A while ago we wrote about RPG Maker Festival - or RPG Maker Fes - which will bring the well-regarded app to the 3DS in Japan. Though the tools are simple, it's a popular app for enthusiasts and, occasionally, a gem emerges that succeeds in becoming a full published game.
It arrives as a retail title in Japan on 24th November, but an interesting update in Famitsu confirms that the RPG Maker Fes Player will arrive earlier, on 16th November. This free download doesn't have the creativity tools, of course, but does give everyone a chance to play games created by others. It's relatively common for dev tools - even those as simple as this - to have a 'player' available for free.
With the free download coming before the main release, intriguingly there'll be games by 'Legendary Creators' available to try from the off. The following list of those involved is via Perfectly-Nintendo.
- Eiko (talent)
- Yuka Kuramochi (talent)
- Saki Suzuki (talent)
- Nagareboshi (talent)
- kuro (creator of Soshite Majou ni Au) - Juuryoku Loupe
- terunon (creator of Altered Arcs) - AliasAche
- Plain soft (creator of Little Heroes) - Double Princess
- Yuwaka (creator of Nakamachi no Jiken- - Soshite Zombie-na Bokutachi wa
We've seen some neat creativity tools on the eShop in recent years, though we're not convinced that we'll get to enjoy this one in the West. We can only hope!
[source perfectly-nintendo.com]
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Would be awesome. But not holding my breath.
Wait, so RPG Maker itself is coming to 3DS?
COUNT ME IN.
I'll still get it regardless of if it comes west or not.
Sweet, I'll be trying this out.
I won't get the full game at launch but I will be getting this sometime next year.
That sounds neat... I wonder if SmileBASIC would benefit from something like this.
This series seriously needs to start being localised with Switch! Would be great to lay in bed making RPGs!
@AlexSora89 Well, there have been RPG Maker games for Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS, as well as for Super Famicom, Playstation and Playstation 2. None of the RPG Makers for Nintendo consoles were released outside of Japan so I doubt this time will be any different.
Time to rename it to FREE PLAYER, I guess?
(It's got to have a pretentious, incongruent typesetting or it wouldn't be Japan.)
I wish ! How cool is this
Too good for outside Japan. Typical.
Maybe I'll see about getting back into this if it makes it over here (which is likely, seeing how the PC versions are being released on Steam still), depends on what the program has exactly.
Sooooooo many hours of my life were sunk into RPG Maker 2k on PC. I love maker games and especially old school rpgs. I would give anything to have this localized. The painful part is that I am fluent in Japanese and would totally import it if the 3ds wasn't region locked!
@TossedLlama I loved the ps1 version even though looking back now its pretty terrible. Spent a billion hours on that game.
@MajinCubyan Do you have a Japanese 3ds?
@Late
Major bummer right there.
Please bring it to Australia.
Jealous about this - but honestly don't have time for another game creation tool, no matter how cool it might be.
@invictus4000 I do indeed. I also love the PS1 version, I still have my memory card with rpg I made when I was 13 years old. Haha
That's epic! I would totally play your old RPG if the PS1 wasn't from the stone age and there were any kind of sharing options. I have a few old ones still saved too. So horrible. Lol
Anyway, way cool you have a Japanese unit...I'm almost tempted to import one just so I can play this RPG Maker...but then it comes back to having no time to make the investment worth it. Why do they always make RPG Makers at the end of each console's life cycle, reducing even more the already meager chance of localization??
@TossedLlama Haha it really did but I didnt care! I can still hear those on screen keyboard scrolling and confirming sound effects in my head. Haha. Good old days for sure...
Something I'll have to check the import price before Christmas!
With all the ways to play foreign games on 3DS, I'm sure there will be non-japanese games to find if you can share your works over the Internet. And if there is no way to share files so, maybe a save importer or something might help.
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