Your MMO is online
this afternoon
Not in year two. The world editor, the authoritative multiplayer server, the game client and the database install together and start already wired to each other. You spend your time on the game, not on the eighteen months of engine underneath it.
- One-time purchase
- Self-host or managed
- Import RPG Maker projects
- No royalty on what you ship
What you can build
One engine, every kind of game
Everything below is real footage of worlds running on ED5 — captured from the running client or the world editor, nothing staged. Pick one.
Isometric MMORPG
A town players share
Walking the SkyFall market village — mill, stalls and a thatched tower — on the same authoritative game server that ships in the box. This exact world is online right now.
- Painted 2.5D tileset
- Day/night + weather
- Server-authoritative movement
How far you get
The first week, not the first year
Most of building an MMO is the part nobody sees: the server loop, the sync model, the database, the tooling. That part is finished. Here is what is left.
A world you can walk
Run the installer and a seeded starter world is already there. Paint terrain, drop objects and props, place a spawn point, and walk it in the client.
No toolchain, no build step, no engine compile.
Someone else joins it
The multiplayer server is the same one you have been running the whole time. Movement, combat, loot and chat are authoritative on the server the moment a second player connects.
You never write netcode, prediction or reconciliation.
It behaves like a live game
Quests, an economy with real currency sinks, guilds, pets and mounts, arenas, day/night and weather are already implemented systems — you author content into them.
Publish, then roll updates to players without a client reinstall.
What you are not building
Six problems already solved
Each of these is a subsystem an MMO team would otherwise spend months on before the game itself starts.
Netcode and the tick loop
A 20 TPS authoritative server with intent-based movement, server-side combat resolution, rate limiting and anti-cheat. Clients send intent; the server decides.
The world editor
Terrain painting with blended vertices, object placement, lighting, events, spawn rules and instance portals — in the browser and on the desktop.
The database and its schema
Characters, inventories, quests, guilds, economies, mail, housing and the migrations that keep them alive across updates.
The game systems themselves
Combat with cooldowns and status effects, crafting, loot tables, quests, NPC shops, pets and mounts, arenas, guilds, trade and a gold economy.
Shipping to players
A browser client, desktop launchers for Windows, macOS and Linux, and an update path that reaches live players without a reinstall.
The admin surface
Every system above has an editor screen, so designers change the game without waiting on an engineer or a deploy.
See what you are actually buying
These are not mockups. The screenshots and code samples below reflect the included server, client, editor workflow, and extension surface you receive with the engine.
Included in this part
Built so non-engineers can understand the workflow.
What you can do
- Paint maps, place objects, and manage zones visually.
- Edit items, mobs, NPCs, quests, recipes, skills, and pets from forms.
- Use the same editor in the browser or desktop Studio app.
Why it matters
- Designers can work without touching engine code.
- Content changes stay connected to the database and game server.
- You can review and update live game data from any machine.
Edit your MMO from any device
The same admin panel runs in the browser on phones and tablets, not just desktop. Fix balance on the bus, review quests at lunch, tune biomes from the couch — every editor page is responsive.
Studio Overview
Check the responsive workspace shell, navigation, and editor chrome on touch devices.
Zone Editor
Paint terrain, place objects, and manage layers from a phone or tablet.
Biome Manager
Tune biome tiles, weather, and spawn tables without leaving the couch.
Abilities Editor
Create new abilities, AoE shapes, and status effects on the go.
Skills Editor
Design skill trees and XP curves from any device.
NPC Editor
Edit NPC dialog, vendors, and quest links in the browser admin.
Already started building?
Turn your RPG Maker or RPG Tools project into a multiplayer game
You don't need to throw out years of work to go online. Import your maps, events, items, and skills directly into ED5 — then keep building with multiplayer systems already wired in.
- 1
Drop in your project
Point ED5 at your RPG Maker MZ folder or RPG Tools export. The Studio detects maps, tilesets, events, items, skills, enemies, troops, switches, and variables automatically.
- 2
Pick what to bring over
Toggle exactly what imports — maps, items, skills, enemies, events, parallax art, character sheets — and choose Append or Replace per asset class. Nothing is forced.
- 3
Open it as an MMO
Your single-player work lands in an authoritative server, real-time client, and live admin panel. Same world, now with multiplayer, persistence, and live operations.
See exactly what gets imported before you commit.
See import workflow
What it costs to keep
Buy it once. Then it is yours.
Most ways of building a multiplayer game charge you again every month, every seat, or every player. This one does not.
| Model | What it costs | Where it bites |
|---|---|---|
| Per-seat subscription | Grows with your team, forever | Adding a designer adds a bill. Stopping payment can stop your tooling. |
| Revenue royalty | A share of what you earn | The more the game succeeds, the more it costs — indefinitely. |
| Per-player backend billing | Scales with concurrent players | A launch spike is also a cost spike, and the backend is not yours. |
| ED5 MMO Studio | One payment, from $149 | No seats, no royalty, no per-player fee. Host it yourself if you want to. |
Before you buy
The questions that actually matter
- Can I sell the game I make with this?
- Yes. You keep what you build and what it earns. There is no royalty and no revenue share — the licence is a one-time purchase for the engine, not a stake in your game.
- Do I have to use your hosting?
- No. The game server is a Node.js application you can run on your own machine or your own VPS. Managed hosting exists because most people would rather not run servers, not because the engine requires it.
- Do I need to be able to code?
- Not to build a world. Items, mobs, NPCs, quests, skills, recipes and zones all have visual editors. When you do want custom mechanics, there is a TypeScript plugin SDK with typed events rather than a locked black box.
- I already have an RPG Maker project. Is it wasted?
- No — it is the fastest starting point. RPG Maker and RPG Tools projects import whole: tiles, maps, events and enemies come across and open in the world editor as a multiplayer world.
- What happens if you stop working on it?
- You keep the version you own and it keeps running — it is installed on your machine and your server, not rented from ours. The source is available to licence holders, so nothing you have shipped depends on us staying online.
- How is this different from a multiplayer plugin for another engine?
- A plugin gives you networking. This gives you the whole vertical: the authoritative server, the game client, the database, the admin tools and the game systems that sit on top of them — already talking to each other.
Still unsure? Go and play a world built with it — no account, no download.
See it running before you decide
A world built in this engine is online right now. No download, no account — walk into it, then come back and read the price.