The Weekly Gazette 3-29-2026

[DerVVulfman]

(March 23 to March 29, 2026)

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

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Occasions

Early this week, ALlaamagoose decided to create an account and join our community. He has been lurking for some time, but finally decided to join our forum as he did rpgmakervx.net and RPG Maker Central as ???nOBodY???. Greeted he was by DerVVulfman, kyonides, Remi-chan and neosky5k, and was surprised when finding that RPG Maker Central and scripts he did not even recall were archived.

neosky5k arrived not long after ALlaamagoose, not only being in the same circles but in the same projects supplying the art while ALlaamagoose into the design aspects. And greeting neosky5k was ALlaamagoose, kyonides and DerVVulfman.

Now showing up with a sparkle in the eye, and a mech not far behind is whiteglint. A fan of Armored Core, she is both a musician and artist who just became enamoured with game development and began with a few scripts here and there. She was greeted by Kyonides and DerVVulfman, the latter wondering what whacky and wondrous games she can envision and craft.

General Chat

As it has been for the past few weeks, Iran has been highlighting the News of the World. And its undisputed that they have now fired upon and severely crippled fourty energy facilities throughout the Middle east, nine countries according to the International Energy Agency to further spike oil prices and to harm other industries that are reliant. Of talks between Iran and the US Iran had rejected the cease fire plan proposed by US President Trump, demanding instead they have full control over the Strait of Hormus and ensure protection for all their terror proxies. But as Iran fires salvos against US ships and cluster bomb munitions against Israel, more support against the Islamic Regime continues to grow. Uganda has allied itself with Israel. And Ukraine's President Zelenskyy reports that, with support from other Arab nations in the region, now have evidence of Russia providing Iran with intelligence. If anyone thinks the conflict is only in the Middle East, think again. Two men were arrested in the UK over an arson attack upon ambulances, and an explosive devices was planted at a Florida Air Force base by two siblings who fled to China. Following a pro Iran rally in Pennsylvania that Senator Fetterman condemned as it supported the death of US servicemen. And in the Rue de la Boétie, France, a would-be bomber recruited on Snapchat had his attempted bombing foiled. As if to prevent this form of chaos, Australia is restricting visas from Iran. The Invasion of Ukraine is proving costly to the Kremlin as a massive air-drone attack by Kiev crippled Russia's largest oil port. And Ukraine troops are now testing out cutting-edge exo-skeleton technology on the battlefield. And with the use of cutting-ege exoskeletons, Ukraine troops have been clocked to 12MPH sprints on the battlefield as they carry more ammo Ukrainian troops testing exoskeletons that help them run 12 mph on battlefield and carry more ammo against Russia. And moreso, Ukraine now appears to have the battlefield advantage as Russia took over 6000 in losses in four days due to Ukraine’s technological advancements. Financially on the ropes, Putin has called for all of the Oligarchs to foot the bill for the war in Ukraine. And not only did Estonia issue warnings about Russian drone incursions, but Latvia and Lithuania as well. As to the squadron of drones that crashed into Finland, no officials have stated where the drones originated. In the US, catching fraud is paramount, charging an illegal alien from Azerbaijan who stole $90 million from Medicare while the House Oversight Committee is turning its eye towards California and the rampant hospice fraud after revelations of ghost/fraudulent locations were billing the government for billions. And while Democrats such as Senator Schumer says they support voter ID, they had now blocked and amendment requiring photo ID. Also hitting the news was the tragic collision between a fire truck and an Air Canada plane landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport that cost the lives of the two pilots and injured fourty others. Not long after, a fire broke out at Newark's Airport only hours later, forcing a complete ground stop. And while there was no collision, there was a close call between a United Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter at John Wayne Airport in California. And in response to the TSA airport crisis, US President Trump announced he would sign an emergency order directing Homeland Security to pay the employees as Congress struggles and stalls. The US wasn't the only nation to deal with airline tragedy as a Lockheed Martin C‑130 Hercules aircraft with over one-hundred on board went down shortly after taking off from Puerto Leguízamo, Columbia. The crash took the life of one and injured seventy-seven others. In Germany, the AFD (Alternative for Germany) party doubled its share of the vote this election cycle, the showing of politcal growth and strong support marking a blow to the Socialist Democrats that have held the Nation state for 35 years. However, the AFD still needs to end the barrier that was legislatively placed in front of their party barring them from governing with other parties at state and national level. Also in Germany, it was a win for BMW and Mercedez as environmental campaigners sought to ban the automotive industries from selling combustion engine cars after 2030. It took eight years of negotiations, but a trade deal between the European Union and Australia has been agreed upon, and with that a security and defense partnership. Meanwhile, the EU has taken a page out of US President Trump's playbook and has established so-named Return Hubs where member states are able to deport rejected asylum seekers. It comes after a near 2/3rds majority vote of approval, and returns power to individual EU nations over negotiations on migrant deportation. Iranian Spies arrested in Silicon Valley, parts of a 1,300 year old Viking ship discovered during a drainage excavation project in the Netherlands, a Chinese-backed Billionare funding 2000 anti-America organizations and working to reconstruct WWII history to denegrate the Allied resistance, cocaine-fueled sharks on the prowl in the waters of the Bahamas, the Nancy Guthrie case corrupted by the current Arizona sherriff, the Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi warning not to let any of the current regime remain, and more hit this week's news.

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Tech Talk

Meta busted for violating Child Safety Laws hit the News of the Cyber World as a New Mexican Jury found the company put profits over safety, concealed any dangers of child sexual exploitation and more. Also hitting the news is Sora AI now discontinued over sever criticism and concerns of violating copyright and use in extreme and deceptive deep fakes, a decision that ends a deal between OpenAI and Disney over its use. The latest scam targeting Colorado, Texas and Hawaiian drivers made to look like official DMV infractions, the data breach at CrunchyRoll stealing nearly 1/3rd of its customer database's records and the ban on foreign-made computer routers over security and overseas hacking concerns also hit this week's cybernews.

Games Development

Development Discussion

While not released, there is news about A New RPG Maker Project in the works, being able to mix 2-D sprites with an apparent 3D environment. In the works by Gotcha Gotcha Games, it will be the latest iteration of the RPGMaker line with a system able to craft games akin to the Dragon Quest Remakes and Octopath Traveler. And the current trailer available sports dynamic lighting, field of vew blur and even particle effects.

If wondering What's up among the RMers here, DerVVulfman continues working on his Widgets project, performing a rewrite to the list-displaying windows-like object, and discovered why the List-styled objects didn't vanish on call. He had to restart, but did state he was planning on more keyboard options for his system.

Complete Projects

Now available, you can now get a copy of the sounttrack to Rave Heart+, Indeed, the Rave Heart+ OST by Mijil Satria, Elrond504, Irene Chan, and Oofator is available at the Epic Storem, and for only $2.99, And the development of Rave Heart+ has been a moving experience for Starmage as she reminisces over its development and release from 2020 to today, and thanks everyone for all their support.

Code Support

Ace_V put forth a question on how to make train actors face the same way as the player, Working with the famed Fukuyama Train Actor script which has been around for two decades, he was curious if anyone knew of a way to directly control the following party members or if another script would suffice. DerVVulfman noticed the query and posted a very short script which allowed a targeted following party member to move in a set direction other than the player's, but added how it could use nearly any movement commands from the Game_Character class itself.

Material Development

Scripts Database

RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

One more week has passed, and more work was performed in upgrading Windows Widgets!. DerVVulfman bumped the thread with udates, not once but twice. His first update indicated a more complete Image widget mirroring those offered by visual app compilers, and solved why there was lag when a widget (a button, checkbox, etc) tould be flagged as invisible. And he also claimed he fixed a bug in SephirothSpawn's scale blit code found within the Method and Class Library. And the second time DerVVulfman updated the Widgets system, he announced that all widgets are now able to have their visiability flag functional. However, he found an issue which can make the visible flag moot and ineffective.

Resources Database

2D Resources

For those seeking character work for a wedding, the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V continues to expand. This week, his focus was upon the priests who officiates at weddings. Both are of the same basic design, a receding hairline of silver white and a mustache to match. However, his first is wearing the firey red vestments over his white robes while the other a royal blue.

Creativity Section

Literature

The Bibliotheca

The second chapter to Events Should Go Unnoticed has appeared, and now the teller of this tale of game development and AI is frustrated as teh chatbot he uses hs now arguing that he should change his story plans and attempts to convince him of its superiority, even claiming it be a blood relative to his own cousin.

Well, that's it for this week.

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