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Role-playing game creation software

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Role-playing game creation software is a game creation system (software program) intended to make it easy for non-programmers to create a role-playing video 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

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Main article: 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 role-playing game creation software

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Name License Publisher Initial release 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.
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[citation needed] ? ? 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.[1]
Mire Engine Proprietary Making Italia ? Yes Yes Yes Yes A 2D Cross Platform Game Engine using WebGL, DirectX and HTML5.
BYOND ? BYOND Software 1996 Server only No Yes No Used for NEStalgia, and others.
DCGAMES Proprietary DC Software 1990 No No MS-DOS No An Ultima-style RPG game creation system[2]
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]
001 Game Creator Proprietary SoftWeir Inc. 2006 No No 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.[1]
RPG Creator Proprietary ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes A commercial game development toolkit which runs through HTML5.
RPG Playground Proprietary ? 2012 Yes Yes Yes Yes A free, web based RPG maker to make, share and play RPG's.[7]
KAGE Free ? ? Yes No Yes No A free software game development toolkit able to make RPGs utilizing KonsolScript.[8]
OHRRPGCE GNU GPL[9] OHRRPGCE community 1997–1998[10] Yes OS X Yes Android An open source RPG maker.[11]
RpgBoss Free ? ? ? ? ? ? A cross-platform open source editor and engine based on JavaScript and Scala.[12]
Solarus Free ? 2002 Yes Yes Yes No Open source RPG engine with a custom quest editor.[13]
Sphere RPG Engine Free ? 2000 Yes Yes Yes No A set of open source RPG makers utilizing JavaScript.[14]
Verge BSD 1997 ? Yes Yes PSP An open source 2D game engine with an emphasis on role playing games.[15]
Maker3D ? ? ? Yes ? Yes ? A 3D RPG creator in manga style
Lugdunon Proprietary Cinera LLC[16] ? 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

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  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ "DC Games Graphics Adventure Game Builder game at DOSGames.com". Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Release 0.1 · EasyRPG/Player". GitHub. 17 March 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Download EasyRPG Editor". EasyRPG. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d "Download EasyRPG Player". EasyRPG. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  6. ^ Schaff, Tobias (July 2016). "EasyRPG - An RPG Maker 2000 and 2003 engine". ODROID Magazine. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  7. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: RPG Playground -- A (Free!) RPG Making Game Engine, retrieved 2021-06-13
  8. ^ "KonsolScript and Game Engine". SourceForge. 8 December 2016.
  9. ^ "GPL license". OHRRPGCE-Wiki. 27 September 2016.
  10. ^ "Timeline". OHRRPGCE-Wiki. 6 April 2016.
  11. ^ "About". OHRRPGCE-Wiki. 9 April 2016.
  12. ^ caranille (2015-01-17). "RPGBoss 0.6.x". LinuxFr.org. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  13. ^ Famularo, Jessica (2020-04-14). "Zelda's most dedicated fan game developers built an engine anyone can use". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  14. ^ "Sphere RPG Engine". Navioo.
  15. ^ McGraw, Ben. "About - VERGE, Free 2d Game Engine". archive.verge-rpg.com.
  16. ^ "Lugdunon". Retrieved 3 March 2017.
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