Welcome everyone to the March 2013 ReStaff Release!
This month is pretty good as well with all the music!
Thanks to our lovely Guest Contributors and ReStaffers,
for making this month a success!
Information about Commercial usage can be found here.
If you want to be a Guest Contributor, go here!
We also don’t allow the resources to be redistributed anywhere else.
If you want to share it, please direct them here instead!
Thank you for your patronage.
Welcome everyone to the February 2013 ReStaff Release!
This month is brimming with a great deal of variety!
Thanks to our lovely Guest Contributors and ReStaffers,
for making this month a success!
Information about Commercial usage can be found here.
If you want to be a Guest Contributor, go here!
We also don’t allow the resources to be redistributed anywhere else.
If you want to share it, please direct them here instead!
Thank you for your patronage.
Today, I want to talk about something that really changed how I view RPG Maker.
First of all, RPG Maker is a great program. I don’t just say that because I’m paid to either. I have a long history of using the program long before it even made its way out of Japan. I’ve been using the program since i was a young teen, but it wasn’t until the last five years that I’ve found how much you can enhance your experience with it by taking part in the greater RPG Maker community.
We have several components to our official community. From Facebook, Twitter, and to a lesser extent our blog here. But the place to really, really get involved with the community is our forums, and I’m going to tell you why I think you should join.
If you’ve never visited our forums tutorial sections, you are really missing out. ALMOST no matter what you want to learn, you can find someone who has written something about it.
From basic beginner tutorials on the maker itself, to advice on how to organize cutscenes or write NPCs, our tutorial section is busting at the seams with knowledge.
2. Tons of Knowledgeable Fans
One of the really cool things about the forums is that there are so many people who know so much about the program. I’ll even admit a good many know way more than I do about it. If you are having trouble, all it takes is a quick trip over to the appropriate support section and ask for help.
Ever wonder what’s possible with RPG Maker? Look no further than our projects section. Here users put up their in progress and finished games for your perusal. Its also a good place to get advice on your own games. Who knows? Maybe you will become the next star maker in the RM Community!
Another thing our fans are good at is producing content. Tons and tons of content. You can find scripts to do almost anything, and an abundance of facesets, battlers, and tiles to help you make your game exactly what you want. And the best part? If you don’t see what you like, you can even try and find someone to make what you need.
Ever just need to bounce an idea off someone? Or check out discussions on what people think of different gameplay features? Our forums are the place to do it. And along the way, you can make friends with like minded creators, maybe even finding people who can help you make your dream game a reality.
There are dozens of other reasons to join our forums, and I really hope to see you there. I’ve always felt the community turned RPG Maker from good to excellent. And I want you to be there to contribute to that excellence!
With the second day of the RPG Maker Free-For-All, we give you… an RPG Maker that is free for all!
RPG Maker Lite is based on our incredibly popular game making software: RPG Maker VX Ace. While not as fully featured, RPG Maker Lite does give you everything you need to make your own game, and best of all its absolutely FREE for as long as you want to use it.
Create your world…
… your Heroes…
… and the obstacles they have to overcome.
RPG Maker Lite provides you with everything you need to make a basic RPG. It features many of the new innovations of RPG Maker VX Ace, from shadow control to RegionIDs, with only a few database, map, and script restrictions.
RPG Maker Lite is the perfect place for beginners so share it with your family and friends, or use it yourself for as long as you like. Check out more about RPG Maker Lite and view our mind blowingly awesome new promo video HERE.
Welcome to the first day of the RPG Maker FREE-FOR-ALL WEEKEND!
We will be announcing cool new free stuff for everyone to use all weekend, but today we are going to focus on a way that EVERYONE can win a free prize from us!
I know that you are now asking yourself, how can I get in on that free prize. Well, I’m here to tell you. All you have to do is make a blog post on your personal blog(one not hosted by our forums) with the following:
Don’t have a blog? You can make one easily with any of the following blog sites:
Once you’ve made your post, you can email a link to it to community@rpgmakerweb.com with the email title of “RPG Maker Free for All Weekend Blog Post” and we will get your prize to you once the contest is over. Once you’ve done that, you can also share links in the comments below to let us hear your stories.
In two weeks, ending on October 26th, we will be awarding the prizes. We will be picking out our favorite post to receive our GRAND PRIZE, and 5 posts will receive our SUPER PRIZE, but everyone who participates will get a prize!
Our store credit can be spent on a plethora of resource packs, from Modern Day tiles, to Arabian tiles, to awesome rock music to use in your games. It can also be used to purchase one of our featured commercial RPG Maker games!
So you’ve started your game, but you don’t seem to be getting as much buzz as you like. A few people have played your opening demo but no one seems to care that much.
What we have here, is an opening failure. Now, tons of people will tell you that the opening of a story is one of the most important aspects for acquiring and keeping fans.
And they are right. But with a free indie game, they are even MORE right. Let’s be honest, when we buy a PS3 game (or whatever your system of choice is) for 60 bucks you have much more incentive to keep playing even if you felt the opening wasn’t very good. I may not like the opening, but I’m sure going to play until I get something good just to not have wasted that money.
With an RPG Maker game, even one that you charge a small amount for, you don’t have that luxury. People don’t have anything invested in your game, so you have to GIVE them something to be invested in.
So how do we do that? Continue reading
One of the great things about the RPG Maker line is how customizable it is. Almost any feature you can think of can be implemented with events or scripts. And even if you don’t know how to script, you can find plenty of ready to use scripts written by some amazing coders over on our forums.
This can lead to brilliant things… and horrible things. One of the problems that newbies (and some veterans) have is trying to decide: What scripts/features should I include in my game? A lot of times this ends up with what is known as Script Bloat. They include everything they can think of, without thinking of how it works in the game. I’m going to propose 4 easy questions you can ask yourself to determine whether you really need that feature you are considering throwing in. I’ll also include a couple of examples from big name RPGs to illustrate my point. Continue reading
Hi Everyone,
We’re excited to announce the first official Music Pack Add-On.
We’ve snagged 40 tracks from RPG Maker 3 (on PS2), touched them up,
converted them to .ogg’s and sorted and labelled them.
Here’s a sample for your listening pleasure.
If you’d like to get more info or purchase (only 20 bucks) this Add-On then head on over to the RPG Maker 3 Music Pack Page.
Happy Listening!
The RPG Maker Team
Hi there! So you’re ready to tackle making the game you’ve always wanted to play. You’ve gathered resources and scripts and you’ve made a demo.
You share it with some friends and they are, underwhelmed to say the least. They found it confusing and lacking polish. Its easy to get discouraged at this point, but lets go over an important detail that gets overlooked a lot in games: Consistency.
We as humans learn a lot of things through pattern recognition, and when the patterns aren’t consistent it can be very glaring.
Let’s go over a few things that can turn into flaws in a game: Continue reading
Hey Everyone,
We’d like to announce the official launch of our affiliate program.
For those who don’t know what an affiliate program is it’s basically a way for you to make money be recommending RPG Maker to people online.
You make money and at the same time more people join the RPG Maker community.
Win-Win.
If you have interested friends, a website, blog, or a big following on Twitter then this could be a great chance to promote something you enjoy using and earn money at the same time!
You’ll earn a 30% commission for anyone who ends up buying RPG Maker VX or XP through your affiliate links. So, if you sell a copy of VX you’ll make $18.
When someone clicks one of your links a tracking cookie is assigned to them.
The cookie is good for 90 days so if they purchase within that time-frame you’ll get
the commission.
Note: Please do not spam people with affiliate links. If we catch anyone doing this they will be removed from our affiliate program.
Our affiliate program is run through a company called Plimus.
You’ll need to sign up there using the invitation links below.
RPG Maker VX
http://secure.plimus.com/jsp/developer_login.jsp?affReqId=5641BD05CD4C1B4C
RPG Maker XP
http://secure.plimus.com/jsp/developer_login.jsp?affReqId=CCC164C8E490BD26
We’ve put together a quick overview of the Plimus interface that will show you how to access your affiliate links.
This is the Plimus Affiliate Overview Page. You can see information about your affiliate sales and the products you are promoting. To get your links, click the product title link (red arrow)
This is what you see when you click that link. It’s got more information on the product you will be promoting. Click “full version” (red arrow) to go to the page with your affiliate links.
Here is a page with more details about the product as well as your affiliate links. You have the option of sending people to either the product info page or a buy now page. You can hide these long urls using anchor text.
Well, that wraps up our brief overview of the Plimus system. We are working on some affiliate resources (banners etc.) that will help you better promote RPG Maker.
If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them in the comments below.
Good Luck!
The RPG Maker Team
