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RPG Maker

Video game creation system software series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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RPG Maker, known in Japan as RPG Tsukūru , is a series of programs for the development of video games generally for role-playing game (RPGs) and adventure game genres, originally created by the Japanese group ASCII. The Japanese name, Tsukūru, is a pun mixing the Japanese word tsukuru (作る), which means "make" or "create", with tsūru (ツール), the Japanese transliteration of the English word "tool".

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“RPG Maker” enters the record as video game creation system software series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Maker, Video and game can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “RPG Maker” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.