The Weekly Gazette 12-10-2023

[DerVVulfman]

(December 4 to December 10, 2023)

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

Official Area

Occasions

He may have been here for a while, but it is this week that RinDes is making his debut. He, an RPGMaker XP user, is currently working upon a horror mystery game. And he is creating all the resources personally, even going so far as personally composing the music. He was greeted by DerVVulfman who applauded RinDes's choice of genre, by Remi-chan who welcomed him to the funny forum, and by kyonides who wanted to probe deeper into RinDes's game.

General Chat

This week's News of the World was wide and varied. Israeli troops find caches of weapons hidden in a Gaza school, hidden in a teddy bear and inside bags from the U.N. This while the U.N. refuses to condemn the rapes performed by Hamas on the hostages they had taken, and are now threatening to kill. Earlier this week, NATO foresaw bad news for Ukraine after a failed counter offensive. But a more recent battle hit Russia hard, killing over 3000 troops and over 30 tanks. The world-wide immigrant crisis found over 1000 dead and buried near border crossings in Europe. And while U.S. congressman Dick Durbin demands conservatives work with him to 'fix' immigration, it turns out that Durbin is blocking requests for Late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs over his human trafficking ring. Three prestigious Ivy League Colleges hit the news when their presidents, in a televised hearing before the U.S. Congress, and were unable to condemn anti-semetic speech. Donations to these were pulled over disgust, and one of the presidents resigned over her claim such speech 'Depended upon the context'. Maduro's political arrests and plans to invade Guyana, China's assault against Philippeans humanitarian ships, 'Half-Asleep' bears roaming around in Russia, Hunter Biden's nine new federal tax charges, and more Chinese Weather Balloons appear over Taiwan this time. This and so much more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk

This week's News of the Cyber World covered many topics such as the plea deal for the Youtuber who crashed plane in a publicity stunt, and Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink has passed clearance for military communication contracts. McDonald's use of AI to keep your food warm, and Nicolas Maduro calling the freely editable Wikipedia an enemy of Venezuela.

Games Development

Development Discussion

Reworks and revisions are What's up with RMers like KasperKalamity and Remi-chan. Now using a new editor, he decided to show off the new 256x256 tile map which took only nine days. The only thing missing are some scarecrows, a barn and a few accoutrements. Small maps are more Remi-chan's scene, and mentions it endlessly. Her artists are still delayed in sending her some graphics, but found that one of the artists is dealing with a family member catching Covid. In the meantime, Remi-chan had decided to completely remaster the menus for Fantasia, initally showing conceptual art and then displayed her work upon a tab menu and her endeavors for a quest Log.

The wonderful mapping skills of Melana once again graced our Maps and screenshots thread, as she used tiles not meant for the RPGMaker line for a series of outdoor and cavernous environments.

Material Development

Scripts Database

Updates were made to kyonides' KJustSave, giving options to how the screen is drawn and the inclusion of his 2022 script, KToggleButtons, as a necessity. And a tiny bit of maintenance was needed regarding placement a little bit later.

Not all updates are eye-catching, and the additions to KToggleButtons is merely a set of methods that kyonides added to work behind the scenes.

If anyone wished to use the traditional Spritest screen-capture trick when using the Fukuyama Train Actor caterpillar script, you may have noticed that the party following the player is never captured. For this, the Fukuyama Spriteset Consistancy script by DerVVulfman solves this issue by forcing the party member sprites to be generated at the same instance as the player.

Well, that's it for this week.

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

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