In 2000, a Japanese video game making application called "RPG Maker 2000" which allows you to make Chrono Trigger-like games with no programming knowledge was launched, and Russian hacker Don Miguel translated it to English and uploaded it to the internet to be freely downloadable.

In Hungary, this caused a boom of RPG Maker-made JRPG-esque games, with gems like Amnézia (set in a post-apocalyptic world where an ancient race of parasitic people with advanced technology, the Tribals are about to awaken to steal the life force of humans), School-túra (in which a group of Hungarian high school students are living their lives in a small Hungarian town in the 90s, with pretty atmospheric maps, like walking around the town late at night to get some booze while a midi rendition of "Losing my Religion" from REM plays, but are suddenly thrust into a supernatural war between Zoroastrians and Satanists), and Kótergame (similar concept but more vulgar), but also some badly made and controversial games.


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