The Weekly Gazette 09-29-2024

[DerVVulfman]

(September 23 to September 29, 2024)

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

This week, we received a new community member named L0veRaven. A livestreamer,  L0veRaven has been a fan of relaxing farming sims and RM games like Harvest Moon and Animal crossing, and is thinking acquired RPGMaker XP with a bit of curiosity how hard it would be to learn some ruby-script coding.  DerVVulfman mentioned that anyone using any game editor would need to have some rudimentary skill in all of its features, and threw out that he made a crop-growing script for RPGMaker XP of his own. Along with that, kyonides volunteered that his KTimers script could come in handy. And after that, Remi-chan welcomed L0veRaven from one livestreamer to another.

Not the first, and not the most recent account, but we were greeted by TheLast joining our forum. A user of RPGMaker XP, he is also a tabletop gamer playing as a werewolf hunter who had some mixed feelings once seeing the forum's main administration lineup. DerVVulfman took to no offence, and was curious to find out what tabletop engine was played. Meanwhile, kyonides inquired if TheLast would read the last chapter of his work in the Biblioethica, and Remi-chan  assured TheLast that he could be as secretive as desired.

  General Chat

This week's News of the World did not focus upon the embarrassment of China over another submarine sinking in port, nor Germany's entire Green Party Leadership resigning over public opposition.  Instead, it was within the Middle East and Israel's fight on all fronts. Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel, followed not long after by the Houthis who have long attacked any vessels in the Red Sea. But Israel struck back, killing top leaders in Hezbollah, including Hassan Nasrallah who has orchestrated mass murder since the 1983 Beirut bombing that took over 200 US marines, joined Syrian civil war in 2011 and later atrocities against Sunni Muslims. And only just this Sunday, Israel launched a major strike against the Houthis in Yemen, destroying the terror groups infrastructure and means to receive weapons they receive from Iran. The media is refusing to remember the atrocities of Nasrallah,  the Associated Press not recalling the 1983 bombing while CNN's Jeremy Diamond calling on Israel to stop fighting back. And on each turn, the U.S's Antony Blinken asked Israel not to fight back, Biden keeps calling Israel to stand down, and so-defined progressives in the US congress like Illinois's Schakowsky wants to resume funding the UNRWA (United Nations Relief Welfare Agency for Palestinian Refugees) whom has strong ties to Palestine and Hamas. The war of aggression that Russia wages against Ukraine continues, Former President Trump originally not thrilled with all the funding going to Ukraine but now more understanding of the turmoil the nation has gone through after a meeting with Zelensky. And of Zelensky, Trump thanked Ukraine's president over said nothing transpired in the 2019 call Democrats used to kickstart their impeachment. Scandal hit the Big Apple as NY City's Mayor Adams is hit with a historic 57 page indictment, including conspiracy, wire fraud, solicitation with foreign nationals and bribery. While many Democrats now demand he stand down and resign, Washington state's Pramila Jayapal grumbled that Adams argued against Biden's immigration policy the same as Former President Trump. And of Illegal immigration in the U.S, its been revealed that in 2024 alone, the Biden/Harris administration released over 600,000 illegals into the U.S. despite felony charges ranging from rape, to child sex offences and murder despite federal laws prohibiting. But is Biden in charge? According to the press, Kamala Harris is distancing herself from Biden. But a video released this week reveals that Biden had indeed delegated all authority, both foreign and domestic to Harris, meaning she has been in charge of the U.S. all this time. The finances of Congress's Nancy Pelosi hit the spotlight as her husband's cashes in $1 million of Visa stock before a DOJ antitrust case mirrors that of last year when her husband knew to buy ast least $1 Million in Alphabet/Google stock just before a congressional stock trading ban was announced. Argentina's President Milei blasting the United Nations over their policies over Covid and their failed climate and globalistic agendas, Hamas gunmen kill an Aid/Relief worker in Gaza for refusing to turn over charity funds, UK's Labour party refuse Prime Minister Starmer’s plan to cut costs to retired pentsioner's heating bills, Shots fired at Kamala Harris's campaign office in Arizona being the second time in recent weeks, a migrant rapist suspected of killing a 19-year old French girl released from prison despite a prior deportation order, the passing of legendary actress Dame Maggie Smith (Minerva McGonagall of Harry Potter, Mother Superior of Sister Act, etc), and much more hit this week's news.
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  Tech Talk

Recent information revealed that not all Chinese Hackers are working for the CCP, but in fact have been forced or tortured to reveal information. One Andy Li whom was arrested in Hong Kong under China's revised National Security Law was a volunteer on behalf of IPAC (Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China), and whose security was accessed by China itself while he is still in prison awaiting sentanceing. And as mentioned last week, Flax Typhoon has been busy creating bot-nets, and an estimated nine-thousand home and office internet-connected devices in Canada are expected to be infected with their malware content.

Games Development

  Development Discussion

Early this week, kyonides asked others What's up and if a feature to switch between one enemy troop to another while in battle  at the developer's whim would be a good idea. DerVVulfman thought it might extend the battle, and suggested he keep track of all the gold and experience. While kyonides said it wasn't what DerVVulfman pictured, a later update of his work was exactly as DerVVulfman predicted, troop-changing extended battles. Meanwhile, Remi-chan finally got back to working on the rewrite to her Disk 0 Tutorial arc for her game, revising the introductory battle, and delivering a new cutscene for viewing with new cinematics. However, vocal work for the pre-recorded cinematic is not yet complete as Siletrea's vocals have not been added.

  Complete Projects

The dangers for the princess hoping to Restoring Falmay just increased.  Starmage just made things more uncertain for anyone playing her game by concealing the enemy's health while changing the battle system over from its previous active timer format. And Zithrel's slumber skill now lasts but half the time while taking longer to recharge. And though the RTP-using contest she entered Restoring Falmay in was cancelled, Starmage is still keeping the RTP feel of the game while still updating it with new fonts, graphics and a new title screen.

  Code Support

This week, Bennerdeben placed a request for a Skill that throws enemies, and by that an enemy could be targeted with an attack that could stun, and by chance that enemy could appear to connect with other enemies who could become just as hurt. He had tried working out a means to generate such a feature, but had difficulties working out a means to augment the scope targeting system.  Towards the end of the week, DerVVulfman showed up with a variation of what Bennerdeben looked for, a script that could deal damage to other enemies after the targeted foe was struck. But DerVVulfman did mention that applying a stun effect would be easy enough in the Skill database itself.

Material Development

  Tools

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  Scripts Database

  RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

For those game developers that are mischief makers that love to put the player through hell, you may be interested in KEnemySwitch XP. Designed for RPGMaker XP by kyonides, it allows the game developer to switch out the enemy troops the party if facing in the middle of battle. Not only that, but after a few days, kyonides released an update where the game developer can set how many troops must be defeated before the batle truly ends.

Creativity Section

  Music and Audio

It was a long time since his debut with "Everyone Turning Against You". But now he has returned and the DoubleX Music Room has a new composition entitled "Accepting Sadness", DoubleX's second published song utilizing 1BITDRAGON before he forgot the sombre melody that just played in his head.

  Art and Design

If you needed some high-quality textures for your forest models, or a new tileable relief to go within your game, do recall the Massive Library of Free Images that Eric Matyas has available.  There are plenty of new tree bark textures in various degrees of coarseness and shading. And do not forget his now available Game Music Megapack.

Once more has a new piece of art entered Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing!, this time the flawed goddess of Remi-chan's gaming universe herself, Sacreblu.  She is set against a dark stellar backdrop for your viewing pleasure. And for the unaware, Sacreblu now has a new vocal actress doing her lines. She can be heard here and there within the Speed Draw video that Remi-chan provided.

  Literature Section

A new page unfurls with legendary enemies of old coming to the aid of all within [HighlightRemi-chan's writing snippets[/Highlight]. But when the fate of the world depends on young heroes facing legion, even a villain of the past will unsheath sword to defend what and whom he will. But even as the tide turns, a force that cannot be challenged appears. And those present may lose the guiding light of their family.

Well, that's it for this week.

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