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 Arts1984?Apple IIMS-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 Arts1991??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?YesYesYesYesA 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]
Engine001Proprietary????YesYesA commercial action/RPG maker. Uses a subscription model.
Unlimited AdventuresProprietaryStrategic Simulations, Inc.1993?Mac OSMS-DOS?A commercial game builder by MicroMagic using SSI's "Gold Box" engine.[2]
RPG CreatorProprietary??YesYesYesYesA commercial game development toolkit which runs through HTML5.
KAGEFree??YesNoYesNoA 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 BuilderGNU LGPL / proprietary (premium version)open-a-rpg-builder.comWill be available in 2018YesYesYesYesA cross-platform A-RPG 5(Action RPG) editor with modern technologies (cocos2D-x, Box2D, Qt5).

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

RpgBossFree??????A cross-platform open source editor and engine based on JavaScript and Scala.
Sphere RPG EngineFree?2000YesYesYesNoA set of open source RPG makers utilizing Javascript.
VergeFree??????An open source 2D game engine with an emphasis on role playing games.
Maker3D???Yes?Yes?A 3D RPG creator in manga style
LugdunonProprietaryCinera LLC[11]?YesYesYesYesA 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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