This week, an absolutely fascinating story landed on my feet. Someone had spent 1,600 hours plugging away at RPG Maker MV on the Nintendo Switch to produce a JRPG, which they released this week. To emphasise: I’m not talking about the PC RPG Maker MV – we get plenty of…
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The next version of the long-running RPG Maker property, RPG Maker Unite, is exciting for many (many) reasons. One of the big ones is that while it will maintain the series’ vision of allowing people to make JRPGs without coding, it will be built on Unity, meaning that aspiring game…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)! Nintendo eShop sales for Wii…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M.Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)! Nintendo…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. RPG Maker MV has launched on Nintendo Switch, and it is a really good little sandbox tool for playing around with. If you’re serious about game development, you’ll want the PC version, but if you’re just looking for a toy to play with, this app has…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. RPG Maker MV might share a name, features and toolset with its PC counterpart, but they’re very different pieces of software. RPG Maker on the PC is a reasonably serious tool that you can use to create commercial software. RPG Maker on Nintendo Switch is more…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Degica Games has announced that RPG Maker MX would be available via Steam this summer (winter for Aussies). RPG Maker is one of those things that we’ve loved playing around with over the years, and it has been an opportunity for a lot of young and…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. To The Moon is one of the most brilliant – and yet entirely humble – games that has ever been produced. It was a made in RPG Maker that eschewed the RPG elements to instead use those sprites and pixel graphics to tell a near-perfect story…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. It has been a while since the last RPG Maker appeared on a home console. While there’s been a few on handheld (and RPG Maker FES on the Nintendo 3DS even got a English localisation), the last time RPG Maker has been on a TV console…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I already have RPG Maker MV on my PC, and that version lets people delve into the code and export commercial projects for PC… and even iPad if you so wish. And yet I can’t wait to get into RPG Maker MV on Nintendo Switch. Much…
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