RPG Maker MZ News

Want to see what can kind of games can be made only one month with RPG Maker MZ? We've released the 3 winners of our Touch the Stars Game Jam as free games on Steam!



The itsy-bitsy spider may have gone up the waterspout, but Berry performs a marathon of fantastic gameplay and amazing fun. Join this adorable arachnid on their adventure to find the tastiest of flies. Along the way you’ll dodge fire bugs, leap across platforms, and follow the dubious advice of questionable cockroaches. Once you get the controls down, you can overcome obstacles and defeat bosses with a sense of pride and accomplishment. Just don’t forget to climb up that proverbial spout again and again until you reach the stars!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823370/Berry/

[h2]2nd Place: Buffet Knight[/h2]

Let loose your inner hunger as you follow the powerful Buffet Knight in his quest to rid the land of the nefarious Demon Chef. Along the way, gobble up just about anything and spit it back at your enemies, defeating them and growing in power. Don’t grow too much, though, or you may not be able to contain your insatiable appetite. With gameplay inspired by a game with a certain hungry pink hero, and two very different endings, this game is for anyone who’s a glutton for adventure.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823360/Buffet_Knight/



Take on the role of a cute little monkey who witnesses a star falling from the sky and goes on a grand adventure to find it. Along the way, the adorable simian meets a cast of animals, each with their own motivations for joining our hero. The companion you take affects your ability to overcome certain obstacles, as each possesses their own unique power and personality. Make friends, help others, see the world, and enjoy a multitude of different fulfilling endings.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823350/Forest_star/

To go along with our publisher sale, RPG Maker MZ has also been updated to the latest version! And included in those updates are two much anticipated upgrades to the Battle Animations tab:

Effekseer integration updated to the latest version!
The ability to use MV Style Frame Animations!

To celebrate, in conjunction with the Effekseer team, we’re hosting the MZ Battle Animation Showdown!

And what will you do for this contest? Making Battle Animations!

The contest will have two different categories, one for MZ Effekseer Particle Animations, and one for MV Style Frame Animations. You can enter one, or both.

Make the best animations you can using the rules below and see if you can take the prize!

[h3]How to Submit your Entry[/h3]
Download the Template Project Linked at the bottom of the post.
After editing the Template Project for this event, please upload it using File → Upload to the Workshop from inside of RPG Maker MZ

When uploading, use the following Tags
Category：Resources,
Resource Type：Animations,
Flavor：Optional
Description: Please include a description of the participating categories, an introduction to your work, and a list of credits for the materials you used.

[h3]Rules[/h3]

• To submit your animation to the contest, add it to the workshop as a MZ Project using the template included at the bottom of this post. (this submission should be an unencrypted project, not a deployed file).
  
• Place your animation in the 1st slot in the Animations tab of the database.
  
• You may add any materials to the project you need to showcase your animation. The judging will be done based on the preview in the MZ engine.
  
• You may only use user-created resources that are available for modification and commercial use. Proper copyrights and/or credits must be included in the entry.
  
• You can use your own resources, but you must include copyrights and/or credits.
  
• You may not create a character that infringes on third party copyright or trademarks.
  
• You reserve the right to delete your entry even if it has already been posted and voted on.
  
• You may edit your work and/or the description after posting (we may contact you for confirmation if the character has changed significantly since the original posting).
  
• Submissions including adult materials such as extreme violence and/or nudity will not be accepted.
  
• Only one Particle Animation entry and one Frame Animation entry per user.
  

[h3]Prizes[/h3]
After the submission deadline, our judges will determine the best of the best in each category. There will be separate 1st through 3rd place prizes for each.

• 1st Place: $50 Steam Wallet Code
  
• 2nd Place: $25 Steam Wallet Code
  
• 3rd Place: $10 Steam Wallet Code
  

[h3]Bonus Particle Animation Assets from Effekseer![/h3]

As a special bonus, the Effekseer team has sent a special pack of Particle Animation assets, free for everyone! You are free to use them in your entry, or in your latest projects!

BONUS EFFEKSEER PARTICLE ANIMATION ASSETS

[h3]Contest Dates[/h3]
The contest will run from December 9th until January 3rd 11:59PM Pacific! Get your entries in before then!

[h3]Entry Template[/h3]
The entry template is a RPG Maker MZ project stripped down to the bare minimum for smaller file size. You must use this as a basis for your submission. You can add any materials needed to highlight your animation (including enemy graphics and backgrounds for the animation preview).

ENTRY TEMPLATE

So enjoy the Publisher Sale! Get RPG Maker engines, packs, or maybe even check out some of our other games for inspiration. And get to work on those Animations. We look forward to seeing them!

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!