entire recording studio with sound dampening panels and microphones.

This pack also includes animated sprites for glass doors (tinted both blue or red to fit your building) to let your heroes into the building and all the backstage rooms, as well as glowing lights to light up the stage. Bright spotlights in red, green, blue, and pink could pulse in time with the band’s music, and sweep across the audience while they cheer. Smaller lights and sparkles can add some extra excitement to the maps (or help your heroes find their way when they need to sneak out mid-song). Give your heroes some exciting memories of rock concerts and raves with the KR - Concert Hall Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2090260/RPG_Maker_MZ__RPG_Character_Pack_7/

One of the cool things about an RPG is that you can often play and meet characters that are very different from what you know in real life. Here, demons, different kinds of elves and even demigods can be encountered and interacted with which opens up many interesting gameplay and narrative possibilities. Those and more new humanoid yet not fully human characters wait for you to tell their story in RPG Character Pack 7!

Meet the joyful Gorgon, who doesn’t need any heavy armor since the gaze from her petrifying purple eyes keeps any enemy at a distance… forever. Are the two dark and light elves each siblings, couples or maybe they are just enabling your player to pick whether they want to play a male or a female?

And talking about options, with the devil queen and a male devil alongside three different demons you can either fill up a town of demonkins or add a full group of matching antagonists to your game!

As always, the RPG Character Pack comes with large artworks, Charsets, SV Battlers, Battlers and Busts and Faces with emotions, so you can use the characters for any role in your story.

Is the cute blue-haired fairy an enemy or a friend? Will the Valkyrie be a helpful ally or is she up for something sinister that her smile would never lead you to think of?

Your game is the stage, and these amazing demihumans will play whatever part you assign them to!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2090290/RPG_Maker_MZ__Japanese_School_Girls__The_Music_of_Their_Stories/

No matter how good a game looks, the music plays a huge part in transporting the mood and the emotions to the players. And if you are making a light-hearted game, perhaps one in a modern setting, the Japanese School Girls - The Music of Their Stories pack is just what you need to communicate the right vibes!

The thirty brand new tracks cover basically any situation you might want to score with matching music. Fitting the theme of the pack, even the more somber tracks are not deeply depressing, but rather soft with slow piano tunes. But those are comparingly rare, as most of the content of this pack is joyful and uplifting! Some of them are geared towards different times of the day, others are written to compliment situations as the classroom tracks or the “comical” one, which on its own might have you write a matching scene just so you can use the fun track in your project!

From the “opening” to the “ending”, there is not much left to ask for, but the pack even tops that and compliments the background music with twenty short jingles that you can add to highlight certain run-ins, events or the start or certain episodes! Sleep for example could be the tune that plays when there is a transition between different days in your game, or the Episode Halloween could mark the start of a halloween themed level!

Listen in and be inspired by all the great content in this pack!



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Need some last minute additions for your IGMC entry? Doing something Steampunk, or perhaps something retro? Then maybe today's releases will be for you!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2077840/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Steampunk_Exterior_Tileset/

Grab your copper goggles and steam-powered weapons, it’s time to explore a brand-new town with the KR Steampunk Exterior Tileset! Kokoro Reflections has hopped onto the steampunk wagon airship to bring us all the tiles we need to create a city full of pipes and shiny metal decorations. Build shiny city centers, grimy industrial areas, and busy market places with this pack’s tiles!

Choose from wooden, stone, and metal walls to make your town’s buildings and top them with flat walkable roofs or angled shingled ones, with pipes sprawling between buildings and pumping steam power through the walls. Mark important buildings like the local inn or armory with signs, and let your heroes get a peek into not-so-important places with windows that let them see some of the goods for sale inside. String ropes between buildings and place filled crates in the industrial areas where railroad tracks lead out of town. And don’t forget to give the town’s kids a place to play with stylized swings, slides, and teeter-totters ready to be placed in a field near the town center’s fountain. Even the town’s plants have been touched by the steampunk style, with flowers blooming in metal pots and the trees seemingly growing strange decorations.

To make sure your heroes make it to places on time, this pack includes movable clock hands that match the large clock faces so you’ll always know what time of day it is. Have them solve puzzles using valves and levers to unlock copper-coated doors, or make them dodge old-fashioned cars that drive wildly on the roads! Bring your steampunk stories to life with the KR Steampunk Exterior Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2077830/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Steampunk_Interior_Tileset/

Let your heroes kick their feet up in a gear-encrusted inn or visit well-stocked shops with the KR Steampunk Interior Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is here with another steampunk pack, this time offering up tiles to help you map steam-powered laboratories and elegant studies. Create rooms with copper-toned wood, tile, or metal floors and decorative wallpaper, and show that certain areas of the floor are heated or lit with steam by adding piping autotiles around the room. Stairs that match each floor type can help you make multi-floor maps, giving you ways to lead your heroes down metal stairs into a dangerous basement or up carpeted stairs into a library stocked with rows and rows of bookshelves. Fill shops with crates of goods like bread and fruits or stock a clothing store with mannequins and steampunk outfits, with employees waiting for you by the cash register. Add couches, chairs, and food-covered tables to public areas of inns or taverns to give people a place to rest after a long day of work, all lit by a huge chandelier hanging overhead. When your heroes are ready to call it a day, let them relax in a hotel room with a soft bed in a decorative copper bed frame and an attached full bathroom.

Along with all of the small decorations, this pack also includes large pipes and hanging chains and ropes to build busy warehouses and labs full of gadgets and gizmos. Sprites for turnable valves, levers, and a copper-topped trunk give you options for interesting interactable scenes. Maybe your heroes need to turn off a pipe to draw a guard’s attention away from an office, or they want to steal some files from a villain’s hotel room. Create the perfect steampunk homes and labs with the KR Steampunk Interior Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2077850/RPG_Maker_MZ__8Bit_Devils_Castle_Music/

Find the perfect chiptune track to listen to while defeating the final boss in 8-bit Devils Castle Music! MoppySound’s music is full of chipper notes that are an excellent choice for retro games or for scenes that call for a nostalgic touch. 20 BGM options cover just about every occasion, ranging from high-energy boss battles to dramatic tracks perfect for an emotional cutscene and even a relaxed ending track to let your players know they’ve truly beaten the game while the credits roll. With 8 different field tracks to choose from, you can give each dungeon a specific BGM to make them stand out. Maybe the open mountain area can use a track with a straightforward rhythm, while the bandit’s hideout calls for a more mischievous track with toe-tapping tunes. And make sure to give the final dungeon its own dark and dangerous tune to keep your players’ guard up!

Also included in this pack are 13 MEs you can use to tie your whole game together. Make sure your victories and defeats have fitting chiptune tracks, and let your players know when they’ve solved a puzzle with a cheery set of chirps. Make sure your players can get fully invested in your retro game with tunes from 8-bit Devils Castle Music!

Sometimes, you get busy on your projects and things get a bit messy... well this release day we have a tileset to make maps in your game messy, plus a whole mess of new enemies!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2003830/RPG_Maker_MZ__Never_Ever_Clean_Up_Tileset/

Do you think your interior maps are too clean? Have you been trying to show that someone skips chores or that a place has been abandoned? Then it’s time to check out the Never Ever Clean Up Tileset! Wataru Nakanami has created decorative tiles for MV and MZ that can help add even more humanity to your maps with kitchen knick-knacks, hobby items, and more. The pack includes a filled B sheet for fantasy worlds and one for modern stories, making it easy to find the perfect addition no matter your game!

Grab the fantasy sheet to help stock a doctor’s office with shiny metal tools and stacks of books that haven’t been properly placed back in the bookcase, or a seamstress’s room with a wooden spinning wheel and old-fashioned sewing machine. Create the home of a gardener filled with potted plants and tools hanging on the wall, all lit by the soft glow of colorful lanterns. There are also translucent windows that you can add to certain shelves that can help tell stories all on their own. Have expensive books locked away behind closed panels, or show that thieves have already been here by having shattered glass in front of empty shelves.

A modern setting can use the other sheet to turn boring rooms into filled apartments. Give your gamer NPC a multi-screen computer setup, with all of their electronics plugged into the closest outlet. Or give a home chef a proper kitchen with dark marble countertops and a four-burner range. This sheet includes two versions of certain tiles (clean and dirty), making it easy to show that some teens threw a party while their parents were away and forgot to clean up the pizza boxes, or just how much effort your hero went to turn a disgusting apartment into a livable place. And if all those tiles weren’t enough, this pack also includes some sprites to bring some gross and grimy movement to your maps! Have cockroaches run around the ground when your heroes explore the city sewers, or show that a room is disgusting by having swarms of flies and writhing maggots near rotting food. So if you’ve been thinking your maps are a touch too sterile, or just want to add some grime to your lazy NPCs’ rooms, pick up the Never Ever Clean Up Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1621342/RPG_Maker_MZ__Odyssey_of_Fantasy_enemy_pack/

While the cause your heroes are fighting for is what makes your game interesting, the enemies they face on that way are what makes the actual fighting exciting!

With the Odyssey of Fantasy Enemy Pack you get 46 new obstaclesfor your party to overcome on their journey. Watch out when you enter the goblin territory, as they not only have standard little soldiers, but also archers, warriors, a general wielding a massive ax, a king that seems to possess spiritual powers and shaman-like wizards which wield their totem staff and one of five different magical orbs ready to attack! Better look closely to find out which element you need to resist, they could possess fire, water, thunder, grass or darkness powers!

And in the same fashion as the goblins, there is also a full orc tribe ready for your heroes visit! And the pattern of those five elements is woven into the whole pack, not only do the orc wizards fight with those as well, but there are also several other elemental creatures in here that have their own unique version for each element: There are cute elemental orbs, but also hauntingly beautiful female elemental spirits and dragons.

The whole set is rounded up by various ents, from a small stump to a normal sized one with a bushy crown to a bare one to a giant old one wielding spiritual powers plus more dragons, such as a baby dragon, a general dragon leading the armies of evil and a powerful yet elegant royal while king dragon. Your heroes should have their gear ready when they meet those, but the battles will be legendary!

[h3]Update: Particle System Plugin - TRP Particle MZ[/h3]

This plugin has had an updates. The following changes have been made:

• Added a new function to release the image cache automatically in editor (when use animation select picker)
  
• Updated the internal processing around the enemy state (to avoid plugins conflict)
  

The version in your DLC folder will be automatically updated, be sure to replace the plugin in individual projects to upgrade to the new version.

It's hot out there, the perfect time to head to the ocean... or maybe under it. This week we have two releases that will take you on an adventure under the sea!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2068590/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Deep_Ocean_Tileset/

Have your heroes visit an underwater wonderland with the KR Deep Ocean Tileset! Kokoro Reflections must be able to hold their breath for ages to gather up the inspiration of this pack, since all of the plants and coral tiles come from the bottom of the ocean! Create a mermaid’s garden for your heroes to enjoy on their travels or dive even deeper to visit an old sunken battleship that may hide untold treasures.

Create ocean floors covered in short underwater grasses and sharp barnacles that lead to a forgotten pirate ship, with the unlucky crew’s bones scattered alongside gold coins and crates of stolen goods. Or send your heroes through a kelp forest, where lush aquatic plants form a maze between large shells and healthy coral growths. If you want to give your players more reasons to explore this underwater world, have them investigate sunken planes that possibly crashed during a brutal war, or show that people used to live in the area by placing carved stone arches and pillars where paths may have been.

Each decorative tile includes a deep water version to help you show just how little light is reaching the area. Let your heroes realize they may need to turn back for more oxygen before entering an underwater dungeon by replacing the bright green kelp with the blue-tinted deep water version, or have those bluer versions appear when night falls and the sun no longer shines down through the sea. If you’ve been wanting to have your heroes visit the ocean floor, dive in with the KR Deep Ocean Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2061900/RPG_Maker_MZ__Into_the_Depths_Music_Pack/

Exploring new worlds that we could never visit in person is one of the perks of gaming. And Murray Atkinson’s newest musical pack takes us somewhere, where we all probably have never been: deep, deep under the sea.

Into the deep is a collection of beautiful tracks that lets you feel as if you were under the water. Tune in, close your eyes and follow the music: visit the Reed Village, and enjoy the light hearted tunes and atmosphere or go on an adventure in the Secret Submarine, where the soft beeping of the machine itself, the mysterious sounds of your sonar and lamps and the bubbles in the water create their own unique and alien melody.

You can enjoy calm moments or get winded up in a sudden thrill - like a Shark Attack or the Triton Escape. Will you make it or will you find your resting place far under the waves?

If those are a little too exciting for you, how about going on another adventure by exploring the Underwater Caves? This track catches both the calmness of the water and some light sounds that resemble bubbles or light rays that could make their way through holes in the ceiling.

Those and more are among the fourteen amazing tracks this pack has to offer, listen in and let them take you and your heroes to the bottom of the ocean!