RPG Maker

RPG Maker
Original author(s)ASCII
Developer(s)Enterbrain, Gotcha Gotcha Games
Initial release17 December 1992; 31 years ago (1992-12-17) as RPG Tsukūru Dante 98
Stable release
RPG Maker MZ / August 27, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-08-27)
Written inJavaScript, HTML5
Platform
Available inJapanese, English, Korean, Chinese
TypeGame creation software
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.rpgmakerweb.com

RPG Maker, known in Japan as RPG Tsukūru (RPGツクール, sometimes romanized as RPG Tkool), is a series of programs for the development of role-playing video games (RPGs) with story-driven elements, created by the Japanese group ASCII, succeeded by Enterbrain, and then by Gotcha Gotcha Games. The Japanese name, Tsukūru, is a pun mixing the Japanese word tsukuru (作る), which means "make" or "create", with tsūru (ツール), the Japanese transliteration of the English word "tool".[1]

The RPG Maker series was originally released primarily in Japan, but it was translated by fans[2] in Taiwan, South Korea, China, Russia, and North America with RPG Maker 2000 and RPG Maker 2003.[3] Most of the later engines have been officially translated.

  1. ^ Outline of Tsukūru Archived 2012-02-27 at the Wayback Machine at the official Tsukūru website (in Japanese) (Retrieved on 2010-3-6)
  2. ^ Zavarise, Giada (2018-09-01). "Are RPG Maker games as bad as people think?". Eurogamer. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
  3. ^ "International Licensing Business" Archived 2007-09-23 at the Wayback Machine at Enterbrain's website