Name | License | Publisher | Initial release | GNU/Linux | Mac | Windows | Mobile | Description |
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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.[1] |
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[citation needed] | ? | ? | 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.[2] |
Mire Engine | ? | Making Italia | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | A 2D Cross Platform Game Engine using WebGL, DirectX and HTML5. |
BYOND | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Used for NEStalgia, and others. |
EasyRPG | Free | EasyRPG community | 2013[3] | Yes[4][5] | Player[5] | Yes[4][5] | Player[5] | A cross-platform, open source RPG development tool and client, compatible with RPG Maker.[6] |
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.[2] |
RPG Creator | Proprietary | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | A commercial game development toolkit which runs through HTML5. |
KAGE | Free | ? | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | A free software game development toolkit able to make RPGs utilizing KonsolScript.[7] |
OHRRPGCE | GNU GPL[8] | OHRRPGCE community | 1997–1998[9] | Yes | OS X | Yes | Android | An open source RPG maker.[10] |
Open A-RPG Builder | GNU LGPL / proprietary (premium version) | open-a-rpg-builder.com | Will be available in 2018 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | A cross-platform A-RPG 5(Action RPG) editor with modern technologies (cocos2D-x, Box2D, Qt5). |
RpgBoss | Free | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | A cross-platform open source editor and engine based on JavaScript and Scala. |
Sphere RPG Engine | Free | ? | 2000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | A set of open source RPG makers utilizing JavaScript. |
Verge | BSD | https://verge-rpg.com/ | 1997 | ? | Yes | Yes | PSP | An open source 2D game engine with an emphasis on role playing games.[11] |
Maker3D | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | A 3D RPG creator in manga style |
Lugdunon | Proprietary | Cinera LLC[12] | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | A 2D online RPG creator platform. |