RPGBoss

Name: RPGBoss
Rating: 3.7 (3 reviews)

Cross-platform 2D role playing game maker.

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What is RPGBoss?

Rpgboss is a RPG game creating software like RPG Maker, very easy to use and no-programming knowledge need.

Forums available on freeforums.net: http://rpgboss.freeforums.net/

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Discontinued

The project seems no longer developed. Latest commit dates back June 2017 and latest pre-release, 0.9.8, on December 31, 2015. It can be still downloaded from GitHub.

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RPGBoss Features

Endless gameplayRPGBoss offers at least one game mode that allows you to play indefinitely.

RPGBoss information

Developed byTommy Cli
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
Written in
Scala
RatingAverage rating of 3.7
Alternatives24 alternatives listed

Supported Languages

English

GitHub repository

318 Stars
147 Forks
173 Open Issues
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about RPGBoss, and it has gotten 14 likes

RPGBoss was added to AlternativeTo by paulolol on and this page was last updated . RPGBoss is sometimes referred to as RPG Boss.

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dawnster

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Top positive comment• ago

For those interested, there is now a forum for those who use this - hopefully it grows into something useful for new users!

http://rpgboss.freeforums.net/

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AntumDeluge

Thank you so much! Very helpful! :)

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adenfauzan

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Top positive comment• ago

Hello! i am a big fans of games.and in a few years.I have a quetion. How games are made? and can I also make one? Then I discovered there are some engines to make games but...,I am not good at programing. and the two best game engine (Game Maker and RPG maker) are shareware. But recently there are some other alternative being developed. for the game maker,I found Enigma Engine and its looks so similar and for rpg maker i found many simmilar alternatives and i have compare some of them and this is some reason i choose RPGboss are:

1.Very cool editor look 2.the best built in ghrapic (the tilesets its look like for vx) 3.unique stats system and maybe its easier 4.already work battle system(but its not perfect yet) 5.many more cool recources at the website asset serfer and a sample game (lost ghost mansion) 6. 3 tile level (the other is only 2)

if you are intrested,check the website and contribute

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AntumDeluge

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Review• ago

(written for RPGBoss version 0.9.8)

I really like this app. It is a completely free alternative to RPG Maker. I haven't used RPG Maker that much, but from what I can tell, the style is similar. Currently, it even comes with some RPG Maker sprites & tilesets.

Unfortunately, development has not been very active recently & it needs many improvements & fixes. I commend the developers on an excellent job. The design is well done. But there is much work to be done & many open issues & requests remain open on the GitHub project page.

What I like:

all-in-one interface with built-in map editor
easy to learn
easy to add art & other assets
games can be easily tested from within editor
one-click exporting of games
open source (GNU AGPL v3.0)
cross-platform
- both the editor & exported games should work on any platform that supports Java & its GUI libraries (libgdx I believe)

Some improvements/fixes I think it needs:

options for more battle system types
animated battle sprites
a more dynamic method of setting/changing character sprites
ability to remove entities from maps (may already have this capability but I have not found it yet)
number of map layers are limited (users should be able to set their own layers)
default autotile tileset should be removable from maps
UI needs some fixes:
- some dialogs are too big & need scrolling capability
- tilesets can only be removed from latest added
support for Tiled Map Editor maps
current sprite & tileset assets need replaced
- the RPG Maker art assets distributed with the program are not licensed for use in engines other than RPG Maker (game developers will likely run into complaints from RPG Maker owners)

Bugs:

tileset size is limited & causes game crashes
- to fix:
- either increase/remove limit on image dimensions or ...
- show a message at game startup about incompatible tilesets
tilesets can be removed from maps without removing references
- this causes editor & game crashes

Some things I don't really like, but perhaps not as important:

requires Java runtime to play games (doesn't output native binaries)
- this is nice, however, for portability & distribution on multiple platforms

While I do have many complaints about RPGBoss in its current state, there are very few free & open-source 2D RPG game making projects at its level. I would say that the best free alternative to it is RPG Toolkit. However, in my opinion, RPGBoss has a one-up on RPG Toolkit as games produced with it can be played on multiple platforms. While RPG Toolkit currently only supports outputting Windows binaries.

[Edited by AntumDeluge, December 21, 2017 @ 15:39 PDT]