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That time of year has creeped up on us... The CREEPY time of year! Halloween is here and it is time for a Steam sale! Plus a free mini-pack, 3 additional new releases, plus 6 previous MV DLC that fit the season added to MZ!

Boo! It's time for giving out candy, tricking, treating, and generally acting ghoulish! To celebrate the season we're going to shamble on into the Halloween Steam sale with RPG Maker and some spooky resource pack offerings! Be sure to check everything RPG Maker on sale in the Halloween Steam sale!

But that's not all. We also have a free Halloween themed mini-pack available, plus 3 additional new releases!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1784404/RPG_Maker_MZ__Halloween_2021__Free_Asset_for_MZ/

Now that the nights are getting longer and the leaves are falling from the trees, it is time to prepare for winter… and other things. If you stay up late, you might hear sounds that are both unfamiliar and unsettling. Wolves howling and other noises. You don’t really want to know who is responsible for them - or rather what.

This Halloween brings you two totally free amazing new charsets to spice up your games. Watch out for the mummy, as touching it might result in being cursed! Maybe you can knock it down anyway? The sprites for it lying on the floor are ready to go!

In its company we have a cute yet scary jack o'lantern spirit, who could either be an antagonist or friendly helper. No matter which you go with, it has dressed up in a fabulous tuxedo and a shredded cape and is ready to star in your adventure!

Have a happy Halloween and may these two enhance your games - the spooky ones or any other!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1784400/RPG_Maker_MZ__90s_Retro_Sounds__Story/

If you want your retro game to be more than fights and exploring areas, this pack is just for you. With those 14 chiptune style tracks you can not only emulate the nostalgic spirit of some of your favourite games but also have the perfect tunes to underlay your cutscenes, intros, outros, credit scenes and other parts that show the player your game’s story and world.

Have them play in the background while flipping through ancient scrolls, illustrated books or while looking back at an elongated flashback to the past, vision of the future, or things going on just right at that very moment. No matter whether these scenes are somber, joyful or tense, you’ll have the right music for any mood!

So if you are in need of some soft and sorrowful tunes to lay under your hero’s tragic backstory, you can be sure to find that within this set. If you want a dramatic track as you zoom over to your enemy's headquarters as they plan an assault on your hero’s home country, then you’ve got a track for that, too.

With all these inspiring pieces at hand, it will be much easier for you to imagine and play out all those sequences that port your story though the screen and speakers to your players’ imagination.

Listen in and have fun with the 90’s Retro Sounds Story Pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1784401/RPG_Maker_MZ__90s_Retro_Sounds__Country/

Take a break from the dungeon crawling to rest and recover in relaxing villages with 90s Retro Sounds - Country! Takayuki AMANUMA’s pack focuses on tunes perfect for old school towns. Made by sampling real instruments, this pack’s chiptune songs have a unique style while still being reminiscent of those old games we played and loved as kids.

This pack’s 11 BGMs give you plenty to work with to create the perfect village atmosphere. Play soft and restful songs when your player visits quaint farming villages or when they return home after a long trip, or choose one of the songs with an energetic beat when your heroes enter a busy royal fort. Give your magic shop or fortune teller’s tent a fitting mystical tune with hypnotising horns, and after your heroes have spent all day shopping play a relaxing track as they make their way down empty streets to the village’s inn for a good night’s sleep. Bustling port cities and trading villages could do with a song with a fast-paced tempo to match the towns’ hectic natures, or use the faster tempoed songs when your player visits a town’s cheery festival.

And for those scenes where your player is meeting the village leader or maybe even a prince in disguise? Then pick one of the regal tunes with upbeat organ tones. If all your player’s adventuring has led them to a long-forgotten city of technology, the pack’s last track with a metallic-sounding beat may be just what the scene calls for.

So if your game’s retro towns need some fitting tunes, pick up 90s Retro Sounds - Country today!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1799780/RPG_Maker_MZ__Japanese_School_Girls_Vol6/

Need more female voice lines to make your cutscenes a bit more interesting? Then take a listen to Japanese School Girls Vol.6! TK Projects’ newest sound effect pack brings you 245 SEs from a professional voice actress to help breathe life into your characters. Covering all sorts of emotions, this pack is perfect for a school girl with a calm personality.

Have your class president greet other students with a happy hello or wish your player a good day when school ends. If your player is a troublemaker who refuses to follow the rules, then your class president could reprimand them with a few angry lines. Or grab some of the shy SEs to give a voice to your quiet bookworm character when your player finds them reading alone in the library. Once your player has befriended her, add some sweet giggles to her scenes to show that she’s relaxed enough to laugh at your player’s jokes.

This pack includes a pdf that covers the English and Japanese meanings of every SE, making it easier for you to know which track to use no matter the situation. Even if the included lines don’t quite fit your scenes, the selection of breaths and sighs can add to the emotion of the dialogue without distracting from what your character says. Give your sweet characters a matching adorable voice with Japanese School Girls Vol.6!

We also have 6 season appropriate (read: HORROR) DLC that were previously only available as DLC for MV that have been added to the MZ lineup!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1791130/RPG_Maker_MZ__Cursed_Kingdoms_Battlebacks/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1791140/RPG_Maker_MZ__Cursed_Kingdoms_Dungeon_Tiles/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1791150/RPG_Maker_MZ__Cursed_Kingdoms_Monster_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1680930/RPG_Maker_MZ__Creepy_Land_Tileset_Pack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1560360/RPG_Maker_MZ__Minikles_Background_CG_Material_Collection_Abandoned_School__Horror_part01_A/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1560361/RPG_Maker_MZ__Minikles_Background_CG_Material_Collection_Abandoned_School__Horror_part01_B/

This week for our releases, we've lined up two new old school soundtracks, and another entry in the Japanese School Girls series!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1784402/RPG_Maker_MZ__90s_Retro_Sounds__Battle/

We all know that feeling, the character you were playing touched a monster on the map or a random encounter occurred and the music hits and now you know it’s time to fight an intense battle!

With ten unique chiptune style tracks to score the battles in your game, this pack brings both nostalgia and a welcome variety. Because let’s be honest: having just one track for all your battles would be boring after a while.

It doesn't matter whether you are looking for something exciting and upbeat for a training session against a friendly character or if you need something more tense to drive home that you are now up against a merciless monster, the 90’s Retro Sound - Battle pack has you covered. But why stop at different tracks for different set battles, with the variety in this pack you could even set different music for the random encounters in various regions!

And with each track composed to give the nostalgia of the 16 bit era, this pack works perfectly to compliment retro pixel style games. The tracks may sound like they come straight from a 90’s game but they are brand new and ready to be used by you!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1784403/RPG_Maker_MZ__90s_Retro_Sounds__Adventure/

Are you ready for a new and exciting adventure? A journey full of dangerous encounters, challenging puzzles and new areas to explore, just like you did on your first handheld or console?

With 90s Retro Sounds - Adventure you can replicate that exact feeling for your own game and share it with your players. With 14 varied and unique tracks, you'll be able to add some atmosphere to all kinds of interesting locations.

From mystical and slightly ethereal tunes that are perfect for a cave or temple, to rhythmic and energetic sounds for marching through grasslands and forests, to slow and more somber options, there's something here for almost any location and not much left to ask for.

Find the perfect track to stroll through a nice town or one that indicates the tension of nearby lurking monsters.

If you want your brand new game to have some nostalgic vibes, this pack is just what you need. Get your gear ready, some fun exploration lies ahead. And no matter where the journey goes, we can promise, the soundtrack will be amazing!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1792330/RPG_Maker_MZ__Japanese_School_Girls_Vol5/

Give your game’s girls a voice with Japanese School Girls Vol.5! TK.Projects is back with another pack of short sound effects to enhance your cutscenes, with 246 SEs performed by a professional voice actress! Add giggles, sighs, and cheery greetings to your young students with this pack!

This pack covers a selection of emotions to suit your needs, with phrases to show off cheerful moods, anger, sorrow, shock, and joy, along with short greetings and simple breathing to bring their dialogue to life. Let your female characters greet others in the hallways as they walk to class, and ooh and ahh over a cute pet or plushie. Have your young heroine tell off a friend with a cutesy call of “baka”, or sulk when things don’t go her way. Or give your dating sim character some adorable giggles while out on a date, ending it with a kiss on the cheek. If your story is a horror game in disguise, then the pack’s shocked gasps and cries of pain could be the perfect addition.

So if you’ve been wanting to add an extra touch of emotion to some of your scenes, or just want to enhance how cute one of your characters is, check out Japanese School Girls Vol.5!

It's the season to be spooky, so this release day we have the scariest thing of all: A high school girl and a magic shop! Wait, that isn't scary... Oh well, enjoy the latest packs!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1784520/RPG_Maker_MZ__Magic_Shop_Animated_Interior_Pack/

Is your game’s magic shop lacking a convincing mystical appearance? Is your fortune teller stuck staring into an empty crystal ball? Do you just want to add a sleeping black cat to your hero’s home? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘yes’, then you need to check out the MAGIC SHOP Animated Interior Pack! Cattle Call Inc. has crafted a pack full of animated objects and sprites to help take your wizard’s house from simple to spellbinding!

This pack’s 8 sprite sheets include a few mystical looking people along with all sorts of animated objects, from magical circles to a crumbling statue to portals to other worlds, that can help bring life to your magical shops and mystical locations. Give your potion maker’s store a cauldron full of bubbling green liquid as well as glass alchemy equipment and sparkling potions, or fill their cauldron overflowing thick purple goo and leave empty potions bottles everywhere to let your player know the owner is in need of help. Give your fortune teller more options to look into the future than just looking into a crystal ball by using tarot cards or a dowsing pendulum at the table instead. And keep your magic shops clean with a magic broom that can sweep all by itself!

This pack also includes a few floor and wall autotiles to help make your magic shops look just right. Give your fortune teller’s shop a carpet decorated with an edge of stars and plush blue curtains covering the walls, or use clean white walls with golden stars on its crown molding to let a magician show off their fancy office.

These tiles are sized for MV and MZ, ready to be added to your games and used right away! So if you’ve been wanting some more magical decorative sprites, pick up the MAGIC SHOP Animated Interior Pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1779380/RPG_Maker_MZ__Japanese_School_Girls_Vol4/

Giving your characters more depth can be quite difficult, especially if you can't hire voice actors to record everything you need. Luckily, the Japanese School Girls Vol.4 Pack is ready to equip you with 244 individual voice Sound Effects, which you can use to show the emotions of one of your heroines.

Covering all kinds of different categories such as greetings, breathing snippets, shock and many others, there is a wide range of emotions and phrases your character can express with the sounds in this pack. And if you don't know Japanese, there is a huge PDF inside, giving you not only the written version of the phrases, but also their English translations so you can easily learn what they are saying.

This makes it easy to pick the perfect lines for every possible situation, from confessing love to saying goodbye. The additional non-verbal sounds are even more versatile and allow you to add flavor to situations even when there is no perfect phrase ready to use.

The high quality recording and professional voice acting make this pack a must have if you want to add some voice snippets to your project!

The Spooky Month has begun, and it is time for to take a path through a creepy wood... but what music should we use? And what about the paths, what do we use there? Well this release week has you covered for both!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1778250/RPG_Maker_MZ__Cursed_Kingdoms__Twisted_Forest_Music_Pack/

Get ready to delve deep into the darkness with the Cursed Kingdoms Twisted Forest Music Pack! Joel Steudler’s newest pack is perfect for dark fantasy and dangerous dungeon exploring. Metal-inspired instruments combine with unsettling beats to create a spooky soundtrack.

20 BGMs are ready to turn your scenes into dangerous situations. Metal guitars turn simple battles into pulse-pounding fights for your heroes’ lives, and heavy drums can turn every encounter into cause for concern. Outside of battles, eerie strings and unsettling beats make forests and caves feel even more oppressive. Give your players a slight break from fear to catch their breath with simple flutes and guitars playing a slower, sad tune. Or dash their hope for help with melancholy instruments when they reach a long-abandoned campsite.

A few songs forgo metal guitars to focus more on medieval-sounding strings and flutes, for scenes in ancient towns or when wandering overworld maps. So even if your game doesn’t call for dramatic metal tunes there’s still a chance the perfect song is in here waiting for you!

The pack’s 15 MEs also help bring the feelings of dread to your game’s forefront. Spooky flutes and screeching string stings can turn a plain empty home into a haunted house for your players. Or play one of the eerie MEs when your players approach certain doors to make them think twice before opening it. Battle MEs aren’t safe either, with heavy metal guitars taking over the victory and defeat tunes.

So if your game has been needing a suitably dark soundtrack, check out the Cursed Kingdoms Twisted Forest Music Pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1648410/RPG_Maker_MZ__Winding_Road_and_Grassland_Tileset/

Your heroes walk through the town, a forest, or just through some nice gardens. But something is missing. What path will they take? While the default tiles can make it easy to make straight paths with sharp right angles, if there is one thing to learn from our many adventures, is that the straight path is rarely available to us!

Enter the Winding Road and Grassland Tileset! Three different path types, sand, dirt, and rock, can all curve through your maps to create maps that feel more alive and less blocky, and all three have variations for dry, normal, or wet weather.

That covers the Winding Road part, but that isn't all. What about that "and Grassland" part. This set comes with a whole new set of ground tiles. New Grass, new base sand, dirt, and rock styles to match your paths! Plus a new tall grass style with 8 variations! A light and dark version of 4 looks are available: regular tall grass, two versions with flowers (red and blue), and a feather reed style grass.

But that still isn't all: This pack also includes an entirely new water and waterfall style to round the whole thing out. And all of these pieces are designed to be compatible with the MZ default graphics, so you can plug them right in to your existing game!

The path is before your players, make sure it looks good: pick up the Winding Road and Grassland Tileset today!

Release day is here again! And what has it brought: A new tileset for building a gritty night time city, plus the second RE-D Music Pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1767100/RPG_Maker_MZ__Modern__Midnight_City/

Have you been wanting to build a gritty city for your MV/MZ game but haven’t found the right tiles yet? Kauzz is back with Modern+ Midnight City, another incredible pack of tiles to help you build your modern cities out of dark asphalt and brick walls.

Give your urban areas the right look with concrete sidewalks and neon lights in store windows. Have your heroes save some time on their commute to work by cutting through alleyways that are full of trash and dumpsters leaning on the walls, or give them a chance to relax by playing basketball in the small park tucked between buildings. If your heroes are just passing through the city, make sure they stop at the local gas station to fill up their tank and grab some snacks. And if you need some inspiration when it comes to buildings? Then make the most of the pack’s 6 pre-built buildings, giving you easy access to places like a fast food restaurant, a convenience store, and multi-shop buildings!

Don’t forget to give your city apartments some proper interiors with this pack’s interior A4 and 2 B sheets. Create a gorgeous modern apartment for your characters that include all the necessities of life: computers, flatscreen tvs, game consoles, and coffee makers! If that doesn’t quite cut it for you, then make sure to decorate with the pack’s rugs, bookshelves, kitchen cabinets, and toiletries.

This pack also includes sprites for doors, cars, and even large trucks, so you can make sure that your city streets are busy! And don’t worry if you’re an Ace user, as this pack has an Ace version with 32x32-sized tiles. So you can make modern cities in your favorite engine! If you’ve been waiting for some gritty city tiles, or have just been waiting for the next Modern+ pack, make sure to check out Modern+ Midnight City today!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1767090/RPG_Maker_MZ__RED_MUSIC_PACK_2/

It’s time to update some of your game’s emotional scenes with RE-D MUSIC PACK 2! Gee Kun Soft’s latest pack contains 10 new tracks to help draw your players even more into your world’s story with tender and touching melodies.

Have your hero confess his love to his best friend while violins and a piano play softly in the background, and use powerful strings and a beautiful harp to bring tears of joy to your players’ eyes when your hero and his best friend are reunited after defeating the final boss. Choose a piano-focused tune when your heroes return to their hometown, weary but glad to finally be back with their families, or when they share whispered secrets in the middle of a quiet night. One of the pack’s faster paced songs features flutes and acoustic guitars that would make for a wonderful welcome to a cheery port or bustling town. Or use an elegant but slow tune to introduce the kingdom’s palace, where tragedy has struck and only your heroes can help.

This pack includes multiple formats for each track, making it simple to use in your favorite engine. If your game has been calling out for some new BGM, then pick up RE-D MUSIC PACK 2!