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The RPG Maker team won't stop for anything to stop giving us things in change for money.

They publish a new Resource Pack called "High Fantasy Resource Bundle II" which is supposed to be even bigger than the first one! Due to its looks, it will create a unique look and feel to your RPG, though it does look so different that I reckon it would be hard to use anything extra.

However, You can ammend that by buying the "High Fantasy Resource Mega Bundle"! Which contains the Newly published "High Fantasy Resource Bundle II" and Bundle 1 and "The Deep" for a discounted price! Which you would expect from buying bundles.
While the full bundle costs a heavy $50, it gives you:

This mega pack contains:
- 135 Battle Backgrounds and Parallax Images
- 282 Front-View Battlers and 275 Side-View Battlers!
- 864 Sprite Sheets (!!!) - Many contain 4 and 8 direction sheets, and down poses.
- 424 Character Face Portraits!
- 9 Image Overlays for a variety of effects such as Rain, Clouds, Torch Light, etc.
- Nearly 80 Tile Sheets!
- Bonus Script included for RPGMaker VX Ace!

While I do say that $50 for three resource packs is quite heavy. The amount you get is quite high. Higher than a Sims 3 expansion pack certainly.


But that is not all! Oohh no! Nostalgic users of RPG Maker 95 might be interested in this!
The creators of the RM95 Music have remastered their old songs and put it all together in their new album called "Zonderland". Which as a Dutchman sounds vague but let's not discuss that.
This Album which includes not only the MP3 files but also OGG's for RMVX/Ace and Waves for IG Maker.
The full list is this:

This music pack contains:
- 10 instrumental tracks.
- 3 short tracks for RPG elements (Game Over, Level Success, Stage Complete).
- 1 special bonus remix track!
- Looped OGG Vorbis files for RPG Maker VX/Ace and WAVs for IG Maker.
- The MP3 version of the tracks are included as a bonus!
- Royalty free music to use in your commercial and non-commercial RPG/IG Maker projects.

Thank god that this album only costs $7.99. Which is quite ok for an album.
Additionally, you can check out some samples on the link below.

-Resource Pack II
-MegaBundle
-RPG Maker 95 Remastered Music

I personally quite like the music but i would never want to have the resource pack. Due to its price and well...I don't like the art lol
What do you guys think?Tigurus Fay2013-02-09 16:17:16

A while ago, due to the amount of people demanding a physical version of RPG Maker VX Ace, they finally released it on Amazon for North-American customers. the pricing is still the same and there isn't really much to an advantage to it but hey, why not? I am also not even sure if it is for anyone outside the Northern Americas.

The link to Amazon can be found here

Additionally! RPG Maker VX Ace and Lite can be found on steam! Which is cheaper by €10. Downsides would be the Steam DRM and no actual further additions. But €10 cheaper is nice right? Right?! And maybe with a sale, it will become even cheaper. Who knows?! I only wish this would also happen with RMXP and possibly the new "legal" version of 2003. But we can only dream for now.

The link to Steam VX is here

Tell us what you think of this? Retail fun? Steam fun? Do you want people on your steam to see that you use VX ACE?!

The last news brought us a Free version of RPG Maker VX Ace dubbed "Lite". Now they made the Full version of Ace more affordable!

The game was sold for $90 when released. That is quite the amount, right? Specially as the others where sold for roughly $60. But after the got many emails of people testing it and knowing that $90 is just quite hard for people to justify, they reduced it to $70.

$70 is still quite much but $20 dollars off is always nice. Now you can buy $20 dollars on bacon or something. 
Current prices for RMVX is $59 and RMXP $30.
You can find and purchase them here

What are your thoughts on this "affordable" price change?

It has been a while since Enterbrain released RPG Maker VX and it's "successor" RPG Maker VX Ace.
To improve the game making abilities, they released paid content a few times and now they will show you something new! More or less!

The official forums released "RPG Maker VX Ace Lite"! 
Naturally, this is like VX Ace but completely free of charge and thus no 30 day trial! However, due to it being free and the word "Lite" shines across the end of the title. There are restrictions in this version.

I will put the list of restrictions here
[spoiler]

10 heroes
10 classes
126 skills
16 items
60 weapons
60 armors
30 enemies
30 troops
25 states
110 animations
10 common events
No script editor
6 Tilesets
15 events per map.
20 maps max.
Can save projects
No call script but you can use the script functions of the other event commands like variable.
You can't make it use the RMVXAce RTP. So you have to manually import resources to the project folder.

[/spoiler]

By the look of this list, we can say that this version could be used for very small games.
Sadly, due to the fact that you cannot use the script editor, most games with this won't have their special touch into it.
But nonetheless, you can always use it and if you like it enough, buy the real deal!

Additionally, to make everyone happy! A character generator has been released as well which can be used in VX, Ace and Lite!

Download VX Ace Lite here
Download the Character Generator here


Tell us how you feel about this!

Tigurus Fay2012-10-15 12:57:41

The official RPG Maker site announced 2 new special things!
I will talk about them in short!

The first is a new member feature called "Member+". 
Being a member+ gives you several special features:
- You can set up a blog
- You can host your game project in their new download center. Includes an improved file manager.
- You have access to special forum where you can request and get special custom resources.
- You get 20 to 40% discount on future products.
- And you get a special badge and into a special member group.

They offer this for $14 for three months and $42 for a one year membership.

The second product they release are "modern Tilesets."
For $6.99, you get 2 tilesets (one interior and one exterior) plus a license to use them in a (non)commercial game.

You can find Member+ here
You can find the modern resource pack here 

You find these interesting? Special?
Tell what you think about these in the comments!