RPG Maker MZ News

This week's releases include a collection of walking graphics and background music for fantasy works, along with a collection of game-essential weapon and UI icons and a collection of smaller-sized enemies!


"【Rdot】monsters vol.4" is a collection of pop-touch enemy materials in 48x48 dot size, which can be used not only as enemies but also for item designs and other purposes.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3386560/RPG_Maker_MZ__Rdot_monsters_vol4/


"REFMAP Fantasy Character Pack 2" is a set of walking character materials and SV butler materials, and Vol. 2 contains the same universally usable characters from Vol. 1, so you can use them together with Vol. 1 and standard assets.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3386580/RPG_Maker_MZ__REFMAP_Fantasy_Character_Pack_2/


"UI Icon Set" is a set of 128 icons for status effects, buffs and debuffs, weapon and armor types, and more. It can be used for menu icons as well as drop items.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3386600/RPG_Maker_MZ__UI_Icon_Set/


"Weapons Icon Set" is a collection of 100 weapon icons, including daggers, axes, spears, and more. It can be used for menu icons as well as drop items.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3386610/RPG_Maker_MZ__Weapons_Icon_Set/


"Fantasy music pack EVERLASTING" is a collection of songs unified with the world of a royal RPG. It contains 16 songs that color various events such as the main theme, battle, tutorial, and config screen.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3386630/RPG_Maker_MZ__Fantasy_music_pack_EVERLASTING/
https://youtu.be/b_Hv4tMZiVg

The Summerwind Saga expands! New Characters, New Magama and Frozen Caves Tiles!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3364310/RPG_Maker_MZ__Summerwind_Saga__Characters/

Fill your farming game with active NPCs thanks to the Summerwind Saga - Characters pack! Elv Games is here with another addition to their Summerwind Saga series, this time offering up a ton of character sprites with matching behaviors so you can give everyone in your game world’s activities. Have armored knights protect townsfolk by cutting through bandits with swords, farmers prepare their fields by hoeing the ground, injured villagers flat on the ground after a surprise attack, and more with this pack!

126 character sheets are ready to fill your towns and cities with unique characters so that your players can easily find the specific NPC who gave them their latest side quest. Have a straw hat-wearing farmer reward your players whenever they bring him new seeds to plant, while the fighter with a brilliant red mohawk waits for them to turn in the loot from specific monsters. Want more NPCs in town to show that more than three people live there, but don’t want them to just stand around and repeat the same line when spoken to? Then use one of the 5 behavior animations to give those NPCs something to do! Have long-haired villagers swing their hoes down into the dirt and then water planted seeds with a metal watering can, or fill a fort with some of this pack’s 96 armored knights who practice their sword strikes against each other and chop down lumber with axes and break stones with pickaxes to help fix any walls damaged by monster attacks.

Each character sheet comes in two sizes so you can easily drop them into your MV/MZ or Ace game, or use them in your favorite engine. If your farming villages have been needing NPCs out in the fields caring for crops or you want to let your players choose their hero and hack-and-slash their way to success, check out the Summerwind Saga - Characters pack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3364370/RPG_Maker_MZ__Summerwind_Saga__Magma__Frozen_Caves/

Send your heroes deep into hot and cold dungeons with the Summerwind Saga - Magma & Frozen Caves pack! Elv Games is back with another tileset to expand their Summerwind Saga series, with all the tiles you could need to make icy caverns and lava-filled volcanic interiors. Create cool caves where snowy floors slowly give way to ice and blue-tinged walls where spikes of jagged ice burst up from the floor, or have brown stone slowly ooze magma the deeper your heroes go in the dungeon!

A2, 5 A5, and 13 B sheets can help you build mazes of caves for your heroes to explore. Send them to the frozen North where icy caves are filled with angled walls and slippery floor puzzles, and reward them with powerful crystals that can strengthen your party and treasure chests full of goodies at the end maze. When they want to warm up after cold encounters, let them visit a cavern deep in the mountains where brightly colored crystals can be used to unlock new paths over dark holes and shattered pots surrounding raised platforms can lead to boxes and chests with useful items stored inside. And if your heroes are too greedy and release a lava monster when they take the crystals used to stop it, then switch from the brown stone tileset to red stone that radiates heat! Each tileset comes in two sizes so you can use them in MV/MZ or Ace without having to do any resizing yourself, or use them in your favorite engine. So if you’ve been needing more variation in your cave dungeons, or just want to add some cool mines for your players to explore, check out the Summerwind Saga - Magma & Frozen Caves!

The RPG Maker Festival has returned for 2025!

▼What is RPG Maker Festival?
February 25th is “Maker Day”, the day we celebrated all things RPG Maker.
And we celebrate by holding the RPG Maker Festival!

RPG Maker Festival celebrates all games made with all versions of RPG Maker and Pixel Game Maker! We want to showcase and introduce more people to the wonderful games that have been made with RPG Maker, and connect as many creators and players together as possible. The more connected we are, the more fun there is to be had!

There’s many anniversaries this year, so the theme for RPG Maker Festival 2025 is “A Tapestry of Old and New Titles”!


▼RPG Maker Festival 2025: Participants Wanted!
We’re currently looking for developers and publishers who’d like to participant in RPG Maker Festival 2025!

If you have a game made with RPG Maker or Pixel Game Maker, we hope you’ll decide to submit your game! If it’s on Steam, this is a chance to spread awareness of your game to a whole new group of players. So please do consider participating!

【Submission Method】
To submit a game for participation in RPG Maker Festival 2025, just fill out the form linked here:
https://forms.gle/j13eBfcwu7WstGv38

【Deadline】
・Pacific Time: 2024-12-22 (Sunday) 06:59
※Those wishing to use the Steam Broadcast function are very welcome, but slots are limited and not submissions will be selected.

Add new NPCs for your heroes to interact with with the Galefire Characters - NPC Pack! Head out for your very own beach episode with the KR Summer Beach Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3364270/RPG_Maker_MZ__Galefire_Characters__NPC_Pack/

Upgrade your cutscenes and visual novels with expressive characters thanks to the Galefire Characters - NPC Pack! Michael Galefire is back with a new set of 28 full body pictures to add more people for your players to interact with in your fantasy worlds. A variety of species and jobs offer up all sorts of possibilities for NPCs for your heroes to meet, from a gruff orc sailor dressed in fur-lined clothes to stave off the chill when sailing the icy Northern trading routes to a short and cheery dwarf brewmaster decked out in her favorite colorful outfit so she can head off to the beach when she closes up shop for the night. Have your heroes chat with a grinning human fishmonger, a skilled dragonborn chef armed with a holster of spices, and an elf musician to learn the latest rumors in the city, or stick to business by meeting with a serious forgemaster for some new equipment and an elf merchant who’s selling mana from tanks she carries around the market square. Take on new side quests by talking with the goblin innkeeper who always has a contract that favors her ready and the fully armored knight who needs help solving a few situations in less-than-legal ways, and move the main storyline along by gaining the favor of bejeweled trade masters and renowned warriors armed with legendary weapons.

Each image is high resolution so that you can make sure your players can see every important detail and so you can resize them to perfectly fit your game’s screen size! Or shrink them down for a sudden battle if you want to give your heroes more options than just talking their way into new places. Pick up the Galefire Characters - NPC Pack and get ready to have your heroes befriend unique shopkeepers, learn new skills from armored warriors, flirt with armed troublemakers, and more!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3364250/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Summer_Beach_Tileset/

Toss your heroes onto a deserted island where they need to survive until they’re rescued or let them relax in a cozy resort after saving the world with the KR Summer Beach Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is here with a MV/MZ-sized tileset focused on sandy shores and tropical palm trees that are perfect for making your players feel like they’re hanging out on a warm beach. A1, A2, A3, A4, and 4 B sheets can fill a beach map with different textured sand and water that gets darker and deeper as it gets farther from land. Shock your players while they’re sailing on the world map with a sudden fade to black and drop them onto an empty beach with scattered wood planks and broken shipwreck tiles to let them know they’ll be stuck there for a while. Have them wander between leaning palm trees, mossy rocks, and hanging vines as they battle their way through a jungle until they stumble across a small village filled with thatch-roofed houses! Let your players decide if they’d rather collect colorful seashells and coral on the beach or work in the village’s small inn to help fund their escape from the island, or spend their saved gold to relax in rooms filled with comfy wooden furniture until the next ship arrives at the docks.

Making a game that takes place in modern times? Then grab the inflatable floaties and life vests to decorate the beaches, and stick ATMs and emergency exit signs around your resort interiors so that your heroes can always stock back up on cash when they head out to visit the rest of the island. This pack also includes multiple sliding paper screen doors so your heroes can have some privacy in their comfy resort rooms and you can keep your players from wandering into new areas too quickly. If you’ve been wanting to add new seaside maps to your games or need some little bungalows scattered between wooden docks, pick up the KR Summer Beach Tileset!

Make more heroes with Another World Hero Generator 3 for MZ! Then head to the high seas with the KR High Seas Ship Tileset Kit!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3308500/RPG_Maker_MZ__Another_World_Hero_Generator_3_for_MZ/

Give your male party members the makeover they deserve with the Another World Hero Generator 3 for MZ pack! Gee-kun-soft is here with another set of 40 MZ-style generator pieces, perfect for giving your heroes a sleek haircut, new snazzy set of clothes, and some expressive eyes! 2 AccA, 3 AccB, 20 Clothing, 5 Eyes, 5 Front Hair, and 5 Rear Hair generator parts offer up a variety of armors and outfits along with accessories to give each of your characters unique looks or have them change as the story progresses.

Start your main character out as a bandit with a mohawk and simple outfit made up of cloth wrapped around their waist and some metal arm guards they scavenged from someone else, but when a robbery goes wrong and he is forced to become a true hero make sure to update his outfit with some real pants and maybe even a shirt! Show that time is passing during his adventures by changing his hair from a mohawk with fully shaved sides to a mohawk with fuzzy stubble around it, and eventually let him fully grow his hair out if he decides that his new role of hero requires a new hairstyle. Have your hero switch his outfits depending on what he’s doing, so that while he’s crafting he is wearing a tanktop and apron, while he’s sneaking into enemy bases he’s draped in dark robes, and while he’s receiving a reward from the queen he’s decked out in a well-made uniform! Or let him keep his comfy traveling outfit with its long coat while the NPCs around him get to wear layered magician’s robes.

And don’t forget how much the right eyes and accessories can take a character to the next level! Give a naive prince a shining circlet and wide, friendly eyes so that players can instantly tell he’ll believe whatever others tell him, and subtly warn your players about a sneaky merchant by giving him downturned eyes that you can match with a default smile to turn it into a sneer. Pick up the Another World Hero Generator 3 for MZ pack and fill your party and game world with powerful warriors and helpful men who are looking their best!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3308620/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_High_Seas_Ship_Tileset_Kit/

It’s time to set sail with the KR High Seas Ship Tileset Kit! Kokoro Reflections is here with an incredible set of tiles that let you make your own wooden sailing ship, so your heroes can have the ship of their dreams while trying to save the world. Use this pack’s ocean A1 tile to give your ship a background to sail on, and the A2 and A4 tiles to build solid decks and waterproof walls that are ready to be decorated with the 3 B sheets. Deck your deck out with curved edges to cut swiftly through the water and short railings to keep any wayward sailors from falling into the water, and set up the wheel near the stern of the boat to let your players control where they’re sailing to next. Towering masts and spider web-like rope riggings can be ducked around while moving between the different deck levels, and wooden crates and barrels can hold food and goods while small lifeboats are stacked behind them just in case of a sudden sinking. Below deck portholes can offer light in the dark maze of hammocks and cannons, while the metal cage and chains of the brig deeper in the hold is lit only by a lone lantern.

When your perfect ship is ready to set sail, make use of the animated sails, flag, and water splashes to show that the ship is indeed moving! With sails that swell in each cardinal direction you can make sure the wind is always blowing in the direction you need, and door sprites can help keep your players out of areas that you don’t want them exploring just yet. If your game focuses on pirates or you just want to make sailing the high seas more than just a world map activity, pick up the KR High Seas Ship Tileset Kit!