Browse the newest, top selling and discounted RPGMaker products on Steam. Jul 30, 2021 Details On How To Play RPG Maker Games On Android What you need to know about RPG Maker Pokemon games. RPG Maker is a program that allows you to program and create your own RPGs. The program actually dates back to the late 90s and nowadays there are numerous versions of it but all of them are labeled as RPG Maker.
If your primary goal of using RPGMaker is to make money, then unless you enjoy the process of making RPGs, I’d recommend you look elsewhere.
I say this because the market is absolutely flooded with low-budget indie games. Not that there’s anything wrong with that – the low barrier to entry allows more passionate game developers than ever to pursue their dreams.
The problem is that, in terms of revenue, unless you’re able to make a smash hit on your first try (hint: unlikely), you’re looking at spending years learning the software and creating your first game, followed by many weeks of learning how to use Steam and how to market your game, followed by your big release, and finally the grim realization that your first game may not even gross $1,000 in its lifetime.
I don’t say these things out of malice. I feel like a lot of potential RPG devs find some of the older, more financially successful, ‘basic’ RPGM games on Steam, such as Cubicle Quest, Grayfox, or the Labyronia games, and tell themselves, “I can do better than that! “.
I feel that way because I started out with that exact thought.
It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that, if those games made so much money and they look so simple, well surely I could make a better one and make even more money, right? Probably not. Many of those games were released during the brief Steam Greenlight era, where the market wasn’t even a tenth of what it is now and your game could gain traction even without marketing.
That time has long passed, and while it’s still possible to make money from using RPGMaker, it’s a long, slow grind–definitely not for someone just looking to make a quick buck.
There are plenty of ‘modern’ commercially successful games made with RPG Maker, such as LISA or One Shot or To The Moon, but they’re the exception, not the norm. These games were made by people who already had an audience to begin with, not to mention years of experience, longer time frames and higher budgets. Or they just had a publisher.
Look through the list of games tagged RPGMaker on Steam and scroll past the first page. I imagine you’ll quickly find what the actual norm is – a veritable graveyard of passion projects and disillusioned developers thinking, what did I do wrong? Why doesn’t anyone want to play my game?
Just to use myself as an example, I played RPG Maker PSX for many years as a young teen, then spent many more months just fiddling with RPG XP, VX Ace, and finally MV before I decided to get serious. I probably had 3 years of RPG making experience when I started on my first commercial game, and that game took another 9 months to create and sell.
That game is about to hit its 2 year anniversary, and it still hasn’t passed $1,000 in gross revenue. Look around on the RPG Maker message boards and you’ll find that I’m not alone in having such poor sales for a first game release.
Thankfully, I enjoy RPG Making almost as I do playing video games, so it wasn’t hard for me to give it another go, and another after that – now my fifth game is releasing in a little under a month. I’ll likely have a sixth sometime early next year as well.
My income from game development, though, is only enough so far to pay my utilities every month. That might sound great, but remember that it took me four years worth of experience to reach this point.
The question you have to ask yourself is, are you willing to put in that amount of effort? And would you be willing to accept that your years of hard work might only result in an extra cup of coffee here and there? If ‘yes’, then welcome aboard! Otherwise, you’re better off pursuing different game development software or a new hobby altogether.
(Note: If you can write simplified chinese and draw hentai, ignore this entire article)
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RPG Maker 2003 Games on Windows 7/8/10
You’re probably here because you’ve been trying to play an RPG Maker 2003 game on Windows 7, 8 or 10 and keep getting an error message that says, “The RPG Maker 2003 Runtime Package is not present or not registered.” Luckily there’s a relatively simple solution to this problem, albeit a bit of an awkward one.
First of all, you need to download the official RPG Maker 2003 RTP. Install it anywhere, but remember the folder it was installed to. Then go to that folder (it should be something like C:Users<your username here>AppDataRoamingKADOKAWACommonRPG Maker 2003 RTP) — if you don’t see the AppData folder, select View in the file explorer and tick the Hidden Items box. If you’ve gone to the right place, you should see a bunch of folders like this:
Select all of these folders (but not the icon.ico or uninst.exe files), copy them, then go to the folder where you’ve unzipped your RPG Maker 2003 game — it should have a bunch of similar-looking folders. Paste the ones you copied from the RTP folder in here, but if Windows asks if you want to override any existing files, say no.
Next, look for a file in the game folder called RPG_RT.ini. Open this file in Notepad (or your text editor of choice) and look for a line which says: FullPackageFlag=0
If this line exists, change the 0 to a 1. If you can’t see anything like that in here, then just add a new line at the end of the file and type: FullPackageFlag=1
Now save the RPG_RT.ini file, and try running RPG_RT.exe. If you’ve done everything right, the game should work! If it’s having issues with your graphics card, you may have some luck by right-clicking RPG_RT.exe, selecting Properties, then the Compatibility tab, and enabling the option to run the game in compatibility mode for Windows 7 (or an older version of Windows).
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May 21st, 2021 at 3:22 pmOMG!!!! THANKS YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Replynoah johnsonsays:May 15th, 2020 at 1:12 amI’m trying to run a game that has the same problem down to the same error message, but the game files do not contain a folder labeled “RPG_RT.ini.”, would anyone know how to create such a file, or what to do instead in that case?
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