The Weekly Gazette 10-27-2024

[DerVVulfman]

(October 21 to October 27, 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

Announcements and Updates

A major accomplishment Happened in the Forum as DerVVulfman announced that all salvagable script and plug-in content from the late RPG Maker Central forum has finally been uploaded. He says there is more work to be accomplished, a major task of which may be to return to see what could be saved when the forum went under the name RPGMakerVXAce. That, and that the restoration of graphic resources that he managed to acquire before the board went down. A herculean task according to Remi-chan, she admits she aimed the resident werewolf to that target and was impressed with such steadfastness.

General Chat

Early this week, the News of the World focused on US Vice PresidentKamala Harris, now busted for more counts of plagiarism, this time within the halls of Congress. Harris's presidential campaign began working to attack former President Trump with rhetoric comparing him to Adolph Hitler not unlike Nancy Pelosi in 2021, while President Biden caught himself stating "we gotta lock him up". However, Fox News's Pete Hegseth gave a report showing that Democrats have decried every Republican candidate as Hitler since 1948 without fail, beginning as far back as President Truman. The unrest in Haiti has worsened according to the United Nations, violence surging 22% as gangs work to claim new territory whilst committing rape and murder to keep the fearful citizens in line. Gangs have gone so far as to open fire upon U.N. helicopters carrying observers, forcing it to set down in Port-au-Prince. And while nations within the U.N. made a pledge to send 3000 troops to bring about peace, only a scant hundred have been deployed. Regarding Illegal Immigration, even the small town of Barras de Copalita, Oaxaca in Mexico took a stand against a US bound migrant. This while a new report revealed that 2.6 Million migrants have now entered the U.S this year, Biden's immigration policy effectively outside the law passed by Congress in 1990. And worse, a Biden DHS official actively caught using his TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram accounts to promote illegal crossings. Who's side is the U.N. Secretary General António Guterres on is a question many within the U.N. are thinking. While Russia had been denounced for invading Ukraine, Guterres chose to meet with Putin and even give a welcoming hug at the international BRICS summit, thus enflaming many within the U.N., and Ukraine's President Zelensky. Meanwhile, who's side is the UNRWA on, this as Israeli forces took out Mohammad Abu Itiwi, a commander in Hamas’ elite Nukhba forces who was simultanously a member of this division of the U.N. Israel launched its counterstrike against Iran, attacking military bases and factories that supply the nation with weaponized drones and missiles such as the near-two-hunderd that were launched against Israel just weeks before. Following the attack, Israel vowed to continue their assault if Iran dared to further respond with violence. Hezbollah, Russia and Venezuela joining forces does not sound comforting, but Israeli officials have confirmed the existence of Iran backed Hezbollah bases in Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela while Venezuela plans to join Russia's BRICS. Over three-thousand North Korean Troops working for Russia, Virginia's Governor Younkin taking his case to remove 1,600 illegal aliens from voting ballots to the Supreme Court, McDonald’s worsening E. Coli outbreak, UK's Labour Party interfering in US elections, foreign influencers fueling anti-semitism in NY schools, Gazcon's recommendation for a Menendez Brothers retrial, Austria's Populist Party shut out of forming their government despite winning the election, Lord Waheed Alli of the U.K.'s House of Lords involvement in four apparent conflicts of governemnt interest, and much more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk

This week, it was revealed that Chinese Hackers had indeed targeted both the communication networks of the Trump/Vance Presidential campaign, and the phone systems of the Harris/Walz Presidential campaign. Though sources reveal that both presidential campaigns have been notified, and that the New York Times reported that investigators were determining if any communications were leaked during the hack, the FBI and Department of Justice refused to deliver any comments. It should be noted that the DOJ indicted three of Iran's Revolutionary Guard for hacking Trump's campaign earlier in an attempt to disrupt the November elections.

Games Development

Development Discussion

For Remi-chan, receiving the final slew of graphics for so-defined 'faithful' NPCs was What's up with her RMing. Among the graphics, a female bat-like humanoid wearing a red high-slit strapless. But whilst she awaited the graphics, she was updating most of the content from her game's tutorial chapter, Disc 0.

More tales appeared from Solitare's query if Anyone Ever Tried to Create A Game+ System, this time Remi-chan relaying how she challenged herself to craft an Action Battle System with nothing but events for a Indie Game contest, such a tale having impressed Solitaire. Following that, DerVVulfman relayed how he saw such endeavors being accomplished in the older RPGMaker line relied solely upon the developer's use of events, and then later followed it up with a concise breakdown of the definitions of the various battle-systems seen in games.

Complete Projects

Appearing in time for Halloween is the Horror Mystery, Whispers in the Bitter Frost. Enter Starmage's world of Vyen once more, and assist Avelina, a maiden who wakes up in a strange mansion with scattered memories and a feeling of dread. Dark secrets lie within the manor. Will she find the answers she seeks, or will the darkness wash over her.

It is the time for things to go bump in the night, and as if on cue you can now discover Delvin: Origins . A turn-based dungeon crawler set once more within Starmage's universe, you are within the Pits of Hell itself. However, you are also the incubus prince of Hell, and are charged by the demon king himself to ascend to the surface world of Vyen to steal away the souls of mortals. But Delvin has other plans. Can you guide him through his journey to confront his father and free him of his dark heritage?

Code Support

Early this week, Solutide had another request, a repair of sorts between ForeverZer0 Custom Resolution + Littledrago's Zoom scripts. While both scripts apparently worked fine together, an issue appeared. For if the player were to enter the main meu or any non-map scene from an already zoomed/ scaled map, returning to the field map would display a black screen with only the events and weather patterns visible. Afer receiving a sample demo that kyonides requested, he had a few suspicion, such as the tilemap system not fast enough to update itself after returning. And though DerVVulfman thought it might be the answer to a project that he too was working upon, both he and kyonides struggled with the script combination. Eventually, DerVVulfman decided he would return to his own resolution and map zoom project, revealing a short video that he was indeed crafting such a system. Solitaire though highly of what was presented, DerVVulfman's only apparent issue being that the map zoom feature did not focus properly upon the intended zoom target.

Material Development

Scripts Database

RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

Some maintenance was given to the RPGMaker XP edition of Kustom, kyonides's system that lets one customize existing weapons and armor in-game. The issue he had to resolve was the calculated stats that differed when a dual-wielder had two weapons in hand or not.

RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines

When one tileset is not enough, kyonides created the KTilesetDir feature for RPGMaker VX that solves the dilemma of not having enough variety. A request that the self-proclaimed lazy scripter took upon himself, he fashioned a script that allows the user to create a secondary Tileset folder for an alternate collection of tiles to use.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

Returning in time for All Hallows Eve is Eric Matyas and his Original Music. Whilst not new compositions in themselves, Eric revisits three dark melodies and re-records them for those wishing Low-Fidelity versions. The titles of these tracks are "In the Dead of Night", "Midnight Streets", and the ominous "Once Upon a Nightmare".

Art and Design

If one had a work that requires a leather-bound book or pages made of heavy vellum, the Massive Library of Free Images by Eric Matyas may have what you need. Three new textures have appeared within the Paper texture page, textures ruddish or aged darkened yellow which may be of use for ancient scrolls or dark tomes.

Solitare had some fun, despite having to be Da Mess Cleana' of One's Neighborhood. Two humorous illustrations appeared, and garnered chuckles from Remi-chan.

Literature Section

When reading Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~, you get a glimpse into her cybernetically crafted fantasy universe, a universe on the edge of disaster. But this week, the evil maelstrom that seeks to wreak havok found something unexpected, a power far beyond her capabilities.

Filmography

A new teaser appeared within Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre, a newly created cutscene as the distant sun dwindles in the sky. And the lead actress and the force possibly behind the calamety are voiced by our very on Siletrea.

Well, that's it for this week.

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