Role-playing game creation software

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

Main page: Software:RPG Maker

The most famous RPG maker is the commercial Japan ese 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

Name  | License  | Publisher  | Initial release  | Linux  | Mac  | Windows  | Mobile  | Description

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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 | ? | ? | 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

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Barton, Matt (23 February 2007). "The History of Computer Role-Playing Games Part 2: The Golden Age (1985-1993)". http://gamasutra.com/features/20070223b/barton_pfv.htm.
2. ↑ "DC Games Graphics Adventure Game Builder game at DOSGames.com". https://dosgames.com/game/dc-games-graphics-adventure-game-builder/.
3. ↑ "Release 0.1 · EasyRPG/Player". 17 March 2013. https://github.com/EasyRPG/Player/releases/tag/0.1.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Download EasyRPG Editor". https://easyrpg.org/editor/downloads/.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Download EasyRPG Player". https://easyrpg.org/player/downloads/.
6. ↑ Schaff, Tobias (July 2016). "EasyRPG - An RPG Maker 2000 and 2003 engine". ODROID Magazine. https://books.google.com/books?id=e-mqDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA18. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
7. ↑ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine:  (in en) RPG Playground -- A (Free!) RPG Making Game Engine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEcWTk7tG7c, retrieved 2021-06-13
8. ↑ "KonsolScript and Game Engine". 8 December 2016. https://sourceforge.net/projects/konsolscript/.
9. ↑ "GPL license". 27 September 2016. http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/GPL_license.
10. ↑ "Timeline". 6 April 2016. http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Timeline.
11. ↑ "About". 9 April 2016. http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/About.
12. ↑ caranille (2015-01-17). "RPGBoss 0.6.x". https://linuxfr.org/news/rpgboss-0-6-x.
13. ↑ Famularo, Jessica (2020-04-14). "Zelda's most dedicated fan game developers built an engine anyone can use". https://www.pcgamer.com/zeldas-most-dedicated-fan-game-developers-built-an-engine-anyone-can-use/.
14. ↑ "Sphere RPG Engine". http://www.navioo.com/javascript/Sphere_RPG_Engine_818.html.
15. ↑ McGraw, Ben. "About - VERGE, Free 2d Game Engine". https://archive.verge-rpg.com/about/.
16. ↑ "Lugdunon". https://lugdunon.net/.

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