RPG Maker MZ News

It's hot out there, the perfect time to head to the ocean... or maybe under it. This week we have two releases that will take you on an adventure under the sea!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2068590/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Deep_Ocean_Tileset/

Have your heroes visit an underwater wonderland with the KR Deep Ocean Tileset! Kokoro Reflections must be able to hold their breath for ages to gather up the inspiration of this pack, since all of the plants and coral tiles come from the bottom of the ocean! Create a mermaid’s garden for your heroes to enjoy on their travels or dive even deeper to visit an old sunken battleship that may hide untold treasures.

Create ocean floors covered in short underwater grasses and sharp barnacles that lead to a forgotten pirate ship, with the unlucky crew’s bones scattered alongside gold coins and crates of stolen goods. Or send your heroes through a kelp forest, where lush aquatic plants form a maze between large shells and healthy coral growths. If you want to give your players more reasons to explore this underwater world, have them investigate sunken planes that possibly crashed during a brutal war, or show that people used to live in the area by placing carved stone arches and pillars where paths may have been.

Each decorative tile includes a deep water version to help you show just how little light is reaching the area. Let your heroes realize they may need to turn back for more oxygen before entering an underwater dungeon by replacing the bright green kelp with the blue-tinted deep water version, or have those bluer versions appear when night falls and the sun no longer shines down through the sea. If you’ve been wanting to have your heroes visit the ocean floor, dive in with the KR Deep Ocean Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2061900/RPG_Maker_MZ__Into_the_Depths_Music_Pack/

Exploring new worlds that we could never visit in person is one of the perks of gaming. And Murray Atkinson’s newest musical pack takes us somewhere, where we all probably have never been: deep, deep under the sea.

Into the deep is a collection of beautiful tracks that lets you feel as if you were under the water. Tune in, close your eyes and follow the music: visit the Reed Village, and enjoy the light hearted tunes and atmosphere or go on an adventure in the Secret Submarine, where the soft beeping of the machine itself, the mysterious sounds of your sonar and lamps and the bubbles in the water create their own unique and alien melody.

You can enjoy calm moments or get winded up in a sudden thrill - like a Shark Attack or the Triton Escape. Will you make it or will you find your resting place far under the waves?

If those are a little too exciting for you, how about going on another adventure by exploring the Underwater Caves? This track catches both the calmness of the water and some light sounds that resemble bubbles or light rays that could make their way through holes in the ceiling.

Those and more are among the fourteen amazing tracks this pack has to offer, listen in and let them take you and your heroes to the bottom of the ocean!

It's that time of year everyone! The Steam Summer Sale! While you are looking for more games to play, be sure to head over and upgrade to RPG Maker MZ (if you haven't already!) or pick up some more DLC to flesh out your RPG Maker projects! And speaking of DLC, we have 3 brand new ones for you:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2061890/RPG_Maker_MZ__Winlu_Fantasy_Tileset__Exterior/

Have your magical adventure start right with the Winlu Fantasy Tileset - Exterior pack! Winlu’s latest pixel art pack focuses on medieval-inspired buildings and foliage to help you make an incredible world. Create rural towns, flower-filled forests, stone cathedrals, and even a demonic castle with this tileset!

Build multiple towns with different building styles and groundcover thanks to well-stocked A1, A2, A3, A4, and A5 tilesets, along with diagonal roofs to help you make more interestingly shaped houses. Give areas custom looks with a wide selection of windows, and show which parts of town are ignored and overgrown thanks to winding leaf-covered vines that crawl up walls and dangle off roofs. Show how busy the business section of a city is with equipment like anvils, tanning racks, crates, and two-wheeled carts filled with goods. Or create a calm farm where piles of hay are stored next to the house and a scarecrow stands between crops while bright flowers spring to life outside the fields.

The trees in this pack are designed to be modular, meaning you can mix and match to make custom forests in your game where similar tree trunks have different amounts of leaves instead of repeating the same tree over and over. This pack also includes animated decorations such as rotating water wheels, glowing lanterns, and banners that flutter in the wind to help bring your maps to life. Let a flame flicker in the town’s forge, and give each building a fitting door or gate with more than 10 to choose from! Unlock closed gates by pulling a wooden lever, or let your heroes rummage through treasure chests and boxes that they can open. Craft a beautiful pixel world with Winlu Fantasy Tileset - Exterior!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2062740/RPG_Maker_MZ__NPC_Male_Villagers_Vol1/

Are you worried that your male NPCs are a bit too quiet? Do you want to add some extra liveliness while your players wander town maps? Then it’s time to give NPC Male Villagers Vol1 a listen! 12 different types of male voices offer you a wide selection of short Japanese shouts, from cheerful young boys to energetic teens and even serious elders, perfect for giving your male villagers a voice no matter their age!

Each voice set comes with 10 different sound effects to let you choose the right one for the scene. Have your adult villagers say hello while your players walk by while boys run laughing and shouting happily as they play. Let your shopkeeper give an angry shout if your players try to swipe something from the store, and have a young man let out a worried sigh when asked about if they have any side quests to offer. Pepper an old man’s monologue with “oho”s and “eh”s, and have him huff if your players try to cut his hour-long story short. Or jolt your players into realizing this town isn’t as happy as it seems when a child’s piercing scream and mens’ horrified cries cut through the previously silent night. Every SE comes in multiple formats, so that you can easily add them to your favorite engine! Give your men some audio love with NPC Male Villagers Vol1!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2061880/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Mad_Science_Lab_Tileset/

Grab your lab coats and safety goggles, it’s time for science! Kokoro Reflections’ Mad Science Lab Tileset is here to help you build grungy dungeons where a killer zombie virus was created and an overconfident scientist brings a monster to life. Or give your heroes an underground bunker to recover in, where a ragtag team of scientists work on powerful machines to help the heroes defeat the robot overlords.

Give your lab’s different areas unique looks by wielding 12 brown-tinged walls and wooden and concrete floors together with a selection of dirty details like rusty edges or rubble to make rooms at different stages of disrepair. Once your rooms are squared away, add in counters where you can store all of your scientists’ tools! Medical journals, note-covered papers, beakers and flasks filled with unknown liquids, microscopes, and even a brain in a jar can help your players judge exactly what type of person runs the lab. Beyond those modern tools, there is also a wide selection of machinery and sci-fi technology glows with an alien green tint, just what you need to explain where all the vicious chimera or robot enemies are coming from.

This pack also includes some animated levers and valves to help you add some puzzles to your lab dungeons. Have your heroes twist valves to get past leaking pipes and pull levers to open locked doors instead of just creating a huge maze to get through to reach the final lab! So if you’ve been looking for some tiles to give your mad scientist boss the perfect lair or want to create an alien hideout hidden away in a modern apartment building, pick up KR Mad Science Lab Tileset!

[h3]Resource Pack Update: Super Retro World - Exterior Pack[/h3]
The Super Retro World - Exterior Pack has been updated! Included in this update is the following:

• New autotiles A1 to A5 : animated water, waterfalls, roads, houses and dungeon walls
  
• Reorganised tilesets : more cliffs, grass textures, rocks, pillars, tents, trees (with snow and desert variation)
  
• New animated characters : cart, doors, chests, crystals, torches, switches, farming plants
  
• Fixed elements : indoor tiles, prebuilt houses, non animated water tiles
  

The version in your DLC folder will be automatically updated, be sure to replace the files in individual projects to upgrade to the new version.

This week we have 3 new packs ready for you to bring your game to life. Let's take a look at all of them!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2053880/RPG_Maker_MZ__Character_Variety_Pack/

Do you want to spice up the roster of your game with some unique and cool female characters? Those twelve beauties are ready to play any role in your story, from heroine to NPC to enemy, they can be whatever you want. Is the fire sorceress with the eyepatch a strong and seasoned adventurer and part of your party or a bounty hunter that challenges you? And is the purple skinned demon girl with the feisty look in her yellow eyes an ally or an enemy?

As all these come with not only a sprite, but also an SV and enemy battler graphic, busts, and faces with a full range of emotions, there is nothing you can’t do with them! Plus with the large extra artwork for each of them, you can even put together a title screen or custom menu! And the mixture of various different characters is what makes this pack so versatile and fun! On top of the ones we've already mentioned, you also get an Alice in Wonderland like girl with a matching blue and white dress and innocent face, a mysterious kyubi lady wielding a fan, amd a princess who decided to serve her country as a knight in fashionable yet sturdy armor and ready to protect her loved ones, and more.

Another added bonus is that two sets of the heroines - the kimono lady and the yurei, plus the princess knight and the SFX heroine, share the same base and hairstyle, giving you the chance of implementing them as one character in different outfits!

So find the heroine of your next game with the Character Variety Pack

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2053870/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_High_School_Tileset/

If you’ve been searching for tiles to help you build the perfect classrooms for your high school-based game, your search is over thanks to KR - High School Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is here with a modern tileset perfect for creating unique school locations. Let your players show off their athletic abilities on sporty maps, confess their love in the music room, or search for a cure to the zombie virus in the science lab!

Choose from tile, brick, and linoleum flooring to find the best option for each classroom depending on how much is spilled each day, or send your players outside during recess to play on grass and concrete covered in jungle gyms, swing sets, and slides. Let your PE class do more than just run laps thanks to tiles for diving boards, basketball hoops, and white lines to outline a football field. Have your players spend their time after school with the science club in the lab classroom with test tubes set up on each table. Or let the drama club perform on the school’s stage, with spotlights shining on the stars and speakers playing music in the background. Even the school hallways get some love in this pack, with lockers and two-tile high windows ready to fill the walls alongside the mandatory fire alarms and exit signs.

Make sure your players can get to school on the large school bus sprite, with two versions (one with ‘school bus’ on it and one without) to choose from. And don’t forget to show your teachers some love with a teacher’s lounge stocked with coffee makers and desks covered in computers and notes. If you’re making a game based in a school, make sure to add more details to each classroom with KR - High School Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2053860/RPG_Maker_MZ__NPC_Female_Villagers_Vol1/

Adding voices to your game can add a lot of depth to the emotions expressed, but hiring a full cast for every character can quickly add up by a lot. But if you still want that little extra, the NPC female villagers pack is just for you! This pack gives you a variety of expressive voiced sounds designed to give a little voice to each of your characters. Have the scared villager actually scream when the orcs attack or have the little girl make a sound of joy when she greets you. Sprinkling over your dialogue to express various emotions and situations can give your female NPCs so much more character!

Each of the twelve unique characters comes with the same set of ten expressive sounds. From greeting to laughing to joy to surprise to fear, a full range of emotions is here! And the characters themselves also cover a broad roster of personalities and ages, from an eccentric old lady type to a mischievous girl!

Give your NPCs the voice they deserve with the NPC Female Villagers Vol.1 pack!

Classical Favorites Update

Additionally, we have updated the Classical Favorites Pack. If you own this pack on Steam, the version in your DLC folder will be automatically updated. Remember to update the files in your projects where you are using them!

OGG file for the songs below are fixed/updated to work properly on MV and MZ（Ver.1.5.0）
・Swan Lake Opus 20 - Dance of the Little Swans Edit
・Swan Lake Opus 20 - Dance of the Little Swans
・Waltz of the Flowers - Nutcracker Suite 8 Edit

This week, we have a lineup of three new packs. Get new tiles, new animations, and new music!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2025150/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Legendary_Palaces__Chimera_Tileset/

Does your steampunk kingdom have a ruler who can’t decide whether a lion, a snake, or a goat would be the best national animal? Give them the option to choose all three in a single creature with the KR Legendary Palaces - Chimera Tileset pack! Kokoro Reflections took the Greek chimera and built some interesting tiles based on it so that you can create a fantastical steampunk castle for your heroes to explore. Traverse copper halls, avoid deadly spike pits, and explore rooms with huge gears poking out of the walls all while statues of chimeras guard the halls!

Metal flooring and walls show their use with rust and dirt, making it easier for you to create a busy place without pristine halls, perfect for a dwarven castle or an academy where experiments often run wild. Bright green crystals decorate columns and statues of the mythical chimera, ready to light the way when your heroes are lost or to lead them to a trap. Wander under arches topped with gears and leaping chimeras, or pause in front of a large clock window to make sure that you’re not late to a meeting with the queen. What if you wanted to create an ancient castle? Then make use of the grimy moss and cracked autotiles to weather the floors and add to the palace’s apparent age. Hopefully your heroes notice when they wander into a room that was recently cleaned, because whoever or whatever is living there may not be happy to meet them…

Light your castle rooms with two different green-tinted flames, and let your heroes swipe royal goods from treasure chests shaped like decorative pots. If you have been wanting to make a palace with a steampunk theme, need a rusty dungeon, or just feel like showing some more love to the monstrous chimera in your game, make sure to check out KR Legendary Palaces - Chimera Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2025140/RPG_Maker_MZ__Blood_Animations_Pack/

Blood, the juice of life. Inside our body it is vital and keeps us going, and what it can do outside of it is what you can see in this pack! The blood animation pack comes with 20 unique blood effects to be used in battle or on the map. Whether you have a caster with more sinister spells in your party, want to give your demonic enemies the properly matching graphics for their attacks or just want overlay gory scenes with a little extra splatter, there are many reasons to pick this pack up!

With animations such as a bloody slash with tornados or explosions made out of blood, this pack will not only give you the needed graphics for spells you already had, but also inspire a whole new set of techniques! The blood heal animation might accompany a powerful healing spell that comes with some darker side effects, or the blood spear could be a powerful attack that draws some health from the caster. And we all know that the blood rain animation will accompany something that will not go well for the other side of the battle.

Thirsty for more blood? Then be sure to check this pack out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2025160/RPG_Maker_MZ__Suspense_Music_Library_Vol1/

Does your game need some electronic music to add the right mysterious tones to a scene? Has your cyberpunk hero been blamed for a crime that they didn’t commit and now needs to prove their innocence, and you need some fitting background tracks? Then it’s time to check out Suspense Music Library Vol.1! TK. Projects’ latest music pack brings you 20 BGMs perfect for setting the scene and keeping your players’ attention on the story.

Have one of the pack’s intriguing tracks play while your players explore a crime scene at a bar, with New Evidence or Plan2’s electronic rhythm playing in the background to help them keep their mind focused on finding hidden secrets. Or let Crafty, with its quick beats and electronic strings, fill the room while your players rush to put together the clues to solve a puzzle and get one step closer to finding out who is causing all the trouble. For those quieter moments grab a song like Tragedy, where bells and strings take control and offer up a tune fit for realizing just who set your hero up or for exploring a normally cheerful location at night when everything is dark and silent. And if your players make a mistake and blame the wrong person for the crime? Let Disastrous Scene play its slow piano and ticking clock while your players see just where they went wrong.

Don’t overlook this pack even if your game is focused on battles! Since many of the tracks have a rapid-fire beat and toe-tapping rhythm there are plenty of choices when it comes to battle tunes! Find the right tracks for your modern mystery or your sci-fi adventure with Suspense Music Library Vol.1!

It's June! Summer is here (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere). And that means... staying inside in the AC working on your game. Man, it is hot out there. And we have new releases to carry you through! This week we have a new all in one retro style graphics pack and a plugin for enhancing your game with particle effects.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1967141/RPG_Maker_MZ__8bit_Retro_Graphic_Materials_AllinOne_Pack/

There are many retro packs out there, but their biggest flaw is that most of them cover just a small portion of the graphics you need for a game, such as the battlers or maybe the tiles. The 8bit Retro Graphic Materials All-in-One Pack stands out, as it is REALLY an all in one pack!

It doesn't just include all the tiles to make an extensive fantasy game from the deepest dungeon to the highest tower and even a matching world map, no! There is an extensive collection of heroes and NPCs - human, animal and monster! And not only do all of them come with a matching face graphic, but all the heroes have SV battlers and there are even unique battle weapons to go with this new style!

And if you'd rather use a front view system, each actor also comes with a unique battler for that style as well, as well as basically everything you could want to battle in such a setting, such as sandworms, trolls and skeletons, just to name a few. And if you now think, wow, that is a really well rounded set, there is even more: with 93 different animation sheets you can create the matching animation for basically every spell or attack you might need, plus it includes everything you need for your UI: buttons, icons, balloons and the windowskin have all been taken care of. There are even battlebacks and a wide selection of premade title screens and overlays you can combine with them!

If you ever wanted to make a game that just looks and feels like the JRPGs you played on your handheld many many years ago, you don’t have to look any further: all you need is this and you are set!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2003832/RPG_Maker_MZ__Particle_System_Plugin__TRP_Particle_MZ/

Does your fire dungeon need some flickers of sparks floating in the air and smoke rising from pillars of flames? Do your rivers and ponds need ripples as raindrops hit them while your heroes run to get out of the storm? Do your heroes need to kick up some cartoony clouds of dirt while they run? Then it’s time to check out Particle System Plugin - TRP Particle MZ! Thirop Games. is here with a set of plugins to help your particle dreams come true!

With a wide selection of preset particles to choose from, you can easily add some impressive effects to your maps. Have your campfires send smoke into the sky while fireflies lazily float around the edges of your camp, or turn up the heat in a volcano with angry red magma highlights and raging fires spewing out of cracks in the ground. When your heroes explore the icy tundra make sure that there are snowflakes falling on them, or make the empty plains dangerous to cross because of a cascade of lightning bolts raining from the clouds! You can even send your heroes to the bottom of the sea (in a protective air bubble of course) where the entire map ripples and shadows of fish swim overhead.

Beyond the presets, this pack also includes an edit function to help you tweak your particles to perfectly fit your map. No need to adjust a number in an event and then playtest to see it in action, this edit function lets you do it all while the game is running so you can see all the changes as you make them! This barely scratches the surface of this particle system, so if you’ve ever wanted to add some extra sparkles to your game check out Particle System Plugin - TRP Particle MZ today!