The Weekly Gazette 04-13-2025

[DerVVulfman]

(April 7 to April 13, 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

Games Development

Development Discussion

Demo upgrades and waiting graphics are What's up among RMers as Remi-chan updated some battles, be it the one visible in her recent post or another she talks about after discussing system optimization and quality of life changes. But as she awaits spritework from her artist, DerVVulfman began working on retooling the weapons in his Half Kaiser Battler project.

Upcoming Projects

After two months, there have been more work accomplished upon kyonides's Klans XP, that being new classes and subclasses, corrections to base values, cost discounts and system rewrites.

Material Development

Scripts Database

RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

Though kyonides was curious about possible game crashes on using his script unless beginning with a new game, KJ121 updated his Smooth Picture Movement + Earthquake Effect and noted that no save game crashes had occurred between his newer version 2.6 and its previous.

After but only a few weeks, kyonides added more options to his KWeatherArea for RPGMaker XP, allowing the developer to set new weather effects to maps before the players enter.

For the RPGMaker XP system, kyonides crafted the KHiddenDesc script so the player won't see any description of any item until it has at least been used once.

RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines

For RPGMaker VX and VXAce users, kyonides added the same new options to his KWeatherArea that he did for RPGMaker XP, so the developer to set new weather effects to maps before the players enter.

Similar to his RPGMaker XP option, kyonides crafted the KHiddenDesc scripts for RPGMaker VX and VXAce, preventing the player from reading the description of any items until it has at least been used once. There was an issue with the version for RPGMaker VX, specific to weapon descriptions. But upon fixing the issue, he then crafted the VXAce port.

Resources Database

2D Resources

If someone wondered if there was going to be a characterset graphic of the wolfish administrator of the forum, they need look no further than within the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. Released only this past week, Ace_V worked out the front view of a sprite of DerVVulfman... minus any trousers.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

If you want something zany for your game and needed to have an 80s feel, Eric Matyas is still Sharing His Original Music with two new re-recorded releases of 2021 works. Still crafting low-fidelity editions of his compositions, he remastered "Blob Monsters Return". Slow in percussion, most of the piece's timing is synth keyboard based, and laced with additional wave pop intruments. Not alone, Eric released the low-fidelity edition of "Disco Ants Go Clubbing" which has a medium drum/cymbals beat with synths galore for those ants partying at the local rave.

Art and Design

Venturing into the gallery set aside for Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread, we glimpse into her mind and bear witness to her planned battle between the heroes of her game and a hero of old gone psychotic. While only a sketch for both a later art piece and a warning of things to come, Remi also chose to doodle concept weapons which the angel of anarchy may carry into battle.

Well, that's it for this week.

"As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious." - Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

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