Man, I get engrossed with my Halloween projects this past October and Enterbrain goes and make an announcement when I’m not looking. I know this news is probably old to anyone who’s been avidly still following the Maker line. But apparently, as the title suggests, Enterbrain is about to unleash RPG Maker VX unto the masses. In fact the Japanese version will be released this month followed by an official English release in February 2008.
Ok I’m sure that those who were disappointed by the last release, RPG Maker XP are probably thinking - oh brother (or some other explicative)! But let me be the first to tell you right now that from what I’ve seen of VX, everything that pissed off fans of 2k and 2k3 when XP came out have been addressed in VX.
Thats right, Enterbrain has gone back to a lot of the winning features from both RPG Maker 2000 and 2003. Miss world maps? Miss vehicles? Miss character portraits? Miss the random dungeon generator from RPG Maker 2003? Miss being able to pile multiple characters in one chipset? It’s all back while still maintaining a lot of the powerful features they added in XP. It’s like they’ve taken the best features from 2000, 2003, and XP, and created a new product. In addition, it looks like they’ve also borrowed some features from other popular makers such as wall shadows from RPG Toolkit and added some things that we’ve been hacking into our games for years such as character emote bubbles.
Don’t take my word for it, head over to the official Enterbrain RPG Maker VX English page: http://www.enterbrain.co.jp/tkool/products/rpgvx/eng/index.html
Also check out http://www.rpgmakervx.com/ to follow the latest updates and scoops including screenshops and direct from the developer technical information not present on the official site.
-TM