RPG Maker MZ has been updated to v1.8.1.
This is a minor update which focuses on bug fixes.
The updates are;

• Added an option "Enable Message Skip" which enables users to skip message waits when the action button is being pressed and held.
  
• Fixed an issue where files in the "Texture" and/or the "Model" folders which are located in the "effects" folder as a sub-folder were unintentionally removed when a game was deployed with the "Exclude unused files" option enabled.
  
• Fixed an issue where file specification for "Plugin Command" were missing after a file in a sub-folder was specified and the dialog was re-opened.
  
• Fixed an issue where the scroll position did not return home after a certain process was done on the Equipment screen.
  
• Fixed an issue where a dying actor with "Substitute" trait was not protected by another actor with "Substitute" trait.
  
• Improved "Batch Entry" functionality for "Show Text"; Empty lines at the end of the texts are now removed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the menu bar was unintentionally shown at a distant position on a multi-monitor environment.
  
• Fixed an issue where full-width characters were not shown correctly for the preview of "Show Text" on the Event Editor if the name of the project contains half-width spaces.
  
• Fixed an issue where parameters lost the edited values if a plugin parameter was collapsed, other parameter was edited and then the collapsed paramter was re-opened.
  
• Fixed an issue where the zoom rate of the Map Editor was unintentionally over the upper limit and under the lower limit when the tile size was changed.
  
• Updated a launch plugin "StartUpFullScreen.js" (located in dlcBasicResourcespluginslaunch).
  
• Updated an official plugin "UniqueDataLoader.js" (located in \dlc\BasicResources\plugins\official).
  
• Updated a tileset image "World_A1".

This week, a new tile set series, a collection of songs, and a collection of Enemy assets are available in the popular Tile Set series.


"NEONPIXEL - Mega Dark Medieval Age" is a tile set perfect for expressing a medieval dark fantasy world. Seasonal differences are also available, so you can choose according to the story you want to create.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3180920/RPG_Maker_MZ__NEONPIXEL__Mega_Dark_Medieval_Age/


"NATHUHARUCA Green Tilesets" is a tile set focusing on flowers, plants, and trees that add color to the city and indoors. It contains 15 basic tile types and a large volume of 67 sheets including differentials!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3180890/RPG_Maker_MZ__NATHUHARUCA_Green_Tilesets/


"Demon Lord Army Set 2" is a collection of side-view enemy images. The set includes 168 images, including diffs, as well as face sets and battle backgrounds.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3180950/RPG_Maker_MZ__Demon_Lord_Army_Set_2/


"Labyrinths around the World" is a unique collection of BGM with the theme of ‘low difficulty early stage dungeon BGM’. It includes various variations of dungeon music, such as dimly lit caves and ruins.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3180900/RPG_Maker_MZ__Labyrinths_around_the_World/
https://youtu.be/QgupCGltda8


"Nid Retro RPG BGM vol.1" is a collection of songs that give the RPG a nostalgic atmosphere. It contains a total of 24 tracks, including dungeon, battle, and ME tracks.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3180910/RPG_Maker_MZ__Nid_Retro_RPG_BGM_vol1/
https://youtu.be/8xH_wgNBE8k


"Leila's Farming Game Soundtrack" is a collection of music inspired by farm RPG games. It is recommended for background music for farm and rural maps.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3180940/RPG_Maker_MZ__Leilas_Farming_Game_Soundtrack/
https://youtu.be/CmpS6JyS7mU


In addition, the popular "OTANI PIXEL FANTASY ENEMY PACK" series has been updated!　Each of them has additional color variations, and the number of items included has been greatly increased from 30 to 60 each!　Please check them out!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1715450/RPGMZ__Otani_Pixel_Fantasy_Enemy_Pack_Vol1/

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1837120/RPG_Maker_MZ__Otani_Pixel_Fantasy_Enemy_Pack_Vol2/

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1874600/RPG_Maker_MZ__Otani_Pixel_Fantasy_Enemy_Pack_Vol3/

More tiles from Kokoro Reflections! More heroes from Gee-kun-soft!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3195600/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Fairy_Tale_Forest_Tileset/

Visit magical forests where elves live in the trees and fairies live in giant mushrooms with the KR Fairy Tale Forest Tileset pack! Kokoro Reflections is back with another MV/MZ-sized tileset that lets you add a whole new location in your forest dungeons. Interior and exterior tiles are ready to add natural wood, bright green plants, and squishy giant mushrooms to your forest villages! A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, and 6 B sheets are perfect for making quirky hedge mazes, flower-filled gnome villages, towering trees that contain treehouses in their trunks, and more!

Create a forest with a selection of normal trees and bushes, but slowly add larger and larger mushrooms until your heroes are walking along small wooden bridges from flat mushroom cap to mushroom cap while giant oyster mushrooms burst from tree trunks and conical mushrooms replace all of the trees. Have your heroes keep walking until they find the arched wooden bridge that leads to the hidden fairy village. Create wooden signs held up with vines so that your heroes can easily find their way to the item shop or inn, and build houses with giant flowers on top of them or stone buildings with grass roofs. Have your heroes rest in rooms where all the furniture is wood and the lanterns are made out of magical flowers, let them wake up with a magical buff so they’re ready for their next adventure.

This pack also includes 6 door character sprites and an animated rock pool of water! Have your heroes knock on arched or circular doors to get blessings from the forest folk, and recover their MP with a comfortable dip in the pool. Pick up the KR Fairy Tale Forest Tileset and give your forest-dwelling characters lush homes to live in and mystical forests some oversized mushrooms!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3195640/RPG_Maker_MZ__RPG_Character_Pack_14/

Add more helpful merchants, commanding directors, and plot-heavy nurses to your games with the RPG Character Pack 14! Gee-kun-soft is back with another MZ-styled character pack with 16 new characters to populate your game’s world. 11 women and 5 men are ready to take on important jobs in your story, from nurses who can heal your heroes after dangerous fights to a veteran agent who can offer new quests or teach your heroes a new skill or two if you impress him! Fill your hospital maps with 4 different nurses with different hairstyles and uniforms to denote which hospital wings they work in, take orders from a youthful commander in her dress whites alongside other uniformed agents, form an unusual team with a brunette assassin and wing-eared magician, and more with this pack!

Each character comes with a character sprite, downed sprites, front view battler image with multiple color variations, faceset and bust art each with 8 emotions, and SV battler sheets so you can choose to have each character be as minor or important as you want! Introduce your players to a bear-eared healer who spends her days working at the group’s base until you befriend her enough to bring her out on adventures, or give your traveling a relaxed smile when he is offering new equipment for sale. And as a bonus, this pack also includes a high-resolution full body art for each character so you can size them to perfectly fit your game or give your players a good look at them in your game’s codex. So if you’ve been wanting a few more NPCs in their work uniforms or need to add some uniquely skilled party members to the team, check out the RPG Character Pack 14!

New Sewer Tiles, New Enemies to fight. Two new packs for RPG Maker, now live!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3115730/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Sewer_Central_Tileset/

Make sure you’re wearing some heavy duty boots before climbing down into trash-filled tunnels made with the KR Sewer Central Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is back with another detailed tileset size for MV and MZ, focusing on the damp, grimey, floors and walls you’d expect if you dropped down a manhole and started exploring a sewer tunnel. A1, A2, and A4 tiles are ready to help you build concrete and brick tunnels deep underground, and B sheets offer up a variety of pipes, wall decorations, and trash to help make each path feel unique.

Send your heroes down a staircase to wander next to noxious green or brown water in the hopes of finding a bandit’s hideout filled with barrels and chests. Or let them follow metal pipes along the tunnels to locate where a slime is clogging the pipes so that the townsfolk can safely use their sinks again. Have your heroes follow bright graffiti between piles of trash to confront a young troublemaker who could join the party, and enter the sewer under a castle to gain access to a small jail that’s been forgotten by most of the people living above the ground.

This pack also includes 8 character sprites to add doors and more to your maps. Keep your heroes out of certain areas with metal gates, at least until they pull a lever tucked away on a nearby wall. Light the tunnels with dancing flames and mark a special room with tall wooden doors that open up to reveal a side room where red treasure chests wait to be opened. So if your modern game needs a sewer level or you want to offer a smelly way to sneak into a castle’s jail, check out the KR Sewer Central Tileset!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3115740/RPG_Maker_MZ__Tyler_Warren_RPG_Battlers__10th__Little_Monsters_and_Robots_1/

Add some quirky lil’ creatures to your battles with Tyler Warren RPG Battlers - 10th - Little Monsters and Robots 1! Tyler Warren is back with his unique colored pencil art style to deliver 40 new battlers for your heroes to challenge. Get ready to battle armored sea creatures, well-dressed cyclops, angry robots, and more! Have your heroes battle against waves of red-cloaked cultists who can summon living tree stumps to ride and bright mushrooms that can release poisonous clouds of spores, or sneak past them by going underground where green-plated insects live in peace with little yellow cyclops and clouds of living smoke. Let your players explore modern city streets and sci-fi warehouses where robots designed for drilling, floating, grabbing, and fighting roam looking for trespassers, and face off against the enhanced Cyclops Siblings after your heroes beat up a baby sea turtle in the hopes of gaining a special shield!

Each enemy comes in multiple sizes so you can simply pick one that fits your game’s screen size without any resizing on your part, as well as pixel art versions with 9 different color versions inspired by the palettes of the GameBoy, NES, TimeFantasy, and more! Have your enemies match the palette of the rest of your retro pixel art game, or use them to show when your heroes are playing a combat-heavy minigame. Pick up Tyler Warren RPG Battlers - 10th - Little Monsters and Robots 1 and add a bunch of new monsters for your heroes to defeat to your games!

Gee-kun-soft is back with another fantasy character pack, and Kokoro Reflections are back with a new palace tileset!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3115990/RPG_Maker_MZ__Fantasy_Character_Pack_2/

Fill your wild adventures with nature-loving elves, armored beastmen, and dark magic devils with the Fantasy Character Pack 2! Gee-kun-soft is here with another character pack, this time offering up a set of 16 characters who can be party members, deadly foes, helpful NPCs, and more. Complete side quests to help out a human necromancer who smirks whenever you finish a job for her, team up with a beady-eyed sharkman who wants to prove he is strong even out of the ocean, and discover the enemy leader you’ve been hunting was the kimono-wearing princess who can control origami to destroy anyone in her way!

Each character comes with a walking character sprite, SV battler, enemy images, facesets with 8 different emotions, and bust images, so each character can fit into whatever idea you have. Let your players choose between playing as a red-headed princess dressed in medieval armor or a blonde elf who wields a wooden sword infused with plant magic, affecting which villages your players can safely enter during the first half of the game. Or have them play as a furry wolf archer who stumbles into a human strategist’s dangerous plot to remove all the beastmen from the kingdom! Have a pair of bumbling pink-haired devils pop up repeatedly to try to stop your heroes from clearing dungeons, and have a sweet lioness healer join the party to help defeat an armored and battle-crazed lizardman.

This pack also includes high-res full body art for each character, so you can resize them to perfectly fit your game or show off their complete designs in an in-game codex. So if your game has needed some new furry companions or you’ve been wanting some more devil and elf enemies, pick up the Fantasy Character Pack 2!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3115960/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Sky_Palace_Tileset/

Reward your heroes for exploring the skies with a marble castle in the clouds thanks to the KR Sky Palace Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is back with another MV/MZ tile pack to add a new palace in your world, with A1, A2, A4, A5, and 3 B sheets (with a color variation each for a total of 6 B sheets) ready to create marble rooms decorated with golden beds and furniture, gardens that float in the middle of the air, throne rooms with silver stairs and carved pillars, and more! Have your heroes visit a temple built in the clouds to gain new buffs from sculptures of ancient warriors, or visit a god who relaxes in a throne in the center of a diamond-shaped room who can just as easily offer a curse if your gift displeases them. Let them enjoy tasty meals while surrounded by gold-leafed trees and rest in softer-than-cloud beds after saving the princess of the sky palace. Just try to avoid upsetting anyone, otherwise your heroes may end up spending a few nights in the palace’s small prison instead of visiting a relaxing sauna!

9 character sprites for metal cells doors and a wall-mounted lever make it easy to keep your heroes out of areas they’re not allowed into yet and to hold captured enemies in the basement of the castle. This pack also includes 31 parallax images so you can show your palace floating high in the clouds no matter the time of day or weather! Pick up the KR Sky Palace Tileset and create your own Olympus for your heroes to visit and rule!

We are planning a creator-focused horror event, called the RPG Maker Horror Festival, that is open to all Steam games that fall within the horror genre!

Submissions for the event are now open! Other than the basic requirements listed below, the event is open to all games!
And of course we’re hoping many submissions will be looking to use Steam’s Broadcast function too!
If this sounds like the kind of event for your game, please complete the submission form linked below.

■Eligibility Requirements
・The game qualifies as a horror game in theme/tone.
・The game is currently available for sale or distribution on Steam. (Unreleased titles are also allowed if already completed registration with Steam)
※Games that were not made with a Maker series engine such as RPG Maker or Pixel Game Maker MV are allowed.


■Submission Form
Please complete one of the following forms to submit your game(s) for consideration.
※The form requires a Google account.

･For Japanese Domestic Participants
https://forms.gle/fNZGiuiDduRdxGTA6


･For International Participants
https://forms.gle/6a3MpUZoCRKCGXMq8


･For Traditional Chinese participants
https://forms.gle/mkoLDQvr9vLbfM8U8


■Submission Deadline
・Japan Time：August 22, 2024 (Thurs.) 23:59 (11:59 PM)
・Pacific Time：August 22, 2024 (Thurs.) 06:59 (6:59 AM)
※If many submissions for use of Steam Broadcast are received, Gotcha Gotcha Games will make a decision as necessary.

We hope everyone with a horror game will decide to participate and help make this event a big success!

This week, two tile sets for fantasy with different atmospheres, an Enemy Material Collection, and three music DLCs are available!

"Dark Castle Assets Top View Ver" is a collection of tiles and character assets inspired by medieval castles. It also includes walking graphics and is useful for creating exploratory adventure games.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3119090/RPG_Maker_MZ__Dark_Castle__Assets_Top_View_Ver/


"EX Graphic Village Expansion" includes unique tiles that can be used to represent small boats, blacksmiths, and more. It can also be combined with the separately sold "EX Graphic Basic Set" to further expand the range of expression!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3119110/RPG_Maker_MZ__EX_Graphic_Village_Expansion/


"NATHUHARUCA MEGA MONSTER PACK" is a collection of Enemy assetls featuring colorful monsters.It is a large collection of materials containing 30 monster types (total 786 monsters including color differences + different sizes).

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3119070/RPG_Maker_MZ__NATHUHARUCA_MEGA_MONSTER_PACK/


"Retro Game Console Sound BGM SET 2" is the second volume of a BGM collection using sound sources from actual retro game hardware from the good old days. It contains 26 tracks, mainly up-tempo songs that can be used in action games.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3119080/RPG_Maker_MZ__Retro_Game_Console_Sound_BGM_SET_2/
https://youtu.be/SW59tluJDUY


"Piano Battle and Fantasy Music Pack" is a collection of battle and fantasy themed piano music. It contains 12 songs with a quiet and atmospheric tone.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3119100/RPG_Maker_MZ__Piano_Battle_and_Fantasy_Music_Pack/
https://youtu.be/ls3FUK5zJ_U


"PearFinch’s Cybernetic Battle BGM" is a science fiction-themed music collection featuring 23 science fiction-specific songs for battle scenes.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3119120/RPG_Maker_MZ__PearFinchs_Cybernetic_Battle_BGM/
https://youtu.be/fJePW1dDw2g

Two new packs, one for creating your perfect feline cafe, and one for designing an amazing 8-bit retro style game are here!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3115680/RPG_Maker_MZ__Cat_Cafe/

We’ve got the purr-fect pack for lovers of both cats and coffee today, with the Cat Cafe pack! Yeaka is here with a tileset and character combo pack to create a massive pack that can help you make as many pleasant cat-filled coffee shops and stores as your game could possibly need! A2, A3, A4, A5, and 14 B sheets offer up a variety of wood, carpet, furniture, and cat supplies to fill a full city with a different cat cafe on every corner.

Build a cozy cafe with wooden floors decorated with scattered cat paws and put up some coffee-themed wallpaper to surround tables and chairs where heroes and townsfolk can sit and enjoy cute cats. Keep the kitties healthy with clean litter, fresh water, and bowls and bowls of catfood, and have your players choose which cat toys and collars they’ll give their cats when they adopt them. And if you need a more serious place to meet for coffee, then use the simpler white or black furniture and coffee signs with just a few potted plants as pops of color.

This pack also contains 150 character sheets of cats with various patterns, ears, and tails so that you can give your cat dad a distinct family of kitties. Add some Scottish folds, calicos, hairless Sphynx, and even robotic cats for your allergic heroes to cuddle! And if that wasn’t enough, there are also cat-themed icons, a cat paw faceset, windowskins, and PSD files for the cats so you can make your own perfect cat. If your game has been lacking a cute cafe filled with cat-related art, or you just need more options for cats in your game, then pick up the Cat Cafe pack!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3115630/RPG_Maker_MZ__LoBit_RPG_Pixel_Art_Asset_Pack/

Give your retro-inspired game a fresh coat of 8-bit paint with the Lo-Bit RPG Pixel Art Asset Pack! Finalbossblue is back with a brand new style, focusing on 8x8 tiles mixed and matched in a limited palette to create a gorgeous tileset to help you build villages, forests, castles, caves, and more! A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, and a B sheet are ready to create every map you need to tell your story of heroes saving the day.

Craft a quilt of grass and dirt surrounded by water to give your heroes a world map to wander around, and dot it with small houses, castles, and temples to give your heroes more places to visit between exploring dungeons. Make a rock-filled mining town where the NPCs are waiting for enemy bats to be chased off from the nearby caverns and snowy regions where snow-covered trees surround shops that sell incredible healing potions. Send your heroes to visit the king in his extravagant castle before heading deep into the forest to stop the villainous living armor that has set up its base in a trap-filled stone temple.

This pack also includes 2 windowskins that match the look of the tiles as well as 11 character sheets to populate your game! Have jesters dance and guards pace in place to add more movement to your maps with 64 idle characters (each with a color variation), and let your heroes walk between flickering torches to open treasure chests and battle enemies that stalk around the map. Give your game an old-school look to enhance your story with the Lo-Bit RPG Pixel Art Asset Pack!

Kokoro Reflections are here with two new tilesets perfect for a cozy game!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3011760/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Country_Cottage_Tileset/

Build your heroes a cozy home to return to after years of battle with the KR Country Cottage Tileset! Kokoro Reflections has crafted a soft set of interior and exterior tiles to let you make colorful fields of flowers, meandering paths in a garden, and thatched roof houses for kind witches and cheerful families to live in! A1, A2, and A4 tiles along with 4 B sheets offer up all you need to make houses into homes with cozy furniture and all sorts of decorations to tell players about who lives there without any words. Give a grouchy old man who lives in the small cottage made from wicker and plaster a garden full of potted plants and a large wooden workstation with empty pots and small shovels to show that he has a soft spot for flowers, and give the local witch a home filled with bright and cheery sunflowers.

Build a base for your heroes to recover with fully furnished bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens filled with fresh produce to make some stat-boosting food, or use the sets of wildflowers to add more colors and textures to your outdoor maps. This pack also includes flames to light up the fireplace and wooden doors to give your heroes access to relaxing interiors. So if you’ve been wanting to create a cute little village or need a comfy house in a field of wildflowers, pick up the KR Country Cottage Tileset!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3062900/RPG_Maker_MZ__KR_Flower_Forest_Tileset/

Add even more bursts of colors and sweet scents to your maps with the KR Flower Forest Tileset! Kokoro Reflections is back with a set of exterior tiles to make your heroes sneeze. Filled with larger-than-life flowers and marble pillars and fences, this pack can make magical forests, relaxing parks, a giant’s garden, and more!

A1, A2, A4, and A5 tiles as well as 5 B sheets are ready to turn any outdoors map into a fantastical garden or plant-filled dungeon where beauty hides danger. Show your players how much magic is in the area with grasses that come in greens, yellows, blues, pinks, and white, and scatter mushrooms in the shadows of trees and tall lush hedges. White moonflowers, blue roses, yellow sunflowers, and pink tulips come in multiple angles and sizes so that you can let your heroes wander under towering flowers or walk beside normal-sized flowers growing in beds. Let them walk under arches decorated with the different flowers and explore stone paths around small flowers. And when they’ve had enough of the pretty flowerbeds, have them follow scattered petals that grow in size until they’ve entered a mystical forest where marble fences trap them in pollen-filled fields!

This pack also includes spraying water fountains to add more movement to your garden maps along with a white marble box that can hold all sorts of goodies for your heroes to find. Pick up the KR Flower Forest Tileset and create gorgeous gardens created with magic or dungeons where your heroes shrink down to the size of bugs!