Options like an area fill, move tool, and copy/paste streamline the cartographic creation process a bit, and you can jump in and test play the area at any time to get a feel for how it will work on the ground. Either way, map-making is relatively straightforward: you pick graphical elements from a palette, and then ‘paint’ them onto the canvas using the stylus, or buttons if you prefer. There are preset samples in each category - which helps enormously in getting off the ground - but you can also start from scratch. Maps come in four basic types: world maps, cities, dungeons, and interiors. Here you’ll be able to create up to 99 different areas, and eventually link them together to tell your tale.

We started our initial tour of RPG Maker in the Maps section, and that felt like a good choice. There’s no tutorial or real guidance given at this stage - we’ll come back to that - but diving in, it’s relatively easy to get a feel for how each piece works in concert: maps are where you’ll create the geography of your game, events are the tools you’ll use to tell the story, control behaviours, and ‘program’ set pieces, and the Database holds all of the information that gets called on to make your game unique - characters, monsters, weapons, and so on. When you jump into RPG Maker Fes, you’ll be greeted with a basic menu that lays out the three main components of game creation: Maps, Events, and the Database.

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