RPG Maker XP - US Release

[Valkysas]

RPG Fan gave the announcement this morning that at long last, Enterbrain has announced that they are bringing the PC RPG Maker series to the US, with RPG Maker XP. Apparently, it will be available on download.com on September 16th. however the price (if any) is not known at this time.

The Pavilion will support this title, despite not being published by agetec. we've had the site modules for XP ready since april, so we should be good to go when it's officially released.

Normally, we'd take such news with a grain of salt, or even a heavy sack of it, but it's a bit hard to do that when enterbrain already has an official US site open for it, along with screenshots of the english version.

Thanks to RPG Learner from our forum for the heads-up.

[Big Rick Cook]

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Neat. Now all I need is a better computer.

[RPG Learner]

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I'm not sure if i can run it i've do have the recommended RAM but that would use it all up.

[Necromancy]

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Uhm...neato.

I just hope it doesn't look as weird and bad as the other PC RPGMakers i've seen.

Well, neato. I'm still looking foreward to RPGM3 more.

[Necromancy]

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No edit button. >.<

Breezed through the site. Love the graphics. Only thing that seems iffy is the somewhat sloppy-looking battles. We'll have to wait and see.

What kind of payment do you think it will be? As in, will you have to pay with a credit card and download it online? Mmm. I'm proud; finally my online, lazy, cheap friends can play games I make without spending a dime.

[Funk]

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THIS... IS... HUGE... NEWS...

[Vonwert]

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It looks like it can run on Win98, which is good, since I don't have XP.

Do you think it will be avaible in stores?

[DarkwingChuck]

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One small step for man, one giant leap for the American RPG Maker community. And a nice leap of faith by Enterbrain. I pray it does well despite prior pirating. If the cost is resonable I'll buy it even if I don't plan to make anything. Now onward to the future, where we'll get a PC RM with the graphics of RM3.

[Funk]

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Download only, apparently.

[marcus]

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I already own the legal Japanese version (90 dollars well spent) but if I have some extra bills laying around by september I'll be glad to plunk down another 50-90 to help support this company and its (hopefully) rising american community.

Since I'm experienced in the pc version, I'll gladly help anyone that asks when the english version is released next month.

[Big Rick Cook]

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I bet it costs $30.

[marcus]

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I bet it costs $30.

Most likely 20-40 (I doubt it'll be over 50). Enterbrain should know Americans usually don't spend more than 50 on games (even if this is a "toolset"). I mean, for $90 I could buy a real engine like DarkBasic or Visual C++.

But rmxp's ease of use can't be beat.

[marcus]

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Strange, for some reason I can't edit posts anymore.

Anyways, here are some screenshots that I took of projects I've been tinkering with for a while. Shows off some of rmxp's capabilities.


This is a project using an action battle system (similar to zelda) scripted by Near Fantastica

A custom menu system scripted by Diego

This worldmap was made by The Inquisitor and is undoubtebly the best worldmap I've seen (it surpasses professional worldmaps in my opinion).

[DarkwingChuck]

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Nice! I'm still getting RM3 but the chances of me making anything with 1 or 2 are now just about a million to one. Maybe I could eBay them to pay for this.

[Necromancy]

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I prefer to keep both my RPGM 1 and 2 even if i'm not going to use them. It's a piece of history for me, and I will never sell them.