RPG creation software

An RPG maker is a game creation system (software program) intended to make it easy for non-programmers to create a role-playing game. The target audience for most of these products is artists and creative types who have the imaginative abilities to assemble the elements of a game (artwork, plotline, music, etc.) but lack the technical skill to program it themselves.

RPG Maker

The most famous RPG maker is the commercial Japanese RPG Maker series that has been released since 1988 for many systems ranging from the PC-8801, MSX, PC-9801, and Microsoft Windows, to the Super Famicom, PlayStation, Game Boy Color, PlayStation 2, and Cellphones.

Other RPG makers

Name License Publisher Initial release GNU/Linux Mac Windows Mobile Description
Adventure Construction Set ? Electronic Arts 1984 ? Apple II MS-DOS ? An early RPG maker for creating top-down view tile-based role-playing and adventure games. Published for the Commodore 64 and later ported to other 8-bit and early 16-bit microcomputers.[1]
Adventure Creator ? ? ? ? ? ? ? An early RPG maker for Apple II computers that allowed users to build very simple games. Not to be confused with Graphic Adventure Creator, a simplified version of which was also released as Adventure Creator.
Bard's Tale Construction Set ? Electronic Arts 1991 ? ? MS-DOS ? A (relatively) early RPG maker by Interplay, based on the basic design (first-person view and tile set) of the Bard's Tale games, using a version of the Thief of Fate game engine.[2]
Mire Engine ? Making Italia ? Yes Yes Yes Yes A 2D Cross Platform Game Engine using WebGL, DirectX and HTML5.
BYOND ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? Used for NEStalgia, and others.
EasyRPG Free EasyRPG community 2013[3] Yes[4][5] Player[5] Yes[4][5] Player[5] A cross-platform, open source RPG development tool and client, compatible with RPG Maker.[6]
Engine001 Proprietary ? ? ? ? Yes Yes A commercial action/RPG maker. Uses a subscription model.
Unlimited Adventures Proprietary Strategic Simulations, Inc. 1993 ? Mac OS MS-DOS ? A commercial game builder by MicroMagic using SSI's "Gold Box" engine.[2]
RPG Creator Proprietary ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes A commercial game development toolkit which runs through HTML5.
KAGE Free ? ? Yes No Yes No A free software game development toolkit able to make RPGs utilizing KonsolScript.[7]
OHRRPGCE GNU GPL[8] OHRRPGCE community 1997–1998[9] Yes OS X Yes Android An open source RPG maker.[10]
Open A-RPG Builder Proprietary open-a-rpg-builder.com Will be available in 2018 Yes Yes Yes Yes A cross-platform A-RPG editor with modern technologies (cocos2D-x, Box2D)

https://www.open-a-rpg-builder.com

RpgBoss Free ? ? ? ? ? ? A cross-platform open source editor and engine based on JavaScript and Scala.
Sphere RPG Engine Free ? 2000 Yes Yes Yes ? A set of open source RPG makers utilizing Javascript.
Verge Free ? ? ? ? ? ? An open source 2D game engine with an emphasis on role playing games.
Maker3D ? ? ? Yes ? Yes ? A 3D RPG creator in manga style
Lugdunon Proprietary Cinera LLC[11] ? Yes Yes Yes Yes A 2D online RPG creator platform.

While not an RPG maker per se, the Worldforge game engine is intended for creating MMORPGs.

References

  1. ↑ "Game 29: Adventure Construction Set (1984)". The CRPG Addict. 30 October 2010.
  2. 1 2 Barton, Matt (23 February 2007). "The History of Computer Role-Playing Games Part 2: The Golden Age (1985-1993)". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009.
  3. ↑ "Release 0.1 · EasyRPG/Player". GitHub. 17 March 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Download EasyRPG Editor". EasyRPG. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Download EasyRPG Player". EasyRPG. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "EasyRPG". Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  7. ↑ "KonsolScript and Game Engine". SourceForge. 8 December 2016.
  8. ↑ "GPL license". OHRRPGCE-Wiki. 27 September 2016.
  9. ↑ "Timeline". OHRRPGCE-Wiki. 6 April 2016.
  10. ↑ "About". OHRRPGCE-Wiki. 9 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "Lugdunon". Retrieved 3 March 2017.
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