In traditional RPG Maker series, making maps usually involves the use of “tiles” such as grass meadows, buildings, map objects, etc., and placing them one by one in the editor manually. This gives the ...

You’ve probably heard of RPG Maker before. It’s a piece of software published by Famitsu magazine publisher, Enterbrain, that lets users design their own role ...

Knowing off the bat that your experience with RPG Maker will frequently have you elbow-deep in the most hostile of interfaces - scripting events, penning text, or what have you - will most adequately ...

While there’s nothing as ubiquitous with roleplaying as the smell of dry erase marker on laminated grid paper, there’s also something jarring about having an immersive experience with friends only to ...

Game-creation kits have been around nearly as long as personal computers. Broderbund’s The Arcade Machine let Apple II owners build simple shoot ‘em ups in 1982, and Garry Kitchen’s GameMaker let ...

So you want to make your own games, eh? Well, RPG Maker MZ is the latest in the series of development kits for budding game designers who don’t want to explore the labyrinthine catacombs of learning ...