The Weekly Gazette 7-05-2026

[DerVVulfman]

(Junel 29 to July 05, 2026)

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

Throughout the week, DerVVulfman continued the efforts at RPGMaker Webs Archiving, and finished acquiring the graphic resources dedicated to the RPGMaker VX and VXAce engine. However, he remarked that many resources were lost due to the image hosting sites that were used.

Occasions

Giving the members ample time to prepare, MetalRenard announced the upcoming 2026 Game Jam that begins at the end of July. A Ten day affair, members are free to make a simple game in under four days for fun that centers around fairies or nature, with a few limitations of their choice.

A long time member of the RPG Game making community has now appeared. After the announcement Save-Point was having a game jam, Coyotecraft decided to introduce himself within the forum, though he has been a member of the Discord for some time.

Tech Talk

The video game industry was certainly front and center in this week's News of the Cyber World as a major lobbyist for gaming industry declared private minecraft servers and the like piracy, all while "Stop Killing Games" seeks game preservation. Though it worked well for Sony in recent history, they are scaling back games for the PC while also annoucing the discontinuation of physical media for their playstation games. Other hot topics such as Kadokawa, the makers of Elden Ring and the RPGMaker engine line, being in an interior civil war and Meta's request to have charges violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act dropped also hit the news.

Games Development

Development Discussion

If you inquire What's up among our RMers, kyonides is encountering headaches with midi files, the various files offering different outputs when trying to establsh a means to calculate a melody's duration.

Complete Projects

Starmage has been gushing as she has received fan-art after fan-art forRave Heart+ almost daily thanks to her friend, Berry-B. Full body portraits of Ellemine, Chibi artwork of the cast, and even fan-service bikini bathingsuit watergun murals have been presented. And who knows what will show up next?

Upcoming Projects

KDC has put Memorie on a temporary hiatus once more. Due to the myriad Windows 11 updates, he is quickly running out of hard drive space and has plans to move over to Linux. However, it will also take time to set things up after migration.

Tutorials

It was five years when MetalRenard began his journey into Learning GDScript, posting examples of his wok. But now, he is happy to state that he is now a full-time web developer thanks to his study.

Material Development

Scripts Database

HiddenChest (RGSS1-3) Engine

The latest update to HiddenPlayList XP, kyonides's Jukebox script for the HiddenChest executable, now includes a timelapse counter. Along with that, more instructions on use were added to the main post.

RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

This week, DerVV's Tutorial Windows was unveiled. A message window system of sorts, meant for in-game tutorials. The system tracks what help documents have been shown, and ensures they are not reshown without the need of default RPG Maker switches. And built into the instructions, a discussion how to insert said windows into custom minigames and applications.

The Two-Stage Crafting script by DerVVulfman is a system to give a little simulation of the player or party having to put effort into the actual creation of items. While it only works on creating items from others, it allows one to create individual workstations that remember items placed within each and allows for selective crafting stations for different purposes.

RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines

DerVVulfman gave one final push in archiving the remaining RMVX and ACE PAGES from RPGMakerWebs.com since it has closed up. He noted that some content was lost because of thread authors that tried monetizing their content with the now-lost ad.fly services. But also noted that he was familiar with the author who also did the same within RPG Maker Central.

Resources Database

beginning this month, DerVVulfman began working on archiving the MAKER SPECIFIC RESOURCES from RPGMakerWeb.com. He has progressed far this week, having archived graphic resources specific to most enterbrain engines, only having those for RPGMaker MV left to attack.

2D Resources

The nomads of the Sahara are in sever trouble. While they have sufficient protective gear, the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V now introduces a new character, a girl with sassy purple hair. Garbed in the same goggles, masks and other protections, one question remains. Who is going to protect the tribe from her?

Well, that's it for this week.

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