The Weekly Gazette 08-17-2025

[DerVVulfman]

(August 11 to August 17, 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

This week, The new HBGames Archive Board has increased in size, not only adding all the RPGMaker MV and MZ plugins that DoubleX had not already posted, but nearly eighty games from their Completed Projects board. Ace_V was very appreciative, already putting some content from the archive to use, and hoping that DerVVulfman may take a break. The meme uploaded was comically, as Remi-chan pointed out, horrifyingly accurate.

Occasions

You may have ssoup hanging around. But this week, our latest composer decided to create an introduction and make their account fully registered and official. A user of RPGMaker XP and Godot, they like making random games. The two questions DerVVulfman had for ssoup were the types of games favored, and what kind of soup was brought.

General Chat

It would be no surprise that this week's News of the World would be the peace talks between US President Trump and Russia's President Putin. Ahead of the talks, the war between Russia and Ukraine continued with attacks on a Russian gunpowder factory while Ukraine forces their children into underground bunkers amid daily Russian attacks in civilian areas. But with that, trolling by Russia's foreign minister, and Russia's past history, even Hillary Clinton said that President Trump would deserve a Nobel Peace Prize if he can get an accord. In the Middle East, the head of Israel's Mossad traveled to Qatar in hopes to restore peace talks and free the remaining hostage held by Hamas. While Hamas sent its own team to Cairo to do likewise, the one thing they refuse is to give up their weapons even as another senior Hamas leader was taken out in the southern Gaza strip. Meanwhile, footage has been leaked showing Hamas using Barney, Sesame Street clones and a Mickey Mouse knockoff screaming "kill kill kill" to teach and convert children into terrorists. Headaches grow for the liberal party in the U.S. as new questions arise if the New York governor had knowledge that a strike among staff within their prison system was oncoming and allowed to fester, the CEO of a publicity firm that hires actors to pose as fans at events revealed requests to hire paid protestors shot up 400% for flash mobs and anti-Trump events, the Democrat nominee for governor in South Carolina caught on camera arrested in his underwear and ranting maniacally, and the courts ruled DOGE indeed has authority to audit federal records, ending a federal judge's injunction. India shopping anywlere else but Russia for oil to avoid a 50% Trump tariff, a Prinston Professor who was actively involved in Iran’s chemical and nuclear programs stepping down after calls for his removal, more charges are levied against Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, the leader of the brutal Chérizier’s Haitian gang, a coin minted between 69-70AD by Jewish rebels just before the destruction of the Second Temple discovered, the saga of the subway sandwich slinger, and more hit this week's news.

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Games Development

Development Discussion

If one is curious about new features that may come out for the Enterbrain line of game makers, you can always ask What's Up. What option could KMostWanted XP,possibly bring to the game as a battlesystem add-on? And when might it appear?

Complete Projects

More characters are going to appear in the reworked version of Rave Heart, as Starmage introduces us to the first. A visor with clear blue tint, snow white hair with pony tails on either side, who is this new mystery girl? Is she friend or foe?

Appearing as DerVVulfman worked this week on the HBGames series of completed games, Dark Eternal II was given a bump as all the links within the page had been fixed and updated.

Upcoming Projects

The People's Choie winner of RpgMakerWeb's 2023 Christmas GameJam contest now receives a hellish update. Denizens from the sixth pit of hell, an evil Saint Nicolas, and even cameo appearances from Remi-Chan's Fantasia now appear in this winter wonderland to engage the Heroes of the Seasons.

Material Development

Resources Database

2D Resources

Continuing his cruise along the waterways of graphic arts, you can now find new shoreline accents for your beaches within the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. Two different sets of sprites that can be placed along your island shorelines, these accents can add extra waves to bring your beaches alive.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

This week, you can find more reflective pieces within Double'sX Music Room. Two more compositions were released, the first entitled Fored Optimistm. Beginning with a delicate and slightly carnival like melody of joy, keyboard intrudes abiet with tintling chimes until the bridge when a quiet and contemplative piano score appears. Beginning with a slow melody with a cello, piano and tuba, the twenty second music creation by DoubleX begins. Futile Struggle does pick up the pace, adding more instruments. But once you get past the tuba solo that is the bridge, the instruments change with the tuba being the main instrument, accented by a wood block and light flute in the background. And while those two were his latest works, DoubleX revisited his thirteenth and twentiesth compositions, adding chords and fixing some inconsistencies in the melodies.

Art and Design

Is she to be feared? Certainly. Is she a threat to everything? Time may tell, as Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing now unveils The Archduke in Black herself, of the same people in which both the Insidious Architect and the Immoral Messenger, she is a sight to behold, wearing hotpants and a top with almost as little cover as her comically demented Souldcatcher, Kloe. A vision of orchid set against the blackness of the void, you can witness her eleven hours of labor within a 17 minute speedrun video.

Well, that's it for this week.

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