About

RPGWizard is an open-source 2D game creation tool that specialises in making RPGs. It comes with a graphical editor and browser based game engine, both of which are completely free-to-use.

History

RPGWizard owes its heritage to another now inactive RPG creation tool, the RPGToolkit, from which RPGWizard was originally forked. The fork started on May 21, 2017, and some of the original codebase contains what was meant to be RPGToolkit 4.x. However due to creative differences between the lead developers, swordmaster (Joshua Michael Daly), split from RPGToolkit to start RPGWizard.

Goal of RPGWizard

The goal of the RPGWizard is to fill the niche that exists between WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) RPG creation tools, and writing everything yourself from scratch. Today RPG creators are faced with choosing tools that either offer ease-of-use but no flexibility, or having total flexibility with mountains of code to write themselves.

RPGWizard aims to sit in-between these 2 extremes by providing both a complete editor environment with defined file types, and a mature programming interface with plenty of examples. This will give the user the option to customise their games with code while still providing a level of WYSIWYG editing.