♥♥♥♥ing RPGMAKER.
Where to start? Let me begin by saying a quote from the devs themselves...

"Simple enough for a child, powerful enough for a developer"

Seriously, that says it all. Its REALLY easy to use, and POWERFUL. Look at what i've done, my SECOND demo within 24 hours of total use time with this is a little decent. I even gained 15 subs already.
But im not here to brag, because i'm nowhere near the "holy ♥♥♥♥" subs.
This "game" allows you to create RPG games. However, if you know how to code, you can change EVERYTHING.
EVERY.
THING.
Everything, even if you can't code, is editable and you can even wipe away HEALING or DEATH entirely. You can break the game as much as you want!
Your game, your rules!
Want damage to heal, and heal to damage? SURE!
Want to have "WHERE THE HELL DO I GO" The entire game? SURE!
Want to make it to where NO COMBAT EVEN HAPPENS? THAT TOO!
I feel powerful when I use this, I finally get to put my little worlds into a viewable form.~
Seriously, if you don't have this, GET IT.
You should even buy this at full price, considering how much effort was put into this!

You can even draw things, write music, and all that, and throw them in! You have the power for EVERYTHING in RPGMAKER.
Plus, To The Moon, IB, and Mad Father were all made by the RPG MAKER series!!!!!
IB.
♥♥♥♥ING, IB.
Get it. Now. Throw your wallets at this. NOW.

This software is an excellent introduction to game-making. While many people don't like RPG Maker games, it's still a great way to start your game development journey - or just to sate your hobbyist tendencies!

I recommend this without reservation - I may never release a game for public, but I love writing short little in-joke games for my family and friends.

For instance, I once wrote a short Kingdom Hearts-themed game for my daughter, which also used characters/settings from Beyond Good And Evil and Final Fantasy 7 and 8. As I understand it, under the terms of the RPG Maker license, the game I wrote WOULD NOT be allowed to be released (even as a fan creation) without paying for all of those character's usage rights - but I didn't make it to sell, I made it for my daughter. And SHE loved it.

PROS:

- Easy to use.
- Fairly easy to understand.
- Anyone who's fiddled with game editors before should feel right at home.
- Plenty of tutorials available.
- Great, helpful community, especially on the official website and forums - this was the main selling point for me.
- Design is modular (meaning you can work on one aspect of your project at a time, or all at once)
- Don't like the Final Fantasy Style battles? Find and download a battle engine to change it to something more like the Zelda games!
- Importing custom data (inc. sound and graphics) COULD NOT BE EASIER.
- The asking price *includes* a license, meaning you can legally sell your RPG Maker VX Ace game the second you've made it! (there are some understandably strict caveats to this, though)
- includes a character maker, ideal for those of us who suck at art (like me).
- ACTIVE devs and community!
- Don't have the sprite/sound/script/whatever that you want? Try requesting it in the official forums - chances are, somone else has already requested it!
- One of the few pieces of software that I own that has NEVER crashed.
- Steam Cards! Hey, it matters to me. ;)

CONS:
- License is included in the price, but some may consider it limited - for instance, if you make a sprite in this program, that's basically the only place you're allowed to use it (exceptions: or other programs in the RPG/Game Maker stable that you own the license to). So, you can't make sprites in this, then export those sprites to be used in say, a self-made browser-based game. And so too, for ALL the stock assets.
- Importing the custom data itself is quite easy - but knowing what to do with it can be confusing at first. For instance, importing a new tileset can be done with 3 button clicks. But then you have to go over the tileset and tell RPG Maker VX Ace which tileblocks the player can walk through, and which they can't, and so on. This makes complete sense once you think about it, but it isn't explained anywhere in game (that I saw).
- The DLC isn't like traditional DLC, it can require some real work to set it up (see above for a basic example)
- Advanced Developers (I'm not one, so this is a guess) may find certain aspects of the engine restrictive.

People who should buy this software:
- Amateur devs
- JRPG hobbyist
- people curious about the game development process
- people who have good ideas for stories
- IDEAL for people who want to make their 'first real game'.

People who should avoid this software:
- Uh...people who hate JRPGs, I guess?
- People who refuse to play nice on forums (because that's where most of your questions will get answered)
- People who are allergic to cuteness
- People who are allergic to lists
- People who actively hate maths and other forms of 'thinking'. I'm not trying to be snide, I swear. Some of us just aren't designed for calculations. Having said that, I actually fit into that category - and I love this software. But it is a fact: planning is part of game making.

Conclusion:

I would basically recommend this software to ANYONE who shows even the slightest bit of interest in it. An excellent and very affordable way to get into game developing - it does exactly what it claims to, and does so quite solidly.

I award this product 9/10, without hesitation.

RPG Maker, a program so easy my mom could use it! And she thinks that a screenshot means sticking an injection needle into your monitor. The interface is simple dropdown lists, these lists basically do all the 'programming' for you. I don't even need to script much to make my game, but you can do so much more when/if you use scripts. The best part is you don't need to script at all. (I only use a persistant event positions script to be safe) The layout is simple as well, and it's not hard to find what you're looking for. Pretty much every bit of programming is boiled down to "point and click at this, type that in please, select okay and you're done" and fixing errors is easy as well since you can playtest right in the program itself. There's a little bit of a learning curve, but nowhere near as heavy as other tools I've tried, such as Game Maker. For the price you pay on the program (by the way, it's on sale this month at Humble indie Bundle) it's a powerful tool for making your games with.

It's lacking a few features though(I would love to be able to check if an actor's health is ABOVE a certain percent, I would love to have more weather effects too, and well I'm just nitpicky about certain things.) but to be honest if you want an easy way to make an old school RPG you can certainly use this software to get the job done. My only complaint is that the help document doesn't really explain how to do certain things with the program but there's tons of youtube videos and the steam community is usually pretty friendly. Would I give it a perfect rating? Probably not, but it's worth at least a 9.5/10 for the effort and the ease. Especially since you can sell your games and you own all the rights to the content and dlc you buy.

RPG Maker VX Ace is an incredibly powerful tool, not a game. While I found myself immersed for hours and hours creating and editing and editing and editing... this software is meant to create content. Even though is fun, people who lack creativity or try to go about it without a plan (story, settings, character development) might find themselves not enjoying this software as much.

Some lead you to believe that this game creating software is user-friendly and easy to understand, in actuality it is not. Users will find themselves constantly bashing their brains trying to do simple things, looking up tutorials and other means of help.

While still fun be prepared to be challenged. Be creative and have a story in mind. Also, might want to wait for a price drop in the steam store to get the best price as it can be a bit expensive.

Easy to use, but still able to make some really nice games. Just the fact that a brilliant game like To The Moon was made with the RPG Maker shows its ability.

One does not simply "Code"

It's wonderful but 60 dollars is just too much... 4/5

I can make insanity tests, and force my friends to play them!
10/10 Would force friends to lose sanity again

Oh yus, this isn't a game, but it's fun to use. I may have been doing nothing the whole time, never to make an actual game, but I was also at one point working with someone to make a simply ebin game, I learned a lot, I had fun testing out and breaking and building and testing, repeating and creating.
/s4s/ this is to you

<3 A Bideo game
I still have it in google drive, if you wish to see the s4s themed game just ask for it.

Story: X
Gameplay: X
Presentation: 8/10 (Does not give my eyes ♥♥♥♥♥♥s)
Soundtrack: 7/10 (Lol)
Replayability: 10/10

The software is great! Lots of tiles and objects you can select from. Also it gives you free things you can use to make your game such as music and game graphics. You dont have to be an artist to create a game, they have an easy charactar builder! If you want you can import your own art into the game but you dont have to. Also when they said no programing needed they were RIGHT! There easy click and drag gui lets you create charactars and there personalties. This software is easy to use and fun!

RPG Maker VX Ace is the newest in the line of RPG Maker toolkits by ASCII and Enterbrain. For anyone who aspires to create games as a hobby or perhaps as a profession, it's certainly a good tool to take a look at. You can easily make the most simple and casual of role playing games with it or you can spend countless hours trying to make your very own masterpiece that you may or may not finish. While there are a few limitations in the software, many have been overcome through community works and scripting, to the point that the primary limitation is your own desire to finish a project.

If you've even had a passing interest at making your own role playing game, this is well worth the purchase. The default graphics are quite usable, the character creation software increases that (my own portrait comes from this software), and there are plenty of free and commercial graphics, music, and scripting packs you can find. So check it out. This is certainly the best RPG Maker to dive in with!

It's simple if you follow youtube tutorials and if you are creative and have enough will you could make something

RPG Maker Vx ace Is the best rpg maker for ever!

Even a 7 Year old child would Make A RPG with this
Easy Rpg maker tool.

AND FOR GODS SAKE IT"S NOT WORTH OF MONEY THEY WORKED HARD ON THIS M8

here's something for newbies:

ATK: attack

Def: Defense

MHP: Max Hit Points (health)

MMP: Max Magic Points

AGI: Agility

LUK: Luck (crit Change)

oh yeah if you have no other tilesets it's because you taked the wrong tileset pack change it in the map options

This is a quality software. You can burn your games to a disc, and then play them on other Windows computers. This saddens me that this does not work on Macintosh.

I always wanted to make my own games.
Now i totally can and its so easy to use!
Sale or not,totally worth it!

this is an amazing piece of software. the developers are definitley right about the simplicity of RPG maker VX Ace. I love this software, and I am planning to put a game made with this software, on greenlight in 2015-2016.

RPG MAKER VX ACE
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Pros:
-easy to use
-easy to learn
-awesome presets and ressources
-nice tools like the character generator for example

Cons:
-limited creativity without knowledge of scripting (not for me though, but for scripting beginners)
BUT awesome community custom scripts
-no more cons

Review:
An awesome tool for creating RPG`s with lots of opportunities, even more when you know how to implement scripts or
even script by yourself (the language is Ruby).

I highly recommend this software for everyone new to Game Development who wants to make RPG`s and even to
more experienced developers as it is an awesome software and definetly worth the price.

Cool software kit. Expect lots of hours to get stuff done. Expansions are very pricey.

A great tool with many uses. I use this a lot for my tabletop rpg as well as a few standard game projects.

I still miss the old 2003 version's battle configuration and how easy it was to create a sideview battle system just by throwing sprites in a folder. I'll deal though.

Even though i have so many good ideas, im too lazy to actually make 'em into a game. Even if it looks hard to use from the outside, after a day of playing around with it you learn the basics. If you know ruby scripting, you can make even greater things.

An absolute 9/10 (needs layers from the older version of this)







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