The Weekly Gazette 03-30-2025

[DerVVulfman]

(March 24 to March 30, 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

Its been a while since hearing about Forum Updates Happening, but it appears that DerVVulfman had some plans. Possibly spurred on by Kaz and Remi-chan, he created an Archive Forum dedicated to RPG RPG Revolution, another indie RPG site lost over a decade ago. However, he couldn't save as much as he could with other boards in the past. Still, he received praise from KDC, and Remi-chan expressed that Save-Point has more staying power than other boards. Though she also placed a few bets against some other boards in her own manner.

General Chat

When it comes to the News of the World, one wonders where to begin? Last week, it was found a reporter for The Atlantic was online with members of Trump's staff claiming war plans were revealed, this disputed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. And this week, the same Judge Boasberg who ordered planes filled with Tren De Aragua members be returned to the US now claims to be in charge of the Signal app case. However, with all the judges working to stall the Trump administration on all fronts, DOJ Pam Bondi calls for the removal of Boasberg and two others who were Obama and Biden appointees under grounds that they are not impartial. The effort to streamline the US economy continues as DOGE posted that 300K unused credit cards. And following a victory in the Appeals Court, the State Department formally closed USAid. It may not be the only thing shuttered as even late-night host Bill Maher stated both PBS and NPR should stop receiving funds after seeing how the CEO of NPR's testimony revealed her bias at a Congressional hearing. And regarding security, the US arrested a top MS-13 leader in Virginia, revealed that the orchestrators of the Columbia Pro-Hamas protests had prior knowledge of the October 7th massacre, and a number of University Student Visas have been reviewed and revoked. Insofar as the Ukraine/Russia war, Russia is now having economic problems as the impact of increased military funding hurts their banking systems. Perhaps this and their recent aircraft losses led to talks for a Black Sea ceasefire. On another front, China refuses to say anything about getting involved in the war. However, they unveiled a new weapon, a device to cut the undersea cables connecting the world's internet. A democrat under threat of Censure for ridiculing Texas's Governor revealed to be funded by Big Pharma, King Charles back in the Hospital for observation, and much more hit this week's news.
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Games Development

Development Discussion

It appears that spritework is What's up among our RMers for the past few weeks. And for this week, DerVVulfman revealed that he is now working on bikini bottoms of sorts for his female Half Kaiser battlers. Meanwhile, combat is also on the mind of RMers, and Remi-chan has been toiling away on updating fights within her game, fixing up two this week whilst making plans to rework a third.

Within the Maps and screenshots thread, Remi-chan presented a clip showing a young maiden in blue encountering a white-clad alien who is not totally there.

> A Poll < This week, kyonides needs your help. He created a poll asking readers for assistance on Troop Details for his Klans XP, and wishes an opinion on what resources would be the most needed to acquire troops. For that, you have choices such as Gold, Iron, Faith and much more. So please visit, place your vote, and perhaps even give a little insighe on why you made your choice.

Complete Projects

If you are up to killing some time, Starmage is pleased to present a Let'sPlay of her game, Elf's Dairy. A two-hour journey by Bugfragged, you journey through the world of Vyen as the master of a new guild created to aid others at a time of crisis.

Tutorials

Within kyonides's Ruby Scripting thread, he discusses streamlining statements to increase processing speed. Yes, he used default scripts to show how the developers could have streamlined the code more. But he notes that touching the original scripts isn't recommended.

Material Development

Scripts Database

RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

If you aren't satisfied with the same old gamoever music playing no matter what battle that felled your heroes, then Lina's GameOver MEs by DerVVulfman might be what you need. With it, the gameover music event can change from enemy troop to enemy troop. He had to update the script after finding that the music didn't return to default if the heroes survived, and apparently added some flourish to a fight with a big bad evil guy in his demo.

With the RPGMaker XP edition of KWeatherArea, kyonides ensured that the altered weather effects made in battle can be reset when battle ends.

RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines

For RPGMaker VX and VXAce users, kyonidesf KWeatherArea can now ensure that weather effects made in battle can be reset when battle ends. But as a reminder both engines didn't initially have weather effects in battle and had to be restored.

Resources Database

2D Resources

Of the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V, a new animal character sprite has been borne. It could be a mole rat as first suggested, though Ace_V also proposed that it could be used for a newborn creature of any sort.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

This week, Erc Matyas continues Sharing His Original Music with a relaxing and contemplative work entitled "Solitude", a piece utilizing synthesized wind instruments slow and deep. But along with that, he visited two of his previous compositions from the new year and recorded low-fidelity renditions.

Art and Design

This week, two more seamless bark textures were added to Eric Matyas's Massive Library of Free Images, one dark brown and the other dark green.

This week, Starmage continues her Arts and Training Journey as she continues to make strides with different techniques. And only at the end of the week, she presented a new portrait of Lyrelle from BlueSkies 2. So pleased she was, the new illustration is now her current avatar.

Were you to check in on Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing!, you would see mere pencil sketches and cartoons she doodled. Do be warned of some lingering coarse language present.

Filmography

If you decided to enter the foyer of Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre, you would find a recent rewrite of a scene from one of Remi-chan's game, one where the sisters three must face a powerhouse possessed, a normally passive heart who had the strength to face down the demoness that hell itself fears.

Well, that's it for this week.

"I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal." - Groucho Marx (1890–1977)

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