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The Weekly Gazette 06-15-2025 |
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 06-16-2025, 05:00 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(June 9 to June 14, 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
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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Network Maintenance |
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 |
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 06-09-2025, 05:14 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(June 2 to June 8, 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
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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Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.
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The Weekly Gazette 06-01-2025 |
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 06-02-2025, 05:04 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(May 26 to June 1, 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
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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Save-Point Funding |
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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The Weekly Gazette 05-25-2025 |
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 05-26-2025, 05:02 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(May 19 to May 25, 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
Occasions
A fair number of people have discovered that our furm has a stocked archive of scripts. And seeing membership was needed, jimbobiii came by and completed his registration. Greeted he was by Remi who welcomed him in, and DerVVuflamn who added the forum has a topic dedicated as an index to all the scripts within the archives board.
Development Discussion
It appears that if you asked DerVVulfman What's up as an RMers, he would reply it was spriting spriting and spriting. Seeing so much activity encouraged Ti-Max on seeing so much activity, though this week's activity by DerVVulfman was crafting massive spritesheets for three different swords.
When Remi-chan appeared within the Maps and screenshots thread, she was thrilled to see Solitaire come by for a visit. And after that, posted a screenie from a battle that she re-coded and rebalanced between Kara and her game's heroines while suggesting a video appearing in the near future.
Upcoming Projects
General Support
Early this week, Ace_V needed some advice on How to switch Immortality OFF? of a battler when previously applied within the Troops database. Ti-Max thought it was part of an evented system but DerVVulfman relayed that it was a built-in flag and supplied some code that allowed Ace_V to turn off the immortality when desired. However, DerVVulfman pointed out that the enemy may die immediately upon the flag's removal if its HP was reduced down to zero as it still took damage during combat. Remi-chan was surprised, replying the ability to remove the immortal flag existed within RPGMaker VX. But on later examination, DerVVulfman noted that both XP and VX would only remove the flag from the battler if a "Knockout" Death state were applied. And after scouring RPGMaker VXAce and MV code, suggested that no other iteration of RPGMaker appeared to have that feature.
Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
There are ways to make enemies immortal, but removing their immortality may have them succumb to damage quite lethal. To offset this, DerVVulfman scribed I ACED THIS BATTLER INVULNERABILITY so enemies need not take any damage during combat, and thus not succumb to wounds were their invulnerability wanes away.
Resources Database
2D Resources
If the malevolent treant from last week wasn't enough, a new walking sprite of that entity now appears within the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. A request by DerVVulfman, it impressed Ti-Max who complimented the work and its malevolent appearance.
Art and Design
Feel free to tag along as Starmage Continues Her Arts and Training Journey. Just as she did last week, her journey set her upon quests to dabble with fanart illustrations. The first was an elvish lass wht bloody blade and eldrich flame in hand. And the second, a ginger swordsman fashion model sporting some Delvin Klein briefs, making even a slime swoon.
Well, that's it for this week.
“I cannot tell you how grateful I am - I am filled with humidity.” - Gib Lewis
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If you are the creator of a thread in Save-Point, you have the option of sending/writing your own entry into the Gazette. The Gazette accepts write-in announcements (which will be doublechecked). Likewise, the Gazette would welcome other content such as a comic-strip series, ongoing story arc, or the like.
Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.
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The Weekly Gazette 05-18-2025 |
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 05-19-2025, 04:59 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(May 12 to May 18, 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
This week, DerVVulfman relayed that continued work based on the archives was still among Updates and Happenings. But not that new forums were being archived, but that he was working upon a main index for all the archived scripts acquired.
General Chat
Early this week, the number of appearances US President Trump in the Middle East hit the News of the World, be it lifting sanctions against Syria, Qatar reacting to criticism of the plane gifted to the US, the release of an American Hostage held by Hamas, and the possibility of talks with Iran. In Europe, Germany suggests it will meet the 5% GDP commitment to NATO dues while the G5 Committee get ready to meet in Rome to discuss matters such as the Ukraine/Russia war. And while Ukraine's President indeed went to Istanbul for a face-to-face with Russia's, Putin was a no-show and sent a delegation to instead mock Zelenskyy. Panama asks the US to deal with cleanup after the last administration's migrant surge, the Wisconsin Judge who tried to defy ICE agents claiming her actions were under Judicial Immunity, former President Biden diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer, and more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
Social media giants are facing the brunt of criticism in this week's News of the Cyber World, be it the annoyance of Europeans at Meta's new AI chat bot, Amazon looking to regain their EU's Parliament Badges after issues stemming from worker's rights and no-shows, and a database breack from TikTok may cost them plenty. Europe-wide ban on social media for underage youths and Youtube using AI to push advertisements into the most viewed portions of videos watched also hit this week's cybernews.
Development Discussion
Spritework appears to be What's up with our RMers based upon the screen shots presented. DerVVulfman displayed a female Half Kaiser battler brandishing a makeshift spear template, claiming he will be focusing upon swords in the near future. And Remi-chan revealed spritework by our forum's Rune (or Xiie in other sites), the character of Patricia nearly complete.
Early this week, Solitaie returned and gazed upon Remi-chan's work within the Maps and screenshots thread. Following that, she posted a pair of animated shots of her own, both cavernous areas with her own stylized tilework with shadow effects revealed. But not just gifs, but a youtube video with the actual gameplay within her maps were presented.
Complete Projects
A new complete game has arrived this week, so be on the lookout for Bip-bip of the Eye! Crafted by Starmage, and a sequel to a game she made for a friend's birthday, it is a short game with a focus upon exploration and discovery, inspired by Elder Scrolls Morrowind and Eurocenter Games's (now Toonslab's) Graal Ol' West. Admittedly, not fleshed out, she suggests features like swimming need some work.
Tutorials
For those who do not use the Enterbrain engine, DerVVulfman released an early version of the Guide to Good Programming with Game Maker. An article created for Game Maker 4.0 by Allen Cheung, our resident werewolf had this within his backup files for two decades before release. However, it is a document that discusses proper code formatting, variable types, concepts such as inheritance, and much more.
Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
Within traditional battlesystems, your heroes are limited in how they may deliver an attack. By that, their attacks are always at the same degree of intensity and power. But this week, DerVVulfman delivered Ellemine's Power Attacks and Called Hits which lets the game developer create strength and accuracy levels for any attacker for either any or individual, though also suggesting that there may be a cost.
Resources Database
2D Resources
The classic RTP that comes with RPGMaker XP comes with a walking tree nemesis. However, it is all nice and lush with greenery. For those that want something more malevolent, the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V now includes a barren and fierce variation replete with dark red eyes and open maw. Ace_V believes it a perfect guardian of sorts for those forbidden areas the wize and pious would fear to tread.
Art and Design
An update was made to Starmage's Free Resource Packs, this week still focusing upon nature itself. Three new full body portraits of sort, you will have access to a slender humanoid flower with red petals surrounding its pleasant face, a rather annoyed flying pea-pod man with stark red eyes, and a muscular man-hornet with a blood-tinged stinger and a massive curve-blade sword,
During Starmage's Arts and Training Journey, she was compulsed into a quest. Our wanderer had been booned to illustrate an individual before before his battle with a dark lord. However, this daring piece of art is without a hint of armor to show off this hero's strong arms and toned abs.
Some may not have been aware that she was under the surgeon's knife a week ago. But while she was in the hospice, illustrations and sketches were being generated for Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing!. The main protagonists of Junked made an appearance with focus given to Solistace. But immediately after, characters from Fantasia appeared with the Nekomimi-like Grace, Wi caught vaping, and more.
Well, that's it for this week.
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The Weekly Gazette 05-11-2025 |
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 05-12-2025, 05:09 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(May 5 to May 11, 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
General Chat
More news came out about Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld which may ruin Nintendo's chances. By that, Palworld has a list of products that use the various game mechanics which Nintendo had only just recently attempted to patent. And with that, it suggests that Nintendo's patents will be re-examined and possibly considered void. Such games include Ark, Tomb Raider, Craftopia, Titantall, Final Fantasy 14, and many more.
The News of the World involved peace talks between the nations of India and Pakistan, and the apparent ceasefire by the Houthis on ships in the Red Sea. Meanwhile, trade agreements were reached between the US and the UK and between the US and China. There is that, and politicians caught on bodycam arrested after skirting security within a prison.
Development Discussion
If you were wondering What's up with the RMers in the forum, DerVVulfman is continuing his work on spriting weapons for his Half Kaiser Battler resources, finishing his work on rifles and now about to begin work on shortbow animations. Steel Beast 6Beets was curious if there were more animations available per weapon, which DerVVulfman acknowledged. Meanwhile, there was a discussion about the early days of the RPGMaker engine's appearance and the translations that popped up before RPGMaker XP's official edition arrival outside of Japan.
Upcoming Projects
Starmage came by and applied a new patch to Heroes of the Seasons, one that increases the strength of mercs encounered and magic applied. Likewise, the names of the gameplay stages have been updated to more clearly distinguish game progress with game difficulty.
Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
Last week, DerVVulfman released Adeyemi's Armor Proficiency, but recently discoveed it had a bug within the code. The bug was one that involved the variables passed inot the Item Effect system. But once noticed, the bug was quickly repaired.
Resources Database
2D Resources
Many an RPG games are within fantasy settings of the medieval age. And within those, many a town may have a local blacksmith. So if you wish to have a forge, the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V had converted one of the RPGMaker XP characters into one with a separate forge spritesheet and an event script to create the illusion.
Well, that's it for this week.
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If you are the creator of a thread in Save-Point, you have the option of sending/writing your own entry into the Gazette. The Gazette accepts write-in announcements (which will be doublechecked). Likewise, the Gazette would welcome other content such as a comic-strip series, ongoing story arc, or the like.
Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.
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The Weekly Gazette 05-04-2025 |
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 05-05-2025, 05:05 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(April 28 to May 4, 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
General Chat
Early this week, the News of the World was that the Miniral Rights deal between US President Trump and Ukraine's President Zalenskyy was signed, though it got severe pushback by Russia's Vladimir Putin who stated Ukraine was going to cease to be and once again threatened the US with nukes. But as Putin pushes troops for battleground gains, their strategy flounders as they have incurred heavy losses there and in the Black Sea following a Ukrainian Drone attack. For illegal immigration in the US, two more nations may consider taking those deported. Two more of the unaccompanied minors lost by the Biden Administration have been rescued, this time from sex traffickers based in California. And of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was deported back to El Salvador, more news about his wife's spousal abuse charges appear. China provocation is increasing in South Korea, first with individuals with high powered cameras taking photographs at military bases, critics looking at China interfering in their upcoming presidential election, and increasing their naval deployment in the waters around South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines. Mexican Sewage flowing into the US, a Biden-era Censorship office uncovered, India and Pakistan flexing their naval muscles, Hamas looking at arson as a legitimate military tactic and more hit this week's news.
Tech Talk
This week the News of the Cyber World has been bad for Big Tech as one Federal Judge blasts Apple for Anti-Trust violations, Google's CEO is tries to fight its own Anti-Trust court case defending its monopoly, Google, LinkedIn and California in serious trouble with sharing private health care data online, and TikTok confirmed sharing personal data to the CCP despite assurances. However, online and AI safety is taking center satage as the US House of Representatives passes legislation to criminalize nonconsensual deepfakes, and a Judge has allowed Elon Musk to sue Sam Altman and keep OpenAI public and not marketed. Crypto-Entrepreneurs in France targeted by kidnappers, China's competition to eBay freezing in the US market, Apple pulling iPhone production out of China and more hit this week's cybernews.
Complete Projects
This week, Starmage presented a Lets Play video of her game, Project: Echelon, a 90 minute game as played by BugFragged, someone familiar with Starmage's Rave Heart series,
Another BugFragged let's play video entered the forum as Starmage shows off the 90 minute gameplay of The Final Prayer. The opening alone surprised the video's host as events and characters by Starmage were quite apparent within the surprising conflict at the game's start.
Resources Database
2D Resources
Was he inspired by the recent Marvel movie being released? Was he inspired by the countless times Chris Helmsworth's persona has been showing up on cable TV over and over again? Whatever the case, the hammer of Thor has now made an appearance among the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. Indeed, you have blue lightning writhing around, glowing faintly or have Mjolner lodged against some stone. Are you worthy enough to pick up this characterset?
Music and Audio
Artistic creativity does not belive in time tables. Know then that a twelth composition has now appeared within DoubleX Music Room, a composition entitled "Wish Them The Best". A lightly energetic piece, it reflects how one may find their heart's desire in a relationship with another and how they present a happy and well wishing attitude. However, the bridge quickly lessens a little before returning to its bright melody once more.
Art and Design
As Starmage continues on her Arts and Training Journey, she decided to travel down the road of character art. For this, she presented three line art renders she has been working upon that are intended for a free collection of character portraits.
Now beginning this past week, Starmage's Free Character Packs are here. Large character full portraits for any RPG or Visual Novel game, she reveals three Spring dieties which were crafted for Itch.Io's RPG Maker Asset Contest hosted by GotchaGotchaGames, and are free for use in commercial or non-commercial games. Her first diety is a goddess with skin of charcoal, clad in bright orange as if heading to a beach party. Her second, another god dess with pale apple green and a short dress of fern, her magenta hair a stark contrast. And the last diety a god of skin arctic, horns of a ram from his forehead, and not much more than a loin cloth worn.
Well, that's it for this week.
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Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.
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The Weekly Gazette 04-27-2025 |
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 04-28-2025, 05:00 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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April 21 to April 27, 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
General Chat
While this week's News of the World was focused upon the loss of Pope Franis, many wonder who the next as the College of Cardinals prepares to gather at the Vatican to make that decision. With the Easter cease fire over, Ukraine and Russia trade attacks once more, Kyiv-aligned operatives against Russia blowing up a major railway to the front lines while Moscow has claimed its forces have retaken the Kursk region while finally admitting it has indeed deployed North Korean troops to the frontlines. For illegal aliens within the US, the Supreme Court granted leniency on those who are applying to voluntarily leave the US without prosecution. However, other judges within the US have been caught violating the law, one Judge in New Mexico disbarred and arrested for harboring a Tren De Aragua member in possession of multiple firearms while another in Wisconsin taken into custody along with the illegal migrant whom she tried to help evade further arrest. And tensions in the Middle East couldn't be higher as the Houthis threatened further escalation against the United States, this despite the Houthis being the terror group attacking any traffick in the Red Sea. And as the US begins to bolster Israel's defenses with transport aircrafts out of Germany, Trump is working to have talks with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over its nuclear program, this as reports show Iran intested in having a stake in the US's nuclear sector. The vehicular attack and murder spree at the Lapu Lapu Filipino Canadian Festival, China's first joint air force exercise with Egypt to show off its new warplanes, investigations into illegal fundraising tactics, and more hit this week's news.
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Development Discussion
If you were curious as to What's up with any RM developer, DerVVulfman continued working on his windows-like widgets project, and now has a funtional Drive, Folder and File List box collection. He stated it needs work, adding a dropdown if optional patterns are present to limit files by their extensions and handling the way the text appears within the lists.
Complete Projects
This week, Starmage released the first trailer for Project: Echelon, a sci-fi game where a rag-tag band of skilled individuals must set off and face an invasion from outside their galaxy. Exploration, drama, battles, and if the trailer is of any indication, a heavy metal soundtrack.
A trailer has emerged, showcasing the first-person dungeon exploration and combat of The Final Prayer by Starmage. But do not let that fool you as The Final Prayer is a rich story that takes Isolde, a princess separate from the common rabble, and throws her into the real world as dark forces threaten not only her, but her people and entire kingdom.
Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
Last week, DerVVulfman created Adeyemi's Armament Proficiency to allow actors to learn different weapon styles and grant different levels of attack scores. But it had a flaw when it attempted to determine the level of experience if an actor knows two weapon styles, a flaw that DerVVulfman fixed this week.
Based upon his work from last week, DerVVulfman crafted Adeyemi's Armor Proficiency, a script that lets actors increase their defense potential when wearing armor in which they are trained to use. However, it only grants protection against physical attacks and affords no protetion against magicka at all.
If you felt the need to have a shop so sparce that it only had one of any item on its shelves, then KSingleItemShop for RPGMaker XP is just for you. A script by kyonides, it allows game developers to make it possible that stores have but only one of any item on their shelves.
RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines
This week, kyonides asked himself why shops seem to have an infinite number of items. But in reply to his own query, he decided to craft the KSingleItemShop for RPGMaker VXAce, allowing game developers to make it possible that stores have but only one of any item on their shelves.
Resources Database
2D Resources
Last week,Ace_V sprited a police officer. But if you had need of one armed with a truncheon or baton, the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V now includes that as well.
Art and Design
It was two weeks ago that a practice sketch was made depicting a chaotic angel tested the strength of three young maidens. However, it was this week that one can behold within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing The Cosmic Sniper Fyori and her three cousins in full color glory. But do not let the roseate of her apparel lul you, for she brandishes both blade and ballistics in this bout with her barely bound bretheren. As most oft, a youtube video of her speed draw is also available for your viewing and listening pleasure, this time condensing fourteen hours into but less than twenty minutes.
Well, that's it for this week.
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Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.
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