RPG Maker XP Gets Advanced With 2D RPG Creation

Thanks to Insert Credit for its brief news that Enterbrain's "RPG Maker XP has been released [for Japanese PC users]. Lots of features added, lots taken away. You can download the [Japanese-language] demo, or check what's new on Zepy's page, since he went into a bit of detail about it." An in-game screenshot and several example pages show a complex 2D RPG creation utilty, and Zepy elaborates: "This time you can finally have high resolution/full colour graphics! And Ogg sound! No limit to character and map chip sizes! You can directly program your own scripts... with the triple map layers, you can have cloud or fog overlays!" Although the console RPG Maker series has been released in the West by Agetec, the PC version has yet to be officially translated and released.

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Re:This is awesome...

[KDR_11k]

It has a combat system and not much else (okay, there are items, monsters, characters, etc defined for your perusal, but you can just delete them all and work from scratch). From there on the creativity of the user is required. You may not be able to fully customize your character, but everything else can be done. If the "DM" (the person making the game) is competent, you'll have a blast playing through a deep story with branching paths, lots of side quests and lots of freedom, if the guy is incompetent you get a bad experience.

The looks don't mean anything, ask our resident Nethack players.