I do have a alpha availalable but it is quite old and I have made alot of improvements since then, lol.

Vampires Dawn huh, I will check it out, and any Tilesets are compatible, as for Autotiles it's restricted to XP Maker style only at the moment.

Finally I will be needing new graphical resources, due to copyright laws., so yeh sure if you want to design something new go for it, what are your specialities??

hmmm... i have game maker, and I suck at coding
so im pretty sure I can't help you....

Well.. my speciality would be tileseting and tileset editing and sprite making/editing. I made full spritesets for RPG Maker 2k and made several sprites for RPG Maker XP - such as the ass kicking MagicStation 3 and a fat gamer boy carying a controller.

I'll look at it later and comment on the tools but just know, there are already programs that do exactly what you're doing. I actually thought the above screenshot was from RPGMaker.

It would make sense to attempt a free version of RPGMaker if it costs $500 but it only costs $60 a license so that's much harder to compete with. Don't get me wrong, I think what you're doing a fun exercise but just don't expect it to take off (it could, just don't expect it to).

Well... the RPG Makers don't seem to work on my Vista/Windows 7 any more so I hope RPG Inventor works with it.

In my opinion the RPG Toolkit is really awesome, but it has nearly no premade stuff and making EVERYthing yourself (even combat system) is hard. Maybe the RPG Inventor has the same ability as the RPG Maker 2k, that you can change everything offered - combat system, item menues, group menues... - but offers a standard package that works.

I have not tried RPGMaker XP on Windows 7 but it worked for me on Vista so I assume it will work on 7 too.  If anything, just run it compatability mode.  If I think about it I'll install RPGMaker XP on my Windows 7 laptop and see if it works.

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And I'm not saying the OP's efforts are futile, I'm just saying he's trying to fill a niche that has already been filled.  I haven't looked at anything beyond this thread, but so far it looks like RPGMaker XP but without the community and $60 less.  To me, the community is worth $60.

I think making your own thing like that is great and something every one that aspires to be a tools programmer should do.  Hell, I think everyone who wants to be any sort of programmer in the gaming industry should at leasat make their own 2D engine.

I started to one day but never actually got around to finishing it.  >_>

Hmm... it did not work on Vista for me... it always shut down after creating or opening a project

I know what you mean but RPG Maker is too fidely for some users, which is why I already implemented unlimed tilesets per map, it makes users lives so much easier, Next I have to explain my character customisation functionality, which also has new and better features...

Anyway I am doing it because I love RPG's and it's keeping me busy and I already have learned loads so far, as I used to be just a software developer, quite a leap lol, as software development is much easier

So... hmmm... fidely... never heard that before, even my dictionary does not know it...

so hmm, I will try using the RPGI as soon as it gets available for me^^

lool at my obvious typing error, what I meant was it is awkward for user's who want more variety to achieve the same thing in RPG Maker, You have to combine all the Tilesets you wish to use all onto one graphic file, which can be very time consuming...