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Looks to be approx. a decade old project (first commits late 2013). Last release appears to be approx. 1 year ago. For those who have used this or are familiar, how far along are they to the goal of making a full clone of rpgmaker? How usable is this for someone getting started new?

EDIT: Looks like that is when the git history started, but from the responses here it sounds like this started more towards mid-2000s

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It's being used to host old RPG Maker games like Yume Nikki on NicoNico Douga, which is a significant Japanese content hoster, so I would say it's come pretty far along.

https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/games/gm20856

Anecdotally, I've used it to play a few RPG Maker 2003 titles to completion on a Raspberry Pi.

Fun fact: NicoNico owner is KADOKAWA. The same corporation that currently owns RPG Maker.

It's funny that the Official owners also uses this fanmade app on one of their products.

It's worth noting that it's user content rather than direct usage by NicoNico/KADOKAWA, so the lineage is less direct.

However, given that RPG Maker 2k/2k3 games often have compatibility issues running on modern Windows, it would make a certain sense if KADOKAWA used EasyRPG as a way of extending compatibility. Then too, I'm not really aware of their relationship to the games produced with their tools (even ones that could be considered historically significant, such as Yume Nikki), so I don't know how likely this outcome would be overall.

It’s much older than that. I was part of the Hispanic RPG Maker community and, if I recall correctly, the project started there in the early to mid 2000s. I’m surprised and glad to see it has come such a long way!

That’s RPG Maker though, this is about EasyRPG which is more recent.

No, the grand poster was right about this being created in the mid 2000s, and he didn't confuse EasyRPG with RPG Maker. If you had just clicked on the "Blog" link of the official page, you'd seen that the blog was created in 2010.

Searching the web, I found the old forge (same project name, same first developer name) at Google Code Archive. The oldest commit is dated 2006-01-16, so it's at least that old.

No, I meant the EasyRPG project. The 0.1 release is from 2013, but work on the interpreter started much earlier and I remember watching development threads at least six or seven years before that.

EDIT: I found an interview from 2008 with the project creator (https://comunidad.rpgmaker.es/d/8745-entrevista-a-delapipol-..., in Spanish) where he states that “it was around 2005 that we thought of making a free alternative to Enterbrain’s RPG Maker”.

> How usable is this for someone getting started new?

Answering my own question - it appears from the top response here that the editor component is not yet ready

https://community.easyrpg.org/t/how-do-i-make-a-game/1060

I've used EasyRPG Player, to play quite well known (at least in the community/scene) RPG Maker games just fine. That in itself is a major success in my book. I played through a few titles I used to play.

That’s a great idea! I think I have a CD-R lying around with plenty of RPG Maker 2000/2003 games. Let’s see if I can find it…

Still have that game "database" link bookmarked: https://mega.nz/folder/1cpnHBKT#6EGB88UNm5O2K5TRpNJ2Qw (not created by me)

EDIT: I am not sure how many non-English or non-German games this contains.

Thank you for that link! At first sight I couldn’t find any Spanish games, but could recognize some other non-Spanish titles (Kindred Saga and Velsarbor). Regardless, great resource.

I once played a Spanish RPG Maker game, to improve my Spanish : ) Was good fun! Unfortunately I found out it was only a demo ^^ I think, if I had been more into the Spanish scene back then, I would have played many more Spanish RPG Maker games. Can you recommend any?

The vast majority of Spanish RPG Maker games were either unfinished or tech demos, but I can recommend “La Leyenda Heroen” (https://rpgmaker.net/games/5750/) and “La Cicatriz de Dhux” (https://rpgmaker.net/games/1492/). Apparently, both have English translations.

Thanks for this! I've also been learning Spanish (for a while now) so I'm always on the lookout for input/practice material. I have a lot of nostalgia for RM2K/2K3 and the 16-bit era of RPGs, so it would be cool to check these out sometime.

Members of the project team have posted to the forums answering questions within the last few weeks, so while it seems to be a small team they're still active.

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