If you haven’t already acquired RMXP for yourself, it can be purchased on the Enterbrain website or on the Steam Store, where it normally retails for $ 24.99 USD. It features a map editor, a database for modifying events and tilesets, a script editor using RGSS (Ruby Game Scripting System), and several other useful tools. RMXP, or RPG Maker XP, is a program by Enterbrain for creating your own 2D role-playing games. Fangame Tutorials: Editor.exe and Metadata Editing.

A guide to beginning Pokémon fangame development in RMXP.Basing it in the same universe/characters, but making everything down to the art and sound and plot progression, all ourselves. My team is doing similarly with a Dragon Quest fan game stemming from a 80's anime. XD Because that actually IS using the work with no effort in that part. But using their actual whole work such as art/sounds/code/etc. tbh legality of 'I like the thing let me make something of it with my own hands' *BAM* C&D is really stupid and should be changed. That way should a C&D occur, you can just change all of them a little into your own creatures instead of being completely without any art assets for the long while. But not using any official material would give you a huge advantage over that - such as drawing all the pokemon yourself in different poses. And most people who make fangames don't want to make jokes about what they are a fan of.įrom what I've heard, Nintendo is one of the more notorious for shutting down fan projects while companies like SquEnix are bit more lax as long as you follow certain rules. In case of fangames the ONLY way to claim fair use is to have the game be a parody of the original. THAT is the reason why sometimes fangames and fanfiction can exist for years before suddenly vanishing (like it happened with the pokemon essentials), because only after years the IP holder learned of their existance.Īnd 'Fair use' almost never counts for fangames, because there are requirements about the cases where fair use can be applied. So in any kind of fangame and fanfiction you usually have to hope that no one will ever like it, because the more people like and link it the higher the chance that it will come to the knowledge of the IP holder.

The problem with copyright is that only the copyright-holder can enforce it, and if the company holding the rights does not know about your game, then it can't be forbidden.

As said above, a fangame (like all fanfiction and similar work) is always illegal.

How to make pokemon games in rpg maker