#2D RPG GAMES ON STEAM FULL#
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IвЂ™ve been asked if I think RPG Maker getting such widespread release is a threat to existing indie RPG developers. When I was younger, I got started on programs like RPG Maker (specifically, a program called Verge) and since my 12-year old daughter has expressed in an interest, I think I might pick up RPG Maker for her to mess around with and to gain a greater understanding of the game development process. They can prove to be very useful for learning the basics of what goes into making the game and if youвЂ™re making the right kind of game, they can save you a lot of time. ThatвЂ™s not to say that programs like RPG Maker arenвЂ™t without their merits. ItвЂ™s not impossible but at some point, you might start to wonder if you wouldnвЂ™t better off just starting from scratch with your own custom created engine rather than trying to modify RPG Maker to do things it wasnвЂ™t really intended to do. If you want to create an RPG with a more unusual setting or with strange and intricate gameplay mechanics, itвЂ™s more difficult to do with a general RPG creation tool like RPGMaker.

#2D RPG GAMES ON STEAM FULL#

RPG Maker is designed to be a general RPG maker and as such, itвЂ™s full of general art assets & general RPG mechanics. We saw this with the XBox Live Indie Game service and we see it with RPG Maker вЂ“ a few gems surrounded by hordes of incomplete, buggy, generic, or downright awful games. Now there are some very good RPG Maker games like To the Moon and even some cool RPG Maker games that you would probably never know were made in RPG Maker if someone didnвЂ™t tell you like Cherry Tree High Comedy Club so why is it that RPG Maker gets such a bad rap? There are a number of reasons but it boils down to this вЂ“ when you lower the barrier to entry and make something easy for everyone to do, EVERYONE starts to do it, regardless of skill or level of determination.

Probably the most common insult indie RPG makers face is the claim that their game looks just like an RPG Maker game. As of right now, the program is at spot #7 on the Top Sellers list вЂ“ since this list is based on revenue, this means that itвЂ™s not selling as many copies as the other games in the top 10 (RPG Maker is $70 compared to the $12-$60 that everything else in the top 10 is selling for) but itвЂ™s still very impressive.

#2D RPG GAMES ON STEAM PC#

To my knowledge, this is the first time that a PC RPG Maker title has been on sale on a major storefront. Yesterday, RPG Maker VX Ace came out on Steam.

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