RPG Maker Unite

RPG Maker Unite is a brand new engine from Gotcha Gotcha games which looks like it's building on top of the unity foundation. Does this mean that it's going to have 3D built-in?
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[@kaitlynkitty1917]

If we're getting 3D natively, I hope it also means we can have a first person set up.

[@kaligath6616]

Technically would you not get those 3d natively as this will add tools to unity as unity is a 3d engine to begin with?

[@LEWIS1992]

Wow I'm not even finished the game I was making on MZ yet!! These new iterations of RPG Maker are coming out too fast!!

[@vogonp4287]

I have been using RPG Maker 2003 for a while, so don't feel bad about missing out. I find the limitations of the older versions to be charming. Workarounds are always fun. That, and new engines and game making software is always glitchy at first. I am still using 2003, and MZ for my games.

[@SongoftheLute]

Why is it that this is the only vid I found which is exicited about this? This is mega! Thanks Lvl Up Design that you are excited too!

[@spencer1531]

Wish list: In general I think they need to cater better to people who want to create their own art and presentation for their game, so: -In-engine parallax mapping -When you create a new project, you get to choose the resolution of both the grid and the game window -In-engine pixel art tool (would help to gamify the art process as well) -Option to import individual tiles as well as tile sets -Options for controlling zoom and scale without plugins. -Ease of text box customization akin to something like Tyranobuilder. It should be as simple as importing an image of my custom textbox, creating a gif of the icon, and setting the parameters of where the box, text, icon, and name appear. Gameplay wise: -Diagonal movement without plugins

[@beewo6307]

Will be fun to see once it releases and I can see some "gameplay" with it. Definitely some hyped interest for the time being.

[@carolinarehbein9365]

I think this is not a 3d to 2d, it's more like, forget about the grid and when you select a tree, many options of that will be available, with different shadings and forms.

[@gesochisku118]

I just hope we have non-chibby RTP. And native Linux version like we had on MV.

[@agnuswulf]

Considering Unity works on Linux, that would be a no-brainer

[@ApexPredator1000]

I've been dancing around "Do I want to make my game through RPG maker or properly learn coding for Unity or Unreal?" The ease of RM vs the transferable skills and allowable scope of the other engines. I'm glad I didn't get MZ in the end since this looks like a nice blend of both - but I'd like to know more about just what features I can get from it. My desire is a Persona-inspired RPG with tactical/grid-based battles. Will this make that easier than just starting a Unity project from scratch?

[@LvLUpDesign]

I think every RPG maker so far has had someone create a tactical battle system plugin so I assume that the same will happen this time.

[@ApexPredator1000]

@@LvLUpDesign Indeed! It was my first thought when I watched your video "when will we get a tactical plugin?" Or will we be able to use other unity plugins on top of this one? If so, this could lead to a significant boom in Indie RPGs as the process is made easier/more accessible.

[@PchipsPresents]

Thank you for the proper reveal, RPG Maestro! I lol'd lots, haha! I really hope the interweavings of RPG Maker and Unity run deep with this release. On the Audio side of things: -FMod & Wwise implementability (is that a word?) would tickle many a fancy. -Max/MSP Implementability (sure it's a word now) would be awesome for innovative prototyping -Csound Implementability (love that word) would be totally cool too, and basically any other prototyping middleware access and branching: let the programs/tools work together!

[@cottoncandydoll9705]

Omg this is huge! 😳 I have used by unity and unreal in the past. If it comes with parallax mapping that would already be insane especially for an rpg maker engine. I’m almost done with my game in MZ. I’m excited for this! Thanks for keeping us all updated 😁

[@LvLUpDesign]

Fingers crossed!

[@sirnightw]

I just picked up RPG Maker MZ on sale a few months ago so I think I'll learn the systems first before I get on the 3D hype train!

[@jupiter_ki]

lol … love that personality man ! you’ve help me tremendously with learning how to use MZ as im a total nuuuub 🤣🤣… i literally just bought MZ a month ago😭, and now they tell us this ! haha , huge ! now ima definitely going to have to upgrade ..

[@LvLUpDesign]

Super stoaked that you're loving the vids!

[@RpgBlasterRpg]

Rpg maker on Unity ? 3D Confirmed!

[@DunnoJustLuckyIGuess]

Bro, you're off chops in this video, love it! CATCH (also the new RPG maker looks interesting, but mainly commented because of the 'off chops' thing)

[@LvLUpDesign]

I started filming 1 beer deep and I finished filming 6 deep. That might be why. But I do feel more comfortable making videos with a bit more personality.

[@theoaremevano3227]

Was looking into possibilities for crafting a game and when it comes to what I really wanted to accomplish, as well as what I'll have to work around, this might be what I was looking for. RPG maker in the past always made it easy to put some things together, but then also escalate them quite a bit with any additional knowledge you have. Thinking outside the box while also being able to tweak and learn from some existing 3D assets combined with the convenience of a more game-like manager could be the ideal tool for me. :)

[@yummirtv]

i hope they add durability and multiplayer. that would be the ideal engine!

[@TripTropLove]

Those graphic sets look so friggin cooool

[@kenzuleisti2779]

I bet rpg architect Will be much better

[@ramaum]

maybe we will be able to import our projects from mz? please?

[@mastertrainerg4517]

I just want one rpg maker with different battle systems inclined as default. That's all

[@chrisemptage1366]

I am hyped Unity rocks if we can add a little C# to our games too that would be amazing for us coders not required but as an option also the option to do action RPG’s like Fallout 1 or 2

[@yibisun9735]

Wow, thanks! I am really looking forward for that. By the way, if you do check comments, do you have a discord groups that we can learn and discuss game making?

[@LvLUpDesign]

I did, but it really was a lot of work to maintain so it's kinda dead atm. You can always find great info on the RPG maker forums though. Or if you head over to Driftwood Gamings Discord. He's much more active than me.

[@godot1785]

Sorry for the stupid question but is it from the same devs who did the other rpg makers or are they different people? is this the sequel too rpg maker mz now or do i understand something wrong? anyway I was always hoping that rpg maker gets some competetion. the thing is i love rpg maker and the community but i defintly hate the devs of it.they are selling you a slightly upgraded version of the past rpg maker for 70-80 dollars And the thing is i ( know its called rpg maker duh) always wanted too do a game in rpg maker and i love it because it dosnt require coding but i always hitted my limit fast in terms of creativity and freedom of how i want my game too be even because its an RPG maker.And too hard focus on rpg games.

[@LvLUpDesign]

It's made by the same guys, but it's a different company. It used to be Degica but the Corporation (Kadokawa) did a bunch of restructuring. The main thing about writing RPG's I would say is story though. You can make an RPG on any engine but what really sells an RPG is how invested the player gets with the characters.

[@godot1785]

@@LvLUpDesign yeah but thats the thing.i want too do an story driven game but i wanted too do 0% and rpg actually. i wanted an social-interact with charackters type of game with mini games and rpg maker is the wrong engine for it . its called rpg maker sadly i wished we would have an rpg maker type engine where you have more freedom

[@CleosetricVlyers]

I never been so hype to game engine

[@kaligath6616]

I just hope you can make it so you can walk behind cliffs without coming up with horrible work arounds.

[@DuskMagi]

I hope it doesn't rely on as many plugins as the previous version.

[@WrathOfWood]

I wish there was more info about this, like how does rpgmaker commands work with c# can we make better collision boxes and do things like swing swords with the animation tools.

[@Yann-Y.T]

I have every single RPG maker since XP I am so excited for a new one🥳

[@keenmachine80]

I never made a game on mv or mz , 3k hours in vx ace, so I am excited for this

[@godot1785]

Are the people who bought Mz not pissed tho? I was asking around in some forums and they all told me that its gonna take alot years till the next rpg maker comes and now that rpg maker mz gets the support.now they bought it and already another rpg maker comes without mz getting the support anymore

[@LvLUpDesign]

Hey Godot. (Nice name) RPG maker MZ is still going to get support.

[@godot1785]

@@LvLUpDesign i dont know man ( i admit that i am pessimistic lol,like i said i love the community but i hate the devs) another question i ask myself is why even bother use rpg maker at this point and not just unity? the thing is the only reason i cared for rpg maker was because i dont want too watch tons of tutorials on how too do things.i want too make games and have fun while doing it and not code and shit. why should people care for this rpg maker and not just get unity instead? ( btw great video,and awesome how you reply too many people and actually read comments!)

[@manadecide]

I just bought mz on sale yesterday. So I’m a little pissed off about that.

[@LvLUpDesign]

The idea behind this is that you would use unity. What it looks like is they are building a unity tool. Essentially, you plug it in over the top of unity. The reason you'd get this instead of using unity? Well, it's because all the hard work is already done. RPG Maker Devs seem to stand by the idea of plug and play, drag and drop etc. You could use unity to do the same things, it would just require a lot of coding. (Trust me I spent about $2500 to build a basic, barely functional battle system in unity) Where as this is all done for you. It's essentially RPG maker, but with the power of unity so I can imagine that that community plugins that come out of this would be much more powerful. (I reply to comments because I want to know peoples thoughts about it all. )

[@godot1785]

@@LvLUpDesign *. You could use unity to do the same things, it would just require a lot of coding* thats exactly the point lol why i hate it .people use rpg maker because they dont want too do that. at least in my case.now its going into a direction where stuff gets more complicated.

[@skepsys_d]

I am really looking forward to more info on this new project. I love the idea of this, my biggest fear is that they don't use a current version of Unity. I really hope they don't build it on an old obsolete version like Unity 5 or something. We need 2020 LTS or 2019 LTS at least 👀

[@LvLUpDesign]

2019 is what a lot of people prefer, but we'll have to wait and see.

[@kahriqsalil]

Support for console exporting maybe?

[@igotno_username1739]

I literally just bought rpg maker mz DAMN IT

[@roswuelramirez3169]

omg the good interfaces

[@abejohnson411]

Should I buy MZ or wait for Unite to come out?

[@PFGFrankly]

anyone new wanting to make a game, don't buy the RPG maker now and wait for Rpg maker unite (unless you want to make a pokemon game (XP))

[@mikemaltese7376]

Would we be able to transfer a current project to this new version ?

[@vanching4414]

Should I wait for Rpg Maker Unite to release or buy the MZ version? Newbie user

[@LvLUpDesign]

It's really hard to say as we won't know what Unite really looks like until it comes out. RPG maker has a free trial so you can use the free trial to see if you like MZ. Unity is a powerful engine, but I don't want to give out buying recomendations without having used it myself first. Once I do though, I'll be sure to make videos on it.

[@vanching4414]

@@LvLUpDesign thank u for the reply. Really appreciate it. I’ll Sub so i could see the video about rpg unite.

[@beardalaxy]

My favorite type of pizza is pepperoni and pineapple. Cold. The "3D" looks pre-rendered to me. I don't know why they'd put the character graphics in a grid in the preview image if it wasn't. All I can hope is that it is easy to use. I've tried learning Unity, Unreal, and even CryEngine before and the amount of time I'd have to put in to learn the engine and do what I'd want to with it outweighs the amount of time I want to spend actually working on my games that I already have ideas and plans for in RPG Maker. I know I COULD learn those engines, but would it be worth the time? Not to mention, I'd have to get people making 2D AND 3D art, increasing costs. If there is a sort of "front-end" to Unity that looks/functions/feels similar to RPG Maker, I'd be glad to use it, even just for the prospect of publishing to multiple platforms beyond PC and mobile. There is still no way in hell I'm going to not make at least one game in MZ, I bought it right when it came out so I'd like to actually use it to make something instead of immediately jumping ship. Still, something tells me that this new RPG Maker won't be all it's cracked up to be. Call me a cynic, but I think I'll end up sticking with MZ in the long run.

[@thefopsvids]

✨textures✨

[@LvLUpDesign]

**textures**

[@Source_Boy]

Cool

[@LvLUpDesign]

This is big! Have you ever used Unity before?

[@Source_Boy]

@@LvLUpDesign It's the engine Dani Dev uses.

[@tyleralexander8811]

@@LvLUpDesign unity scares me

[@spadoynkal]

Well dammit!!! I just bought MZ!!

[@yanami1241]

It sounds good on paper but as always it will be bad in the end. All RPG Makers after XP were trash and the artstyle got worse and worse. I'm pretty sure this one will be way too complicated compared to older versions where you need 10 hours to make one decent looking map. These first pictures are already looking horrible to me, the artstyle is totally off. I don'T get why they ever moved away from the XP artstyle. It has still one of the most beautiful 2D graphics to this day.

[@MageArtGreenDragon]

Long time no see my friend. Now looking back at you i realize that you look an aweful lot like Elon Mush lol

[@OverlordShamala]

I've loved the RPG Maker XP characters, but hated the versions extreme chibby type from the following version that popped up later.

[@LONE_SKUM_DOGE]

This means we'll have to purchase plugins again. I'm tired of those new makers. There,s no way I continue using MZ if this drops so I'll have to cancel my project again

[@WorldLore1543]

Why this look too good to be true

[@SSFplayer2]

Honestly not sure how to feel about itsince I just bought like rpg maker mz like 3 months ago XD and already invested like 100 usd with plugins and stuff for my silly project

[@adriandrost4823]

Man, what wonderful news. Was thinking about getting mz. Gonna pass on it.

[@VileSyndicxte]

You're the only person I know who gets a boo-boo on their finger from working on an RPG. Pffft. You _sawft._ 😜

[@LvLUpDesign]

I was actually in a heroic battle between good and evil thank you very much. You should see the other guy.

[@serijas737]

After the latest Unity Malware thing happened with the CEO being a dum dum, I am not really confident I will buy this product at all.

[@LvLUpDesign]

I'm not too worried about the Unity Drama. Their merger with IronSource is to utilise better ads integration, (and they were more spamware than malware) I don't think Unity is acquiring them to install Bing in people's task bar. As for the CEO, that for me is a non issue. It's not like he outwardly said, " I think game devs are idiots" he just really badly tried to make his point. None of these seem like a death match for Unity at all, that's why I'm not to concerned for Unite.

[@serijas737]

@@LvLUpDesign I would just be happy with using C# without using Unity to begin with.

[@blackjew6827]

Good, i just wanted my games to run like shit! fuck Unity.

[@LvLUpDesign]

offt.

[@AzA609]

*PARALLAX MAPPING*

[@ifjNagyMiklos]

It looks more like (bad) vector graphic than cellshade.

[@makermonkey3d782]

Pepperoni

[@Biillytendo]

First

[@LvLUpDesign]

One of these days I'm just going to claim first because I can insider trade that like button~

[@jameswatson7246]

3D

[@omni-legend8555]

Ps4 please

[@siankogames3553]

I'm genuinely pissed. MZ fells like a mobile game, and now rpg maker unite, wich looks bad just BAD. Why an old engine like vx ace fells better, more complete than others, newer ones? I hope they will release a second, non unity based, and normal like any other RPG maker software. It maybe will good, i will try it, and if it will be good, i will use it. But it's experimenting, look at vx, they experimented with different tileset management and what? BAD! And this, might be the second vx, hated, bad, and even if there is hype for it right now, it might die, and everyone will use older rpg makers. Oh and i might need to say one thing, i have 2003, xp, vx, vx ace, mv and mz, and for now, i think that even using 2003 will be better, i will be honest, unity is good, but it's also bad (like most of the things) and rpg maker, didn't have almost any of those issues that unity had! and now, it might have them! so think twice, if it will be worth even buying.

[@BlackWinchester]

But I....I just bought RPG Maker MZ...

[@VahnWyrde]

**textures**

[@LvLUpDesign]

*textures*

[@DunnoJustLuckyIGuess]

@@LvLUpDesign dat asmr vibe tho

[@jneff6456]

Unity is dying... why would I want this? Also, aside from being available in a Unity environment, how is this any better than previous entries? This feels like just another cynical cash grab by Degica.

[@LvLUpDesign]

Not sure about the where the whole Unity is dying sentiment comes from , Unless its still a remnant of how people felt about last year's merger. One of the biggest reasons I'm excited for this engine is the outline editor which will save a lot of time in the development phase. There is the FHD support. At the end of the day it's a Unity tool kit to bring the simplicity or RPG Maker into the Powerful Unity engine. It's not going to be the tool for everyone, and if people don't want it they don't have to get it. The mainline maker series is still going to be supported along side this. Cash grab is a bit cynical, reading all of their blogs on it so far it looks to be a good product. Just adding In here (Not Sponsored)

[@hugodudes5547]

You look like Elon Musk

[@LvLUpDesign]

Yeah but I'm more attractive.

[@MrPoporucha]

*inhales* BOY...GET MY CREDICARD