When comparing RPG Playground vs RPG Creator, the Slant community recommends RPG Playground for most people. In the question“What are the best beginner game engines for making a top-down JRPG?” RPG Playground is ranked 4th while RPG Creator is ranked 15th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro No download required
Pro Really easy to use
Pro Free
Pro Many tiles and items
Pro Awesome Plans for the future
Trello board can be found here.
Pro Easy to use Scripting system
Pro Cross-platform
Games can be created for any platform that supports HTML5.
Cons
Con Cannot import custom resources
Con No plugins supported
Con No autosave
You have to manually save your game.
Con HTML5 is very dependent on browser performance
Theoretically all browsers should run HTML5 pretty much the same way, but thats not always the case. Something that worked fine on Chrome, for instance, might malfunction on Firefox (or vice versa). And there's nothing the devs of RPG Creator can really do about it, but to hope next Firefox update might fix it. Internet Explorer is not even recommended.
Add to that the fact that exporting to mobile or desktops rely on these sort of stripped down versions of web browsers (Node webkit, Crosswalk, Ejecta) that you pack with your game, and you can have a real headache if you're trying to make your game work properly through multiple platforms.
Con Abandoned
RPG Creator's last release was January 03 2014.