RPG Maker, known in Japan as RPG Tsukūru (RPGツクール, sometimes romanized as RPG Tkool), is the name of a series of programs for the development of role-playing games (RPGs) first created by the Japanese group ASCII, then succeeded by Enterbrain. The Japanese name, Tsukūru, is a pun mixing the Japanese word tsukuru (作る), which means "make" or "create", with tsūru (ツール), the Japanese transcription of the English word "tool".[1]The RPG Maker series has been released primarily in Japan, with later versions also released in East Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia. It is a popular game development engine, with hundreds of commercial games created using RPG Maker released on Steam, for example.