The Weekly Gazette 09-28-2025

[DerVVulfman]

(September 29 to October 5, 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

The threads within both the The HBGames and GameBaker Archive Boards have mostly been corrected, the topics have the proper authors and date stamps applied. However, the scripts database of HBGames is among the largest. And with over eight-hundred topics, will take a while to be finished.

General Chat

In this week's News of the World, Russia hit center stage, but not only with attacks against Ukraine but with massive drone incursions throughout Europe. Drone swarms have been everywhere, surrounding critical sites such as airports and critical infrastructures. It was a Russian tanker off the coast of Denmark that may been the source for the latest incursion over Danish airspace. While drone strave Europe's airspace, they continue to launch attacks against Ukraine, using updated missile guidance technology, and massive drone strikes. But how long can Russia hold out as Ukraine received intel to decimate Russia's oil refineries and bases while offering to assist the US to cut Russia out of selling oil in Europe. In the U.S., the government shutdown may be taking center stage, but while democrats refused to admit it was to give free healthcare to illegal aliens, Democrat Maxine Waters admited it was to get healthcare to literally everyone, Medicaid confirmed spending exists, and that at leat $6.5 Billion was by California alone. Not even a month had gone by since the last attack upon a place of worship, for a Harvard law professor been fired after firing pellet guns at a Boston Synagogue and a New Jersey man was apprehended outside a DC church with molotov cocktails, fireworks and other arsonist paraphernalia. After President Trump sent the National Guard to Chicago, over 900 criminal arrests were made. One was a gun-carrying woman already known to Customs agents, active indoxxing agents and inciting riots. And despite a Portland Judge appointed by Biden ruled that Trump could not send military to Oregon, he defied her order and sent 300 California National Guard troop where attacks happen nightly. Do know that 40 US Code 1315 'mandates the protection of government property, including federal buildings, through various statutes that prohibit wrongful taking or misuse of such properties. Ds democrats deny the violence going on, it cannot be understated that actual bounties, dead or alive, have been issued on the agents. Violence of all sorts exists too in Europe, with the killer of two at a Manchester Synagogue now identified, and the arrest of dozens of pro-Palestinians protesters mere days after the murder. Vandalism by pro-Palestinians also sparked outrage in Rome as the statue of Pope John Paul II, a polish survivor of the NAZI occupation, was defaced with graffiti calling him a Fascist. For Georgia, protests are made by thousands against the government that has used draconian methods of prison and beating to stifle activists and media alike. The protests began after what they call a rigged election that was in Moscow's favor and ended talks with it joining the E.U. In the Middle East, Israel gave citizens a last warning to leave Gaza city as they prepare to take out the last of Hamas. This coincided with Hamas rejecting US President Trump's last ceasefire deal, a 20 point plan that most Arab nations hailed. Despite the rejection, Trump issued one final warning if the group doesn't surrender. Modova's pro-European Union political party making strides threatening the Kremlin's ties, Prince William's heartbreaking admission about Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis, Over twenty Salvador Dali counterfeit works seized at an art exhibit, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake in the Phillippines killing over seventy, the near fatal poisoning of Bashar al-Assad in exile in Russia, North Korea's strike teams against anti-socialist breast surgeries (I cannot make that up), and more hit this week's news.

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Tech Talk

Another week passes, and AI invariably ends up in the News of the Cyber World, with posters avertising the new AI necklace vandalize in New York, Elon Musk suing Sam Altman's ChatGPT over program code theft, AI based phishing eMails having evolved to be indistinguisable from legitimate content, and an AI controlled digital simulated actress is being sought for in Hollywood. In the realm of hackers, the notorious “clOp” ransomware gang have been targeting prominent US business executives. But the the 14 defendants that hacked and stole millions of records from Adecco employment in France with some sentanced to six years in prison and a €30,000 fine. And Discord itself was just the subject of a hack attempt through its third-party customer service providers, claiming no actual access to Discord itself was made, And after the UK saw Imgur, a popular image sharing site, had no age verification system and threatened punative fines, Imgur cut off all services in the UK. President Trump winning a wrongful termination lawsuit against youtube, Tesla selling half a million obliterating expectations, AOL finally shutting down its internet service, and more hit the cybernews this week.

Games Development

Upcoming Projects

This week, there has been the annual Steam Autumn sale, and the latest demo of Heroes of the Seasons has been among those that are 75% off their regular price. However, this special promotion price ends soon, you have only thirteen more hours after thie Gazette's posting to get it at this reduced price. Sale ends at 1pm (EST) Monday, October 6.

Material Development

Scripts Database

RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

One more remedy was added to kyonides's Kuick Leader Swap XP system, one in which will prevent the system from attempting to execute the member changing process when no actors are at all available.

If you want to be a HEAD of the game, KTurnOrder for RPGMaker XP now allows you to have actor heads to be used at start with a simple switch enabled. But it is up to you to have that configuratble value set. However, Ace_V's suggestion to have enemy turns rendered before the player decides their actions was not possible to grant.

RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines

If you want to be a HEAD of the game, KTurnOrder for both RPGMaker VX and VXAce now allows you to have actor heads to be used at start with a simple switch enabled. But it is up to you to have that configuratble value set.

Resources Database

2D Resources

As it is now the season where things go bump in the night, kyonides made a fairly simple inquiry. So if you want to make a game where everyone Screams, you can now find a familiar face among the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. Indeed, Ghostface has now made an appearance, both unarmed and whilst carring a knife for those wishing to relive the Wes Craven late 90s slasher experience. But fret not those who need the uniform, for both nurses and zombies alike may yet make their return next week.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

Stepping into the ampitheater of our forum, you will find that new performances within DoubleX's Music Room are ongoing. One of his recent works entitled "Drained Dry" uses tubas and bass to give a melancholy vibe of exhaustion while the rapid striking of a xylophone exemplifies the passage of time. It changes midway through with a cello and lone woodblock for a time to relate a feeling of being spent and worn out. Hs work, "Internal Turmoil" begins with a cello and wind instrument typifying the passage of time with more burdensome instruments being applied, until the heavy beat of a bass drum thumps away. And DoubleX's fourtieth composition entitled "Habitually Overloaded" exemplifies what many of us feel, the anxiety of being asked to repeatedly perform jobs while already exhausted and the distress felt if you try to refuse. Muted brass, low octave piano and the dull, throbbing drum beats certainly exemplify the turmoil this pice is meant to emote.

Art and Design

The forum's art gallery has many a halls, and one of these are dedicated to Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! It is within her halls that the fifth and final portrait was made for September. So gaze with amazement upon an apparently web-spinning, hooded panda girl, if the light blue panda t-shirt wasn't a giveaway. Powerful indeed, she is created by the same who had also given life to the kangaroo heroin of the Remi Multiverse. Clad in robes of snow and slate, hair of both ebony and alabaster, she appears totally calm against the sea of stars. Sadly, this is but one of the few renders in which Remi-chan neglected to record her process for any stream draws to present.

Well, that's it for this week.

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