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RPG Maker XP Gets Advanced With 2D RPG Creation

Posted by simoniker on from the choose-your-own-adventure dept.

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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  1. New feature: Ruby-like script by Snowy_loves_you · · Score: 4, Informative

    One of new feature of this version is Ruby-like script langage "RGSS". This feature gives developers a programing interface.

    A description(Japanese) and screenshot.

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  2. Re:This is awesome... by KDR_11k · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Alternative RPG makers in North America... by Sentack · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well I would love to see this system come out in North America / Europe, but in the mean time and if the developer never does release it, at least we have a couple alternatives that I know about at least.

    You have first, Neverwinter Nights. Which everyone pretty much knows about. Some love it, others hate it. It's also DnD which makes some happy and others groan. Over all it's at least one alternative.

    The other, That I know of, is Blades of Avernum (http://www.avernum.com/blades/index.html), which is by Spiderweb Games developer, Jeff Vogal. For those in the know of small press, independant developer, old school Western Style RPG's, Jeff is often looked at as the current king of such games. Low quality graphics but high quality game play.

    Now, I used to know of a few smaller old DOS apps that where RPG maker-ish applications. And this is beyond Bard's Tale Construction Set and the others like it but, those where far and few between. One of them, if I recall correctly (Verge), had you scripting everything, I mean nearly everything. Combat system and all. But lord knows where those games are like today.

    Sentack