Role-playing game creation software is a game creation system (software program) intended to make it easy for non-programmers to create a role-playing video game. The target audience for most of these products is artists and creative types who have the imaginative abilities to assemble the elements of a game (artwork, plotline, music, etc.) but lack the technical skill to program it themselves.
List Name License Publisher Initial release Linux Mac Windows Mobile Description 001 Game Creator SoftWeir Inc. 2006 A commercial action/RPG maker, it uses a subscription model. Adventure Construction Set Electronic Arts 1984 An early RPG maker for creating top-down view tile-based role-playing and adventure games. Published for the Commodore 64 and later ported to other 8-bit and early 16-bit microcomputers. Adventure Creator An early RPG maker for Apple II computers that allowed users to build very simple games. Not to be confused with Graphic Adventure Creator, a simplified version of which was also released as Adventure Creator. Bard's Tale Construction Set Electronic Arts 1991 A (relatively) early RPG maker by Interplay, based on the basic design (first-person view and tile set) of the Bard's Tale games, using a version of the Thief of Fate game engine. BYOND BYOND Software 1996 Used for NEStalgia, and others. DCGAMES DC Software 1990 An Ultima-style RPG game creation system. EasyRPG EasyRPG community 2013 A cross-platform, open source RPG development tool and client, compatible with RPG Maker. Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures Strategic Simulations, Inc. 1993 A commercial game builder by MicroMagic using SSI's "Gold Box" engine. KAGE A free software game development toolkit able to make RPGs utilizing KonsolScript. Lugdunon Cinera LLC A 2D online RPG creator platform. Maker3D A 3D RPG creator in manga style. Mire Engine Making Italia A 2D cross platform game engine using WebGL, DirectX and HTML5. OHRRPGCE OHRRPGCE community 1997–1998 An open source RPG maker. RPG Creator A commercial game development toolkit which runs through HTML5. RPG Maker A commercial Japanese software series that has been released since 1988 for many systems ranging from the PC-8801, MSX, PC-9801, and Microsoft Windows, to the Super Famicom, PlayStation, Game Boy Color, PlayStation 2, and cellphones. RPG Playground 2012 A free, web based RPG maker to make, share and play RPGs.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: RpgBoss A cross-platform open source editor and engine based on JavaScript and Scala. Solarus 2002 Open source RPG engine with a custom quest editor. Sphere RPG Engine 2000 A set of open source RPG makers utilizing JavaScript. Verge BSD 1997 PSP An open source 2D game engine with an emphasis on role playing games. Wolf RPG Editor SmokingWOLF 2008 { A Japanese RPG creation tool. A "Pro" version with additional functions is sold separately.
While not an RPG maker per se, the Worldforge game engine is intended for creating MMORPGs.
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