Role-playing game creation software is a game creation system (software program) intended to make it easy for non-programmers to create a role-playing video game. The target audience for most of these products is artists and creative types who have the imaginative abilities to assemble the elements of a game (artwork, plotline, music, etc.) but lack the technical skill to program it themselves.
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|| 001 Game Creator || || SoftWeir Inc. || 2006 || || || || || A commercial action/RPG maker, it uses a subscription model.
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|| Adventure Construction Set || || Electronic Arts || 1984 || || || || ||An early RPG maker for creating top-down view tile-based role-playing and adventure games. Published for the Commodore 64 and later ported to other 8-bit and early 16-bit microcomputers.
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|| Adventure Creator || || || || || || || ||An early RPG maker for Apple II computers that allowed users to build very simple games. Not to be confused with Graphic Adventure Creator, a simplified version of which was also released as Adventure Creator.
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|| Bard's Tale Construction Set || || Electronic Arts || 1991 || || || || || A (relatively) early RPG maker by Interplay, based on the basic design (first-person view and tile set) of the Bard's Tale games, using a version of the Thief of Fate game engine.
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|| BYOND || || BYOND Software || 1996 || || || || || Used for NEStalgia, and others.
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|| DCGAMES || || DC Software || 1990 || || || || || An Ultima-style RPG game creation system.
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|| EasyRPG
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|| Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures || || Strategic Simulations, Inc. || 1993 || || || || || A commercial game builder by MicroMagic using SSI's "Gold Box" engine.
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|| Lugdunon || || Cinera LLC || || || || || || A 2D online RPG creator platform.
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|| Maker3D || || || || || || || || A 3D RPG creator in manga style.
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|| Mire Engine|| || Making Italia || || || || || || A 2D cross platform game engine using WebGL, DirectX and HTML5.
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|| OHRRPGCE
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| An open source RPG maker.
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|| RPG Creator || || || || || || || || A commercial game development toolkit which runs through HTML5.
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|| RPG Maker || || || || || || || || A commercial Japanese software series that has been released since 1988 for many systems ranging from the PC-8801, MSX, PC-9801, and Microsoft Windows, to the Super Famicom, PlayStation, Game Boy Color, PlayStation 2, and cellphones.
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|| RPG Playground|| ||
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|A free, web based RPG maker to make, share and play RPGs.
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|| RpgBoss || || || || || || || || A cross-platform open source editor and engine based on JavaScript and Scala.
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|| Solarus || || || 2002 || || || || || Open source RPG engine with a custom quest editor.
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|| Sphere RPG Engine || || || 2000 || || || || || A set of open source RPG makers utilizing JavaScript.
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|| Verge || BSD || || 1997 || || || || PSP || An open source 2D game engine with an emphasis on role playing games.
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|| Wolf RPG Editor || || SmokingWOLF || 2008 || || || || || A Japanese RPG creation tool. A "Pro" version with additional functions is sold separately.
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While not an RPG maker per se, the Worldforge game engine is intended for creating MMORPGs.