RPG Maker MZ News

The vibes for this week's releases aren't going to be bright and cheerful. With a set of tiles perfect for a horror school setting, and a brand new soundtrack perfect to bring the edge to your game, these packs can help make your grim game even grimmer.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1903001/RPG_Maker_MZ__Ann__Art_School_Tilesets/

If you’re a fan of horror games and pixel art, then you need to check out Ann - Art School Tilesets. Karrina and Rongrong have teamed up to release a pack of tiles from their horror game Ann! With tiles focusing on an art school vibe, this pack’s A5 and 4 B sheets are ready to help you make a world for your student hero to survive.

Create a school with fashion, music, and art departments by keeping things in separate buildings, or combine them all to make a huge museum for your players to explore! Create common areas with vending machines and couches to relax on, and don’t forget to include the small offices for professors. With a selection of paintings and sculptures (along with broken pieces) to choose from you can make sure your maps look well-used by students and visitors. Don’t worry about those red stains near the wall, I’m sure they’re just leftover paint. But maybe avoid the old wing of the school where the floors are warped, the walls are grimy and torn, and you swear the piano just moved closer…

Also included are exterior tiles to help you build modern city streets. Create tall white buildings that loom over busy streets, and keep your walking NPCs safe by adding crosswalks and streetlights to your maps. Or create a small outside roof map for your hero to get some fresh air and escape any dangers inside. Just don’t linger too long, because who knows what could follow them up the stairs.

The pack also includes sample projects for MV and MZ, so you can see how the tiles all work together. If you’ve been hoping to add a new museum (haunted or not) to your game, or just love the look of Ann’s tileset, then pick up Ann - Art School Tilesets today!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1890440/RPG_Maker_MZ__Darkest_Hour/

Have you been worried about your game’s music being too cheery and upbeat for the story’s tone? Then it’s time to check out the Darkest Hour music pack! ayato sound create’s newest pack contains 20 tracks to give your game the right background music for your moodier scenes.

With a focus on electronic beats, this pack is perfect for modern or sci-fi games! Explore cyber cities or busy malls while the beats thrum in your players ears. Battle against thugs with the strumming of electric guitars playing in the background, or choose one of the tracks with a heavy and fast paced beat to keep your players focused on the fight. Or grab the more haunted tracks with creaks and almost ghostly wails to turn an empty building into someplace creepier and much more dangerous. Even the more upbeat tracks still carry a bit of underlining darkness, meaning that you can give your players a slight feeling of unease even during happy moments. After all, that cheeriness can’t last forever, right?

And with multiple file formats for each song, it’s easy to drop them into your favorite engine and start using them right away! Give your busy streets and lonely bars some fitting tunes with Darkest Hour!

As part of the RPG Maker Festival, RPG Maker MZ has been made free to use until the end of the sale on Monday!

Be sure to download the latest version of RPG Maker and give it a go if you don't already own it. Or perhaps tell a friend you've always wanted to rope into your game making adventures!

Just don't miss out on this chance to give MZ a try. It's only free to use until Monday the 21st at 10am Pacific.

The RPG Maker Festival continues! But for now, it is time for our favorite day of the week: Release Day! We have two new packs ready to go, another pack in the Tiny Tales series, and another Heroine Generator pack are here!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1662630/RPG_Maker_MZ__MT_Tiny_Tales_Dungeon_Tiles/

Did you like the MT Tiny Tales Overworld Tiles or do you like well made, pixelated retro tiles in general and can’t get enough of them? Lucky you, as today the Dungeon Set for the series has arrived!

No matter whether you fancy a modern maker as MV or MZ or if you would rather stick to VX or Ace, you will find that this set comes set up for both, so you can just import the version you need and are good to go! And going for what? Well, there are four main themes in this pack, each coming with a broad variety of tiles to make maps for it.

Maybe their journey has led your heroes into a mine, either still up and running with tracks and carts and tools or abandoned, with broken barrels and plants slowly overgrowing what was left. On the other hand, maybe they visit a well guarded city, with a giant wall around it? With additional color options and even snowy versions, this construct could be placed anywhere in your world. It could be a centerpiece, an amazing “sneak past the guards into the town” part of your game, or the place where your heroes stand and stare into the distance as the enemy's army arrives.

And while any larger town could have such a wall, you might want to have an actual dedicated fortress - and this pack gives you a great one! With various gates, wall options, tiles for a protecting moat around it. There are many adventures that could start here!

If you are looking for a more special type of dungeon, the last one might be just for you! The tech fortress tiles can be used to map both inside and outside of said building, combining medieval-like features with somewhat contemporary technical devices. Did a time traveler strand here? Was an evil scientist able to develop technology that is far superior to anything we find in the world around? Or maybe a certain group of people was able to proceed beyond the rest of the world, but has mysteriously vanished and your heroes explore their remains?

What it is is totally up to you and you can probably come up with many more ways to use these amazing tiles!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1890441/RPG_Maker_MZ__Heroine_Character_Generator_4_for_MZ/

If you are wishing there was just a little more variation when it comes to the MZ generator and your heroines, well, there is no wishing anymore!

The Heroine Character Generator Pack 4 was optimized for MZ and is ready to add some great pieces to select from for your beautiful female characters. With 38 unique pieces and additional custom battle weapons it will take a while until you run out of options again.

Does your heroine sport an imaginative hairstyle which includes her hair being formed into a bow tie on her hat or does she have a cute bun and ponytail on one side? These and a simple but beautiful short cut rear hairs can be combined with any of the three available bangs for many fun combinations.

And talking about fun combinations, don’t the witchy dress and the demonic wings go perfectly with each other? Probably as well as the two sets of beast ears and tails, allowing you to create a red panda girl character, complete with a matching furry outfit! Or do you want a fairy, with translucent wings and matching antennae? You can dress her up in any of the twenty different outfits. With the pompoms and a matching sports dress, she might even become a cheerleader at your fantasy school?

And that's just the beginning of the themes found here, from a watery dress with a matching headpiece to a chinese style or cowgirl parts, there are many more great things to create your heroines with!

[h3]■RPG Maker MZ Planned Upgrades[/h3]

Hello, RPG Makers.

Thank you for your continued journey with the RPG Maker series.

With the excitement of the RPG Maker Festival in full swing, we’d like to take this time to also announce the many thrilling features coming to the latest title in the series, RPG Maker MZ, later this year.

[h3]v1.4.4 (coming soon)[/h3]
-Will implement a countermeasure to the problem that may cause the NW.js process to not terminate normally in Windows environment.
-Will fix an issue in which the cursor position would move to a different page when any frame was selected in “Create MV- compatible data” and the frame was deleted while editing the frame view.
-Will fix an issue in which events would appear at unintended coordinates after switching maps and loading events with “Autorun” events.
-Will fix the problem of "File name "None", Volume 90%, Pitch 100%" when "Play SE" is edited in ”Set Movement Route”.
-Will fix an issue in which fade-in was not performed when loading data if the project data had been changed.
-Will fix an issue in which a weapon with a sealed shield and a weapon set to "Dual Wield" in the traits could be equipped with a weapon with a sealed shield if the dual wielding weapon was equipped first.
-Will fix an issue in which the weapon in the second slot (shield slot) would remain in the event command "Weapon = None" when the feature "Dual Wield" was set.
-Will fix an issue in which the target of HP recovery was taken away when the feature "Substitute" was set.

[h3]v1.5.0 (Spring 2022)[/h3]
-Will add the ability to select tile size from "16", "24", "32", and "48".
-Will add the ability to copy/paste tileset settings by page.
-Will add the ability to switch the shadow pen to draw/erase rectangles by holding down the Shift key.
-Will change the limit on the number of database items.
-Will add the ability to temporarily disable event commands in a specified range.
-Will add "Switch" (assign images of levers, buttons, etc. on the map to any switch number) to Easy Event Creation.
-Will add the ability to add the corresponding event name to the name field in the easy event creation.

We have been listening to your feedback, and we hope you look forward to seeing your opinions shape the future of MZ.

We thank you for this opportunity to further improve RPG Maker MZ with help from all of you.


[h3]■"RPG Maker MV & Soaring Machinariae ”bundle[/h3]

This is a bundle set of the 2D action RPG "Soaring Machinariae" and RPG Maker MV.
*Soaring Machinariae project files and materials that can be used for game production are not included.

About Soaring Machinariae:
A girls' adventure story, told through a traditional action RPG!
Control Iris the Machinariae to explore fields and dungeons, and fight against monsters with sword combos, items, and special moves!

Welcome to the RPG Maker Festival Sale! RPG Maker Day is here again, and we’re kicking off a weeklong celebration of all things RPG Maker.

First up, we have an exciting announcement! A new, parallel iteration of RPG Maker is coming: RPG Maker Unite! RPG Maker Unite is based on Unity and contains a stash of new and convenient features to allow users making more compelling games than ever! You can learn more about RPG Maker Unite and wish list it today here.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1650950/RPG_MAKER_UNITE/

To continue our celebration of RPG Maker, we would be remiss if we didn’t also celebrate the RPG Maker Community itself!

That is why not only are we having a huge sale across all RPG Maker products, we’ve also reached out to devs all around the world who have used RPG Maker to fulfill their dreams of making games to include them in the sale. Check out the full sale page to see tons of fantastic RPG Maker resources, as well as a huge collection of stellar games made by RPG Maker devs on Steam!

Be sure to check out the full sale here!

But there are many people in the RPG Maker community who haven’t reached that goal yet. Many people have taken only the first few steps into the wilder world of game making, and are still unsure how to make that dream a reality. And that is where we celebrate one of the best things about the community: All the helping hands out there reaching down to give new users a hand up.

With tutorials, graphic and audio resources, plugins, and just general troubleshooting the community helps take a neophyte maker and turn them into a veteran who can help the next generation of makers.

And that is why on top of the fantastic deals across our RPG Maker products the focus of our RPG Maker Festival will be bringing that same feeling to Steam! Have a tutorial to share? Some resources you’ve made? Or maybe you are here to learn, we have a plethora of events throughout the week for everyone!



We will be rebroadcasting our Making in MZ Streams as a Marathon starting tonight, and in addition, every day over the next week, we’ll have at least one completely new broadcast for you to watch at the top of the RPG Maker MZ page! RPG Maker tutorials, Game Design advice, and even interviews with some of the most successful RM devs. You can find the full schedule here:

• Monday, Feb 14th, 4:00 PM: Guiding a Player Through Your Maps with Studio Blue
  
• Tuesday, Feb 15th, 4:00 PM: GDD Creation with Studio Blue
  
• Tuesday, Feb 15th, 6:00 PM*: Developer Interview: Rakuen
  
• Wednesday, Feb 16th, 4:00 PM: Developer Interview: Pocket Mirror
  
• Wednesday, Feb 16th, 6:00 PM: Developer Interview: To The Moon
  
• Thursday, Feb 17th, 8:00 PM: Basic Events with Driftwood Gaming
  
• Friday, Feb 18th, 8:00 PM: Basic Database with Driftwood Gaming
  
• Saturday, Feb 19th, 6:00 PM: Developer Interview: Ara Fell
  
• Sunday, Feb 20th, 4:00 PM: How to Format an Autotile with Touchfuzzy
  

All Times in Pacific
*May be delayed if previous stream goes long, will begin directly after.



Every day at 10am Pacific we’ll be posting a new beginner focused Steam guide written by the RPG Maker staff or a veteran member of the community.

Our first guide is already up and can be found here, be sure to check back in daily to see the next guide!



We want to see even more guides for RPG Maker MZ in Steam, and to do that, we are holding the RPG Maker Festival Guide Drive! Have a tutorial you’ve written somewhere else, or maybe you want to write a whole new tutorial? Add it into the Steam Guides and be entered to win a prize!

The RPG Maker staff will pick their favorite guide submitted during the Festival week to receive a $25 Steam Gift Card! Additionally, one random guide submitted during the Festival will also win one.



Do your skills lie more in creating graphics, music, or code than in teaching others? Don’t worry, we have an event for you as well. Let’s fill the MZ Workshop with tons of materials for everyone to use in their game! This will be held just like our Guide Drive. You can submit any materials you created to the Workshop, old or new, as long as it hasn’t been on the MZ workshop before.

Our favorite new resource wins a $25 Steam Gift Card, as well as one random workshop creation uploaded during the drive!



And for the final event of our magnificent festival, we need a festival atmosphere! Create a map with a maximum pixel size of 1920x1080 that you think screams “festival” and submit it as a screenshot. Make sure you have permission to use all the materials you use in your map, and include both the credits and the word “FESTIVAL” in all caps in your screenshot description!

We will award prizes for our top 3 maps!

1st Place: $50 Steam Gift Card
2nd Place: $25 Steam Gift Card
3rd Place: $10 Steam Gift Card

The deadline for this event, and all of the other events in this contest are the end of the sale, on February 21st at 10am Pacific.

So what are you waiting for! Join the week long fun of the RPG Maker Festival! Join in on the contests, watch our broadcasts, and learn even more about how to make your dream game!