Consilience
Credits
Thank You to All Contributors
This game stands on the work of many hands. To every creator and community that contributed — thank you.
Engine
Game Engine
The core technology powering the game.
RPG Maker MZ
By Kadokawa / Gotcha Gotcha Games. JavaScript (ES6+) engine with multi-platform deployment.
PIXI.js v5
Built-in rendering engine for RPG Maker MZ, handling 2D scene rendering and particle effects.
Plugins
Plugins & Scripts
The plugins that make the engine do things it wasn't built to do.
VisuStella MZ (Commercial License)
Developed by Yanfly, Arisu, Olivia, Irina, and the VisuStella team. Over 60 plugins covering Battle Core, OTB combat, Skill Cooldowns, Break Shields, and more — the backbone of the game's combat and systems.
Moghunter (Free)
Developed by Moghunter, published by Atelier Rgss. 10 visual enhancement plugins including Battle HUD, Weather Effects, and Menu Backgrounds.
Other Third-Party Plugins
DotMoveSystem (unagi ootoro), Luna_MouseSystem (LunaTechs / MIT), Effekseer integration (MIT), DragonBones integration (MIT), and more.
Graphics
Graphics Assets
The visual foundation of the game.
RPG Maker MZ Default Assets
Provided by Kadokawa / Gotcha Gotcha Games. Includes tilesets, character sprites, enemy graphics, face portraits, parallax backgrounds, BGM/BGS/SE, and more.
DLC & Expansion Packs
Including SF sci-fi pack, MVT multi-style music packs (Chinese, Japanese, Arabian, Fantasy, Dark Fantasy), MV tileset compatibility pack, Liberty Tileset expansion, and more.
Effekseer Effects
Approximately 100 3D particle effects covering elemental attacks, physical strikes, healing, status ailments, buffs/debuffs, and other combat visuals. DCSD series textures.
Character Asset Packs
RPG Maker FES Character Generator DLC (~228 characters), Fantasy Heroine Girl pack (~30), Girl Character pack (~20), and other third-party character assets.
Fonts
Fonts
All font resources used in the game.
M+ Fonts
Open-source fonts by Coji Morishita. M+ 1m Regular and M+ 2p Bold Subset, used for game UI and numerical displays.
CJK Handwriting Font
CJK handwriting typeface from cjkfonts.io, used for special text effects in the game.
System Fonts
Microsoft JhengHei and PingFang TC as fallback fonts.
Original
Original Assets
Assets created specifically for this project.
Includes 23 playable character sprites and portraits, Boss enemy graphics, NPC sprites and portraits, faction enemies, custom maps, original BGM (including the title track "Consilience"), battle HUD, and system UI. All original assets are independently created for this project.
Special Thanks
Explosion Grandpa (爆炸阿公) — Character illustrator for all Eastern characters. All Eastern character portraits in this game are drawn by Explosion Grandpa.
Tools
Development Tools
The toolchain supporting the development process.
RPG Maker MZ (game engine), Python 3 + openpyxl (data integration scripts), Git + GitHub (version control).
Licenses
License Summary
Overview of licensing for all asset categories.
| Asset Category | License Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| RPG Maker MZ Engine | Commercial | Requires valid license |
| VisuStella MZ Plugins | Commercial | RPG Maker MZ only |
| Moghunter Plugins | Free to use | Published by Atelier Rgss |
| DotMoveSystem | Commercial | By unagi ootoro |
| Luna_MouseSystem | MIT | By LunaTechs |
| Effekseer | MIT | 3D particle effects |
| DragonBones | MIT | Skeletal animation |
| RPG Maker MZ Default Assets | Bundled | By Kadokawa |
| DLC Asset Packs | Commercial | Individual DLC licenses |
| M+ Fonts | SIL OFL | Open-source fonts |
| CJK Handwriting Font | Free to use | cjkfonts.io |
| Original Assets | Project original | All rights reserved |