RPG Maker MZ News

New releases today: A new tilesets from a new artist, and a music pack from a returning fan favorites.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2623900/RPG_Maker_MZ__Shabby_Cottage/

Create a comfy home for your hero to grow up in and a happy little village with the Shabby Cottage Tiles pack! Aqua’s latest tileset pack may call itself ‘shabby’, but the quality is anything but! Create cozy homes that belong to grandmas with doily-style rugs and flower-pattern couches, childhood bedrooms with patchwork quilts and soft sunlight streaming through lattice windows, and even relaxed villages with cobblestone paths and vines crawling up wooden walls and patio railings with this pack!

A2, A4, A5, and 3 B sheets for interiors include wooden floors and wallpapered walls to help build a comfortable place to rest. Stoves and baskets for kitchens, tubs and towel holders for bathrooms, dressers and privacy screens for bedrooms, and chaise lounges and old-school radios for living rooms are just a few of the detailed tiles you can use to make each house a unique home! Premade sets such as a couch in front of a window and a vanity with curling vines make it even easier to create a gorgeous room without having to delve into parallaxing. A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, and 3 B sheets for exteriors let you take that comfy feeling from the home into the world! Wander down simple paths to the town cafe, where wicker furniture sits for you to drink some tea and enjoy the views of colorful pink and purple leaves from the magical trees.

This pack also includes door character sprites so you can make sure players can enter all those houses you’ve lovingly created! Wooden doors with rounded tops are a perfect addition to the adorable houses you’ll make with this pack. And if that wasn’t enough, this pack also includes the beta version of this pack, meaning you have another 13 sheets to mix and match with to give houses premade garden beds and other cute additions. So if you’ve been wanting a sweet home for your hero to return to or your cozy game needs some matching cozy maps, check out the Shabby Cottage Tiles pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2623890/RPG_Maker_MZ__Doomsday_Mad_Science_Music_Mini_Pack/

Set the stage for some spooky experiments with the Doomsday Mad Science Music Mini Pack! Joel Steudler is back with another music pack, this time focused on one thing: tracks that can turn a boring lab of white walls and metal tables into a creepy and dangerous place where neither scientists nor experiments are safe! 5 BGMs are ready to give your players a sense of unease, ranging from atmospheric electronic ringing to curious synth melodies to accompany your heroes when they enter a new town known for its less-than-legal labs. Explore abandoned buildings while echoey synth and lonely strings play, or use it to demonstrate just how empty a basement is… At least until your heroes find the hidden trapdoor that leads them into an all-new dungeon. Reveal who was behind the terrible experiments while a deep and dark tune plays in the background, with stings that send goosebumps racing down your heroes’ arms, or introduce the villain with quirky but concerning synths to put your heroes at ease before he strikes.

This pack also includes 1 SFX you can use as an ME to take a lab to another level of horrific. Slowly increase the SFX’s volume as your heroes approach a lab setup and let your players realize the bubbles and whimpers are coming from the creatures floating in glass containers, before they burst forth to attack! M4a and Ogg audio formats mean you can easily add these tracks to your current MV or MZ game, or use them in your favorite engine. Give your laboratories and science buildings some creepy tunes with the Doomsday Mad Science Music Mini Pack!

This week, two collections of icon sets, enemy assets, and music assets essential for RPGs were released!

"MARUMUGI Monster Pack" is a collection of materials focusing on familiar monsters from orthodox fantasy. It contains 83 different types, including humanoid, animal, insect, reptile, spirit, demon, and machine types, and is available in front and side view.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2634570/RPG_Maker_MZ__MARUMUGI_Monster_Pack/


"Pixel Fantasy Skill Icon Set" is a set of skill icons made with dots that are perfect for fantasy-themed games!　It contains 100 icons with five attributes - lightning, fire, water, poison, and earth - that are perfect for representing skills and abilities.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2634590/RPG_Maker_MZ__Pixel_Fantasy_Skill_Icon_Set/


"Versatile JRPG Music Pack" contains JRPG-inspired background music and sound effects for game developers who create JRPG-style productions. Color your game with 20 BGM and 10 SE tracks that can be used from the village at the beginning of the story to the final boss battle!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2634580/RPG_Maker_MZ__Versatile_JRPG_Music_Pack/


"Magnafiend Games - Sound of Dread" is a collection of 10 horror-themed background music tracks. They cover a range of tones and moods, from ghostly piano melodies to abstract environmental sounds.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2634600/RPG_Maker_MZ__Magnafiend_Games__Sound_of_Dread/

Ayato sound create and Seraph Circle are back to bring you two new packs for your game!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2623880/RPG_Maker_MZ__PSYCHO_DIVER_2/

Fill your digital cities and cyberpunk worlds with the smooth synth of PSYCHO DIVER 2! Ayato sound create is back with another awesome music pack, with 22 BGMs overflowing with synth and electronic instruments to set the scene in your sci-fi game. Explore city streets to the upbeat chirps and boops of ‘Food Stand’ or warn your players of possible dangers hiding in the shadows with the gruff tunes of ‘Underground Shopping Area’. Get your players’ heads bobbing with ‘Battle’s quirky beats and keep them focusing on their goal when racing through a dungeon to stop the final boss with the swift tunes and dark undertones of ‘Serenade of Despair’.

Or let your hero take a short break from their busy life by looking out at the city from atop a skyscraper while ‘The Key’s soft chimes and drums play. When it’s time to remember a memory that was long thought forgotten, have the airy piano of ‘Light’ add to the haziness of the whole scene or push for a longing of a childhood home with the soft crackle of flames and musical sounds of a kitchen paired with piano that can be found in ‘Place to Warm’.

Each track comes in multiple file formats making it easy to add into your current project in any engine. Dance along to the electronic hum and search for clues while beats thrum in your ears thanks to PSYCHO DIVER 2!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2623870/RPG_Maker_MZ__Seraph_Circle_Pixel_Portraits_1/

Turn your nameless NPCs into memorable characters with Seraph Circle Pixel Portraits 1! Jo Seraph is back with another beautiful art pack, this time focusing on facesets and pictures to make every conversation lovely to look at. 16 unique faces are ready to turn your innkeeper into a kind, wrinkled, grandmother or hopeful young man, your blacksmith into a burly man with thick sideburns or a smiling doe-eyed woman, and more with this pack!

Choose one of three styles for the portraits to fit your game’s aesthetic: pixel art, upscaled, or upscaled with a paper effect! And with 10 different versions of each face with different skin and hair colors you can be sure that each NPC in a town is memorable. Have a green-skinned old man with flowing hair and equally flowing beard run the item shop in one town while a brown-skinned old man offers to teach your heroes magic in another village. Or give a nod to older games by having every innkeeper be a gray-skinned and green-haired mustachioed man who will happily tell you about all his identical siblings.

Each faceset and picture also comes in multiple sizes to fit your favorite engine! And as a bonus this pack includes some pixel art pieces that you can use to make unique UIs or add some emotions to your pictures. Show that an NPC is not impressed with a choice your heroes made with a popping red vein or a blue sweat drop on their face, or have a bright pink heart float above their head when they absolutely love the gift they received. Give your characters some gorgeous new faces with Seraph Circle Pixel Portraits 1!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2623850/RPG_Maker_MZ__EVFX_Shoot/

Give your bow-wielding rangers and gun-toting marksmen awesome animations to match their powerful skills with EVFX Shoot! Dreams Circle is back with a new addition to their Evolved Effects series, with 20 Effekseer animations focusing on projectiles! Give your archer some state-causing skills by shooting a heart that bursts into a shower of pink or aiming a noxious arrow coated in green and purple ooze and let your sniper aim carefully before sending a bullet straight into the enemy’s heart with this pack!

With 10 animations aimed at bows and 10 aimed at guns, your shooters are ready to take down any and all enemies. Defeat a lone monster with a spinning arrow to its body or three arrows shot in rapid succession, and take out a pack of beasts with multiple arrows shot at once or release hundreds of arrows into the air to rain down on all foes. Destroy robots in your sci-fi world with rapid-fire bullets and shotgun blasts that spread to cover the entire enemy, and give your gunners some heavy firepower by tossing a grenade and shooting it midair or throwing a hight-ech reflector to bounce the gunfire around to hit all sides of your foe.

Each animation comes with a complementary SE, giving you 20 thwips, thumps, and bangs to take your battles to the next level and add some extra details to your maps and cutscenes. This pack includes a demo project of all 20 animations, making it even easier to add them to your MZ project! Grab EVFX Shoot and let your long-range fighters have cool skills of their own!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2623780/RPG_Maker_MZ__EVFX_Slash/

Get ready to slice and dice your foes with EVFX Slash! Dreams Circle continues their Evolved Effects series with a new set of 20 Effekseer animations for attacks that involve blades. Have your swordswoman make your enemies bleed with a deep cut that leads to a splatter of red, your berserkers rip into foes with both clawed hands at once, your magic knight slam their sword into the ground to summon blades that slice through the ground towards the enemies, and more with this pack!

15 single-blade and 5 claw animations offer up an incredible variety for your skills so each can have its own unique style. Give your swordsman’s slash skill a speedy slice across the enemy’s torso while their chop skill causes an overhead swing of their sword that slams into the ground with violent force. Strike an enemy repeatedly with slashes that randomly cut them up and add in a magical element to it by carving a star into the target. Or surprise your foes with a long-range attack that launches a curved blade of energy at them and damage all of them at once by ripping at the ground below them with your claws and releasing an upwards blast of magic!

Also included are 20 SEs to match with each animation and a MZ demo project so you can see each animation in action and copy it right into your game so you can tweak it to perfectly fit your skills. If you’ve got heroes who use swords, claws, or anything with a blade attached, pick up EVFX Slash to give their awesome skills equally wicked animations!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2623820/RPG_Maker_MZ__EVFX_Strike/

Don’t leave your unarmed fighters out of the fun! Smash craters into the ground and snap bones with violent force with EVFX Strike! Dreams Circles next addition to their Evolved Effects series focuses on animations for punches and staff strikes with 20 shows of power. Turn punches from weak bops into earth-shattering booms and concuss enemies with dazzling slams with this pack’s bright bursts of animation!

5 staff attacks and 15 general strikes are ready to help you give your heroes interesting moves during battle. Help your mage out during combat with a flurry of jabs from their staff to keep an enemy away from them when their MP is low, and have your knight forgo their sword for an explosive slam of their fist into the ground to hit all nearby enemies. Or keep your foes on their toes when facing your party’s boxer, with his normal quick strikes hiding the fact that his ultimate move can cause them to explode from within after getting hit!

Each animation comes with its own unique sound effect, offering you 20 SEs new options for skills and cutscenes! And if that wasn’t enough, this pack also includes a MZ demo project with every animation ready to go. Pick up EVFX Strike and give your enemies the one-two punch with stunningly rendered animations!

[h2]Pack Updates: Database Cleanup Tool, Heroine Character Generator (1-8) for MZ[/h2]

These packs have been updated on Komodo Plaza and on Steam. Update them in your projects either through the DLC folder (on Steam) or by redownloading from your email (on Komodo Plaza).

[h3]Database Cleanup Tool​[/h3]

• Added "display of sentences", "display of choices", and "scrolling sentences" as conversion targets in the "control characters" list.
  ⇒When you add your own control characters to the "Control Characters" list, they will be converted in the above events as well.
  
• Added "Undo" limit setting.
  =>The limit is 10.
  ⇒The tool becomes unstable and crashes when the editing operation is continued, To solve the problem that the tool becomes unstable and crashes when editing is continued, a limit has been set on the number of Undo cycles.
  
• Fixed a problem that a missing map file (MapXXX.json) is not created when data is saved outside of the "Map" tab.
  ⇒When data is saved under the "Map" tab, a map file (MapXXX.json) with missing map IDs is created.
  
• Added "Help" tab and "Version".
  

[h3]Heroine Character Generator (1-8) for MZ​[/h3]

• Fixed the problem with "FG_RearHair_" files in "face" folder for each pack
  

This week, a tool to help set up the database and two tile sets from the "NEONPIXEL" series are released!


"NEONPIXEL - Mega Classic set"" is a collection of tile sets that includes a pack with a nautical 1800s motif and a pack that can express a steampunk world. You can produce classic harbor scenes and towns that look like they could be enveloped in steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2565800/RPG_Maker_MZ__NEONPIXEL__Mega_Classic_set/


"NEONPIXEL - Mega Spooky set " is the perfect tile set for creating stages with an eerie atmosphere. The pack is dedicated to the horror genre, including a dark forest inhabited by witches, an isolated island where monsters lurk, and even a sci-fi horror laboratory infested with aliens.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2565810/RPG_Maker_MZ__NEONPIXEL__Mega_Spooky_set/


"Database Cleanup Tool" is a convenient tool for organizing databases with functions for deleting, adding, and replacing data IDs such as variables, switches, and items. Variables and switches set in events are automatically changed, making it easy to change IDs of variables and other items, which has been difficult with conventional editors.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2565790/RPG_Maker_MZ__Database_Cleanup_Tool/