These include Pinball Construction Set ( 1983 ), ASCII's War Game Construction Kit ( 1983 ), Thunder Force Construction ( 1984 ), Adventure Construction Set ( 1984 ), Garry Kitchen's GameMaker ( 1985 ), Wargame Construction Set ( 1986 ), Shoot ' Em-Up Construction Kit ( 1987 ), Arcade Game Construction Kit ( 1988 ), and most popularly ASCII's RPG Maker engines from 1988 onwards.

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The various applications made for it ranged from alternative firmware, file managers, games, emulators, game generators ( such as RPG Maker ), a DivX player and image slideshows.

Two indie games based on the film have been released to this date: Manos: The Hands of Fate, an electronic roleplaying game made using the RPG Maker VX engine that loosely retells the story of the film ; The game tells of an about-to-be-wed couple, Michael Downing and Margaret Peterson ( though their last names weren't mentioned in the film ), who get stuck in the rain somewhere in Texas and rest in a secluded inn, Michael goes to the ice machine but gets lost there and Margaret goes to look for him.

Another survival horror title that differentiated itself was Corpse Party ( 1996 ), an indie, psychological horror adventure game created using the RPG Maker engine.

However, in 1999, one well-known incident in which copyright holders took action involved the translation of a Windows game maker called RPG Maker 95.

However, unlike most translation groups, KanjiHack was caught linking to a site to illegally download the entire then-recently-released RPG Maker 95 software ( including a copy-protection crack ).

Titles from the RPG Maker series were eventually localized and officially released in the US for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2.

The most famous RPG maker is the commercial Japanese RPG Maker series that has been released from 1988 to 2005 for many systems ranging from the PC-8801, MSX, PC-9801, and Microsoft Windows, to the Super Famicom, PlayStation, Game Boy Color, PlayStation 2, and Cellphones.

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* RPG Maker 3 installs 3 GB to the HDD to decrease load times.

RPG elements have been implemented as well, though nowhere as intensively as Princess Maker 2, the player can now let his / her daughter go explore in the worlds that are parallel to her own.

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RPG Maker XP ( RPGツクールXP ) is the PC version in the RPG Maker series of programs developed and published by Enterbrain.

RPG Maker XP integrates the Ruby programming language, allowing for greater flexibility of development compared to the purely command based system of its predecessors.

This version is the first RPG Maker since RPG Maker 95 to feature a resolution of 640 × 480, compared to the 320 × 240 resolution of RPG Maker 2000 and RPG Maker 2003.

RPG Maker XP uses graphic resources for title screens, game over screens, character sets, tile sets, transition effects, battle animations, battle icons, item icons, backgrounds, and window skins.

The battle system for RPG Maker XP is by default first-person perspective and turn-based.

RPG Maker XP has a way of identifying certain tiles and how flat or tall a specific tile is going to be.

Having purchased the RPG Maker XP software is not required to download the game.

This version is based on the RPG Maker XP VALUE !, but supports 64-bit operating systems.

* Enterbrain RPG Maker XP page: Japan, English

* Enterbrain RPG Maker XP VALUE!

* Enterbrain RPG Maker XP VALUE !+ page: Japan

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RM2K was first taken over by RPG Maker 2003, but has now been superseded by RPG Maker XP and is no longer as popular as it used to be.

As a result of this, the main battle tank ( MBT ) conceived in the Cold War era can survive multiple RPG strikes with minimal effect on the crew or the operation of the vehicle.

* In the RPG Trinity, a number of hyperstructures exist, with the largest being that of the New New York Arcology run by the Psi-Order Orgotek.

Chaosium and Greg Stafford are also responsible for Pendragon, an Arthurian RPG now published by White Wolf, Inc .' s ArtHaus imprint after a spell with Green Knight Publishing.

Having partnered previously with Gygax on Don't Give Up the Ship !, Arneson introduced Gygax to his Blackmoor game and the two then collaborated on developing " The Fantasy Game ", the role-playing game ( RPG ) that became Dungeons & Dragons, with the final writing and preparation of the text being done by Gygax.

There are a total of 63 Japanese-only video games ranging from platformer games to RPG games, that began with the Emerson's Arcadia 2001 system.

More recently the Exile games have been remade as the Avernum series, which replaced the two-dimensional tile-based graphics system with an isometric one and made numerous changes to the RPG system and some changes to the content.

These early RPG fanzines were generally typed, sold mostly in an A5 format ( in the UK ) and were usually illustrated with abysmal or indifferent artwork.

; Forgotten Futures X: The Tooth and Claw Role Playing Game: A licensed RPG based on the novel Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton, set in a world with Victorian-equivalent technology which has a separate dragon nation.

; The Forgotten Futures Compendium: Two long adventures, Curse of the Leopardmen by Alex Stewart and The League of Extraordinary Geometers ( a crossover with The Original Flatland RPG ) by Marcus Rowland, plus adventure outlines based on Victorian and Edwardian advertising by Marcus Rowland.

The company went on to establish itself as major gaming company with the publication of the first licensed Star Trek RPG, then several successful original games.

The basement was bombarded with repeated RPG and grenade attacks, as well as fuel being poured into the basement and set alight.

At a time when many RPG settings were cobbled together, RuneQuest offered players a vibrant living world, giving them much a more developed fictional world with established geography, history, and religion.

A rocket-propelled grenade ( often abbreviated RPG ) is a shoulder-fired, anti-tank weapon system that fires rockets equipped with an explosive warhead.

The RPG has its roots in the 20th century with the early development of the explosive shaped charge.

The skirt or mesh armor ( cage armor ) triggers the RPG on contact and much of the molten jet that a shaped charge produces dissipates before coming into contact with the main armor of the vehicle.

As in all arms races, these developments in armor countermeasures have led to the development of RPG rounds designed specifically to defeat them, with methods such as a tandem-charge warhead, which has two shape charges, of which the first is meant to activate any reactive armor, and the second to penetrate the vehicle.

An RPG comprises two main parts: the launcher and a rocket equipped with a warhead.

An RPG is an inexpensive way to deliver an explosive payload over a distance with moderate accuracy.

Convoys learned to avoid approaches with overhangs and to send infantrymen forward in hazardous areas to detect the RPG teams.

** RPG-7V2: Reloadable RPG launcher, PG-7VL with ~ 500 mm RHA penetration, PG-7VR with ~ 600 mm RHA penetration after ERA

** RPG-16: Reloadable RPG launcher, PG-16 with ~ 300 mm RHA penetration, higher accuracy and four times the range of the RPG-7

** RPG-18 " Muha ( Fly )": One-shot disposable RPG launcher, PG-18 with ~ 375 mm RHA penetration

** RPG-22 " Netto ( Nett )": One-shot disposable RPG launcher, PG-22 with ~ 400 mm RHA penetration