The Weekly Gazette 02-09-2025

[DerVVulfman]

(February 3 to February 9, 2025)

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

Following the server upgrade that occurred two weeks prior, Kirito performed some more Software Modifications. In this, various custom features that were introduced into the forum's code have now been placed into a single plug-in. Because of this, features such as the spoilers do not need to be re-added each time the forum's software is upgraded.

General Chat

This week's News of the World began with various actions by US President Trump, signing the Laken Riley act, how his use of Tariffs inspired both Mexico and Canada to begin working with him on border security, and the near halt of illegal immigrants appearing. However, all this is being attacked by groups wishing to re-open the border, leaks to ICE raids such as the ones after Tren De Aragua in Colorado, and keep USAID running despite the rank insubordination and an ongoing audit showing excessive spending with no accountability. Still, US recruitment has hit an all-time high. California continues losing companies to Texas like Realtor.com and Charles Schwab, Ukraine hitting Russia Command in Kursk, the possibility that California's Utilities started the wildfires, new sanctions on Iran's Oil, Panama pulls out of Chinese deal after US Rubio visit, Superbowl 2025, and more hit this week's news.
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Games Development

Development Discussion

This week, it was discovered that RPGMaker VXAce is available for Free on Steam as part of a promotional deal while two other promotional deals for the same engine still exist until this upcoming Monday (February 10th). Normally $69.99, it is a deal for anyone using Steam.

For those wondering What's up among the forum's RMers, DerVVulfman continues working on spriting resources for his Half Kaiser battlers, finishing the short-sleeved shirt resource, and continuing with footwear. Meanwhile, Remi-chan received new spritework from Rune (or Xiie), and wished to show it off.

Within the Maps and Screenshots Thread, Remi-chan posted four images to show off updated character graphics and backdrops from her current game project.

Upcoming Projects

More work and more occupations have been added by kyonides to his Klans XP project. Tanners, scholars, city watch and more now populate the Klans, regional exploration and scoutshave been added, updated graphis have been implemented, and much more.

Material Development

Scripts Database

Script Requests

As requested by Ace_V, DerVVulfman began Editing the Steal Script by makeamidget & Khatharr to allow stealing weapons & armor. But when he first examined it, DerVVulfman stated the 20 year old script was going to go through a major revision, and has been showing sections he rewrote and reduced in size while working to add the features Ace_V desired.

Resources Database

2D Resources

If you want creepy crawlies in your game, you can now find a squishable cockroach added to the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. Added this week by Ace_V, this diminuitive sprite should take up only a miniscule 32x32 tile on the map.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

Quite a varity of tunes have appeared if you were looking for some Original Music and Sound FX. Eric Matyas composed "Pixel City Cruising" which combines a touch of cyber retro atop a heavy drum beat for an urban environment. More light hearted 80s and early 90s vibes can be felt with "Life's Good in Pixeltown". And with a classic one-two drum beat as an accent for an industrial type environment, "Candy Factory" recreates the vibes one may experience when playing chill and relaxing games like "The Lost Vikings". But do not forget, he has a large assortment of sound effects in which to sample.

Art and Design

As promised, new images appeared within DerVV's Stream FrankenArts topic. As SIletrea began playing Monster Hunter World, DerVVulfman sought to capture the feel of the game with large panels and a tiny figure facing towering behemoths. But despite the diminuitive size of her VTuber model, DerVVulfman relayed that Siletrea practically owned the combat whilst on the hunt.

Are you looking for something new in brickwork for a modern city? Are you interested in textures for a highly detailed stonework road? If so, you will want to visit the Massive Library of Free Images that Eric Matyas has been building. Whether traditional red brick, classic brickwork with a blue paintjob applied or more, you should find the recent updates appealing. But Eric did not merely post brickwork, but organic algae-like textures and solid blue stonework as well.

This week we received a sneak peek within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! for her upcoming Valentine's Day art piece. And rather than it being a case of evil doers or kitsune getting together as was the case last year, the piece involves two of Remi-chan's more long term characters.

Literature

If you flipped through the recent pages of Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~, you would come across a scene from Remi-chan's game spin-offs. And with it, you would see one of her established characters receiving a much needed pep talk in her youth.

Filmography

As she has been replacing the pre-battle animated cut-scenes, the footage within Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre is her current progress before a fight ensues between heroes old and new.

Well, that's it for this week.

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PROSPECTIVE GAZETEERS!

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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[Ace_V]

The script help is really appreciated!