RPG Creator 12+

I’ve been using this app for the past couple of days and enjoying it. It’s easy to understand and much more intuitive than I expected. It’s a bit lacking in options, but as expected for something like this. What really hurting for me though is a particular bug. During combat whenever I attack the game crashes. The fight command is the only time this happens, but it happens every time. It happens on both my iPhone and iPad. It’s the only time I’ve encountered a crash like this though. I hope that this is something that can be fixed because otherwise, I think this app is really cool.

I’ve just picked this RPGC up after wanting to see if there were any new “Game Development Software” on the ios market, since I last looked about a year ago, and found this one to not only look decent from the developer’s media, but look like it had some fairly decent customization options to use. When I got into the software it took only a few minutes for me to figure out how to use the map editor properly; though there are still undo bugs with it. The Event Editor I’m still playing with, and I have read a lot of the comments, it seems like most “Event” commenters are placing far too many events into a map and the source script either is taking a while to process them all, or can’t and just crashes. (NOTE: With the 300 tile max for free edition, a possible 25x21 map size has 96 edge tiles, if you have all sides lined with “Move To” events that’s 92 events the game has to process BEFORE the player’s input. Divide that by the Logic Ticks per second the game runs on (probably 24) and you have lots of input lag on the controls. FIX: Limit Events to <20 for best results. Logic Ticks =\= FPS.)All things considered, this is the best ios Game Dev App I’ve ever tried, and anyone wanting to try and make a retro rpg should definitely take a look at.

It's a fun little tool. I bought the premium version, and I've had a blast putting my game together, even though I knew squat about programming. However, there are a few things that desperately need to be fixed:
The game crashes if you enter a battle while in the Confused state.
There needs to be a way to publish games on other platforms, such as being able to make it downloadable on the App Store, Steam, personal websites, etc. Many people, such as myself, have invested hours upon hours working in their games, so there needs to be a way to at least play a game without using the RPG Creator app.
Battle dialogue needs to be able to be edited. For some reason, when I enter a battle in my play tests, the word "of" often appears next to nouns. For example, the battle dialogue will say "Aliceof attacks!" or "Received 50 Goldof!". At the very least, the "of" issue needs to be fixed.
The app is great for aspiring creators, but it does have some glaring issues that can easy be fixed by the developers. I hope you see this, developers: people are forking over $8 for your app. It's important that you fix the issues they're pointing out.