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yoooo rpg maker xp is free on steam rn. you can just click the button and you own it, for free https://store.steampowered.com/app/235900/RPG_Maker_XP/

rpg maker xp is free-to-own on steam rn and the whole thing takes up less than half as much space on your hard drive as a single godot "export template". what that means is: this entire tool and all its example content is smaller than a minimal godot game with no content can be!

i suspect it's similar for unity these days but can't easily check.

this isn't a complaint about software bloat, anything below 100MB feels "lightweight" these days, but it is interesting.

oh my god it comes with a .chm (windows html help) file 🥺

i don't want to fetishise the past but. okay well maybe we should, a detailed manual being in a tiny file on your disk in a standard format that has an excellent built-in reader, that was great. i'll take this over a pdf or online-only help any day.

all the background music tracks are just midi files <3

‪this is pretty close to how it sounds normally! RPG Maker XP uses the DirectMusic synth which uses the same soundfont as Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth (derived from Roland GS modules), but isn't so goddamn dry because it actually has reverb and chorus (like Roland GS modules do)‬