History MediaNotes / RPGMaker

** ''VideoGame/StarShiftOrigins''

* ''VideoGame/{{GU-L}}''

Because of the ease of the program to learn the very basics and how accessible it is for newcomers to get their hands on the many different versions of it, RPG Maker itself has developed a rather low reputation of only being able to make either low-quality, unbalanced grindfests, or Website/DeviantArt-level [[TheInternetIsForPorn fetish pornography]]. This is a rather unfair accusation, though; there are plenty of high-quality games made in ''RPG Maker'', with such games as ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'', the ''VideoGame/{{Lisa}}'' trilogy, ''VideoGame/ToTheMoon'', ''VideoGame/OneShot'', and ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' being regarded as some of the shining examples of just how great and varied games made in the program can be, [[SturgeonsLaw when in the right hands]].

''RPG Maker'' (RPGツクール, ''RPG Tsukuru''), is a series of {{game maker}} programs first created by ASCII, then succeeded by Creator/{{Enterbrain}}, that, as the name suggests, allows users to make their own {{R|olePlayingGame}}PGs.

Because of the ease of the program to learn the very basics and how accessible it is for newcomers to get their hands on the many different versions of it, RPG Maker itself has developed a rather low reputation of only being able to make either low-quality, unbalanced grindfests, or Website/DeviantArt-level [[TheInternetIsForPorn fetish pornography]]. This is a rather unfair accusation, though; there are plenty of high-quality games made in ''RPG Maker'', with such games as ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'', the ''VideoGame/{{Lisa}}'' trilogy, ''VideoGame/ToTheMoon'', and ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' being regarded as some of the shining examples of just how great and varied games made in the program can be, [[SturgeonsLaw when in the right hands]].

After several versions that only used a special interface for inputting commands, RPG Maker started supporting actual scripting languages. The first three versions to do so -- XP, VX, and VX Ace -- come equipped with Ruby scripting that allows people making a game in the maker to drastically alter the in-game engine, which allows for numerous different types of games (the most common alteration is taking the front-view turn-based battle system that they both come with and changing it into a side-view active-time battle system). The two latest entries, RPG Maker MV and MZ, employ [=JavaScript=] as the scripting language, in an attempt to make games produced with it multi-platform (i.e. can be ported to smartphones), the former of the two is also receiving a port to the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

Because of the ease of the program to learn the very basics and how accessible it is for newcomers to get their hands on the many different versions of it, RPG Maker itself has developed a rather low reputation of only being able to make either low-quality, unbalanced grindfests, or Website/DeviantArt-level [[TheInternetIsForPorn fetish pornography]]. This is a rather unfair accusation, though; there are plenty of high-quality games made in ''RPG Maker'', with such games as ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'', the ''VideoGame/{{Lisa}}'' trilogy, ''VideoGame/ToTheMoon'', and ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' being regarded as some of the shining examples of just how great and varied games made in the program can be, when in the right hands.

** ''VideoGame/LostChronicles''
** ''VideoGame/MeteoChronicles''
** ''VideoGame/CryptChallengeEX''

* ''VideoGames/{{GU-L}}''

* ''VideoGames/GU-L''