The holidays are here and the year is almost over, but that doesn't mean we don't have more releases for you! This week we have three new packs to enhance your project.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1837121/RPG_Maker_MZ__DorapixelMapChips__Modern_JP_Interiors/

Give your busy stores and offices a pixel art update with DorapixelMapChips - Modern JP Interiors! Dorapika (Pika's Game) is back with a new pack of gorgeous tiles to bring your Japanese-inspired rooms to life. Create cozy homes, stocked grocery stores, and sleek business offices for your players to enjoy!

With floor types including wood, tiles, concrete, and even tatami it’s easy to create tons of different styles of rooms. And with a selection of 24 walls, along with slanted vertical side walls, you can create unique and comfy spaces for your players to explore. Fill a convenience store with shelves bursting with colorful treats and useful items, and don’t forget to include an ATM so that your players can afford all the goodies they’ll pick up when they stop at the register! Take a break at a small sushi restaurant with seating at both tables and the wooden bar, or let your players return to their home to recover in their own bed for the night. And to make sure your players can get around your busy city, create a full subway station with billboards, platforms and train tracks!

This pack also includes some animated doors for your interiors. Keep your players from wandering into a store’s back room with a locked metal door, or welcome them to an item shop with automatic sliding glass doors. Sample maps for both MV and MZ are included, to spark your map-making inspiration. If you’ve been wanting some beautiful modern pixel interiors or just want to expand your DorapixelMapChips collection, pick up DorapixelMapChips - Modern JP Interiors today!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1844840/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Legendary_Palaces__Phoenix_Tileset/

Welcome my friends, in the realm of the phoenix. May it be the heraldic animal of the ruler of this castle or the actual beast, that is up to you. But no matter what you go with, there is an amazing sight ready to be experienced!

The Phoenix Palace seems to be built right into a volcano, with flowing lava falls and open pits full of bubbling molten rocks. The whole architecture embraces the theme as well, with loads of fascinating statues of the legendary bird with glowing highlights against the dark rock they were made out of. With beautiful pillars topped with gemstones, carefully crafted handrails and portals there is a lot to use to decorate your own palace maps. And at the heart of the castle you can place the Phoenix Throne, a luxurious and breathtaking piece that shows the power of whoever has the right to sit on it. But watch out, this place can be dangerous as well!

There are open fires and spiked pits that might make your heroes question whether they should have opened those tempting ornate treasure chests…

The Legendary Palaces - Phoenix Castle pack by Kokoro Reflections brings you everything to place an unique and brand new location into your game! Get it while it is still hot!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1844830/RPG_Maker_MZ__Retro_and_Electronic_Game_Music/

Does your game have a retro vibe and is set in the future? Then this pack is just what you need to add a great soundtrack to it! With 24 amazing brand new chiptune tracks you have nearly every possible situation covered.

Get ready to fight some space bugs or other enemies to the sound of Action Phase or perhaps face, as the title says, a Giant Robot T-Rex Battle? Each of the tracks is unique and inspiring on their own, listening to them will get your imagination going with all the scenes you can build around them. For example, in the Laboratory theme you can hear the different gadgets and bubbling fluids in the tunes of the track.

Other tracks are don't have themes that are nailed down, but that makes them versatile to fill out the rest of your soundtrack. Do the sounds of Space Dance underlie an actual dance? Or is the dance a battle against someone your characters thought was their friend? Listen in and decide for your own what you want it to be in your world. From dungeon dwelling background music to cities, puzzles, cutscenes, and fights, this pack has everything you need and more!

Thank you for enjoying the RPG Maker series as always.
A 4-day DEGICA Publisher Sale that includes the RPG Maker series started today!

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/degica-publisher-weekend

Version 1.4.0 of RPG Maker MZ has been updated to allow editing of RPG Tutool MV animations in the editor.

All the related DLC products are also available for a limited time at a discounted price.
We hope you will take this opportunity to check them out!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/18430/RPGMV_x_MZ/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24123/MZ_Publisher_Sale_Special_Bundle/

Want to see what can kind of games can be made only one month with RPG Maker MZ? We've released the 3 winners of our Touch the Stars Game Jam as free games on Steam!


The itsy-bitsy spider may have gone up the waterspout, but Berry performs a marathon of fantastic gameplay and amazing fun. Join this adorable arachnid on their adventure to find the tastiest of flies. Along the way you’ll dodge fire bugs, leap across platforms, and follow the dubious advice of questionable cockroaches. Once you get the controls down, you can overcome obstacles and defeat bosses with a sense of pride and accomplishment. Just don’t forget to climb up that proverbial spout again and again until you reach the stars!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823370/Berry/


Let loose your inner hunger as you follow the powerful Buffet Knight in his quest to rid the land of the nefarious Demon Chef. Along the way, gobble up just about anything and spit it back at your enemies, defeating them and growing in power. Don’t grow too much, though, or you may not be able to contain your insatiable appetite. With gameplay inspired by a game with a certain hungry pink hero, and two very different endings, this game is for anyone who’s a glutton for adventure.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823360/Buffet_Knight/


Take on the role of a cute little monkey who witnesses a star falling from the sky and goes on a grand adventure to find it. Along the way, the adorable simian meets a cast of animals, each with their own motivations for joining our hero. The companion you take affects your ability to overcome certain obstacles, as each possesses their own unique power and personality. Make friends, help others, see the world, and enjoy a multitude of different fulfilling endings.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823350/Forest_star/

To go along with our publisher sale, RPG Maker MZ has also been updated to the latest version! And included in those updates are two much anticipated upgrades to the Battle Animations tab:

Effekseer integration updated to the latest version!
The ability to use MV Style Frame Animations!

To celebrate, in conjunction with the Effekseer team, we’re hosting the MZ Battle Animation Showdown!

And what will you do for this contest? Making Battle Animations!

The contest will have two different categories, one for MZ Effekseer Particle Animations, and one for MV Style Frame Animations. You can enter one, or both.

Make the best animations you can using the rules below and see if you can take the prize!

Download the Template Project Linked at the bottom of the post.
After editing the Template Project for this event, please upload it using File → Upload to the Workshop from inside of RPG Maker MZ

When uploading, use the following Tags
Category：Resources,
Resource Type：Animations,
Flavor：Optional
Description: Please include a description of the participating categories, an introduction to your work, and a list of credits for the materials you used.

• To submit your animation to the contest, add it to the workshop as a MZ Project using the template included at the bottom of this post. (this submission should be an unencrypted project, not a deployed file).
  
• Place your animation in the 1st slot in the Animations tab of the database.
  
• You may add any materials to the project you need to showcase your animation. The judging will be done based on the preview in the MZ engine.
  
• You may only use user-created resources that are available for modification and commercial use. Proper copyrights and/or credits must be included in the entry.
  
• You can use your own resources, but you must include copyrights and/or credits.
  
• You may not create a character that infringes on third party copyright or trademarks.
  
• You reserve the right to delete your entry even if it has already been posted and voted on.
  
• You may edit your work and/or the description after posting (we may contact you for confirmation if the character has changed significantly since the original posting).
  
• Submissions including adult materials such as extreme violence and/or nudity will not be accepted.
  
• Only one Particle Animation entry and one Frame Animation entry per user.

After the submission deadline, our judges will determine the best of the best in each category. There will be separate 1st through 3rd place prizes for each.

• 1st Place: $50 Steam Wallet Code
  
• 2nd Place: $25 Steam Wallet Code
  
• 3rd Place: $10 Steam Wallet Code

As a special bonus, the Effekseer team has sent a special pack of Particle Animation assets, free for everyone! You are free to use them in your entry, or in your latest projects!

BONUS EFFEKSEER PARTICLE ANIMATION ASSETS

The contest will run from December 9th until January 3rd 11:59PM Pacific! Get your entries in before then!

The entry template is a RPG Maker MZ project stripped down to the bare minimum for smaller file size. You must use this as a basis for your submission. You can add any materials needed to highlight your animation (including enemy graphics and backgrounds for the animation preview).

ENTRY TEMPLATE

So enjoy the Publisher Sale! Get RPG Maker engines, packs, or maybe even check out some of our other games for inspiration. And get to work on those Animations. We look forward to seeing them!

On top of our releases today, we also have a Steam Publisher Weekend! That means huge deals not just on tons of RPG Maker engines and resources, but also on a whole slew of amazing games, from RPGs, to Shmups, to Fighting games! Check out the full publisher sale HERE!

But it is still release day as well, so let's take a look at what's new for RPG Maker!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1841130/RPG_Maker_MZ__MT_Tiny_Tales_Overworld_Tiles/

Give your retro adventure a cute pixelated world with MT Tiny Tales Overworld Tiles! With over 20 tileset sheets to choose from, you can create amazing outdoor and town maps for your heroes to explore. Craft bright forests, desert towns, snowy mountains, and more with this pack!

Fill your forests with lush trees and flowering bushes, and use darker dirt to mark the paths next to flowing streams. Give your rocky mountain regions some pops of green with pine trees and your tundra a bit of humor with random snowmen between frosty bushes and leafless tree trunks. And when your heroes need a break from exploring all these locations, build them a town to rest in. With different roofs and walls to choose from, you can give each town its own style.

If all that wasn’t enough, this pack also includes interior tiles! So don’t worry about stocking your town’s shops, with armor, weapons racks, and bagged supplies your heroes will always be able to find what they need! Decorate the local bar with bottles and tempting meals, or give each room in the inn fresh flowers and cheery curtains. And a selection of bookshelves, cupboards, and pots give your npcs options to decorate their homes however they want.

All the tiles come in sizes for MV/MZ and Ace, along with the original 16x16 size, so it should be easy to add these tilesets to your favorite engine. Give your heroes some adorable towns and outdoor maps with MT Tiny Tales Overworld Tiles!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1837120/RPG_Maker_MZ__Otani_Pixel_Fantasy_Enemy_Pack_Vol2/

Have you been waiting for some detailed pixel art battlers for your heroes to fight? Your wait is over thanks to Otani Pixel Fantasy Enemy Pack Vol.2! This pack contains 30 gorgeous battlers to give your heroes brand new challenges in battles. Will your heroes defeat a toxic slime or will they run when facing off against a muscular and angry centaur?

10 unique monsters cover a range of possible foes to face. Battle against gooey snail-shaped slimes and wooden treants in forests and sunny plains, and challenge armed lizardmen and snake-haired naga in caves and on mountain trails. Larger enemies like rearing centaurs and hulking cyclops are perfect for wild boss battles. If you’ve been wanting a ship-based boss fight? Then grab the jellyfish-like kraken!

And with each monster having 3 variations, you can make battles even more interesting. Give each fire spirit its own battle style, with yellow summoning explosive butterflies, green healing its allies, and red wreathed in blazing flames to stop close combat. Or use the three distinct vampires as sisters who rule a dark castle together, meaning the only way to escape is to beat all three in combat. But be careful of the different zombies that wander the castle halls!

This pack’s battlers come in two sizes, so you can easily choose the size that better fits your game. Pick up Otani Pixel Fantasy Enemy Pack Vol.2 today and get ready to fight some incredible enemies!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1832590/RPG_Maker_MZ__Castle_of_Shikigami_2/

To celebrate the Steam release of Castle of Shikigami 2 we made a FREE character pack for RPG Maker users based on the game! These materials include battlers, face, walking sprites, and standing picture graphic for the seven characters from Castle of Shikigami 2. Download it for free at the link above, and check out the game at the link below!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1556650/Castle_of_Shikigami_2/

Hello RPG Makers!
Thank you for using RPG Maker MZ, as always, we appreciate your support! We hope you are enjoying it so far. The latest update, Version 1.4.0, is now live with some major updates and bug fixes!

• Added an option to create spritesheet based animations in the same format as RPG Maker MV.
  
  
• Update to Effekseer version for better performance on animation rendering.
  
  • Also, it is now possible to have multiple animations playing at once on mobile

1. Update to the launch plugins "ChangeSelectItemWindowMZ.js", "EventReSpawn.js", "TemplateEvent.js" "EffekseerForRPGMakerMZ_Ex.js"
   
2. Update to the official plugins "PluginCommonBase.js", "RegionBase.js"
   
3. Adding routines to prevent the editor from closing down unexpectedly.
   
4. Fixed a bug with text spacing when using proportional fonts depending on display speed.
   
5. Fixed a bug where you would lose if you use a skill with the Special Effect: Flee on all actors.
   
6. Fixed the text position on some badly placed tutorial assets.
   
7. Fixed the non calculation of time under 1s for conditional branching based on timer.
   
8. Fixed a bug with the plugin command menu where it was displaying plugins that are not activated in the plugin manager or have any commands to use.
   
9. Effekseer animations should now pause when the window is not active.
   
10. Fixed a bug where if you used a "Forced battle action" during the end of turn resolution it will activate twice.
    
11. Fixed the filename of one asset used in the floating shrine.
    
    • In the case you used or based a map on the flying shrine before v1.4.0.
      
    • If you select "remove unused files" during deployment.
      
    • Your project might fail if uploaded on a web server: Failed to load img/parallaxes/IslandOfSky1.png
      
    • If that is the case, please set again the parallax of your map to IslandofSky1
12. New sample maps （in dlc/RemakeMapResourcePack）
    
13. New NPC assets（in dlc/NpcResourcePack）

• Create a backup of your project or only its data and js folders. Updating can sometimes cause your project to break so this is for the safety of your hard work!
  
  
• Update your project by going to the Main Tool Bar -> Game -> Update Corescript option.
  

We're kicking off December with two new graphics packs! All new characters to star in your latest game, plus additional animals for the Time Fantasy series.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1833440/RPG_Maker_MZ__RPG_Character_Pack_5/

If you want to tell an engaging story, you need unique and creative characters to fill it with life and depth. The RPG Character Pack 5 brings you a great opportunity to expand your roster of interesting personalities in your game. With each of these unique heroes coming with a charset and additional down pose, a battler, a SV battler, Portrait, faceset with eight different emotions, and a large beautifully drawn artwork the be used wherever you like, there is no role those cannot fill!

Let the bunny king lead your party to victory or maybe rather make him an NPC with a fascinating background story. The fox girl is as beautiful as she is deadly, she would make a great heroine or as an assassin that is after your party! And maybe that party includes the lady that dances on her bladed shoes, ready to deliver some deadly kicks? Or the sage apprentice, who is young and energetic, looking for an adventure and new experiences to learn from! Human or humanoid, male or female, caster or physical fighter, this pack might just have the exact new character you need!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1833430/RPG_Maker_MZ__Time_Fantasy_Add_on_Animals_2/

Fans of Time Fantasy, have you been waiting to take your players on a safari or to the zoo? Your wait is over with Time Fantasy Add on Animals 2! With more that 60 animal sprites, this pack is full of critters to add to your game’s exotic locations.

Explore American-inspired plains with herds of large bison grazing, or check out a dark swamp where frogs hop around and owls fly silently overhead. If your game includes a long period on a tropical beach, why not add some sea turtles and crabs? You could even include a shark fin out in the water to let your players know that swimming there isn’t recommended. Camels can help your heroes travel across deserts, leading them to savanna teeming with life. Create a pride of lions with cubs running around and huge elephants being followed by happy babies that move around your savanna maps. Add some pops of color to your jungles with brilliant red parrots and bright-billed toucans, or give an area a humorous feeling with some monkeys eating bananas and hopping up and done. Smaller sprites like bugs and fish can add some extra movement to your maps without blocking your players’ path, which is great for any small, crowded maps.

This pack comes with sizes ready-to-use in Ace and MV/MZ, so you can drop these sprites right into your favorite engine and start adding them to your maps! Pick up Time Fantasy Add on Animals 2 today and liven up your maps with some exotic wildlife!

A hearty gobble gobble to all our fans from the US having Thanksgiving, and a hearty "THREE NEW RESOURCE PACKS!" for everyone. It's another release day, let's see what is in store... for the store.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823531/RPG_Maker_MZ__Japanese_Modern_Cityscape_Tileset/

Bring a compact and busy feeling to your cities with the Japanese Modern Cityscape Tileset! Grayfax software’s tileset contains pixel art tiles to help you build a city inspired by modern Japan, with road signs, soda machines, and even a small shrine to help your city look lived in.

Let your players take a break in a small park with swing sets and a bouncy panda between tall buildings, or make a railroad station into your game’s fast travel system. Fences made out of stone, metal, and even plants can keep your players from wandering into people’s yards while still letting them see little details like dog houses or bicycles that show someone really lives there. Certain autotile walls with windows help you build tall apartment buildings or skyscrapers while others are perfect for creating unique two-story houses, giving you ways to break up the monotony of buildings in your cities. The tile sheets with windows also come in three versions so you can choose if the windows are lit or not, perfect for distinguishing between daytime and night on your maps.

Also included are some sprites to help bring some movement to your cities. Keep your streets busy with compact cars and buses, or have some small train cars rattle past on railroad tracks with flashing crossing lights at all the crossroads. Or set up a security camera that turns to keep an eye on things above a convenience store’s glass doors.

MV and MZ sample projects can help you easily set up passability in your game, and give you examples for how to use all the tiles. If you’ve been wanting to give your modern cities a new look, pick up the Japanese Modern Cityscape Tileset!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823530/RPG_Maker_MZ__Japanese_Four_Seasons_Tree_Tiles/

Get ready to create gorgeous forests with Japanese Four Seasons - Tree Tiles! Norakoma has created a pack of tree tiles inspired by those commonly found in Japan, perfect for games that take place in Japan or ones that just call for more tree options as your players explore the world.

14 sheets of big trees offer up tons of variations to turn a simple outdoor map into something stunning. Hide secrets behind thick trunks and let your players walk under arching branches as they explore your forest maps, and decorate a garden with wisteria loaded with beautiful flowers. Build a bamboo forest with two full sheets of towering green stalks and lush canopies, or decorate a riverbank with the long and flowing branches of weeping willows.

The trees also have their own variants based on seasons, so as time passes in your game you can switch out tilesets to match! Turn the lush green of summer leaves to red as the days grow cooler, or let your players know that spring is right around the corner with small pink cherry blossoms appearing on icy branches. There are also a few dying trees that would be a great starting point for a side quest! Can your players bring a town’s centerpiece back to life?

This pack also includes MV and MZ sample projects, so you can copy preset tilesets right into your games and start planting trees right away! If you’ve been wanting to decorate your Japanese-inspired maps with fitting trees or just want some foliage to make your forests stand out, check out Japanese Four Seasons - Tree Tiles today!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1819730/RPG_Maker_MZ__Ambient_Works/

Have you been looking for a new song for the moment your players discover a ruin full of technological wonders? Or need something different for when they explore an unsettlingly empty shop? Find the right background music for some of your scenes with Ambient Works! This pack’s 13 BGMs blend into your game’s world to help keep your players immersed.

The electronic tracks with solid beats are fitting for any spacefaring sci-fi games, when your players explore the space station’s mall for the first time or just when they’re taking a break on their ship. Give your quiet port an untrustworthy vibe with an echoey guitar and slight background noise that tickles your players’ brains with the thoughts of “something isn’t right here”. Or choose a track with soft marimba-like beats that could slide into any scene where your heroes take a moment in nature to rest and remember why they started their adventure in the first place.

With multiple file formats included for each track, it’s simple to add the songs to your favorite engine. Give Ambient Works a listen today and find the right track for that scene that’s been giving you trouble!

The Steam Autumn Sale is live. And with it, deals on RPG Maker MZ, RPG Maker MZ DLC, and all the old Engines!

But that isn't all. We have something else to fess up to... A FES Update! The FES Resource Pack is updating to add sample maps to the mix, giving you a better basis to work with the resources to make your own maps!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1350930/RPG_Maker_MZ__FES_Resource_Pack/

So pick up MZ, buy it for yourself or a friend! Get all the DLC you need to make your next project. And be sure to take a look at the fantastic FES resources if you haven't already!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1816290/RPG_Maker_MZ__Meal_Time_Tileset__Fantasy_Edition/

What do a birthday party, a king’s dining room and a restaurant have in common? They all call for stunning food, well arranged on the best plates available and ready to let your taste buds tingle!

With the Meal Time pack there won’t be an empty table left in your game, unless you really want it to be. Filled with mouth watering goods, this set has everything your heroes could be craving for. Be it a rustic homemade pie from your main character's grandmother or a three course meal, starting with a delicious vegetable soup, followed by a sushi platter and closing with a dessert of fruit, the possibilities are endless. And for your more adventurous gourmets there are also some more fantastic options available - are you brave enough to give the shark head a try? Do the faces on the vegetables keep you from trying them

So, no matter your game or setting, there is something in here for you. Maybe your too-late-to-school protagonist has to run past the beautiful pancake stack their mom made for them or that your fantasy heroes enjoy a hearty filling meal in a tavern along the way, you will find many scenarios become even better with these. And on top of that, there are also some spoiled dishes included which could be very interesting for horror settings or as details in abandoned places.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1819720/RPG_Maker_MZ__Heroine_Character_Generator_3_for_MZ/

Do you ever feel like you run out of options for your heroines, especially for a modern setting, and are looking for a broad selection of cool new pieces? Then there is no need to search anymore, as the Heroine Character Generator 3 for MZ comes with so many clothes, hairstyles, and accessories that you can spend hours trying out the best combinations for your unique characters!

Maybe you want to have a cute sheep cosplayer be part of your party, fully dressed up from the wooly body suit to the headpiece with little horns? Or you want to be the healer of your contemporary game to be a nurse with the appropriate clothes? You could round this up by tying her hair into pigtails so they don’t get in her way when she cares for her fellow party mates. With a total of twenty different outfits there are many routes you can take. You can even have your characters change clothes midgame! Each of them can be worn with one of the eight individual headpieces that are included as well, so why not finish your character design for example with a sweet little striped bow on the head?

With four of each front and rear hair there are plenty of options on how to arrange your heroine’s hair to give her the perfect look! Do you want it to be tied up in ox horns or maybe should it be shoulder length with cute bangs and a braided midsections? That and much more is possible with this pack!

Enjoy the nearly endless options of combinations and create your perfect strong female heroines, ready to take out their enemies!