Wolf RPG Editor is a Game Maker program. Similar to RPG Maker, it enables users to easily create their own Role-Playing Games. It was developed by SmokingWOLF and first released in Japan on 24th December 1998. Velella Himmel (vgperson) and Jeffrey Casey (Widderune) provided an English translation. The latest English-language version is Wolf RPG Editor 2.24Z.
Unlike RPG Maker, Wolf RPG Editor is free to download, although some have noted it is more difficult to navigate than RPG Maker unless you're an experienced user; another barrier is that the official website is only available in Japanese, so unless you're fluent in this language accessing tips and help with the program can be challenging. Wolf RPG Editor is only available for download onto Windows (the same goes for games made with the program, as they have to be opened with .exe files), although there is software available that allows you to open the program and associated games on Mac.
Despite its title, the program has been used to create non-role-playing games as well, much like RPG Maker, with Horror Video Games of the Explorer Horror variety being particularly popular.
The English version can be downloaded here
or here. For help with translating the program, see here.
Games made with Wolf RPG Editor include:
- 1bit Heart
- Alice Mare
- At the Tale End
- Blazing Aries
- Bokko Youchien
- Bury
- Faraway Story
- Insanity
- LiEat
- Lilitales
- Little Red Riding Hood's Wolf
- Mad Father
- Mermaid Swamp
- Misao
- One Way Heroics
- Paranoiac
- Patty And Mr Miles
- Pedestal (2021)
- Purgatory
- Purgatory 2
- Scribble Hub RPG
- Strange Men Series
