With the new modern day tiles, ever think maybe you needed some modern day music?

Look no further than The Nothing Battles, a rock based, guitar thrashing album created by our IGM Tutorial writer and forum staff member Kain Vinosec.

For the next two weeks you can pick up this album, giving you access tracks ready made to work in our programs with looping included, for the discounted price of only 4.99 USD! This gives you an amazing album to listen to, with the added benefits of licensing for use with our programs.

Head on over to our sales page to listen to sample tracks, and buy your copy of the Nothing Battles today!

Wow! First of all, I’d like to say thanks to all the wonderful people who preordered RPG Maker VX Ace. You guys are great and preorder sales were amazing. Sorry for the time between posts on the blog here, taking care of the Ace release had us all working nonstop!

For everyone who didn’t preorder Ace, it is available for sale on the RPGMakerWeb Store for $89.99. Not sure if you want to put down the money yet? No problem, just go download the 30 day free trial. That is 30 days of  unrestricted use of RPG Maker VX Ace, plenty of time for you to explore the most powerful RPG Maker to date.

Like the looks of the four heroes on the RPG Maker VX Ace splash image? Then I’ve got a treat for you. Shiro, a long time friend of the RPGMakerWeb team and a member of the resource staff from RPGMakerVXAce.net, has created sprites of the four heroes for our blog readers:

Just import them into RPG Maker VX Ace and you are ready to go! They are also compatible with RPG Maker VX if that is your maker of choice.

In other news, we now have Official RPG Maker Forums and everyone is invited. Come hang out, talk about game making, find great resources, and share your games with us! Everyone is welcome to join and enjoy our fun, friendly atmosphere. Along with our new forums also came a nice shiny slick site design. We aren’t entirely done with renovations (I notice my little blog house is still old and boring), so expect some more changes!

Can’t wait to see you on the forums!

PREORDER TIME HAS ARRIVED! I know everyone is ready to get their eyes on that discount and bonuses, so just click the Big Shiny Button Below to head over to the Preorder page and read all about it.

Get that preorder in, lock up access to the awesome bonus materials, start planning your game (who am I kidding, you’ve been planning it for weeks haven’t you?), and I hope to see you at the early opening of our new official forums ready to wow us with your awesome project concepts!

Have any questions about any of the bonuses? You can ask me in the comments section below or send an email to marketing@rpgmakerweb.com!

Now is the time to begin the final stages of determining who will be crowned the winner of the Let’s Make a Scene contest!

First, I would like to thank the other Judges who cut the entries down to the top 8. They were: Archeia Nessiah of RMN, Sevith of RPGMakerVXAce.net, Nathanial Benton, the creator of Fated Haven, and Jason Perry as That Ornery Guy. Thank you to all four of these great people for going through all these entries with me last night.

We really had a lot of fun going through all 40 of these, and it was a tough job to pick out our favorites, but we finally managed to do it. Thank you to everyone who entered and congratulations to the people who passed on to the top 8.

Download the top 8 and Vote below! Voting ends at 11:59PM EST(GMT-5:00) on January 7th. Note: PLEASE WATCH ALL THE ENTRIES BEFORE VOTING. This should not be a popularity contest, its about who made your favorite scene. If you aren’t going to watch them, don’t vote.

IMPORTANT: If you experienced errors playing the files, please redownload, the file has just been rezipped and uploaded (2:00AM GMT-5:00, January 5th)

Also there is an honorable mention for a great scene made by Indrah that unfortunately had to be disqualified due to an odd script error caused it to fail on half the computers it ran on. For the judges though that were able to play it, we found it to be exceptionally made, with excellent atmosphere and writing. You can download the honorable mention cutscene here.

VOTING OVER. CHECK IN TOMORROW TO SEE THE WINNERS.