Ttl — Live Title Screen Editor for RPG Maker MZ

[Mr_Blvck]

Your title screen is the first thing anyone sees. Stop building it blind.

In RPG Maker MZ, making a good title screen means guessing coordinates, closing the game, running it again to look, and repeating. Ttl replaces all of that with one keypress.

Press ` during playtest and an editor opens on your actual title screen. Drag your logo where you want it. Drag your buttons. Restyle the text, stack background layers, add a flickering neon sign — and watch every change happen live, in the real thing, at full size.

No plugin parameters. No config files. No restarting.

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Backgrounds that feel alive

Start with your normal Background 1 / 2, then build on top of them.

• Stack up to 6 extra image layers, each with its own position, scale, opacity, blend mode and visibility.
• Slow drifting motion per layer — set an angle, speed and distance for clouds that crawl, fog that breathes, or a skyline that never quite sits still.
• Frame animation — cycle a layer through up to 4 images on a timer. Pair a real image with an empty frame and you’ve got a flickering neon sign or a blinking light, with random timing ranges so it never loops mechanically.
• Drag layers directly on screen. While you move one, everything above it fades out — so you never lose track of the layer you’re actually holding.

A logo, your way

• Text mode — use your project’s own game title or type something new. Pick from 12 built-in fonts (or type the name of any font you’ve installed), then set size, letter spacing, color, outline color and width, plus an optional shadow/glow with its own blur and offset.
• Image mode — drop in your own logo artwork instead, scale it, and place it anywhere.
• Optional subtitle line underneath, in either mode.

Every button, your way

• Restyle the classic list — orientation, spacing, row bars, and a selected highlight with tint, glow and an arrow marker.
• Or go freeform — give each button its own image and its own position anywhere on screen. Keyboard and gamepad navigation keeps working exactly as it should.
• Add three more commands — Load Game, Gallery and Exit Game, each with its own show/hide checkbox. Turn them on and Continue quick-loads your newest save while Load Game opens the full picker.
• Fonts, colors and scale are all per-button.

Undo everything

Full undo and redo (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y) for every action while you edit — drags included. Experiment freely.

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Built so it can’t cost you work

• Never breaks a fresh project. With no layout saved yet, your title screen is exactly vanilla RPG Maker MZ. Ttl adds nothing until you use it.
• Missing or corrupted layout file? Still boots. It falls back to the normal title screen instead of failing to start.
• Every save is backed up. Saving writes a rolling .bak of the previous version, and the two background fields it patches into your database are backed up first.
• Unsaved work is protected. Leave the title screen mid-edit and your changes are saved automatically — and one undo reverses that completely if it wasn’t what you wanted.
• Never overwrites a core engine method. Every hook is an alias, so it’s built to sit peacefully alongside your other plugins.
• Invisible in your released game. The editor half only exists during playtest. Players can never see it, open it, or be affected by it.

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Installation

1. Copy both .js files into your project’s js/plugins/ folder.
2. In the Plugin Manager, add Ttl_Core.js, then add Ttl_Editor.js directly below it.
3. Turn both on. There’s nothing to configure.
4. Playtest, reach the title screen, and press ` (backtick / tilde, just above Tab).

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Requirements & compatibility

• RPG Maker MZ.
• No dependencies beyond the engine.
• No plugin parameters — everything is done visually in the editor.
• Both files are required. Ttl_Core.js applies your layout in the real game; Ttl_Editor.js is the playtest-only editor.

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Free — with a Premium version on the way

This is the free release of Ttl, and it’s complete: everything above is included, no strings, no watermark, no locked buttons.

A Premium version with more advanced features is planned. Follow the page to hear about it first.

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Known limitations (v1.0.0)

• Gallery is a placeholder. Turning on the Gallery command gives you a working button that opens an empty scene, ready for you to build out — it isn’t a finished gallery system.

• Saving needs the desktop playtest. The editor writes files through the normal RPG Maker playtest, so it can’t save from a browser-based test.

• Ttl edits the title screen. Other menus and scenes aren’t touched.

  You can find the plugin here: Ttl