Es una muy buena pieza de software.

Lo más atractivo en este programa es su sistema de programación visual, (o Visual Scripting) para el cual no necesitas saber programar, tiene muchisimas posibilidades y su linea de aprendizaje es corta (puedes aprenderlo rapidamente) sin embargo los tutoriales no son muy claros, y no están en español hasta la fecha, por esta razón he creado esta serie de tutoriales en youtube para explicar como funciona:

https://youtu.be/8sxz6cC5gIY

Espero les sea de utilidad :), recomiendo mucho el software para principiantes que quieren algo más poderoso y versatil que el RPG Maker

Ojala estuviera en Español, una lastima para los que somos muy basicos en el ingles, de todas formas me informado sobre el programa, y he visto que hay varios juegos Demo, algunos muy bien echos, asi que hay potencial en el programa, pero como digo si no sabes ingles... no te recomendaria comprarlo, a no ser que en un futuro añadan el idioma Español. Solo queda esperar y ver si los desarrolladores se lo piensan y añaden 2 segundo idioma más hablado de la tierra, por mi parte les doy un punto positivo, esperando como digo nuestro idioma, para que pueda llegar mucha más gente a conocer PGM MV.

Compre este producto con un poco de dudas pero luego de probarlo un par de horas me doy cuenta que vale la pena lo recoomiendo si usas programas como RPG Maker Mv

I'll begin this review with I'm 36, not 16. I have no illusions about making a game and distributing it for gain. This is a hobby for me and that is the perspective I write this review from. I have a day job. I moonlight as a hobby pixel artist, and that drives me to dev software to have fun with, and bring it to life.

I began with RPG Maker MV as my first dip into game dev software. I do not have a desire to learn to code so that software was more interesting to me compared to more advanced engines. After years in RMMV I felt the want for more control from the ground up, and not be boxed in by hard limitations from the software, and the need for plugins to break through those hard limitations. Pixel Game Maker MV grants me that feeling. I did not feel like the learning curve to get going on a project was difficult, even without a large database of video tutorial content on YouTube at the time.

Some weaknesses of the software at the time of the review is the dialogue system. It's clunky and not intuitive. The devs understand this though and are working towards improving it. There is also a lack of information on the software, I mean ways to educate yourself and advance in the software to do more complicated mechanics and features. Baz is starting to compile a nice selection of content on YouTube that helps new devs. General bugs as well, the devs are also focused on stability and have shown that in their updates. As a Factorio player this makes me most happy. :) The most legendary bug squashing devs of all time.

The software is about as intuitive as RMMV. Events in Pixel Game Maker MV are "Actions" and after some time with the objects, a dev transitioning from RM should pick up on the software pretty quick. I'm a noob with objects and actions still. I spend more time in the animation/tileset/scene creation areas of the software. I love it all, and the animation portion of the software is what sold it for me. The layers in the scene (map) editor let me have fun with tilesets I create.

Everything I wanted to tweak in RMMV to add extra creativity, that I could not do, I can with PGMMV. My creativity wall is usually only blocked by the limitation of my own knowledge of the software, and not the software itself.

The demo gives anyone a fair amount of time to estimate the software and if it's for them, so there is no reason not to check it out if one feels like they need to switch things up for a bit.

I feel more devs are on my side of the table, as in, this is just a hobby. If that is you, then check this ♥♥♥♥ out...

It's been a long time coming, but I'm now ready to weigh in my thoughts on Pixel Game Maker MV. I've been using this software since early access back in 2018.

Pixel Game Maker MV is a great game development engine for those that are not programmers, and want to be able to create either side scrolling or top down action games. It's got enough for a single person development operation to chew on here to create the game you want to create in the way you want it created; bearing in mind that you operate within the program's limits. If programming/scripting is outside your reach (or if it's something you can do), this is a great engine that has the potential to be amazing as long as the developers continue with updates & performance improvements. There are assets and DLC that is available at the time of writing for you to get a jump on a concept quickly, but there are no asset standards (outside of keeping things divisible by 2) to conform with.


Read on further for more details.



Pixel Game Maker MV is a game engine that uses visual programming to give life to game objects. It specializes in more retro pixel art games that take place either in a side scrolling plane, top down view, or BOTH if you want to make it so. The engine is not based on delta time, but this is the standard for a lot of Japanese game development.

The engine's workflow is divided into sections.

“Scenes” are where you'll create the actual game maps and place objects. You set up title screens and menus here as well.

“Tiles” allows you to put together you imported tile sets and get them ready for scenes. You can create “gimmick” tiles that allow you to do effects like instant death, particle generation & more.

“Animations” allow you to put together game animations to be used for objects. The animation system is robust to allow for custom hit box, collision, and wall tile boxes. This is also where you can put together effects and create particle effects inside the engine with a wide variety of options and effects.

“Objects” is the bones and meat of the engine. This is where you put together objects to handle varying game systems such as menus, weapons, pick ups, NPCs, etc. Using the visual programming in tandem with run-time commands, you can build practically anything you want. You can use JavaScript or CoffeeScript to help simplify commands and functions as well.

“Resources” is where your image graphics, audio, game text and more is stored and organized. Importing your assets here is required in order to use them in other spots of the Engine.

“Plug-Ins” allows you to manage plugins created by the development team or by the community. Plug-Ins extend the engine's capabilities via JavaScript similar to that of RPG Maker MV/MZ.

“Database” (in beta at the time of this writing) allows you to set up variable values in tables and rows that can be called by a single run-time command.

Personally, I really enjoy the workflow. It's great if you know how to organize your assets and objects in a logical manner. You can even import and export objects, animations, scenes and more; allowing for some collaboration to occur with other users of Pixel Game Maker MV.


The engine has a focus on side scrolling action games and top down view actions games. So, you can create something like classic “Castlevania” games or even older “Legend of Zelda” style games.


This engine is focused primarily on 2D pixel art graphics. Though, hand drawn graphics can be achieved as long as you stick to smaller game resolutions. Tile sizes supported are 8x8, 10x10, 12x12, 16x16, 20x20, 24x24, 30x30, 32x32, 40x40, 48x48, 60x60, & 64x64. The engine supports 4:3 and 16:9(10) resolutions with the ability to specify a resolution not on the drop down list. Higher project size resolutions do have large performance impacts, but I will touch on this later on.


Pixel Game Maker has a brief manual on how the basic functions work. However, the development team and the community have worked together to provide video tutorials through Baz via YouTube, and there is a Wiki where more things are being added as time goes on ( Check out the wiki here![pixel-game-maker-mv.fandom.com]). And if you want more live help, we have a large Discord community you can hop in and get some help (link in the steam forums).


I'll talk about performance from two avenues; the editor (where you create the games) and the player (what runs said games).

The Editor was rough in it's early access phase, which is to be expected. Ever since 1.0 though, the editor has been fine to work with. I haven't had any crashes or freezes since the 1.0 launch. Sometimes loading certain tabs can take a bit if you have a lot of assets and objects, but this can be mitigated by placing an empty folder at the very top of your lists. Is this an area that can be improved? Absolutely; but for where we're currently at, the engine is stable and works quite well. It doesn't have true multi-monitor support at this time, but that wasn't a deal breaker for me (I have 3 monitors and a tablet hooked up to my PC).

The Player could use more optimization for lower spec machines like APUs or machines using integrated graphics, but this is still much better than where they started in early access and my GTX 970 rocks games made with this quite well running smoothly at 60 FPS (the engine cap). This is both on an AMD Phenom II x4 and AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processors with the GTX 970. AMD graphics seem to fall behind here, and I'm not sure if this is due to driver support or engine support at this time. This is based off users playing my game demo and reporting lag and slow down issues. Also, if you create games at higher resolutions (say at and above 720p), your game will struggle due to having to draw a large window and handle object processing on screen. So, the higher your project's resolution is, the less objects you can generally have on screen without taking a hit to performance.


At the time of this writing, game export to Windows platforms is the only export. However, major work has been done to help get games onto the Nintendo Switch and it is almost ready. Export for other systems has been suggested and the development team has taken that feedback in, but have not committed to any hard time line for these features.

That concludes my review on Pixel Game Maker MV! I hope you found it educational. If there's anything else people would like me to comment on, feel free to comment on this review! If you wanna try out my game, “Eden Gamma”, the demo is available on Itch.io! (https://abstract-red-studio.itch.io/eden-gamma).

El Mejor Engine y Muy Intuitivo cabe aclarar que no es un Rpg maker por el estilo aqui para hacer tus proyectos nesesitas saber lo que estas haciendo si no terminaras haciendo un desastre el engine sirve mucho para hacer unos juegos 2d tipo plataformer shooter y rpg´s no es tan facil de utilizar como rpg maker pero si tienes algun conocimiento de programacion aunque sea basico con la experiencia y tiempo lo aprenderas a usar
RECOMENDADISIMO (Claro eso no le quita que sea early access) pero aun asi con lo que hay puedes hacer un gran juego y hacer realidad ese proyecto que tienes en la cabeza desde hace mucho tiempo :)

Before I share my mind,
I must mention that I'm not a programmer, I'm a professional animator.
You may have seen my work in: "The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth" all the Ending Cutscenes animated by me.

LET'S BEGIN:
I'm very new to PGM and I'm still trying to learn and understand how to use it.
Originally I came from Construct Game Engine, so I can't say that PGM is easier to learn because Event-Sheet as visual-scripting is defiantly MUCH easier to understand, follow and organize compare to Nodes-Based which gets really messy with many arrows and boxes all over the place once you add more complicated code. it gets very confusing, very fast.

BUT!
The idea of State-Machine and built-in functions makes things easier to start with, yet the learning curve isn't that simple. Without watching YouTube tutorials it's very hard to understand by yourself.
Luckily there are few dedicated PGM tutorial channels on YouTube that are really good and helpful!

I'm not a fan of the built-in tutorials, they confuse me with all the wrong position arrows who point to different places.
Honestly, I would get rid of it and just point to Step-by-Step Video Tutorials by PGM (they should definitely make official video tutorials).

USER INTERFACE:
I never used RPG Maker so I can't compare the UI, for me it's a completely new user experience.
Yes, the UI is a bit confusing, I hope that the dev team will redesign it to something that is more user friendly, don't get me wrong it's not too bad, it's just designed in a way that a visual artist (such as myself) can't follow compared to other game engines.

The State Machine Nodes, starting clean and it's very easy to make basic things such as move, jump, etc..
Once you get your character moving, jumping or shooting, it will satisfy you and will make you try new things.

STABILITY:
Don't let the hours confuse you, sometimes I animated characters or drew pixels for hours while PGM is sitting in the background and counting hours... so I'm not the best example, but this is my impression so far.
I haven't ran into a crash yet, but maybe because I didn't do anything complex, or... maybe PGM is robust! :)

GAME ENGINE POWER:
The engine itself is very powerful, fast, smooth and responsive and that's noticeable as soon as you run any sample or your game!
from my short time testings it consider I didn't use many layers, complicated code or large resolution, after all it is built for Pixel Graphics and it does the job GREAT!

COMPILE - BUILT YOUR GAME:
From what I know, so far it's limited to compile only PC .exe files at the moment, I hope we'll see more options to build for Android, and most of all... Game Consoles!

COMMUNITY:
The community seems to be small but AMAZING, whenever I had a question, I got few answers from the community forums.
This is where I encourage people to join and make PGM's community even bigger!

CONCLUSION + TIPS: (before you buy)
Overall it's fun creating things with PGM (I'm not the best example), but even start moving, jumping, shooting etc..
The more you add to your game and see it evolve the more you'll get into PGM for sure!

If you're not a programmer (just like me) and you want to make a game, this is my advice for you:
DOWNLOAD the DEMO, play with it, try the samples, follow some Video Tutorials, try to do stuff...
If you like this experience, SUPPORT THE DEVS AND BUY PGM! This will help them continue to develop it and improve it.

SUGGESTIONS: - (for the Developers, please consider these)
1. If the PGM devs, will add an ALTERNATIVE programming-mode as addition or alternative to the State-Machine nodes it will make a HUGE improvement, for example:  Event Sheets programming similar to what you can see on Construct 2, 3, ClickTeam Fusion and GDevelop... the result will be that: People will FALL IN LOVE with PGM in 2 seconds because it's MUCH easier to learn, use, organize, find your code and manipulate it dynamically compare to nodes...
Again, you don't have to REPLACE the nodes, but add an alternative way so the user can CHOOSE which one to use when starting a project. Nobody will use nodes if you'll add 'Event Sheets' (consider you'll make it simple as the others I mention).

2. We need more built-in functions, "actions" we need things like "While this happen, do this" trying to solve everything with the state-machine is not very dynamic or "open" that's why I suggested the event sheet approach, please consider it and in the meanwhile expand more and more built-in functions built in to the engine to make things easier to solve logically and less complicated with zillion of arrows and nodes all over the place.

3. IMPORT: as a professional animator, me and many others are not using Sprite-Sheet as our high priority but we prefer to use PNG-Sequence. Like most game engines, please add import option for PNG Sequence, so we can import raw of animations in once click, for example:  IDLE_001.png, IDLE_002.png, IDLE_003.png - Drag and Drop a directory or file-by-file and BAAAM! it will be ready to use! (good example: Construct, ClickTeam Fusion, Game Maker Studio 2, Godot)

These are just a few of my suggestions, I have many more ideas to improve PGM, but I hope you'll consider these 3 for start and I hope to see PGM grow and get better, keep up the great work you're doing Dev Team! :)

* Sorry about my bad English,
I hope that this review helps both Buyers and the Developers.

Usé la versión de prueba, la verdad es que me parece poco intuitivo, aun siguiendo el tutorial (que ayuda bastante), el tutorial no te dice cómo poner a un personaje en pantalla y desde luego que así no se puede empezar. El programa tampoco está en Español. Espero que en un futuro mejore, pero no recomiendo la versión de acceso anticipado.

- Andrew.

La curva de aprendizaje es elevada. Me gusta lo rápido que puedes hacer juegos pixel.

Pixel Game Maker MV:

Es un atractivo programa para crear tus propios videojuegos, sin saber programar solo usando tu imaginación y listo...
solo debe tenerle paciencia para saber su concepto y lo quieres hacer.