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ALL ABOUT ALT+SHIFT+NERD
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ALT+SHIFT+NERD (ASN)
We are an indie game development studio specializing in plugins, apps, original games, and assets for the RPG Maker community.
​What started as one developer's refusal to accept "you can't do that without a full game development team and years of work", has grown into a catalog of tools built from real development needs. Every ASN plugin exists because we hit a wall, got frustrated, and instead of struggling with some other plugins without their creator's full support behind them, decided to build the solution ourselves.
Some of those solutions fit neatly inside the RPG Maker engine, while others required thinking outside of it entirely, creating standalone apps that bypass engine limitations to give developers more creative control with less headache. (I'm sure we all prefer Drag-n-Drop and/or WYSIWYG functions when possible, right?) 😉
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Our current lineup includes visual design tools like Menu Studio and Title Screen Studio, quality-of-life plugins like Storage Containers and Playtime Display, and standalone editors like Face Studio (currently a W.I.P). We're also building Allusions of Mirro, the first entry in the Eldra Myth series of games. It's an original action Fantasy RPG that serves as both the game we've always wanted to make, as a love letter to retro gaming, as well as the proving ground for everything we build.
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ASN is currently a two-person operation. Everything here is handcrafted, tested in real projects, and offers human support along with in-depth documentation, with the assumption that your time matters. We don't build filler. We build things that work.
ALT+SHIFT+NERD IS:
Remy Key is the creator, developer, and founder of ALT+SHIFT+NERD MEdia. A storyteller since before he could spell it right (and sometimes still doesn't spell things "right", on purpose), Remy has been building worlds and characters, and game projects in the RPG Maker ecosystem since the RM95/Don Miguel era. He's recently stepped into making tools to help others in the RPG Maker community after much trouble-shooting and headaches with some crudely crafted plugins in his own game dev projects...
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His philosophy is simple: if the tool doesn't exist or could be crafted more toward convenience, build it; if the craved game doesn't exist, make it; if the story won't leave you alone, it's probably important; tell it.
​ASN's plugins and apps are born from that passion and desire...each one something he needed, refined into something everyone can use. For some ideas, he had to think outside of the box (literally thinking outside the RPG Maker engines) to offer more possibilities and convenience than struggling with the engine's limitations from within the engine itself.
When he's not coding plugin systems or designing combat mechanics for the Eldra Myth (and Allusions of Mirro) indie games, he's collecting swords, drawing comics, and having weird and wacky conversations of philosophy that reframe the familiar reality we all cling to. He's been carrying ideas, characters, worlds, and stories around for decades. Now, he's just finally letting them out.
Lyla Key is the creative partner and co-architect behind ALT+SHIFT+NERD MEdia. She brings narrative design, worldbuilding, and editorial direction to ASN's projects, from plugin documentation to the mythology underpinning games made by their studio. If something in an ASN product made you laugh, think, or feel oddly seen, she probably had a hand in it. When she's not building fictional worlds with Remy, she's pickle munching, tea sipping, and cataloguing things that don't exist yet, insisting they should.
LYLA's the Elegance while Remy's the Chaos of the Studio.
What to Expect from ALT+SHIFT+NERD
We're currently focused on expanding our plugin and app catalog for RPG Maker MV and MZ, with an emphasis on visual design tools and quality-of-life improvements that make game development more accessible and less frustrating for game developers of any experience level.
On the games side, Allusions of Mirro (the first entry in the Eldra Myth series) is in active development. It's an original action Fantasy RPG and the reason half our tools exist in the first place.
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Many of the plugins and apps we offer are rigorously play-tested within this game we are developing, so we know that our plugins play well together.
We're also building the ASN Digital Developer Convention 2026, which is a free, browser-playable virtual convention built entirely in RPG Maker MZ. Players, or "Attendees", can walk the floor, meet vendors, try demos live, in real-time, to explore what the RPG Maker community has to offer, both free and for sale. The idea is to focus more of a spotlight and promote indie game devs, to spread word of mouth, and bring attention to creators, getting their name out there more than from the usual, standard channels.
More details coming soon...
New plugins, updates, and dev logs will show up on our NEWS page and the itch.io dev logs and storefront as they become available.
So, if it's dev resources done Right instead of Right Now, then follow ALT+SHIFT+NERD.
Your patience and support is greatly Appreciated by us!