RPG Maker MZ News

Behold dear game developers! We are thrilled to announce that we, Gotcha Gotcha Games, the developer of the RPG Maker engine series, will soon be holding our RPG Maker Festival 2023 Steam Sale Event!



What is RPG Maker Festival?
RPG Maker Festival is our annual Sale event held on Steam! This is where we and all RPG Maker indie developers around the world join-hands together and show what the RPG Maker engine series and your great creation is made of and get recognized by game players and fans across the world! As long as your game is made by RPG Maker series or Pixel Game Maker MV and has a Steam Store page, you are eligible to participate!

So far, we have confirmed that more than 300 titles will be participating in this Steam Sale event, including the widely acclaimed titles like The Witch's House MV and LISA: The Painful!


Apply for Entry into the Festival NOW with Your Game! (Deadline - January 26, 2023, 06:59 AM Pacific Standard Time / Jan 26, 2023, 23:59 Japan Standard Time)
While we already have a lot of developers confirmed willing to participate, there must be developers or great titles that we are unaware of! But fret not, there is still time to apply! If you have released an RPG Maker made game on Steam (incl. Coming Soon titles), we would love to see you joining us! Apply to us now via the URLs found at the bottom of this article!


We Are Also Looking for Game Videos! (Deadline - January 26, 2023, 06:59 AM Pacific Standard Time / Jan 26, 2023, 23:59 Japan Standard Time)
Along with the above call for title application, we're also looking for contents to broadcast on our Steam Event Page during the Sale! If you have made videos or are considering making one that showcases your game, we are happy to have it broadcasted during the Sale on our Event Page! The video can be for released games or Coming Soon games!


Application Eligibility
Your game must be made by RPG Maker series and Pixel Game Maker game engines.
Your game must be released on Steam (Coming Soon games are also fine as long as there is a Steam Store Page registered and visible to the public)

■How to Apply
・Companies / Indie Developers in Japan (Japanese Form)
https://forms.gle/eP7hRXm3JHCg8QZB7
・Oversea Companies and Indie Developers (English Form)
https://forms.gle/TGdNZfajgHccLoAF8
Please fill out the form above and submit to us.


■ Application Deadline Pacific Standard Time: until 06:59, Thursday, January 26, 2023
(Japan Standard Time: Until 23:59, Thursday, January 26, 2023)

Please note that for game video applications, we may have to do some screening if there are too many submissions.


■Related URLs and Twitter Account
Maker Series Official Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/tkool_dev/
RPG Maker Official: https://rpgmakerofficial.com/

Majestic castles, dynamic space battles, dramatic scenes: All can be enhanced with this weeks releases, let's take a look at what we have!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2271660/RPG_Maker_MZ__Winlu_Fantasy_Tileset___Interior/

Create gorgeous pixel art cabins, castles, and cathedrals with Winlu Fantasy Tileset - Interior! Winlu has crafted this pack to give MV/MZ games incredibly detailed medieval and fantasy rooms. With full A2, A3, A4, and A5 autotiles along with 6 B sheets, you can create all sorts of locations, from scruffy hunting cabins and weapon-filled smithies to an alchemist’s library and even a throne room decorated for a feast! Decorate your hero’s childhood home with wooden furniture like bookshelves, benches, and a straw-stuffed bed, with a simple toilet tucked behind a carved wooden screen. Build an adventurer’s guild with stone walls and bearskin rugs spread on the floor, and keep your hero well-equipped thanks to a nearby shop filled with weapon racks and potions. Make sure your hero doesn’t break the kingdom’s laws though, otherwise they may find themselves locked in the castle dungeon, where chains hang from the walls and spiderwebs form in every corner!

This pack also includes animated flames so you can add some movement to your maps. Make sure the fire in the tavern’s kitchen is roaring while the cook makes soup, and light up a mage’s study with mystical blue flames. A variety of wooden doors, from creaky hut doors to reinforced dungeon ones, make it easy to control where your players can go, and 8 animated treasure chests are perfect for rewarding exploration. So if you’ve been searching for some little details to make your maps pop, or just want to add to your Winlu tileset collection, pick up the Winlu Fantasy Tileset - Interior pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2271670/RPG_Maker_MZ__Last_Boss_Pack_Vol5/

Fill your interstellar epic with star-speckled space backdrops and huge battleships ready for combat with the Last Boss Pack Vol.5! Gee Kun Soft’s latest pack continues to be inspired by sci-fi, this time upping the battler sizes to contain entire armies! 10 space battleships are ready to be used in your galaxy-wide games! Give your starship troopers marine-inspired exploration and spacecraft carrier ships while your heroes travel to the far reaches of the galaxy in a red-detailed aerodynamic rocket. Green ships with 4 powerful dishes that can blast messages into the distance, long purple serpent-shaped ships, and heavy-duty shield crafts can be friends or foes, depending on who your heroes decide to team up with!

Each ship also comes with a matching sprite, so you can have your heroes travel in style when they’re racing for the next planet. And 12 backgrounds (in 2 sizes, 816x624 and 1000x740) are the perfect backdrop for space battles and setting the scene when your heroes reach a new area, whether they’re floating above a calm planet, dodging trash in a shattered space station, or pausing before joining into a laser-filler battle.

This pack also includes 64 bonus images to add even more excitement to your cutscenes! Each spaceship is in its own section of space and comes in multiple variations of combat readiness. Show the serpent ship shooting anything that gets close with 6 turrets along in back right before your heroes have to dive into battle with it, or set the mood with a destroyed medic ship shedding chunks of burnt metal when your heroes arrive too late to help! The calmer bonus images can also make for a great background while traveling through space to a new star system. Give your sci-fi story some incredible spaceship and battle art with the Last Boss Pack Vol.5!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2271680/RPG_Maker_MZ__Dark_Drama_Music_Pack/

Give your game’s emotional scenes some subtle music with the Dark Drama Music Pack! Joel Steudler is back with 10 incredible BGMs that are perfect for those moments between deadly battles and cheerful camaraderie, when your players start to realize that not everything is as it seems and the ‘happily ever after’ ending may be harder to achieve than they thought. Slow tempos and somber pianos fill this pack with bittersweet feelings to take a dramatic scene to the next level, without relying on bombastic instruments to surprise your players.

Have Hidden Truths’ pianos and synths swell when your heroes enter a room, drawing their attention to the fact that there’s something off about the floorboards. Or use the heartbeat-inspired beat of Take My Pulse to create an uneasy mood when your players realize that the monster they’d been hunting was much closer than they knew. Make an abandoned station feel even more lonely with Access Denied’s echoing clinks and clanks of metal, and bring tears to your players’ eyes when the bittersweet pianos of I Remember play at a pivotal point in the story. Whether your spacefaring hero finds himself floating alone in an unknown star system or your heroes’ discover one of the party was separated while running from a monster, the Dark Drama Music Pack is ready to help set the mood!

Find the next soundtrack to your game with a new pack from Joel Steudler!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2235980/RPG_Maker_MZ__Modern_Day_Massive_Music_Pack/

Have you been hunting for even more music tracks to fill your modern adventure? Then it’s time to check out the Modern Day Massive Music Pack! Joel Steulder’s latest pack includes 42 BGMs covering a ton of styles and scenes to help you fill your modern game with fitting music. Rock out to electronic punk battle themes, metal-heavy dungeon tracks, soft and heart-touching songs for cutscenes, retro town themes, and more with this incredible pack!

With the pack broken up into 8 main sections, you’re sure to be able to find just what you need. Need a powerful BGM full of heavy beats to keep the tension up? Then check out the battle, dungeon, or metal tracks, where electronic guitars roar and creepy chords are waiting to send a shiver up your hero’s spine! Want to find the right track for when your hero opens up to a close friend? Then listen to the calm pianos and strings in the conversation and romance sections. Just need some quirky tracks to give each of your shops and streets their own unique vibe? Then the retro, theme, and town tracks are the place for you, with songs that lean into the 80s chiptune vibes sitting alongside acoustic guitar-focused tracks and vaporwave-inspired jazz.

Each track comes in multiple file formats, making it simple to add right into your project. Find the perfect tracks for those scenes that you’ve been struggling with with the help of the Modern Day Massive Music Pack!

The official DLC "Minikle's Background CG Material Collection "Fantasy" part02A/B", perfect for background images of fantasy works, and "Summer sound material collection", a collection of music materials that evokes a refreshing summer, are available today!


From the "Minikle's Background CG Material Collection" series, which has released a collection of beautiful background materials, "Minikle's Background CG Material Collection "Fantasy" part02A/B" is now available.
This collection includes many backgrounds for character conversation scenes, such as cityscapes and castles in a fantasy world.
There are also time-lapse differences such as morning, evening, and night, so you can use them according to the scene you want to create.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2238790/RPG_Maker_MZ__Minikles_Background_CG_Material_Collection_fantasy_part02A/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2238791/RPG_Maker_MZ__Minikles_Background_CG_Material_Collection_fantasy_part02B/


Summer sound material collection" is a collection of music data perfect for expressing a summery world view.
It is a set of BGM and SEs inspired by RPG sounds from the 90s to the 00s.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2221550/RPG_Maker_MZ__Summer_sound_material_collection/

It's the new year! And you know what that means: Accidentally writing 2022 on everything for the next several weeks! But while you get that done, you can also power up your games with two new releases.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2260590/RPG_Maker_MZ__MT_Tiny_Tales_Battlers__Wild_Beasts/

Battle against nature with MT Tiny Tales Battlers - Wild Beasts! Mega Tiles is back with their adorable pixel art style, this time sharing 18 monsters to fill your game worlds with wildlife. Have your heroes face off against red-winged vampire bats, deer with elemental antlers, chubby raccoons, deadly spiders, and more with this pack!

Snake, slime, and bee enemies are perfect if you want to keep battles familiar for RPG lovers, and add your own spin with odd enemies such as shell-less snails, cockatrices, and plant-themed lizards. Or turn a cave into an acranophobe’s nightmare with three different types of spiders! Fill your forest maps with deer, foxes, birds, and bees, and give your caverns creepy-crawlies including centipede-like bugs and worms that burst out of the ground! Each beast comes with a battler and sprite, so your heroes can see and try to avoid unnecessary fights while exploring the areas. And if that wasn’t enough, every monster has multiple color variations, meaning this pack contains a whopping 90 creatures to choose from! Use the different colored slimes to show their elemental resistances, or choose a fitting color for the toothy worm that matches the dungeon’s themes.

Each image comes in 3 sizes (original, 2x, and 3x), so it’s easy to find a size that will fit your game’s resolution! Add even more creatures to battle against (or tame!) with MT Tiny Tales Battlers - Wild Beasts!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2260610/RPG_Maker_MZ__Last_Boss_Pack_Vol4/

Give your sci-fi heroes some incredible robots to battle against with the Last Boss Pack Vol.4! Gee-kun-soft latest battler pack focuses on mechas and armored humanoid robots, with battlers, sprites, and background images to help bring your sci-fi worlds to life! With 10 different robot builds and variations for each to choose from, your players will be able to face robots on land, on sea, in the sky, and even in space! Challenge a red samurai robot to a duel in a dangerous city or have your players try to escape a mecha with four legs that let it roll on land and float on water without slowing down, all while a dark purple robot looms in the distance as the final challenge. Don’t leave your players without a robot of their own, give them a white and blue paladin robot or speedy fighter jet that can help them escape a deadly situation.

Each robot has a matching sprite, so you can let your players control their own mecha while exploring destroyed cities or space! 14 backgrounds (with two sizes, 816 x 624 and 1000 x 740) give you some out of this world choices for locations of battles and cutscenes. Let your players hang out on the streets of a skyscraper-filled town or on a ship’s deck while floating in space, or force them to survive battles in waste-filled worlds or in space while explosions burst in the background!

This pack also includes 26 bonus images with the ready-to-battle robots placed into the backgrounds, perfect for introducing your players to their latest foe before a fight! Show the samurai robot sending powerful sword slashes towards the screen before starting a battle, or have the villain’s dark mecha launch a barrage of missiles in a cutscene to force your players down onto a wasteland planet. So if you need some more robots for your epic sci-fi story or want to add some scenes from a mecha show to your modern game, check out the Last Boss Pack Vol.4!