# Role-playing game creation software

Role-playing game creation software is a game creation system (software program) intended to make it easy for non-programmers to create a role-playing video game. The target audience for most of these products is artists and creative types who have the imaginative abilities to assemble the elements of a game (artwork, plotline, music, etc.) but lack the technical skill to program it themselves.

## RPG Maker

The most famous RPG maker is the commercial Japanese RPG Maker series that has been released since 1988 for many systems ranging from the PC-8801, MSX, PC-9801, and Microsoft Windows, to the Super Famicom, PlayStation, Game Boy Color, PlayStation 2, and Cellphones.

## Other role-playing game creation software

| Name | License | Publisher | Initial release | Linux | Mac | Windows | Mobile | Description |
| Adventure Construction Set | ? | Electronic Arts | 1984 | ? | Apple II | MS-DOS | ? | An early RPG maker for creating top-down view tile-based role-playing and adventure games. Published for the Commodore 64 and later ported to other 8-bit and early 16-bit microcomputers. |
| Adventure Creator | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | An early RPG maker for Apple II computers that allowed users to build very simple games. Not to be confused with Graphic Adventure Creator, a simplified version of which was also released as Adventure Creator. |
| Bard's Tale Construction Set | ? | Electronic Arts | 1991 | ? | ? | MS-DOS | ? | A (relatively) early RPG maker by Interplay, based on the basic design (first-person view and tile set) of the Bard's Tale games, using a version of the Thief of Fate game engine. |
| Mire Engine | Proprietary | Making Italia | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | A 2D Cross Platform Game Engine using WebGL, DirectX and HTML5. |
| BYOND | ? | BYOND Software | 1996 | Server only | No | Yes | No | Used for NEStalgia, and others. |
| DCGAMES | Proprietary | DC Software | 1990 | No | No | MS-DOS | No | An Ultima-style RPG game creation system |
| EasyRPG | Free | EasyRPG community | 2013 | Yes | Player | Yes | Player | A cross-platform, open source RPG development tool and client, compatible with RPG Maker. |
| 001 Game Creator | Proprietary | SoftWeir Inc. | 2006 | No | No | Yes | Yes | A commercial action/RPG maker. Uses a subscription model. |
| Unlimited Adventures | Proprietary | Strategic Simulations, Inc. | 1993 | ? | Mac OS | MS-DOS | ? | A commercial game builder by MicroMagic using SSI's "Gold Box" engine. |
| RPG Creator | Proprietary | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | A commercial game development toolkit which runs through HTML5. |
| RPG Playground | Proprietary | ? | 2012 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | A free, web based RPG maker to make, share and play RPG's. |
| KAGE | Free | ? | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | A free software game development toolkit able to make RPGs utilizing KonsolScript. |
| OHRRPGCE | GNU GPL | OHRRPGCE community | 1997–1998 | Yes | OS X | Yes | Android | An open source RPG maker. |
| RpgBoss | Free | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | A cross-platform open source editor and engine based on JavaScript and Scala. |
| Solarus | Free | ? | 2002 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Open source RPG engine with a custom quest editor. |
| Sphere RPG Engine | Free | ? | 2000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | A set of open source RPG makers utilizing JavaScript. |
| Verge | BSD | | 1997 | ? | Yes | Yes | PSP | An open source 2D game engine with an emphasis on role playing games. |
| Maker3D | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | A 3D RPG creator in manga style |
| Lugdunon | Proprietary | Cinera LLC | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | A 2D online RPG creator platform. |
While not an RPG maker per se, the Worldforge game engine is intended for creating MMORPGs.