The Weekly Gazette 12-24-2023

[DerVVulfman]

(December 18 to December 24, 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

Very odd events happened according to the News of the World, a drunk driver running into U.S. President Biden's motorcade being the most normal piece. But for Biden, his brother caught on tape by the FBI for bribery and more Tax charges against his son wasn't even the end of it. As to his political rival, Colorado's vote to ban Trump from the ballot may be overturned by the Supreme Court, and Special Council Jack Smith's appointment may be in constitutional jeopardy. Between the war between Russia and Ukraine, Kiev discovered they were bugged. And there's been less good news for Russia, saboteurs convicted in Poland while Ukraine steps up on military drone production while jet fighters from the Netherlands are on the way and Europe now grows its own military in response. Illegal Migration continues to be a problem, France readying mass-deportation while thirteen thousand from pro-Hamas nations crossing into the U.S. In response, Texas now made it a punishable state crime to cross illegally. The Canadian government's dereliction over Pro-Hamas rioters, more charges of plagiarism against Harvard President Claudine Gay, Poland shutting down TV and sacking media companies, the Taskforce on the Red Sea, a cat reunited with its family in Texas, and more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk

This week's News of the Cyber World wasn't all that great for the social media giants as Google was forced to pay $700 million over its illegal Google Play monopoly, and Twitter/X is under investigation by the European commission that now mandates content removal it deems false of harmful. For technology, it is just as bad as Apple halted sales of their smartwatch now that a medical company files suit for patent violations. And those looking forward to the day of the hydrogen powered electric car, its inventor has just been convicted and sentanced to 4 years for fraud. Social Media Giant's lawsuit to stop Utah from protecting children online, surveillance abuses against thousands of citizens including judges and senators, and much more hit this week's cybernews.

Games Development

Development Discussion

Spending money seems to be What's up with RMers like kyonides who found winter sales on Steam and Komodo Plaza for engines and DLCs. AVGB-KBGaming was intrigued, but was more involved in crafting maps for her game, and some Elder Scrolls gaming. And Remi-chan, despite burnout, worked on more of her game's tutorial screens.

Very clearly can one see within the Maps and screenshots thread that work progresses. The recent screenshot provided by kyonides suggests he neared completion upon his KBattlerEats project. KasperKalamity's rework of his first town map progresses. And Remi-chan shows off another Youtube video highlighting some of her reworked progress.

Material Development

Scripts Database

Normally, what you carry with you in battle is all you can use. But for those using the Ruby Script line of RPGMaker, the KBattlerEats system by kyonides now lets you make purchases in battle when you have need of that healing tonic or more. Originall for RPGMaker XP and VXAce, the VX port came not long after.

For anyone who temporarily needs to sort through all the items in their inventory or skill lists, the SortData collective for the Ruby-Scripting RPGMaker line is for you. This scriptette was once written for RPGMaker VXAce alone, but was later ported for the other editions.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

Do you have a workout or comical side scene in mind for your game? If so, The Shared Original Music by Eric Matyas may work for you. "Windle Pixel and His Banjo Buddies" would be fine for a light hearted romp for some comfy traveling. And "Training" is clearly perfect for an exercise montage.

Well, that's it for this week.

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