{"id":17727,"date":"2025-02-13T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T09:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/i-made-the-worst-role-playing-game-of-all-time-and-loved-every-minute-of-it\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T09:37:38","slug":"i-made-the-worst-role-playing-game-of-all-time-and-loved-every-minute-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/i-made-the-worst-role-playing-game-of-all-time-and-loved-every-minute-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I made the worst role-playing game of all time \u2013 and loved every minute of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RPG Maker was launched in 1992 and has become increasingly complex, but it\u2019s still a remarkably accessible way to make adventure games with no development experience<\/p>\n<p>It is said that every 100 years, a small fishing village on the southern coast of an unknown fantasy realm holds a magical artisanal cheese festival. As an adventurer and fan of ethically produced dairy products, you are determined to attend the fabled event, arriving at the dock on a small boat with only a few gold coins and a dream. This is the backdrop to the worst role-playing adventure I have ever experienced \u2013 and, entirely coincidentally, the only one I have ever designed.<\/p>\n<p>The game creation package RPG Maker has been around since 1992, the first version launching on the Japanese PC-98 computer. Since then, development has been passed from veteran Japanese developer ASCII to Enterbrain and then Chiyoda-based Gotcha Gotcha Games, and dozens of instalments have appeared. Although it has become increasingly complex over the years, RPG Maker remains a remarkably intuitive way to make adventure games with no development experience at all.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/feb\/13\/rpg-maker-game-development-i-made-the-worst-role-playing-game-of-all-time\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/13f826e3116a041462e6cea8b707627ec805ed38\/663_422_2526_1516\/master\/2526.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9da8c321ef352d904617d375df2561cb\" title=\"I made the worst role-playing game of all time \u2013 and loved every minute of it\" \/>RPG Maker was launched in 1992 and has become increasingly complex, but it\u2019s still a remarkably accessible way to make adventure games with no development experience<br \/>\nIt is said that every 100 years, a small fishing village on the southern coast of an unknown fantasy realm holds a magical artisanal cheese festival. As an adventurer and fan of ethically produced dairy products, you are determined to attend the fabled event, arriving at the dock on a small boat with only a few gold coins and a dream. This is the backdrop to the worst role-playing adventure I have ever experienced \u2013 and, entirely coincidentally, the only one I have ever designed.<br \/>\nThe game creation package RPG Maker has been around since 1992, the first version launching on the Japanese PC-98 computer. Since then, development has been passed from veteran Japanese developer ASCII to Enterbrain and then Chiyoda-based Gotcha Gotcha Games, and dozens of instalments have appeared. Although it has become increasingly complex over the years, RPG Maker remains a remarkably intuitive way to make adventure games with no development experience at all. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RPG Maker was launched in 1992 and has become increasingly complex, but it\u2019s still a remarkably accessible way to make adventure games with no development experience It is said that every 100 years, a small fishing village on the southern coast of an unknown fantasy realm holds a magical artisanal cheese festival. As an adventurer &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/i-made-the-worst-role-playing-game-of-all-time-and-loved-every-minute-of-it\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I made the worst role-playing game of all time \u2013 and loved every minute of it<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}