Luminol

About

RPG Maker, known in Japan as RPG Tsukūru, is a series of tools for developing role-playing and adventure games, originally created by the Japanese group ASCII. Luminol is an experimental, open-source remake of the RGSS RPG Maker editors, written in Rust. It currently supports only RGSS1 (the format used by RPG Maker XP) — RGSS2 and RGSS3, used by VX and VX Ace, use different tileset formats not yet supported — and reads rxdata project files via the alox-48 deserialization library. Native builds are the main focus, alongside an in-browser build limited to Chromium-based browsers (Firefox is unsupported due to its stance on the Filesystem Access API).

Getting started

Grab a prebuilt binary from the project's GitHub Actions build workflow, or try the latest development build directly on the project's website. Building from source requires a nightly Rust toolchain via rustup and running cargo build (with clang and mold needed on Linux); optional Steamworks support requires passing --features steamworks and bundling the Steamworks redistributable alongside the binary.

Known issues & limitations

• compatibility: Currently compatible with RGSS1 only; RGSS2 and RGSS3 tileset formats are not yet supported.
• platform: Browser support is limited; Firefox is not supported due to Mozilla's stance on the Filesystem Access API.

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