The Weekly Gazette 12-03-2023

[DerVVulfman]

(November 27 to December 3, 2023)

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

General Chat

This week's News of the World began with last hostages being released, though a 10-year old hostage was no longer in Hamas's custody and given to other terrorists. Meanwhile, it was found that civilians acted on Hamas' behalf holding chilren hostage, including a teacher in Gaza and a UNRWA worker. Yes, a member of a United Nations group involved. After this, Hamas gunmen killed three in Jerusalem, and Israeli forces penetrates Southern Gaza, surprising them and killing a leader from the October 7 massacre. However, Hamas announced they would surpass the October 7 Massacre in the future. On other fronts, all allies do agree that Ukraine will gain NATO membership, the issue with illegal immigrants continue to plauge the U.S. as veterans blast NYC over being kicked out of homes for immigrants, the W.H.O. has become embroiled in sex scandals, now only giving $250 in compensation to victims, and so much more this week.

Tech Talk

This week's News of the Cyber World uncovered the U.S. Administration's secret phone surveillance program with AT&T that extends beyond criminals into normal citizens. Meta is actively suing the FTC demanding they should eb able to monotize children's data. The water stations of Raccoon and Potter Townships in Pennsylvania were hacked by Iranian backed hackers, system screens announcing any Israeli-developed device such as those used are their targets. A critical security flaw with Google Chrome, AI reducing your work week to just 3 days, and more hit this week's cyber-news.

Forum Games & Nonsense

This week, a pen-and-paper RPG game based on the Star Wars universe showed up to give a chuckle. DerVVulfman found this one on youtube, even he asking... I'm sorry. You weaponized WHAT?

Games Development

Development Discussion

The work upon his latest save-game script was What's Up with the RMer known as kyonides. He queried if a player's chosen language should appear within his save/load system's screen, and queried how it should be stored. After back and forth with DerVVulfman who suggested the language be a separate configuration option, kyonides added it was a suggestion by another person. After that, DerVVulfman noted that a game that supported multiple languages would need multiple sets of vocabulary, let alone all the text in the events, and it should be let alone. After that, Remi-Chan posted more content from Fantasia, a one-on-one which could have led to bloodshed, and a warning to tread lightly where others had not returned.

Upcoming Projects

After all this time, CarlosDavilla released the first trailer for An Essay on Insipidity III: The Sleeping Hummingbird. Developed with RPGMaker XP, there is still no current release date.

Material Development

Scripts Database

The most recent variation of Falkoner now forces the player to move about and be active rather than use its avian scout repeately without break. The recent update of kyonides's script now puts forth demands upon the avian scout under the player's control, needing to rest and requiring the player to act.

This week, the KJustSave system was created. By kyonides, the system originally designed for RPGMaker VXAce and later ported to XP and VX, presents a screen that renders each save file as an individual line with the traditional party hero's name and map, while hovering over a map may provide additional content. It had been updated to be backwards compatible with previous saves while adding additional features. There were some issues with the demos that needed repair, be it configuration or game-time variables. But were eventually addressed.

Also this week, the Weapons Blocked from Attacks was fashioned. By DerVVulfman, it disables any hero from performing melee attacks when it is equipped with any specified weapon. It could be used to force the hero to use only skill attacks instead.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

While we may be entering the Holiday Season, something of a more ominous nature may be to your liking. If that be the case, you would be happy to find that Eric Matyas continues [Highlight]Sharing His Original Music/Highlight] which includes two pieces. The Dungeon Maze is a slow and eerie piece found in his Fantasy page, one quite suitable for an unexplored underground environment. And Night Stalker 2 can be found among the pages of his Horror works, an ominous atmospheric piece with an occasional clatter of steel amidst unearthly wails.

Well, that's it for this week.

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