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Humble Weekly Bundle: RPG Maker VX Ace, copious DLC
This week's Humble Bundle gives you all the tools you need to make a 16-bit styled JRPG, offering up RPG Maker VX Ace and a boatload of associated DLC to assist budding RPG storytellers. Pay any amount (minimum $1) for the bundle and you'll get a Steam-redeemable copy of the game-creation toolkit RPG Maker VX Ace and a collection of four graphical and music resource packs. The pack also features six games made with RPG Maker, including Steam copies of Skyborn and Sweet Lily Dreams. Buyers who pay at least $6 will also receive the software alternative RPG Maker XP, more DLC, and six additional RPG Maker games, including To the Moon and Deadly Sin 2. The highest reward tier, which adds RPG Maker's Game Character Hub and Legionwood 2: Rise of the Eternal's Realm, can be unlocked with a minimum $12 purchase. [Video: Humble Bundle]
Online game sharing confirmed for RPG Maker DS
Image source: Famitsu The RPG creation game with a very appropriate name, RPG Maker DS, has just raised the bar on itself. Famitsu reports gamers will not only be able to share game data locally, but also online via Wi-Fi Connect. You'll be able to swap the smallest of things, like items and monsters, right up to full games. Now if that doesn't scream replay value, we don't know what does. Of course, this news really only affects Japanese gamers, as a localization isn't that likely. Still, that's not to say there isn't any hope you'll be able to play the thing, especially considering that there's already an English-speaking community established for the game. [Via SIliconera]
RPG Maker DS: Make RPGs on the DS
The long-running RPG Maker series has appeared on PC, Super Famicom, PlayStation, and other home systems, but now Japanese game designers will be able to make portable RPGs. Using the RPG Maker DS software, players can create characters, environments, monsters, set sound effects and music, and even create special "event" items like chests and save points.All the screens show premade monster and character graphics being used -- from some 800 character pieces, 150 sounds, and 1500 map features, but you'll be able to make your own if you're patient enough (the stylus helps in that regard). There's also some kind of wireless support, though we don't know if it means you'll get to share your elaborate, strategic Twilight fanfic scenario online or not.RPG Maker DS will be out January 28. We're really hoping Agetec, who has published RPG Makers in North America, picks this one up for us. It's hard enough to play RPGs in Japanese, much less make them.
Barkley brings the jam in homebrew RPG demo
Ever since 1994's Barkley: Shut Up and Jam revolutionized the world of two-on-two basketball games, fans everywhere have been clamoring for a sequel. Unfortunately, the fat cat game industry executives that control these things are sitting blind in their ivory towers, unaware of the massive marketing potential for a game endorsed by the Round Mound of Rebound in today's complex game market.Enter homebrew developer Chef Boyardee, who stepped in where the rights-holders wouldn't to create Tales of Game's Studios Presents Chef Boyardee's Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa. The game takes everything you loved about Shut Up and Jam -- the pixelated graphics, the tinny sound, and, of course, Charles Barkley -- and puts it in a post-apocalyptic RPG world where basketball has been outlawed. This might require some adjustment for those expecting a straight-up, NBA Jam-style basketball game, but cameos from fan favorites Michael Jordan and Larry Bird will satisfy those nostalgic whims.Download the demo from the Gaming World forums or watch the gripping trailer after the jump.[Via The Independent Game Source]
