{"id":2271,"date":"2026-06-12T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/almost-15-years-of-rpg-history-faces-extinction-rpg-maker-is-shutting-down-forums-loaded-with-tutorials-with-no-plans-for-a-backup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:45:00","slug":"almost-15-years-of-rpg-history-faces-extinction-rpg-maker-is-shutting-down-forums-loaded-with-tutorials-with-no-plans-for-a-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/almost-15-years-of-rpg-history-faces-extinction-rpg-maker-is-shutting-down-forums-loaded-with-tutorials-with-no-plans-for-a-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 15 years of RPG history faces extinction: RPG Maker is shutting down forums loaded with tutorials with “no plans” for a backup"},"content":{"rendered":"


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After a lengthy 14 years or so, RPG Maker is closing the door on its beloved online community forum \u2013 a choice that, unsurprisingly, isn’t exactly going over well with users.<\/p>\n

If you’re out of the loop, RPG Maker is pretty much a holy grail for many indie devs. It allows folks \u2013 even those of us (like me) with little to no coding or development experience \u2013 to create games and then share them. <\/p>\n

Some notable examples include horror projects like Ib and Omori, but there are plenty<\/em> out there \u2013 so many, in fact, that Steam had an RPG Maker tag on its store in the past to sort them all. Put simply, it’s an amazingly accessible game engine.<\/p>\n

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