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| The Weekly Gazette 06-29-2025 |
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 06-30-2025, 05:14 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(June 23 to June 29, 2025)
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Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself
Announcements and Updates
Near the middle of the week, Strange Automaton announced that there was going to be some Software Updates for the forum. But he noted that most everything that would have to be reset or restored was placed within a single plugin of his design. And after the Forum Software was Updated, there appeared to be no visible bugs. In fact, DerVVulfman noted that a recently reported issue with our Report system was immediately fixed as a result.
Don't forget to show your Save-Point Support. Support dollars go towards hosting fees. If we get more than what's required for hosting, the support dollars will go towards improving the server and support systems.
General Chat
Peace in the Middle East hit this week's News of the World with the current Iran/Israel ceasefire, as even Ayatollah Khomeni's own Minister had to shut down his victory speeech. But peace talks are set to resume, and even force talks to end the third Gaza war. Even a new peace agreement between the Congo and Rwanda came to be thanks to the US this week. Meanwhile, the story peddled by CNN and MSNBC discounting the US airstrike against Iran drew sharp criticism, it coming from a classified accessment report that said its own findings were dubious. Not only did CNN and MSNBC take the brunt, but heralds an investigation how a classified military document made it to their hands. For US Security, Illegal Aliens are a top concern. And recent busts of over 130 Iranians with ties to the Revolutionary Guard and other groups that the Biden Administration let in have been arrested, and two Iranians in California were busted for terrorist smuggling. NATO showed its support for the US as it praised Trump for its decisiveness over Iran. And that same week, accepted a new 5% GDP defense spending with Spain alone refusing to commit. But NATO now finds itself watching Russia all the more, scambling fighters to intercept an Il-20M spy plane. This as Russia is furious as neighboring Estonia is getting new Jet fighters and suggests to teach China how to combat NATO and the US. But for Russia, there is more bad news as an attempt to assassinate Ukraine's President Zelensky failed, Ukraine destroyed another Russia's bomber air base, and its sinking of another Russian ship in the Black Sea. There has been more aggressive behavior coming from China, using water cannons against Philippine Vessels, unveils new mini-drones for military operations, and threatens the US for supporting Taiwan. Japan is not so fond of China, noting that China isviolating a 2008 agreement over energy production in the South China Sea. For President Trump himself, the Supreme Court confirmed that individual federal judges do not have nationwide authority. This and another judgement by the Court frees the US to continue deporting Illegal Aliens. Despite this, a US attorney is filing a suit to keep MS-13 Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the US despite two previous orders for deportation and the Supreme Court ruling. Both an Egyptian Man and a Russian-borne Ivy League scientist busted for smuggling contraband into the US, attempts to halt "Alligator Alcatraz" over environmental grounds despite the land was already developed for a decade, California actually cutting back its healthcare for Illegal Aliens, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for child porn, a drunk American tourist wrecking an Ancient Japanese Temple, and more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
This week in the News of the Cyberworld, there is financial news regarding China, with US President Trump suggesting TicTok will soon be purchased by US Backers, while China is pushing out new EV automobiles to compete with Tesla. However, Germany’s data protection commissioner put forth requests to Google and Apple to prohibit China's DeepSeek AI sales due to concerns over data privacy and intellectual property theft. And in other news, the NYPD is setting up a system to combat malicious drone operators.
Development Discussion
Spriting seems to be What's up with one of our RMers. DerVVulfman continues working on the graphics for his Half Kaiser Battler project, and showed off a green dress. However, after a couple posts, he said he now has to create the same dress for male characters.
Upcoming Projects
It has been over half-a-year since we heard anything about BlueSkies 3, but Starmage said it is still in production. But in the meantime, she gifted us a wonderful piece of fanart of vampiric Count Sagan, donned in his royal crimson armor and his sanguine, concave curved falchion at his side.
Resources Database
2D Resources
If you have need of malevolent harlequins, you should seek out the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. Continuing from his endeavor from last week, Ace_V made yet one more nightmarish clown. But unlike the original edit of the RTP with its frizzy and rainbow colored wig, this macabre individual is donning the Fools Hat of a jester.
Music and Audio
The Save-Point music studio cordially invites you to be a guest within DoubleX's Music Room whereby our illustrious composer had published two new pieces. Full of Regretsiis a slow piece that begins with his typical use of strings and accompanying piano.But once you get past the tinkling glass bells of the bridge, you will be hit by the vocal choir of the lamented past. And DoubleX's fifteenth piece is entitled Stuck in the Past. Beginning as a lighthearted flute and violin concerto, the accompaniment of light chimes is sure to evoke feelings of days of innocence past. But near the end, a soft but mournful choir sounds, a reminder those days are now bygone.
Art and Design
As she continues her Arts and Training Journey, Starmage has encountered many a games in which she has contributed fan-art. And with the summer weather, her travels took her to beachfront property as she visited two new renders for Shadows of the Earth: The Vrila'an Legend! Both renders of dark-haired Mike Blackguard, his form fully visible to gaze upon save for the swimwear or Chippendales garb he dons.
Well, that's it for this week.
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| Forum Software Updates |
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Posted by: StrangeAutomaton - 06-26-2025, 09:08 PM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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I'll be updating the forum software on June 28th. I don't expect much downtime. Thankfully the things that used to break with every update are now in a plugin coded by yours truly, so they should continue to work. I've been made aware the report button has stopped functioning. I will not be touching anything related to that issue until after the update. I'm hoping the update will resolve that regression.
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Posted by: StrangeAutomaton - 06-25-2025, 05:15 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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Just a reminder to let people know that Save-Point's existence is aided by community funding! If you would like to help support the community and keep our servers running, you can click on the donate button at the upper right of the page! And if you want be a super fabulous supporter, you can set up a monthly donation! Thanks so much for all your support. Support dollars go towards hosting fees. If we get more than what's required for hosting, the support dollars will go towards improving the server and support systems - such as better backup solution than we are currently using ( just a folder on my desktop ).
Things that I'm working on right now:
- Migrating to a better supported forum software
- Containerization to hopefully eliminate bugs caused by dependency issues with the underlying OS
Yeah, so it's only two things, if I get more funding, I'd like to spin up an additional backup system to keep another copy of the forum somewhere other than just on my computer. I'd also like to increase our storage capacity so we can archive more scripts, plugins, graphics, music, and games for the community! Anyway, to those who've supported, thank you so very much for keeping the dream alive, and I hope you continue to support the forums! To everyone else, thank you so much for being part of the community!
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| The Weekly Gazette 06-22-2025 |
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 06-23-2025, 05:05 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(June 16 to June 22, 2025)
Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself
Occasions
Its been a while since Nick was last seen within Creation Asylum. However, he popped in and joined after finding that our forum had archived what it can from Dubealex's site.
General Chat
The recent PalWorld Update shows that PocketPal removed their Pal Spheres mechanics which mimicked Nintendo's PokeBalls, a central figure in Nintendo's lawsuit. However, players have voiced strong outrage as they vent their anger at Nintendo over the forced changes.
It is obvious to most that the destruction of the top Muclear Weapons Enrichment facilities hit this week's News of the World. Before US President Trump ordered the attack upon Iran's Nuclear Enrichment targets, Israel and Iran continued to trade attacks; Israel attacking military targets and its top brass whilst Iran launched ballistic missiles at hospitals and civiliarn targets. Even the German Chancellor and Former President Obama's Defense Secretary called the strikes necessary and warranted. But while some democrats call for his impeachment over the act, do remember that Obama dropped 26,171 bombs across seven countries: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakista, all without congressional approval. In the Pacific, Chinese naval aggression is on the rise, trailing Japanese and Filipino warships only for Chinese vessels on video caught swarming around the Philippines. To counter Chinese aggression, Taiwan has added Submarines to its navy. And as Chine continues to assert claims that it owns the entire South China Sea region, the Communist State railed against The Philippines for hosting US missiles for defense purposes. As Ukraine destroys another Russian Convoy, new reports show that Russia is on the brink of recession. As to how bad it is getting, a Russian soldier actually killed and ate a fellow comrade. The Accused Minnesota assassin's rambling letter claiming Gov. Tim Walz gave him greenlight for murders, Tren de Aragua gang members once more on video terorizing apartments in Aurora Colorado again, The Irish Rapgroup Kneecap in court for terrorism charges for displaying the Hezbollah flag, The Louvre closed as staff members went on strike, Egyptian authorities and citizenry fed up and shut down a pro-Gaza march, bumbling would-be arsonists in Australia accidentally sets themselves on fire, the stunning financial portfolio of Nancy Pelosi, the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, Russia suggesting sales of weapons-grade nuclear material to Iran, and so much more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
There is a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence in this week's News of the Cyber World, with Elon Musk raising capital for his xAI whist Sam Altman lands a $200Million deal with the US Military. But one may wonder about how safe it is, for even a Newsweek article suggested an AI system would actually kill humans to keep itself running. The dangers of cell phones also hit the cybernews, but in different levels. The popular Galaxy Note7 is now under a longstanding ban from planes due to their lithium batteries overheating and exploding. Meanwhile, a new warning was sent out to iPhone users that scammers are sending malicious texts designed to replicate their states DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles. Apple losign Billions of Shareholder dollars, Iran's crypto-currency exchange hacked and robbed of $100 Million, billions of passwords leaked in a Google/Apple data breach, Elon Musk's drug report and more hit this week's cybernews.
It appears that Chinese Hackers care not whom they attack as state sponsored hackers attacked Russian companies and agencies, working to steal any secrets such as nuclear submarine specs and infiltrate their communication and satellite systems. And of communications, Chinese backed hackers believed to be Salt Typhoon worked to compromise Canadian cybersecurity and telecom providers.
Development Discussion
For those wondering What's up among RMers, DerVVulfman spent days working on the editor for his lip sync system, providing MP4 videos by way of attached downloads or screenshots. And at the end of the week, showed that he was also working on more resources for the Half Kaiser Battlers.
Resources Database
2D Resources
Watch out, for the circus is in town. And while circuses are filled with beautiful colors and thrills galore, among the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V, one can find something unsettling. An edit has now appeared, an edit of the RTP clown character. And whilst as colorful, this harleqin displays ts true and horrifying face. Indeed, it is the RTP clown, but with eyes glaring and a ghastly maw.
Art and Design
With a skip in her step, Starmage's Arts and Training Journey continues down the lane and into our forum once more. And carried under her arms a new piece of art that commemorates her entries into the 2025 RPGMaker Game Jam, Project Echelon and Final Prayer.
Literature
The Bibliotheca
An apparent one-shot by kyonides was entitled Sore Winner Cheerful Loser, and its prose relays the turmoil an incumbant Prime Minister suffered after losing an election. Much of the tale referenes the past two US Presidential elections. But watch out for the twist on whom the former Prime Minister is and his legacy by blood.
Well, that's it for this week.
“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” - J. P. Getty
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| The Weekly Gazette 06-15-2025 |
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 06-16-2025, 05:00 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(June 9 to June 14, 2025)
Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself
Announcements and Updates
This Thursday, Strange Automaton announced that there was going to be some Network Maintenance to repair critical issues. Some of the repairs are scheduled for the 18th and 19th, causing a minor five minutes of downtime. There may be some lagtime before the repair, so we ask everyone to please be patient.
General Chat
If you thought that the riots against US's Immigration Enforcement was going to hit the News of the World, that all changed when Israel launched a major offensive dubbed Operation Rising Lion began, strikingIran's nuclear facilities, missile launching systems and top military brass, it later expanded to Iran's largest oil field. Iran responded by launching hundreds of ballistic missiles, but targeting civilian area. As Israel calls on Iran's population to rise up against Iran's dictatorship, the US may be able to pressure Iran to come back to the negotiation table to dismantle their Nuclear ambitions. And while the Houthis made threats of retaliation, Hezbollah disengaged and decided to stay out of the fight. This weekend marked the 250th Anniversary of the U.S. Army, and a parade honoring the Army took place in Washington DC. The parade overshadowed the "No King" protest which included vehicular assault in Virginia, a shooting in Utah, and rioters in Portland using explosives and rocks attacking police and federal offices which has been ongoing in the LA riots for over a week. Despite the proven violence, the police injured, property damage and molotov cocktail by a repeatedly deported illegal alien, Former VP Kamala Harris stated that the protests have been peaceful. This week, Ukraine struck President Putin hard in their war against Russian aggression, detroying two major military supply facitlities. Despite that, and Ukraine fighters shooting down Russian MIGs, Russis makes claim they will never end the war until NATO pulls out and abandons the Baltics and its Baltic members. Do note that most Russians polled no longer see the US as an enemy nation. And as reported last week, China's navy continues to test the resolve of neighboring nations, sending a new air craft carrier into waters near South Korea, breaching defensive lines between Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines, and more air craft carriers sited off of Japan's coast near Okinawa. The manhunt for the killer of a Minnesota state politician shot 8 years to the day of the Republican Alexandria Baseball Practice shooting of 2017, ABC dropping veteran anchor Terry Moran after insulting President Trump online, a US Senator on video removed and arrested after storming into a DHS press briefing, India holding major air drill near Pakistan after a giant dogfight, the aftermath of Greta Thunberg's Freedom Floatilla, and so much more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
College students have been discussed within the News of the Cyber World , whether more cheating has been detected with their use of AI to write their papers for them or that hackers are now stealing student information to apply for and steal student aid. The reliability of AI chat services has come into question, Apple calling into question how reliable their reason models function and recent studies just indicated that ChatGPT and others source their replies with Reddit and the Wikipedia. Meanwhile lawsuits against AI services loom as Getty Images are now suing Stable Diffusion for illegally scraping copywritten images for its training system. INC Ransom proved it can be the most repugnant hacker group when it broke into and stole data from The Catholic Cemeteries of the Diocese of Hamilton in Canada. An Australian financial adviser pushed client funds into a crypto scam, Israeli spyware severing ties after the Italian government implicated in hacking critics' phones, the U.S. FAA wanting to upgrade its air traffic system from floppy discs, the largest data breach occuring in China itself, leaks and structural issues calling for the International Space Station to be decomissioned, Google Play and a variety of new malware targeting gamers, Robotic Dogs and more hit this week's cybernews.
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This week, it was revealed that Chinese Hackers have targeted politicians and journalists whom have a special interest in reporting about Chna itself, hacking into cell phones and hacking into the Microsoft accounts of the Washington Post reporters. And a Chinese group named PurpleHaze has been called out for targeting media, goverment and financial institutions worldwide. The Salt Typhoon data breach reported last year found to have been in action a full year earlier, and the hacker group DragonForce breaching Marks & Spencer and issuing ransom demands over a recent data breach also hit the news about Chinese hackers.
Development Discussion
If you wondered What's up among some RMers, DerVVulfman decided to go on a binge writing new scripts, this time a system that will render a character's mouth in sequence with a pre-programmed file. Essentially a lip sync system, he uploaded an .mp4 video to demonstrate. After that, he revealed he continued working on Half Kaiser battler graphics, focusing upon helmets this past week.
Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
Last week, DerVVulfman unveiled a script to add Animated Message Profiles to the default message system that came with RPGMaker XP. However, there was a small flaw that appeared when left the field map after displaying a message with such a profile. So he came by andadded a line of code to fix the issue. At the same time, he performed a slight edit to the code to allow flexibility to anyone adding more options to the rendered profile image.
Another addon for the RPGMaker XP message system was crafted, and DerVVulfman dubbed it Talking Messages: Audio playback for Message Windows. With it, you can use a new message code to play a sound file when a message begins to play.
Rather than relying upon the rectangular cursor to identify a menu item selected, kyonides offers game developers Command Color for RPGMaker XP. With it, you can make your highlighted option appear in a completely different color than the rest.
RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines
Merely a day after creating a similar script for RPGMaker XP, DerVVulfman crafted a script that adds Animated Message Profiles for RPGMaker VX. Just as the other, it can render character portraits behind the message window, even going so far as to allow multiple portait frames to show or repeat in sequence. And though no issue appeared as the one found with its original, DerVVulfman updated it to prevent issues when shifting away from the field map and applied a slight edit to give would-be coders more flexibility when handling the profile image.
If you are tired of having a rectangular cursor to identify what menu item is selected, kyonides offers game developers Command Color for both RPGMaker VX and VXAce. Now, you can identify options by a color highlight as you see fit.
Resources Database
2D Resources
It makes no difference what period in which your game is set. A museum is a museum, and will always have cabinets in which to display fine works or priceless relics. Thankfully, the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V now includes such displays. Within, you may find cabinets that hold royal crowns, jewelry, tomes of great power and the occasional treasure map.
Music and Audio
This past Friday was indeed the 13th, and fitting as the thirteenth work by DoubleX entered his Music Room, Entitled "Eternal Alienation", it is a melody meant to impress upon the audience the feeling of unwilling detachment. A synthesizer piece, one can hear how the keyboard can represent the passing of time, wind instruments the sound of lonliness and choir at the end representing suffering itself.
Art and Design
For anyone wishing to check out the Art deck by Demos "Rise Evil" Kerrigan, they would find four new works. Based upon characters created by Remi-chan, the scenes of these youths at play be it the beach or or kicking the ball around on the field are his alone. Some in color, some sketches and lineart, you will see a playful girl with a feline descent named Raira, a kitsune named Renae who had an unexpected encounter, and more to gaze upon.
Well, that's it for this week.
"I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend." - Emo Philips
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Posted by: StrangeAutomaton - 06-13-2025, 02:38 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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My cloud provider is doing critical infrastructure upgrades over the next few days, they said there might be 5 minutes of downtime on the 18th or 19th, but in the mean time things might be a little wonky and slow. Please pardon our lag - everything will be much better once they're done.
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| The Weekly Gazette 06-08-2025 |
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 06-09-2025, 05:14 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself
Occasions
Just like last week, Myrmidon came in and admitted he joined our forum to acquire scripts for RPGMaker VXAce. However, he appreciates our forum and is thinking about sticking around seeing that our site has a lot of history. He was greeted by DerVVulfman who noticed his scripting skills was based on trial and error, and said he was in good standing as that was how many learned.
General Chat
The Ukraine/Russia war hit the News of the World after Ukraine's massive strike that blew up Russia's Nuclear bomber base with Ukraine then blowing up the Kirch Bridge that connects Russia to Crimea. Russia did strike back, launching the most powerful attack against Ukraine, delivering both missile and drone strikes agaainst Kharkiv. Following this, Ukraine destroyed over a dozen Russian tanks and one hundred armored vehicles. Despite that and the financial crisis is facing, Russian soldiers advanced into a new region in Ukraine as it was revealed Moscow's end game is to take over half of Ukraine by next year. The South China sea also hit the news of thw world as the US sends an Amphibious Warship to Japan, this as China sends military ships along the Spratley Islands. China had long claimed they own the China sea that also includes the waters of the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan and others. But now Japan intercepted two Chinese Destroyers crossing into their waters. The war between Israel and Hamas continues. And despite Hamas being a terrorist organization, the UN Security Council attempted to force a ceasefire with the US vetoing the measure. But it isn't just that war to be wary, as its been revealed that Iran is purchasing missile fuel from China and still working with their proxies. Contering all the rising threats, Turkey began building its own Aircraft Carrier. Stationed in Istanbul, the Mugem will be armed with combat drones and light jets. Within the US, the rift between President Trumpand Elon Musk was popular news, Elon's own father actually criticising his own son's comments. Formerly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the States, but now facing numerous charges of human trafficking that spans a decade. The United Healthcare CEO killer's diary was used during his trial revealing his motives, months of planning and surveillance of his victim. And there have been numerous food safety recalls, be it Dr. Pepper recalls, or recall over Salmonella in Egg, and various vegetable produce in Kroger and Albertsone stores. Canadian wildfires, India invited to the G7, Biden's response to the Autopen stories and more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
This week, data breaches continue to hit the News of the Cyber World, this time 30 million customers from Santander Bank by the same group that broke into Ticketmaster last year, and 86 million AT&T customers with half of them including social security numbers. The realm of AI is going back and forth as it was just revealed that Microsoft's AI created startup chatbots were not made by AI as advertised, but by human coders. The appearance of the Claude 4 Opus AI now makes it near impossible to tell the difference beteen AI and human, now considered an even higher risk in the realm of blackmail and extotion. And following lawsuits against OpenAI over claims of copyright theft, ChatGPT's latest memory feature has been ordered to remember all conversations including those that were meant to be deleted, this to prevent deletion of incriminating evidence during the currently numerous ongoing lawsuits. New Switch II consoles arriving with puncture holes in the screens, the social media challenge called dusting taking another life, Youtube pushing even more advertisements in their service and more hit this week's cybernews.
Development Discussion
If you were curious about What's up among the forum's RMers, DerVVulfman finished working on the weapon templates for his Half Kaiser Battler project and labored upon the various shields until only two sets remain. And of the project to craft events that could travel from map to map, that too was completed and released within a thread within the Scripts Database. Following that, Remi-chan appeared and posted new screenshots from her game. But along with the screenshots, she revealed one more character portrait by Pjcr, and sprites by Xiie (or Rune in our forum) and by Coyotecraft.
This past week, Remi-chan entered the Maps and screenshots thread and was elated by the comments made by Tigerus Fay about her game's art. After giving credit to the artists who did such labor, Remi-chan presented even newer renders, both charactersets and in game settings such as the Bloodletter's battle arena.
Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
Early this week, DerVVulfman posted a script that creates NPCs, a variation of RPGMaker XP events. But unlike normal map events that are tied to the map in which they are created, these are events that are able to be taken from map to map, and contains actor data.
If anyone using RPGMaker XP wished that there was a mechanism to help save their progress, DerVVulfman crafted Autosave on Leveling. With it, a new savegame file is made each time a partymember gains a level. Included are two individual menu scripts that alter the Save/Load menu, though sadly some default methods do need rewrites or edits.
For those that do not want all the flash of a custom menu script but would still appreciate some character artwork to be present when dialogue was delivered, DerVVulfman took some time to release Animated Message Profiles. Designed to work with the default message window, it can render character portraits behind the message window, even going so far as to allow multiple portait frames to show or repeat in sequence.
Resources Database
2D Resources
Christmas in July continues for those gazing at the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. To accompany last week's lantern, Ace_V created a new character sprite of an animated Christmas Tree, with and without presents.
Art and Design
After all the fan-art she illustrated, Starmage's Arts and Training Journey comes full circle as she takes those newly developed skills to draw the devlish lead to one of her own games. Caught in nothing but black briefs, Delvin couldn't be more red if he tried.
After taking a small vacation from her projects, new illustrations have now appeared within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! The first work you may gaze upon is that of Anethema, a demoness that has appeared before, replete with her bloody butcherknife blouse. Her second work would more accurately be considered a comic book or manga illustration as she pit hero against villain, and the bewilderment that surfaces after a lethal strike does not go as expected.
Literature
This is the second time that a youtube link appears within Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~, but this in accompaniment with a quote and backstory from her current gaming project. However, while the quote is present, the video contains much more as it is also a sampling of Remi-chan's more recent vocal hires.
Filmography
For those who paid a ticket to enter Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre, they would gaze upon new footage for her game, Fantasia. Cutscene introductions of major players have been recreated and cinematics with new vocal work for Sacre Blu are present for viewing pleasure.
Well, that's it for this week.
"I’m too drunk to taste this chicken." - Colonel Harland David Sanders / Colonel Sanders (1890-1980)
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 06-02-2025, 05:04 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(May 26 to June 1, 2025)
Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself
Announcements and Updates
There is a bit of an alert as the Save-Point Funding has already been cut in half, and is not enough to mainain server bills. However, there is enough to keep us aflott for a while. If you are interested, there are Ko-Fi links in the gazette.
General Chat
For the News of the World, the Ukraine Russian war hits hard, with Drone strikes from Ukraine obliterating Russia's nuclear bombers, this after Putin's deadly assault on Ukraine's civilian population last week that has US President Trump question the sanity of Russia's President Putin. NATO is extremely worried, so much so that NATO allies seek to purchase US Fighter Jets to counter Russia's own. China also hit this week's news, immediately violating a trade deal only just made with the U.S. And a Chinese Aircraft Carrier went into contested waters near Japan on route to the Phillipeans, this while the Chinese military having harassed vessels in the Phillipeans in recent months. Insofar as the US, President Trump's Tariffs hit a snag with Trade courts until an appeals court shot down the trade court’s ban. Meanwhile, one Democrat could be removed from Congress as bodycam footage showed her assault ICE agents two weeks ago, another condemn DHS agents who detained his aide while arresting rioters being harbored, and a third caught performing the NAZI salute. San Francisco lowering the education bar by eliminating failing grades altogether, Russia praising North Korean soldiers sent to fight Ukraine, major food warnings for salmonella and cookie food recalls, and more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
This week's News of the Cyber World was bad for Google wishint to appeal the court's ruling on their anti-trust case, Microsoft is filing bankrupcy for their Russian subsidiary following comments by Russian President Putin, and a security breach in both Etsy and TikTok reveals the data of over a million user accounts. Meanwhile, Meta shut down a Chinese cyber-influence operation that targeted Romania, Azerbaijan and Taiwan. The CIA using a Star Wars fansite for an espionage operation, China forced to make their own AI chips, and more hit this week's cybernews.
If anyone has doubts about the nefarious actions of Chinese Hackers and their connection to the communist party, they should be aware that the UK, Czech Republic and the Netherlands have each reported recent espionage and cyberhacks. And US intelligence agencies published on Tuesday that China is steadily working to cripple and capture Taiwan.
Development Discussion
If you wondered if anyone tried to break the rules of game making, by asking What's up, RMers?, you would find that DerVVulfman has been working on a new form of actionable event called an NPC, an event that is unbound to any single map. And along with that, he also revealed he finished working on the katana graphics for the Half Kaiser Battler project. And of graphics, Remi-chan revealed that she now has a new sprite courtesy of Coyotecraft and a youtube video presenting her revised battle between her heroines and the Crimson Demon.
As she continued to rework the dialogue within the first volume of her game, Fantasia, Remi-chan chose to take screen capture to present within our Maps and screenshots thread.
Tutorials
Appearing this week is a new guide to guide GameMaker users in Creating Platform Games. An older tutorial for GameMaker 4.2 or higher, it is the second tutorial posted by DerVVulfman despite he not having any experience with the system. But unlike the previous tutorial he revealed, this one comes with example code and a graphic file for use.
Resources Database
2D Resources
Are you ready for Christmas? You only have two-hundred days to get ready. But if you want to plan ahead, you may wish to check on the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V as a Christmas Parol Lantern, a traditional paper and bamboo lantern, are now available.
Art and Design
For those that peruse the gallery of Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing!, they would see a new piece of pandemonium. The original design and layout of Remi-chan's vision of Shroedinger's cat scrapped, it is almost fitting that the anomalous figure was borne of spontaneous creation. However, this six hour work has no speed draw. Instead, it has a bit of prose, one of Remi-chan's own Writing Snippets~.
Literature
A rare page indeed fluttered among all of Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~, a tale of chaos incarnate, the mind of the mistress of anarchy. She who no longer has a master whom gave her existance, and is both her own master and slave. Remi-chan presents this bit of prose with some haphazardous riffs to set the mood.
Filmography
If you wish the enter the auditorium of Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre, you would find yourself with two different choices. Do you wish to view the recently updated cutscne showing a starship armada? Or fid you wish to get a sneak peek of a confrontation by Remi-chan's newer vocal actress confronting the Insidious Architect.
Well, that's it for this week.
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos (1913–1996)
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Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.
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Posted by: StrangeAutomaton - 05-26-2025, 05:29 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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Funding State
Well, save-point has lost half it's funding.... so I'm no longer pulling in enough to maintain server bills. But fear not, I pulled in a bunch during the first week, so I have enough to keep us going for a little while.
What I'm currently working on
Given that our current forum software is full of bugs and development is basically on life support... I've been working on a method to get us converted over to other software that is more actively maintained, uses modern coding practices, and has been around longer than MyBB. I figure if we utilize something with a more active community behind it, we'll be better off. There are some migration solutions for it, but they don't exactly work with the current releases of either platform so I'm trying to modify it in a VM where I have a clone of the site using one of the database backups. It has not exactly gone well so I have nothing to show for it at this time. I will continue to iron out the bugs.
Once I have a working solution, I'll put the board into maintenance mode, take another backup, do the migration in a VM, and image the VM. I can then upload the VM image to my cloud provider and make it live. This way if it messes up, I don't risk not having a known good install to fall back to. Wish me luck. Oh, and if you're feeling generous, hit the donate button on the upper right side of the page and follow the instructions on how to put money in my pocket, or follow this link: https://ko-fi.com/strangeautomaton/goal?g=40
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