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New DLC: Summerwind Saga - Forests & Mountains, Summerwind Saga - Village

Two new tilesets to add to the Summerwind Saga! Forests & Mountains and Village!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3479490/RPG_Maker_MZ__Summerwind_Saga__Forest__Mountains/

Climb steep cliffs and search for herbs and mushrooms under lush canopies with the Summerwind Saga - Forests & Mountains pack! ELV Games continues their Summerwind Saga series with a variety of trees and rocky cliff faces to add all new areas for your heroes to explore and your farmers to use as new spots to farm! A2 ground tiles are ready to be covered with 29 B sheets filled with grass edges to make smooth transitions, trees and plants to fill an area with nature, and cliffs that can be mixed and matched to create towering mountains.

Create forests where the trees have different sized canopies and twisting trunks in two different colors so that it doesn’t feel like each grove is a copy, and scatter small red-capped mushrooms in the shadows that your heroes can collect to cook or craft with! Use enormous fallen logs as magical portals between areas and keep your new heroes safe by setting up fences and signs so they don’t end up fighting monsters way beyond their level. Let your heroes climb grass-covered hills to find rare trees or climb even higher until dirt and stone is all you can find. Show that time is passing in your game world with spring, summer, fall, and winter versions of the forest and tree tiles, and turn a safe mountain pass into a frigid challenge with the snow-covered winter version. Give each season their own collectables and monsters, or let the changing seasons subtly prompt your players into action to stop the final boss before it’s too late!

Each tileset sheet comes in 2 sizes, 32x32px for Ace and 48x48px for MV/MZ, so you can use it in your favorite engine! If you’ve been wanting to expand your farming game with some more locations to forage in or need some variations to show different seasons as time passes in your game, check out the Summerwind Saga - Forests & Mountains pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3479480/RPG_Maker_MZ__Summerwind_Saga__Village/

Build a cozy town for your heroes to call home with the Summerwind Saga - Village pack! ELV Games is here with a set of tiles ready to create villages for your heroes to live in and visit. This pack’s A2 ground tiles and 29 B sheets can make a bunch of buildings that you can decorate to match your vision! Choose between 1-tile and 2-tile tall walls and top them with gabled roofs covered in blue, red, or black shingles so you can give each town a consistent look or mark important buildings with a roof that stands out compared to the normal houses. Decorate each house with chimneys and round, arched, or square windows, and don’t forget to give the gardeners flowers on their windowsills! Place cobblestone paths between businesses so it’s easy to get to them and mark each with a wooden sign above their door so travelers know which is the item shop and which is an inn with a quick glance. And make the whole village feel more lived-in with boxes piled high against walls, and wooden swings and teeter-totters for the kids of the village to play with while their parents are busy with work.

Normal and snow-covered versions of each house tile makes it simple to show changing seasons with the buildings themselves, or make sure that a village hidden deep in the snowy mountains is properly coated with fluffy snow. Each tileset sheet also comes in 32x32px and 48x48px-sized versions, so you can easily use them in Ace, MV/MZ, or your favorite engine! Pick up the Summerwind Saga - Village pack and give your heroes a nice place to return to after hours of adventuring and foraging!

Official DLC: 5 new DLCs, dungeon tile set and a collection of useful sounds!

Five DLCs were released this week, including two from the popular “EX Graphics” series and easy-to-use sound effects assets!


"EX Graphic Base Set Dungeon" is a set of tiles for dungeons with detailed dots. It is recommended to be used in combination with the “EX Graphic” series currently on sale.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3495940/RPG_Maker_MZ__EX_Graphic_Base_Set_Dungeon/


"EX Graphic Monster Pack 1" is a collection of beautifully dotted side-view enemy materials. It contains 38 types (20 types + 18 differentials) of various enemies such as slimes and giant snakes.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3495950/RPG_Maker_MZ__EX_Graphic_Monster_Pack_1/


"Listhobi's Library" is a collection of icons filled with designs of various book-related items. It contains 517 different icons of books, scrolls, stone tablets, etc.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3495920/RPG_Maker_MZ__Listhobis_Library/


"Analog Utility Sounds" is a useful collection of general-purpose sound assets. It contains 200 sounds ranging from simple clicks to zips, zaps, and more.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3495930/RPG_Maker_MZ__Analog_Utility_Sounds/ https://youtu.be/MJu21Snzl_E


"Status Icon & OtherWorld Music set" is a set of 23 types of sound materials and status icon materials that can express a dark world view.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3495960/RPG_Maker_MZ__Status_Icon_and_OtherWorld_Music_set/
https://youtu.be/HHpuCuLfAMw

New DLC: KR Crystal Cavern Tileset & RPG Character Pack 16

Explore new environs with the Kokoro Reflection's Crystal Tavern Tileset! Add new heroines to the game with Gee-kun-soft's RPG Character Pack 16

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3479440/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Crystal_Cavern_Tileset/

Send your heroes underground to find mana crystals and lost miners with the KR Crystal Cavern Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is here with a new cave tileset for MV and MZ that focuses on all that sparkles! Create caves filled with towering crystals, tunnels where gemstones are mined, and dungeons overflowing with crystalized plants and pathways. A1, A2, A4, and 2 B sheets are ready to build underground waterways and dirt paths that give way to crystal floors and walls. Fill caverns with jutting bunches of crystals and toppled columns, and add an extra touch of magic with bushes, flowers, and mushrooms that were formed from the cave’s gems. Let your heroes visit different mines along their adventure by using the 5 different versions of the tiles: red ruby, green emerald, yellow topaz, blue sapphire, and purple amethyst! Use the different colors to let your players know how dangerous each dungeon is, or mix and match to make rainbow-themed caves.

This pack also includes 5 character sprites for treasure chests, levers, and canoes to add interesting puzzles and rewards to your caves! Force your heroes to use wall-mounted switches and levers sticking out of the floor to shift mining cart routes or unlock passage, and let your heroes pick up helpful supplies from wooden treasure chests. Need to make a quick exit after being a dungeon boss? Set up a canoe in the cave’s river to easily escape! Pick up the KR Crystal Cavern Tileset and build multiple caves for your heroes to explore and gather unique crystals from each!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3479470/RPG_Maker_MZ__RPG_Character_Pack_16/

Give your skill instructors and commanding officers an adorable new look with the RPG Character Pack 16! Gee-kun-soft is back with another new set of 16 MZ-style characters to add to your games, this time focusing on women who could be friends or foes. Have your heroes join a company with 5 uniform-wearing coworkers and a youthful commanding officer who took on the white leadership jacket after the previous commander disappeared. Team up with a skilled blonde elf and an excitable bunny girl to explore dungeons and battle skilled swordswomen bursting with power! Or take on the cloven-foot Krampus in a wintery battlefield and dodge katana slashes when facing off against a foreign warrior decked out in ruffles and a cherry blossom-patterned jacket, and see if you can talk them into joining your party.

Each character comes with walking and downed sprites, 13 front view enemy images with a variety of outfit colors, facesets and bust images with 8 different emotions, and SV battlers, so you can easily turn any of them into a new party member or the heroine of the whole story! Let your players talk the twin-tailed mage into joining their team, or surprise them with the sudden reveal that the uniformed officer they had been getting side quests from was really working with the dark lord the whole time.

This pack also includes high resolution images of each character so you can resize them to perfectly fit your game’s screen size, or show them head-to-toe when your players first meet them. If you’ve been wanting to upgrade your NPCs or add new party members who are all dressed to impress, check out the RPG Character Pack 16!

A Tapestry of Old and New Titles! RPG Maker Festival 2025 Begins! Celebrate Over

About RPG Maker Festival 2025

Maker Day (Tsukuru no Hi, February 15th) is the day for recognizing and spreading the joy of making games!
To celebrate this day, we are holding the online event 'RPG Maker Festival' again this year!

The "RPG Maker Festival" is a grand event with the theme of "Creators and players, everyone is the star!"
There'll be new releases and lots of discounts for RPG Maker products, DLCs, and a large number of games created with RPG Maker.
This year, the number of participating titles is 1074 games - a record for the event! Don't miss your chance to discover new masterpieces and make some great purchases.

Additionally 2025 represents the 5th anniversary for RPG Maker MZ, the 10th anniversary for RPG Maker MV, and the 25th anniversary for RPG Maker 2000! To celebrate these anniversaries, RPG Maker Festival 2025 is spread out over 2 weeks due to all we have planned! We hope you will be with us for the whole journey!


■RPG Maker Festival 2025 Dates
Phase 1: February 4th, 2025 until February 11th 2025.
Phase 2: February 11th 2025 until February 18th 2025

■Phase 1 Event URL
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/RPGMakerFestival2025


Part One Events
RPG Maker VX Ace Available For Free


It’s our pleasure to announce that for a limited time, RPG MakerVX Ace, with global sales exceeding 500,000 copies, will be available for free download!
It set the roadmap for the actors, items, database and other functions that carry through to RPG Maker MZ today! Even today many fans love the feel provided by RPG Maker VX Ace! We hope many people will give it a try during this limited opportunity!

■ Free Download Period
February 4th until February 11th, 2025
・URL: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/RPGMakerFestival2025


Big Sales! RPG Maker MZ 55% Off, RPG Maker MV 93% Off


RPG Maker MZ is discounted 55% on Steam to celebrate it’s 5th anniversary! RPG Maker MV, celebrating it’s 10th anniversary, will be available at the amazing value of 93% off on Steam!
Additionally, a major update is coming very soon for RPG Maker MZ, making it even easier to use!
And for those who are already owners of some RPG Maker titles, there’s special celebration available with even more discounts!

■ Steam Discount Period
February 4th until February 11th, 2025
・RPG Maker MZ Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096900/RPGMZ/?utm_source=PR&utm_campaign=referral&utm_medium=RPGMakerFestival2025_SteamNews_EN
・RPG Maker MV Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/363890/RPGMV/?utm_source=PR&utm_campaign=referral&utm_medium=RPGMakerFestival2025_SteamNews_EN


[h2]RPG Maker Game Celebrations
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RPG Maker is more than just the engine; it’s also all the games that the community has made over the many years! To celebrate these creations, event pages have been created on both Steam and DLsite!
More than 1000 games are participating!
You’ll be able to find indie experiences from all over the world, many of which will also be on sale as a part of the RPG Maker Festival experience!

・Steam Event Page: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/RPGMakerFestival2025
・Introduction Video for Participating Titles : https://youtu.be/XU2cEwwKbyU


[h2]ACTION GAME MAKER: Release Date Announcement & New Trailer on 2025/6/16!
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The latest entry in the Maker franchise, ACTION GAME MAKER will announce it’s release date on February 17th, 2025! And that’s not all: a brand new trailer will be released showing never before seen footage!
・ACTION GAME MAKER URL:https://youtu.be/JSjN67Bc_jo

Designed to allow anyone to make 2D action games without programming and built on top of Godot Engine, ACTION GAME MAKER represents a new step forward for the Maker franchise.
And with plenty of included assets, you’ll be able to get started on your game making journey!
Please visit the Steam page and wishlist it now!

・ACTION GAME MAKER Steam page:https://store.steampowered.com/app/2987180/ACTION_GAME_MAKER/?utm_source=PR&utm_campaign=referral&utm_medium=RPGMakerFestival2025_SteamNews_EN


[h2]RPG Maker 2000 DLC Reborn
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It’s been an amazing 25 years since RPG Maker 2000 first released! To celebrate, we’re bringing back some content that was released with the RPG Maker 2000 Handbook specifically for RPG Maker MZ!
Tile sets and characters, animations, sound effects and voice lines and so much more are included! And all remastered for use with RPG Maker MZ! In addition, the original assets in their RPG Maker 2000/2003 compatible format are included as well!
Whether you’re a collector who never had the opportunity to get the Handbook or you just like the look of these assets, this is an amazing opportunity!

・RPG Maker 2000 Handbook Assets Steam Page:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3478100/RPG_Maker_MZ__RPG_Maker_2000_Handbook_Assets/?utm_source=PR&utm_campaign=referral&utm_medium=RPGMakerFestival2025_SteamNews_EN


Phase Two Events

During phase two of RPG Maker Festival 2025, the discounts and content sharing will continue! We’re not prepared to release that information, so we hope you will remain excited until it is unveiled at the start of phase two!

New DLC: Galefire Characters - NPC Monster Pack 2, KR Legendary Palace - Wendigo

More characters from Michael Galefire! More tiles from Kokoro Reflections!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3409180/RPG_Maker_MZ__Galefire_Characters__NPC_Pack_2/

Talk to new friends and foes with Galefire Characters - NPC Monster Pack 2! Michael Galefire is back with another picture pack with 16 characters to add more oomph to your cutscenes. Give your shopping district some memorable NPCs with a cool armored halfling in sunglasses offering up powerful guns for a fair price and a grinning goblin welder ready to upgrade your hero’s armor if you bring him the right supplies. Accept side quests to help out the city from a hulking mechanized guard, or learn secrets of magic from figures wearing cloaks that don’t quite hide their curved horns. For the more adventurous of heroes, have them try to talk to the enormous green-armored alien Swarm Queen and her attack dogs before the battle begins to learn where their hive is, and duel a knight wielding weapons made of magic with words first to see if your heroes can avoid a challenging fight!

Each image is in a high resolution so you can easily resize it to perfectly fix your screen size, or shrink down the monsters for comedic effect! Reveal that the Terra Terror wyrm that’s been terrorizing a town is actually only a foot tall, or shrink your heroes down to explore new areas and show their smaller size by having all the NPC pictures be huge. If your cities have been needing new shopkeepers and your plotlines have been lacking some deadly armored foes, pick up the Galefire Characters - NPC Monster Pack 2!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3409190/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Legendary_Palace__Wendigo_Tileset/

Visit your hero’s bloodiest nightmares with the KR Legendary Palace - Wendigo Tileset! Kokoro Reflections continues their Legendary Palace series with a set of tiles stained crimson where not only do the walls have eyes, but they’re watching you! A1, A2, A4, A5, and B tiles are ready to coat your maps with different shades of red to create a truly terrible dungeon filled with ponds of blood and shattered bones. Start your heroes in a room with textured brown walls and floor that could be mistaken for dirt, though the bruised purple stains on the floor and streams of blood leaking from next to the doorway suggests something far darker. As they delve deeper and deeper into the monstrous lair replace the floors with clumped fat that squelches when stepped on and fibrous red muscle walls where veins curve together to form decorations and statues. Reward your players for facing the blood splattered rooms instead of racing for the exit with a scarlet treasure chest character sprite, and add a bit of unsettling movement to the halls with a drop of blood sprite that can fall from the ceiling into a bloody puddle.

This pack also includes sample maps for MV and MZ, so you can see each tile’s passability and gain inspiration for how to make each map as horrific as possible. Pick up the KR Legendary Palace - Wendigo Tileset and scare your heroes and players alike with bloody hallways and deadly throne rooms!

[h2]Kokoro Reflections Updates[/h2]

The following packs have been updated:

KR Art Deco Theater Tileset:
  • Improved movie posters, included sample maps. Includes updated screenshots.
KR Art and History Museum Tileset:
  • Art updates, minor bugfixes.
KR Art Deco Interiors Tileset:
  • Added more tiles, plus some art improvements.
KR Modern Hospital Tileset:
  • Minor art updates, bugfixes.
KR Skyscraper Tileset:
  • Minor art updates, bugfixes.
KR Spirit of Greece Tileset:
  • Treasure box animation fix, other minor fixes.
KR Sun and Moon Tileset:
  • Art updates, bugfixes.
KR Tuscan Seaside Tiles:
  • Shadow bugfixes.
KR Wild West Tileset:
  • Bugfixes, exchanged bottles and jars for nicer ones.