RPG Maker MZ News

On top of our releases today, we also have a Steam Publisher Weekend! That means huge deals not just on tons of RPG Maker engines and resources, but also on a whole slew of amazing games, from RPGs, to Shmups, to Fighting games! Check out the full publisher sale HERE!

But it is still release day as well, so let's take a look at what's new for RPG Maker!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1841130/RPG_Maker_MZ__MT_Tiny_Tales_Overworld_Tiles/

Give your retro adventure a cute pixelated world with MT Tiny Tales Overworld Tiles! With over 20 tileset sheets to choose from, you can create amazing outdoor and town maps for your heroes to explore. Craft bright forests, desert towns, snowy mountains, and more with this pack!

Fill your forests with lush trees and flowering bushes, and use darker dirt to mark the paths next to flowing streams. Give your rocky mountain regions some pops of green with pine trees and your tundra a bit of humor with random snowmen between frosty bushes and leafless tree trunks. And when your heroes need a break from exploring all these locations, build them a town to rest in. With different roofs and walls to choose from, you can give each town its own style.

If all that wasn’t enough, this pack also includes interior tiles! So don’t worry about stocking your town’s shops, with armor, weapons racks, and bagged supplies your heroes will always be able to find what they need! Decorate the local bar with bottles and tempting meals, or give each room in the inn fresh flowers and cheery curtains. And a selection of bookshelves, cupboards, and pots give your npcs options to decorate their homes however they want.

All the tiles come in sizes for MV/MZ and Ace, along with the original 16x16 size, so it should be easy to add these tilesets to your favorite engine. Give your heroes some adorable towns and outdoor maps with MT Tiny Tales Overworld Tiles!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1837120/RPG_Maker_MZ__Otani_Pixel_Fantasy_Enemy_Pack_Vol2/

Have you been waiting for some detailed pixel art battlers for your heroes to fight? Your wait is over thanks to Otani Pixel Fantasy Enemy Pack Vol.2! This pack contains 30 gorgeous battlers to give your heroes brand new challenges in battles. Will your heroes defeat a toxic slime or will they run when facing off against a muscular and angry centaur?

10 unique monsters cover a range of possible foes to face. Battle against gooey snail-shaped slimes and wooden treants in forests and sunny plains, and challenge armed lizardmen and snake-haired naga in caves and on mountain trails. Larger enemies like rearing centaurs and hulking cyclops are perfect for wild boss battles. If you’ve been wanting a ship-based boss fight? Then grab the jellyfish-like kraken!

And with each monster having 3 variations, you can make battles even more interesting. Give each fire spirit its own battle style, with yellow summoning explosive butterflies, green healing its allies, and red wreathed in blazing flames to stop close combat. Or use the three distinct vampires as sisters who rule a dark castle together, meaning the only way to escape is to beat all three in combat. But be careful of the different zombies that wander the castle halls!

This pack’s battlers come in two sizes, so you can easily choose the size that better fits your game. Pick up Otani Pixel Fantasy Enemy Pack Vol.2 today and get ready to fight some incredible enemies!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1832590/RPG_Maker_MZ__Castle_of_Shikigami_2/

To celebrate the Steam release of Castle of Shikigami 2 we made a FREE character pack for RPG Maker users based on the game! These materials include battlers, face, walking sprites, and standing picture graphic for the seven characters from Castle of Shikigami 2. Download it for free at the link above, and check out the game at the link below!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1556650/Castle_of_Shikigami_2/

Hello RPG Makers!
Thank you for using RPG Maker MZ, as always, we appreciate your support! We hope you are enjoying it so far. The latest update, Version 1.4.0, is now live with some major updates and bug fixes!

[h2]Major Updates[/h2]

• Added an option to create spritesheet based animations in the same format as RPG Maker MV.
  
• Update to Effekseer version for better performance on animation rendering.
  
  • Also, it is now possible to have multiple animations playing at once on mobile

[h2]Minor Updates[/h2]

1. Update to the launch plugins "ChangeSelectItemWindowMZ.js", "EventReSpawn.js", "TemplateEvent.js" "EffekseerForRPGMakerMZ_Ex.js"
   
2. Update to the official plugins "PluginCommonBase.js", "RegionBase.js"
   
3. Adding routines to prevent the editor from closing down unexpectedly.
   
4. Fixed a bug with text spacing when using proportional fonts depending on display speed.
   
5. Fixed a bug where you would lose if you use a skill with the Special Effect: Flee on all actors.
   
6. Fixed the text position on some badly placed tutorial assets.
   
7. Fixed the non calculation of time under 1s for conditional branching based on timer.
   
8. Fixed a bug with the plugin command menu where it was displaying plugins that are not activated in the plugin manager or have any commands to use.
   
9. Effekseer animations should now pause when the window is not active.
   
10. Fixed a bug where if you used a "Forced battle action" during the end of turn resolution it will activate twice.
    
11. Fixed the filename of one asset used in the floating shrine.
    
    • In the case you used or based a map on the flying shrine before v1.4.0.
      
    • If you select "remove unused files" during deployment.
      
    • Your project might fail if uploaded on a web server: Failed to load img/parallaxes/IslandOfSky1.png
      
    • If that is the case, please set again the parallax of your map to IslandofSky1
12. New sample maps （in dlc/RemakeMapResourcePack）
    
13. New NPC assets（in dlc/NpcResourcePack）
    

[h2]How to update your project(s):[/h2]

• Create a backup of your project or only its data and js folders. Updating can sometimes cause your project to break so this is for the safety of your hard work!
  
  
• Update your project by going to the Main Tool Bar -> Game -> Update Corescript option.
  

We're kicking off December with two new graphics packs! All new characters to star in your latest game, plus additional animals for the Time Fantasy series.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1833440/RPG_Maker_MZ__RPG_Character_Pack_5/

If you want to tell an engaging story, you need unique and creative characters to fill it with life and depth. The RPG Character Pack 5 brings you a great opportunity to expand your roster of interesting personalities in your game. With each of these unique heroes coming with a charset and additional down pose, a battler, a SV battler, Portrait, faceset with eight different emotions, and a large beautifully drawn artwork the be used wherever you like, there is no role those cannot fill!

Let the bunny king lead your party to victory or maybe rather make him an NPC with a fascinating background story. The fox girl is as beautiful as she is deadly, she would make a great heroine or as an assassin that is after your party! And maybe that party includes the lady that dances on her bladed shoes, ready to deliver some deadly kicks? Or the sage apprentice, who is young and energetic, looking for an adventure and new experiences to learn from! Human or humanoid, male or female, caster or physical fighter, this pack might just have the exact new character you need!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1833430/RPG_Maker_MZ__Time_Fantasy_Add_on_Animals_2/

Fans of Time Fantasy, have you been waiting to take your players on a safari or to the zoo? Your wait is over with Time Fantasy Add on Animals 2! With more that 60 animal sprites, this pack is full of critters to add to your game’s exotic locations.

Explore American-inspired plains with herds of large bison grazing, or check out a dark swamp where frogs hop around and owls fly silently overhead. If your game includes a long period on a tropical beach, why not add some sea turtles and crabs? You could even include a shark fin out in the water to let your players know that swimming there isn’t recommended. Camels can help your heroes travel across deserts, leading them to savanna teeming with life. Create a pride of lions with cubs running around and huge elephants being followed by happy babies that move around your savanna maps. Add some pops of color to your jungles with brilliant red parrots and bright-billed toucans, or give an area a humorous feeling with some monkeys eating bananas and hopping up and done. Smaller sprites like bugs and fish can add some extra movement to your maps without blocking your players’ path, which is great for any small, crowded maps.

This pack comes with sizes ready-to-use in Ace and MV/MZ, so you can drop these sprites right into your favorite engine and start adding them to your maps! Pick up Time Fantasy Add on Animals 2 today and liven up your maps with some exotic wildlife!

A hearty gobble gobble to all our fans from the US having Thanksgiving, and a hearty "THREE NEW RESOURCE PACKS!" for everyone. It's another release day, let's see what is in store... for the store.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823531/RPG_Maker_MZ__Japanese_Modern_Cityscape_Tileset/

Bring a compact and busy feeling to your cities with the Japanese Modern Cityscape Tileset! Grayfax software’s tileset contains pixel art tiles to help you build a city inspired by modern Japan, with road signs, soda machines, and even a small shrine to help your city look lived in.

Let your players take a break in a small park with swing sets and a bouncy panda between tall buildings, or make a railroad station into your game’s fast travel system. Fences made out of stone, metal, and even plants can keep your players from wandering into people’s yards while still letting them see little details like dog houses or bicycles that show someone really lives there. Certain autotile walls with windows help you build tall apartment buildings or skyscrapers while others are perfect for creating unique two-story houses, giving you ways to break up the monotony of buildings in your cities. The tile sheets with windows also come in three versions so you can choose if the windows are lit or not, perfect for distinguishing between daytime and night on your maps.

Also included are some sprites to help bring some movement to your cities. Keep your streets busy with compact cars and buses, or have some small train cars rattle past on railroad tracks with flashing crossing lights at all the crossroads. Or set up a security camera that turns to keep an eye on things above a convenience store’s glass doors.

MV and MZ sample projects can help you easily set up passability in your game, and give you examples for how to use all the tiles. If you’ve been wanting to give your modern cities a new look, pick up the Japanese Modern Cityscape Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823530/RPG_Maker_MZ__Japanese_Four_Seasons_Tree_Tiles/

Get ready to create gorgeous forests with Japanese Four Seasons - Tree Tiles! Norakoma has created a pack of tree tiles inspired by those commonly found in Japan, perfect for games that take place in Japan or ones that just call for more tree options as your players explore the world.

14 sheets of big trees offer up tons of variations to turn a simple outdoor map into something stunning. Hide secrets behind thick trunks and let your players walk under arching branches as they explore your forest maps, and decorate a garden with wisteria loaded with beautiful flowers. Build a bamboo forest with two full sheets of towering green stalks and lush canopies, or decorate a riverbank with the long and flowing branches of weeping willows.

The trees also have their own variants based on seasons, so as time passes in your game you can switch out tilesets to match! Turn the lush green of summer leaves to red as the days grow cooler, or let your players know that spring is right around the corner with small pink cherry blossoms appearing on icy branches. There are also a few dying trees that would be a great starting point for a side quest! Can your players bring a town’s centerpiece back to life?

This pack also includes MV and MZ sample projects, so you can copy preset tilesets right into your games and start planting trees right away! If you’ve been wanting to decorate your Japanese-inspired maps with fitting trees or just want some foliage to make your forests stand out, check out Japanese Four Seasons - Tree Tiles today!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1819730/RPG_Maker_MZ__Ambient_Works/

Have you been looking for a new song for the moment your players discover a ruin full of technological wonders? Or need something different for when they explore an unsettlingly empty shop? Find the right background music for some of your scenes with Ambient Works! This pack’s 13 BGMs blend into your game’s world to help keep your players immersed.

The electronic tracks with solid beats are fitting for any spacefaring sci-fi games, when your players explore the space station’s mall for the first time or just when they’re taking a break on their ship. Give your quiet port an untrustworthy vibe with an echoey guitar and slight background noise that tickles your players’ brains with the thoughts of “something isn’t right here”. Or choose a track with soft marimba-like beats that could slide into any scene where your heroes take a moment in nature to rest and remember why they started their adventure in the first place.

With multiple file formats included for each track, it’s simple to add the songs to your favorite engine. Give Ambient Works a listen today and find the right track for that scene that’s been giving you trouble!

The Steam Autumn Sale is live. And with it, deals on RPG Maker MZ, RPG Maker MZ DLC, and all the old Engines!

But that isn't all. We have something else to fess up to... A FES Update! The FES Resource Pack is updating to add sample maps to the mix, giving you a better basis to work with the resources to make your own maps!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1350930/RPG_Maker_MZ__FES_Resource_Pack/

So pick up MZ, buy it for yourself or a friend! Get all the DLC you need to make your next project. And be sure to take a look at the fantastic FES resources if you haven't already!